CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: CN3A
Operator(s): OK1DO OK1FCJ OK1FFU OK1HGM OK1HRA OK1IC OK1JKT OK1NY OK1RI OK5MM
OM6NM
Station: CN3A
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Safi
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 694 19 74
80: 2044 31 105
40: 3272 36 134
20: 4172 147 39
15: 3766 147 39
10: 3691 148 39
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Total: 17639 755 203 Total Score = 50,500,013
Club: Italian Contest Club
Comments:
At first congratulation to the TK0W+ team at D4C. They did an outstanding job.
We had just 6 "vanila" stations (3xFT10 + 3xFT1000MK5-!!!) - one per
band and no inbads. While hearing their pileups on high bands over night - we
came to the final statement - NO CHANCE this time. To explain - we heard few SA
and D4C on 10+15 and that is ALL. They were happily working 2-3 QSOs/min - whole
world and we heard NOTHING. On 20m it was a bit better but just a bit - we could
hear probably 30% of their pileup. But let's be reasonable - they are just few
km less than 2500km SW from US i.e. about the same as CS2C to my station OL4A or
II2S to Madeira or W3LPL to KP4 - so......
OK as I always say we do that to have FUN, if we eventually manage to vin we are
happy - if not we are happy too - we had fun.
I am 1000% sure that if we would erect all the inbads and build all the needed
HW and maybe ??? replace the OPs for some better ones - no chance still.
We had about 1 hour electricity drop-out - Saturday from about 0700 till about
0800.
We managed to work nice 323 stations on 6 bands, more than in SSB leg. The
propagation was according to our observation inferior to the one in SSB. The
high bands completely closed quite soon - just around 2000UTC. The stations on
LowBands were loud but a few of them there.
Antennas used:
bev on 160,80,40 - 5x about 300m long into 45, 90, 115, 260 and 300 deg.
160m - single delta loop@39m - verticaly fed
80m - 2x 2el deltaloops @43m (into EU and NA) - horizontaly fed loops spaced at
about 14m - i.e. similar setup to W3LPL
40m - 2x 3el.full size Yagi @25m 12m boom into EU and NA - fixed - not rotary.
20m - 3x 5el.Yagi into EU @39+27+15m fixed + 2x 5el.Yagi into NA @33+21m fixed
+rotary 4Y@28m.
15m - 4x 5el.Yagi into EU + 4x 5el.Yagi into NA + 5el.Yagi into 165deg +
4el.Yagi
into SA - all fixed
10m - 6x 4Y Yagi @38/32/26/20/14/8m to the USA, 3x 5el.Yagi fixed to EU
8+13+18m, 5Y Yagi at 35m to 120deg.
We are happy with the result - best ever score in CQWW-CW from CN3A.
Hope to hear you all soon in the next one.
Thanks to Ahmed CN8WK and of course to ARRAM.
For the whole CN3A team
Jiri - OK1RI
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