CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: KE2D
Operator(s): KE2D
Station: KE2D
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: New Jersey
Operating Time (hrs): 17:27
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 108
40: 440
20: 283
15: 75
10: 22
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Total: 928 Prefixes = 605 Total Score = 1,836,175
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
I didn't have as much time to devote this years as last. I wasn't impressed with
conditions. Not what I was hoping for given some much better propagation
recently. On Saturday afternoon the SFI was 117 with an A index of 17. By
Saturday evening the SFI was down to 102 and the A was at 24. When the contest
ended the A had fallen back to 15 but the SFI was ony 98. Better than conditions
in some recent years but I was hoping for something more exciting. No fabulous
10m openings and I worked only a few Europe on 15m. Maybe I was on at the wrong
times. I did hear a fairly nice enhancement on 80m on Saturday night during
sunrise in Europe and managed to add a bunch of 6 pt. contacts.
On Friday, about two hours before the start, we had a local thunderstorm come
through. I thought we were in the clear. My Bose noise cancelling headphones
are so good they drowned out the thunder from the second round of storms. It
wasn't until I noticed how loud the static crashes were around 12:30 am that I
checked the weather radar. When I saw how close the storm was I had to QRT
immediately.
I observed something I thought was unusual late on Saturday night. After I had
done what I could to drain the swamp on 80m and 40m, I noticed that the N1MM
available window showed a bunch of stations on 20m. This was 12:30 AM EDT (0430
UTC). I went there and found I could still hear some stations in Europe but they
were not very strong. For no particular reason, I switched in the northeast
beverage antenna (570') and was amazed how much clearer they were. It was
dramatic. Subjectively I'd put it at about 15-20 dB S/N improvement Usually the
beverage is of no use on 20m. I made a recording of this because it seemed so
unusual. I did manage to work a handful of them and also some stations on the
U.S. west coast and the Pacific at the same time.
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