CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2019
Call: W3HKK
Operator(s): W3HKK
Station: W3HKK
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 25
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 70 14 41
80: 86 19 55
40: 224 27 91
20: 211 25 79
15: 37 13 30
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 628 98 296 Total Score = 677,680
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Antennas : -1/4 wave Inv-L's (52' vert leg) for 160/80m (24x100' radials)
-Two el phased verticals for 40/20/15m
-SAL-30 rx antenna for 160-80-40m.
-N1MM+
Note: W3HKK is an all wire antenna station.
Soapbox : Bottom of the sunspot cycle. K=4 geomagnetic cndx. How bad can it
get? Not bad at all!
95% s&p. 5% running on 40m the last two hours. Last qso was logged at
0000z so the contest robot made me delete it.
Great fun bouncing from band to band trying to catch new mults. though sitting
and running would have been much more productive, but a lot more hectic on this
77 yo body. My station is set up with three keyboards (I can hear some of you
laughing...) One is dedicated to the 7610. One for the logging computer. And
one for an outboard CW Buddy keyboard keyer that plugs into the 7610. So I
have to remember which keyboard does what, and when! THAT makes
"running" more of a challenge than it needs to be. Sure wish the 7610
could do keyboard cw.
Here near Columbus, 10m had sporadic signals but no Q's. 15m was good for
mults. Polar paths were weak but otherwise plenty of activity, even to northern
Europe on 20-40-80m. 160m was affected but still a good number of Euros were
to be had. It seemed to bounce back Sun night but time ran out.
Asia was well down. ie Not many JA's heard, tho got a few on 20-40m. Missed
nine CQ zones,(18-22-23-24-26-28-29-34-40.) in per N1MM+ 25 hrs operating filled
with numerous breaks, a concession to being 77 yrs old.
Band noise was low, even on 160. Good number of semi-exotic stations from
Africa and the Indian Ocean. I worked 95% of the stations called.
Spent most time patrolling 160-15 for mults. No qsos on 10 though heard a few
weak ones, including K8AX who I called but no response. 15m was fun from 10-5pm
with scattered dx entities but no big sigs and few massive pile ups. It was
like shooting fish in a barrel even with a 20m 2 el vertical phased array, which
seems to work fairly well. 40m beat out 20m by a few Q's, zones &
countries.
Lots of Canadians! Wkd KL7RA memorial station on 20/40. (Met KL7RA himself at
Dayton when we both sat down next to each other to take a break. Listened to his
bear stories while doing antenna work with antenna analyzer and shotgun, for 45
enjoyable minutes.
Worked a handful of stations on 160-15, many more on 80-15, and many more still
on three bands.
Never heard more African stations than in this years CQWW! Europe was the
mainstay. SA was ok but no big PY opening. Pacific was present from
scattered places plus VK/ZL regulars. Hawaii was good. AK just KL7RA. Asia
poor, maybe 10 JAs worked all tolled. The Caribbean and C.A. were well
represented.
Overall, QRM was down due to lower Sig levels, but still very solid copy on
all bands. 160 had been terrific leading up to the contest but was badly
damaged by the GMD.
Summary: Considering where we are in the cycle, the 2019 test was great fun,
showing once again, that the cndx are usually good to somewhere, and by
working the bands there were plenty of surprises to be had.
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