Hi everybody,
I had to be at work on Saturday so I missed the first four
hours of the contest, with the chance for many QSOs with
USA and Canada on 21 and 28 MHz. 28 MHz was a disappointment,
propagation was good and some multipliers were found only
on Ten, but the QSO rate was not good. Best bands were
7 and 21 MHz, followed by 14 MHz. 3.5 MHz was not very
good, although I had a new one. The period from 00:30 to
05:30z (02:30 - 06:30 local) had very little activity.
Solar Flux was 129, but K was only 1-2, which could not
justify the bad propagation to Asia on 7.
At some point in the contest, I was called by Olda OK1YM
(ex J41YM) but I was unable to reply at the moment and
did not find him afterwards.
BAND QSOs
80 22
40 98
20 73
15 154
10 24
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TOTAL 371
Call areas: 16
Countries: 51
Continents: 6
Claimed Score: 149142
Area Multipliers: W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W8, W9, W0, VE1,
VE2, VE3, JA1, JA3, JA6, VK4
DXCC countries: 4J, 4X, 5B4, A4, AP, JA, JY, UA9, UN, VK,
VK, YB, ZL, W, VE, CX, PY, 9A, CT, DL, EA,
EI, ER, EU, F, G, GW, GM, GU, GI, HA, HB, I,
LX, LY, OH, OK, OM, ON, OZ, PA, RA, SM, SP,
SV, UR, YL, YO, YU, EA9, FR5.
Station setup:
IC-706MkII & MFJ-971 coupler
Vertical antenna (40-10 m)
Dipole (80-40 m)
Writelog 10.34
See you next week in XE-RTTY contest.
73 Costas SV1XV
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