CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2022
Call: W6QU
Operator(s): W8QZA
Station: W8QZA
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: San Diego, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 30.7
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 1
80: 14
40: 27
20: 65
15: 131
10: 77
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Total: 315 Prefixes = 218 Total Score = 156,524
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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For me, this was the "break out" contest of Cycle 25. Lots of Qs (for
me) peppered with an occasional thrilling QSO to keep me really awake.
DXCC was 51 and WAZ 25. I had 37 European Qs, compared to 2 last year!
10 M: But still no Europe heard out here. One D4Z Q and enough prefixes in South
America to keep those red check marks going in the right column of N1MM+.
15 M: I was stunned to find FR4KR calling CQ with no callers. Got her in two
calls. Also, this band was the European workhorse.
20 M: Got UP0L coming over the pole late at night.
40 M: I got ZS6CCY. That is almost half way around the world using 5 watts and a
trap dipole that is only 30 feet high in the middle and drops down on either
end. Maybe his 4 element Yagi at 120 feet has something to do with that...!!!
80 M: All local USA. Only DX was NH6T.
160 M: After many visits to 160, N7GP finally dug me out ot the mud for my only
Q. Thanks!!!
At age 82, I have given up trying to go without sleep. Got only 4 hours the
first night but had to make up for it quickly with 7 hours the second night! I
also make a point of walking 1/2 mile or so a few times a day when activity gets
light. It keeps those pulmonary emboli to a miinimum!
Well that is almost the end of the contest season. See you at end of May for WPX
CW. 73, ...Bill W8QZA - W6QU
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