CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KI7M
Operator(s): KI7M
Station: KI7M
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: OR
Operating Time (hrs): 8hr09m
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 56
40: 43
20: 184
15: 24
10:
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Total: 372 Prefixes = 214 Total Score = 120,268
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
Not too serious with WPX since I was already worn out from 160 CQSSB and ARRL
IntDXPhn. WPX is a contest I actually got my highest QSO's count over 2000 in
2010 if I recall right with 1,598,855 points. It's a different contest of course
with the multipliers being prefixes rather than countries or zones. Also of
course stateside counts too like 10 meter countest. Sunday got to be a lot of
fun because it was the first time in along while I have been able to develop
pileups calling me. Have not been able to do that even from JA's in recent years
and I find it very enjoyable to find I can still do it. One thing I come up
with is the thought to have multiple antennas dipped in for 80 meters because
even with a good Palstar tuner it always seems to need adjusting to get the SWR
down. And I find droping from 3790 Khz down to 3750, 3700, 3650 is more
challenge than I want during certain times in contest. This one especially can
be challenging to work both DX (which I love) and locals with the same antenna.
Something to work on.
40 meter 4-Square worked pretty well. Hytower and Maxcon 80-6 meter OCF dipole
is where I want to use the tuner more. Just not enough bandwidth vs. strong
signal. Noise was not too much of a problem. Got reminded the mults are for any
band, not per band.
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