CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOABClassic HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 167 8 11
80: 324 14 45
40: 453 20 61
20: 1025 17 70
15: 410 18 62
10: 93 8 7
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Total: 2472 85 256 Total Score = 2,014,287
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
<insert witty comment here>
I was going to do another iron pants effort @41-43 hrs & SO2R but haven't
been feeling well lately, so decided on Classic (I laugh at all the Classic
'ASSISTED' entries I am reading about on 3830scores)....doh ! Classic means
one radio and no Telnet/Internet dudes. Geez....
What can I say? I have lowwww wires (4Sq's mostly) and around 650W to work
with.
Playing So1R almost felt like flying blind.
Sure missed having huge solar flux to help out...especially 10m ! (though I did
get a surprise Es opening late Sunday morning which garnered me nearly 100 very
much appreciated Q's.
Very few freq fights.
10 & 15 had lots of open spaces, but prop was generally meh
20m was weak Sat (I felt) but a bit better Sunday.
Hard to be heard in EU on Sat, but better Sunday after they had worked each
other mostly (hi)
80m was pretty strong Friday night. Gave up early on 80m Sat night.
160m had issues with my antennas, so SWR only tolerable in OMNI or to the SW
(which hurt score big time on this band)
Much of the contest was "NAQP" to me and I am sure this tells the
tale:
North America 158 190 221 550 260 87 1466 59.3
South America 0 2 11 10 32 4 59 2.4
Europe 8 124 206 446 106 0 890 36.0
Asia 0 2 4 5 1 0 12 0.5
Africa 0 4 7 11 9 2 33 1.3
Oceania 1 2 3 1 1 0 8 0.3
??? 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2
Was a thrill to work some JA's LP on 40m.
However, my BIGGEST thrill came early in the contest when I was just checking
10m to see if there was any life. Worked one Brazilian stn on my HF9V (very
very weak) and then I decided to check sidescatter to EU on the very low yagi
and heard Dave - VE9CB (disguised as 6W1SU) CQing on the low end of 10m. I
couldn't believe my ears....and he had no callers ! (how come the skimmer crowd
was not all over him?) Amazingly got him on the 2nd call. Signals were very
weak, but 10m is so quiet (here anyways) that it was an easy QSO. Went on to
make a total of 4 Q's with Dave VE9CB visiting over there in 6W for a great
weekend mult boost. Thanks Dave !
Unique callsigns worked = 1773
The best 60 minute rate was 181/hour from 1857 to 1956
The best 30 minute rate was 196/hour from 1855 to 1924
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 1856 to 1905
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 1 times.
5 QSOs/minute 11 times.
4 QSOs/minute 116 times.
3 QSOs/minute 266 times.
2 QSOs/minute 387 times.
1 QSOs/minute 375 times.
Unique callsigns worked = 1773
North America 158 190 221 550 260 87 1466 59.3
South America 0 2 11 10 32 4 59 2.4
Europe 8 124 206 446 106 0 890 36.0
Asia 0 2 4 5 1 0 12 0.5
Africa 0 4 7 11 9 2 33 1.3
Oceania 1 2 3 1 1 0 8 0.3
??? 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2
The best 60 minute rate was 181/hour from 1857 to 1956
The best 30 minute rate was 196/hour from 1855 to 1924
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 1856 to 1905
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 1 times.
5 QSOs/minute 11 times.
4 QSOs/minute 116 times.
3 QSOs/minute 266 times.
2 QSOs/minute 387 times.
1 QSOs/minute 375 times.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 21
4 1361
5 767
6 312
7 2
8 4
9 4
10 1
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1361
2 bands 235
3 bands 101
4 bands 49
5 bands 20
6 bands 7
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
K3LR K3MD W8FJ K8AZ K2LE KE4S
K1TTT
CU (all of sudden) in the next one!
dit dit
-Mike VE9AA in NB
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