K6XO/7 Single Operator, All Bands
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160 5 2 2
80 17 8 12
40 37 16 25
20 207 31 74
15 306 29 78
10 42 16 17
Total 614 102 208
10 meters was much, much better than I had guessed that it would be.
Virtually, I had no antenna for 10 meters (I loaded up my 40 meter
ground plane), but still managed to work two European stations. This
was strictly a low impact, casual operation, with lots of time out
and interruptions, and a concert on saturday evening. Sunday afternoon,
as usual, I spent the last hour on 20 meters picking up more
multipliers. At 2356 I ran across S79J with a good signal and got into
the pileup believing that I had no chance of working him. The clock
was now showing 2359 and he had just worked another station out of the
pile. One more call - he came back to the portable seven station! I went
back and gave him my call and the exchange, he came back and gave me a
5939 and then he said, "The contest is over and I am very tired." I am
now convinced that having a 7 in your call is worth at least 5 db.
There were many occasions when a station would say, "Who's the portable
seven?". Overall, the conditions seemed to be quite good, which is not
all that unusual for a CQWW phone contest.
Alan, K6XO/7
Ooops, forgot...final total score; 521,420
alan@dsd.es.com
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