CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: VE3NNT
Operator(s): VE3NNT
Station: VE3NNT
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: FN14cm
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 46 10 12
80: 401 19 70
40: 582 27 85
20: 373 33 80
15: 312 23 75
10: 371 23 80
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Total: 2085 135 402 Total Score = 2,927,724
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
It was bad timing for me. I had a meeting that I had to attend in Geneva
starting Monday November 20. Normally, I would fly out Saturday evening, but
that would mean that I could only operate until Saturday 5 pm. So, I finally
decided to try to operate from my hotel room in Geneva using my Flex Maestro,
laptop and paddle. I flew out Thursday evening and arrived Friday
mid-afternoon.
My son and grand daughter visited us 2 days before my flight. She's 2 years old
and in day care. Everyone in daycare was sick. So, by Thursday I was also sick.
I arrived in Geneva jet lagged and trying to recover from a bad cold. I just
wasn't up to a full time effort. I was falling asleep before the contest
started, at 1 am Geneva time.
I operated over the hotel Wi-Fi network, which held up surprisingly well,
although I had to deal with the higher latency, averaging 120 ms.
It was good to see 10m open so well for so long, and so quiet, S1 noise floor. I
still have a noise problem on 15m. It's S7 if I point the beam south west.
Luckily, I found that if I pointed the beam to a bearing of 60 degrees the noise
was just above S3, which was quite usable. However, there were a lot of callers
just at my noise floor that I couldn't pull out, especially with the QSB. I was
happy and surprised to see that 80m was so quiet with just a steady S5 noise, no
static crashes. 40m was also nice and quiet.
The one thing I should have brought was a good headset. Instead I only had my
Bose noise QC2 ear buds. Everything sounded tinny and distorted, which made
copying mode challenging. I just checked the impedances and I see that the
earbuds are 2200 Ohms but the Maestro wants to see 10 to 32 Ohms. No wonder it
sounded so bad. It also exp0lains why I had to crank up the volume on the
Maestro to 100% to hear the weak signals on 10m.
There was a lot of activity and I never ran out of stations to work. My best
runs were actually later in the contest. I didn't spend enough time on 20m. I
was just having so much fun on 10m and 15m.
Next year I'll be fully retired and I'll plan to operate full time from my
cottage station directly.
I love this contest, but time is against me. As I get older, it gets so much
more difficult to stay up 40 hours without sleep.
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