CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN
Class: SOSB40 LP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40: 369 26 84
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 369 26 84 Total Score = 113,520
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
This was a remote operation of my station in Ohio from Japan. Japan is 14 hours
ahead of Ohio so the contest here starts at 9 AM Saturday and ends at 9 AM
Monday.
My station in Ohio consists of a single K3 and four wire antennas switched with
a remote switch. Unfortunately, the switch failed this year, leaving me with
only two dipoles, one for 40 and one for 80. My plan for this year was to
operate these two bands during the day my time (which equates to after dark in
Ohio) and get more or less normal sleep at night. I operated both bands on the
first day but conditions didn’t seem very good on 80 and I found myself
spending most of the time on 40. During the second day, I completely ignored 80
and focused on 40. I’m sorry now that I didn’t just forget about 80 and put
all of my effort into 40.
When you can almost work DXCC on one band with 100 watts and a dipole during a
single contest, what’s not to like? I really enjoyed the weekend, even if the
index finger on my left hand is worn out from pressing the F4 key.
Before going to bed on Saturday night, I took a quick listen to 15 and found the
band wide open (remember, this is Saturday morning in Ohio). It sounded like it
used to when I was a new ham in the late 1950’s. I just had to dive in and
bang out a few contacts using my 40 meter dipole. With such great conditions, I
had no trouble working anyone I could find. I worked a few more on 15 early
Sunday morning my time before starting the grind on 40.
On 40, I was happy to snag FK1, 3B8, 9X and a few other really tough mults. But
I missed quite a few others: DU1, 7A7, 9G, 4L, VK6, mostly due to large pileups
that are not easy to break with LP and a dipole. Zone 13 gave me a real
headache. There were two loud stations available but they were focused on
working JA’s and I couldn’t get their attention despite repeated calls. I
never did work anyone in Zone 13 on 40.
Unfortunately, during the last two hours of the contest, my Internet connection
became very unstable and for several lengthy periods I was unable to transmit.
This really cost me in the last 15 minutes. EI and 4X were strong and the
pileups not bad, and I believe I could have worked them had the connection been
normal. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen very often.
The best moment of the weekend: On the first day, I tried but failed to work a
Zone 40 station that had a huge pileup. I pretty much gave up on finding that
zone, but on day two, during one of my many passes through the band I heard a
loud TF station working someone. I moved up about 0.7 khz and called him twice
and he came right back to me! That was a real thrill.
I am submitting my log as 40 Meter SB. For the record, here’s what I did on
80 and 15:
80 77 15 35
15 93 17 43
What a great contest! Please don’t ever eliminate the single operator
non-assisted category!
73, Hal W1NN remote@tokyo
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