CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: VE9CB
Operator(s): VE9CB
Station: VE9CB
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Brunswick
Operating Time (hrs): 35
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 172
40: 584
20: 1012
15: 442
10: 228
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Total: 2438 Prefixes = 865 Total Score = 6,748,730
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
It has been a few years since I worked anyone (other than Mike VE9AA) on five
bands in the same contest. That was the big news: both 10 and 15 metres were
open and five-band QSO were possible! I worked about 200 EU and western Asia on
10 and 15m, and many NA ststions by Sporadic-E. That relieved some of the
crowding on 20m.
I started the contest really tired and couldn't last three hours before taking a
break. I kept falling asleep during QSOs! I took about six hours off, got up
wioth the sun and went back at at, and still kept slipping into sleep during
QSOs.
I was working hard to catch up to the activity. That early off-time gave me a
small QSO # to exchange, so that motivated me to keep working.
Despite pretty good conditions, and failry good rates, my score at the end of
Day 1 was a miserable 1200 QSO x 515 Prefixes for 2.2Meg. It was looking
dubtful wheather I would match my 2,000 Qs and 5.2Meg score of 2019.
Three hours into Day 2, I was nodding off again. I took the rest of my off
time, plus one hour was back in the chair as the sun was rising.
By 1930z on Sunday, I had matched my 2019 score, and I still had a 4.5 hours to
go. So, I just kept pushing, trying to run, in the chaotic and crowded 20m
band, occasionally checking if 40 sounded good enough to run Europeans. As soon
as 40 was ggood enough, I switch to 40m for those six point QSOs.
I finished with a score half-way between my 2016 (good conditions) and 2019 (bad
conditions) scores.
Antennas:
10/15/20: two tribanders at 20 and 22 metres - one stuck on EU, one stuck on US
- perfecto for WPX!
40: 4-square
80: Vertical
160: what's that?
Rigs:
FTdx-5000 + TL922 amp
TS-590S + AL-80 amp
73,
Dave VE9CB
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