ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: W6QU
Operator(s): W8QZA
Station: W8QZA
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: San Diego, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 21.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 13 6
40: 47 14
20: 124 40
15: 55 22
10: 10 5
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Total: 249 87 Total Score = 64,989
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
STATION W8QZA:
Radio: Elecraft K-2, 5 Watts.
Antennas:
10-15-20 Meters: 3 el Stepp-IR up 32 feet
40 Meters: 1/4 wave vertical with 3 radials
40 & 160 Meters: DX-LB trap dipole up 30 feet
80 Meters: Inverted L with 2 radials
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Conditions were decent, but not as good as last year which was all time for this
part of the cycle! My Qs were down 25% from last year and my score was down
50%.
My best Q was coming across ZD7BG working stations with no pile up on 15 Meters
on Sat AM. I got him in a few calls and he soon went QRT. I don't think he was
really in the contest and I never heard him again. A close second was getting
D4Z on 40 Meters as my 3rd 40 M QSO. 5 watts to a trap dipole only 30 feet up!
160 Meters. 4A7S just could not hear my 5 watts and feeble antenna. I was never
able to make any Q.
80 Meters. I did get into 5 JA logs, but the rest was KH6 & NA.
40 Meters. Besides D4Z, I worked 22 JA stations, Oceania, and some SA. I never
heard Europe.
20 Meters. I was able to get into Europe for 23 stations split between Sat and
Sun. Best Q for me was TK5MH.
15 Meters. Never worked Europe. Heard a few weak ones.
10 Meters. A few Central and South America and only one KH6!
DXCC was 45 (No W or VE), and WAZ was 18 (without 3,4 & 5). Very boring
numbers.
I did not use any spotting networks as usual. Even when we are now allowed to
use them for the first time in some major DX contests I still have not used
them. It seems that by the time a station is spotted it is too late for QRP. But
I'm thinking that I might set the net to only report 10 Meter spots. At this
part of the cycle, getting an alert of a 10 M opening might be very useful.
We had to watch both young grandkids today for 11 hours starting at 8 AM, so I
am a bit late getting this report out. ....but I will sleep tonight!
73, See you in the ARRL SSB in 1 1/2 weeks!
Bill W6QU - W8QZA
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