ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 22:27
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 70 38
80: 300 61
40: 400 69
20: 1000 80
15: 56 33
10: 10 9
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Total: 1836 290 Total Score = 1,593,840
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
The last (and only) time I did this contest assisted was in 1997.
I was most likely using K1EA's (CT) and connected to a local DX packetcluster
using a 2 meter rig and a Kantronics TNC like a KPC-3.
My FT-102 (or TS-830S) was not interfaced with software.
I was using a TH6DXX and a couple of inverted Vees or whatever.
I don't recall, but I s'pose I just watched spots fly by and I hope to catch
them. I had a score of around 500k......how times change.
Flash forward to today and at times, seeing these spots all lined up perfectly
in N1MM+'s 'available mults and Q's window' almost seemed like shooting fish in
a barrel (20-40-80-160) it working 90% of mults in a single click, was so (too?)
easy .
whilst and at other times....10-15 and Asia on 20m, that magic window was
taunting me by me not hearing 95% of what was spotted...and a few I could hear
but could never get through with my 450w, high SWR and badly crippled antenna on
radio #2...
Condx were tough up here. A K of 4 for most of the contest will long be
remembered for low scores and making folks (or at least me) walk away from the
radio when 8 or 9 minutes of CQing on 20m midday produces 1 QSO.
I prefer tuning for my own mults...but those days have passed for most.
I would like to see a single band 'unlimited' in this one.
Thanks for all the Q's !
CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
dit dit
Mike VE9AA in New Brunswick, Canada
(when I\'m SO2R)
2 X Icom IC-7410 and an assortment of arboreal based flexible antennas;
10m - Wire Gnd Plane, raised radials
15m - 5-el wire SVDA or Delta Loop
20m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials) or Delta Loop
40m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials)
80m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials)
160m - Wire Inverted L (more like an inverted U or J) (raised radials)
When operating SO2R, a (a badly beaten but barely working) ZS6BKW @ on e end
35feet and one end about 12'..... w/ a broken 15m add-on dple, only used for
radio 2
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