CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2021
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic Unassisted
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 9:49
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 86
40: 226
20: 231
15: 12
10:
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Total: 555 Prefixes = 327 Total Score = 601,026
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
UNASSISTED ! ! !
Life conspired against me and for a variety of reasons I managed only slightly
less than 10hrs of on-air time.
For the times I was on, for my small station (wires, no beams or towers) on SSB,
I found condx very challenging.
10m- dead, coroner called
15m-almost dead, coroner on stand-by/speed-dial
20m-very weak, admitted to assisted living quarters
40m-strong to next door (USA) but not going on many trips to Europe (temp
passport issued)
80m-neighbours are noisy and nobody can hear a thing. A trip to EU is right
out. Passport revoked.
160m-You have GOT to be kidding me.
Every time I was spotted, I could tell right away....5, 10 or even 20 stations
would descend upon me (I loved it !) and then crickets. 5 or 6 minutes could go
by with me CQing over and over and not one passer-by, yet, once I gave up and
S&P'd up the the band twiddling the ol' VFO knob I could be heard w/o too
much problems in most cases.
What does this tell me?
Especially now that the executive has removed the ASSISTED/UNASSISTED category,
those that don't get spotted lose out.
People are just grabbing onto that computer mouse and
clicking/clicking/clicking.....sigh, nobody turns a VFO knob much anymore.
Disappointing. I guess it's good if you're super loud and get spotted lots. The
happy clickers will find you. Long live CW (and the RBN with auto spotting)
That said, I enjoyed the unassisted (and classic) challenge. Hope life yields
more hours in the CW leg. We'll see. I have some conflicts then too.
The new RBN beta map sometimes shows me as in Ontario for reasons that are
beyond my comprehension. I am in NB.
CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
Mike VE9AA in New Brunswick, Canada
(when I am SO2R) (I was SO1R this time)
2 X Icom IC-7410 and an assortment of wire antennas;
10m - Wire Gnd Plane (raised radials)
15m - Delta Loop @ 20feet
20m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials) or Delta Loop @ 20feet
40m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials)
80m - Wire 4-Sq (raised radials)
160m - Wire Inverted J (raised radials)
When operating SO2R,a ZS6BKW @ 35feet w/15m add-on dple, only used for radio 2
(not used this time)
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