CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KQ2M
Operator(s): KQ2M
Station: KQ2M
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 8.9
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 13 7 12
40: 47 10 19
20: 833 24 85
15: 438 21 73
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 1331 62 189 Total Score = 969,362
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
NON-assisted and used 1 radio - either run or tune
Very limited part-time effort. Still had a bunch of broken antennas to fix from
the devastating May 15 Macroburst with 110 MPH winds.
No 160.
10 minutes on 80
No Wire beam on 40 – used 4 –square – spent 30 min there.
5.3 hrs on 20
2.9 hrs on 15
No 10
Hours of operation based on health factors and picking up repaired car on the
other side of the state. Major FIASCO and afterwards I was not in any condition
to operate!
Over the past few year I have been slowly but steadily losing my voice – it
gets fractured from the medicines that I have to take and even talking normally
now is very stressful for my vocal cords – it takes about 30 minutes of
operating before it is mostly gone. Saturday was very painful especially after
the car repair nightmare. Sunday was a little better but propagation wasn’t.
I had problems with some nasty ops this weekend. One French station decided to
try to run US 500 hz below me and then refused to move, even though I
immediately and nicely asked him to QSY, repeatedly. Given that it was 20 M and
it was a particularly good freq. – while 15 was still not open – I decided
to fight for it on principle – I wasn’t going to let him bully me off the
freq., a luxury you have when you do not need to worry about maximizing your
score. It took about 20 min to finally drive him away. I can’t even begin to
grasp what goes on in the head of someone like that to obnoxiously and
intentionally cause qrm and then continue to make nasty comments – when ALL of
that unpleasantness was driven by HIS behavior in the first place! I would like
to say that that was the only time this happened but it wasn’t.
A different station – a well-known very loud Eastern EU M/M, called cq on top
of me and did not move at first – he obviously heard me – and I said “The
freq. is in use – please qsy”. He said “QSY to where? ALL the
frequencies are in use!”. I said “ Why do you want to make that MY problem?
Please go qrm someone else! ” He moved.
In contrast, I had a very different experience with N4OX, who also was calling
cq very close to my run freq. and qrming my callers. I asked him to please qsy
– he said that he had been there for a while and that he didn’t hear me and
said that that the band is very crowded and where could he move? I realized
that propagation was poor and perhaps I was buried underneath the EU splatter at
his qth so I asked him to please move down a bit and do the best that he could.
About 30 min later, a very loud N4OX came by and asked me if they were far
enough away and if I was hearing ok. I said YES and I told him that I really
appreciated his cooperation and courtesy – and thanked him. What a
difference!
It’s tough when 5000+ stations are crammed into only 250 khz with poor
propagation, qsb and qrn and high levels of splatter. The least that we can do
is to make the best of it and try to get along with each other. Just because
you have a nice freq. and I don’t, doesn’t make it ok for me to try to force
you off of it or vice-versa. That’s just obnoxious and poor operating. And
totally unnecessary!
I can just imagine how some of these guys would react if we were all driving on
the same road and I decided that I liked their lane better and rammed them to
push them out of the lane just so I could drive in it? !
Looking at the other scores out there, I think that I did pretty well under the
circumstances. I spent ~ 1 1/2 hours tuning for mults with the other ~ 7 1/2
hours running. The Classic category forces you to either run or tune - so you
are always wondering - " Am I doing the right thing on the right band right
now? "
I really wish that the CQWW Committee would keep the category at 24 hours but
change it to allow SO2R.
At one point I had the last 10 rate meter in the 430 range with top 60 minutes ~
235/ hr. The two 200+ hours were fun but they were more in “bursts” – so
300+ then 100+ then 300+ then 100+ and so on rather than steady rate. On Sunday
I even had an “ 8-minute ” – the best that I ever had in CQWWSSB!
We are in the lean years but soon the next cycle will start, perhaps even before
CQWWSSB 2019?
Thanks for the q's and mults and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
CU this weekend in CQWWCW.
73
Bob KQ2M
kq2m@kq2m.com
www.rlsfinancialgroup.com
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KQ2M CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... . ..... ..... ..... ..... . 0/0
1 . . . . . . . 0/0
2 . . . . . . . 0/0
3 . 13/19 . . . . 13/19 13/19
4 . . . . . . . 13/19
5 . . . . . . . 13/19
6 . . . . . . . 13/19
7 . . . . . . . 13/19
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 13/19
9 . . . . . . . 13/19
10 . . . . . . . 13/19
11 . . . 41/26 . . 41/26 54/45
12 . . . 219/25 . . 219/25 273/70
13 . . . 4/1 189/52 . 193/53 466/123
14 . . . . . . . 466/123
15 . . . . . . . 466/123
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 466/123
17 . . . . . . . 466/123
18 . . . . . . . 466/123
19 . . . . . . . 466/123
20 . . . . . . . 466/123
21 . . . . . . . 466/123
22 . . . . . . . 466/123
23 . . . . . . . 466/123
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 466/123
1 . . . . . . . 466/123
2 . . . . . . . 466/123
3 . . . . . . . 466/123
4 . . . . . . . 466/123
5 . . . . . . . 466/123
6 . . . . . . . 466/123
7 . . . . . . . 466/123
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 466/123
9 . . . . . . . 466/123
10 . . . . . . . 466/123
11 . . . 101/7 . . 101/7 567/130
12 . . . 82/8 18/3 . 100/11 667/141
13 . . . 24/1 47/3 . 71/4 738/145
14 . . . . 141/14 . 141/14 879/159
15 . . . 129/9 8/4 . 137/13 1016/172
16 ..... ..... ..... 186/8 ..... ..... 186/8 1202/180
17 . . . 2/0 . . 2/0 1204/180
18 . . . . . . . 1204/180
19 . . . . . . . 1204/180
20 . . . 25/14 33/16 . 58/30 1262/210
21 . . 47/29 20/10 2/2 . 69/41 1331/251
22 . . . . . . . 1331/251
23 . . . . . . . 1331/251
DAY1 ..... 13/19 ..... 264/52 189/52 ..... ..... 466/123
DAY2 . . 47/29 569/57 249/42 . . 865/128
TOT . 13/19 47/29 833/109 438/94 . . 1331/251
BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr KQ2M CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
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