[3830] NP4Z@EA3NY

[Felipe J. Hernandez]

Hi All!!

                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1998


      Call: EA3NY                    Country:  Spain
      Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator
      Zone: 14

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


      160       31       34     1.10      5      25
       80      436      795     1.82     14      63
       40      787     1575     2.00     25      66
       20      608     1342     2.21     32      83
       15      804     1705     2.12     29      87
       10      682     1648     2.42     30      78
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   3348     7099     2.12    135     402  =>  3,812,163


                              Continent Statistics
   EA3NY   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST    Single Operator     29 Nov 1998  2359z

                 160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America   CW    1  157  356  314  394  447 1669    49.5
South America   CW    0    1    5    8   21   12   47     1.4
Europe          CW   29  255  393  238  353  201 1469    43.6
Asia            CW    0   20   33   35   33   22  143     4.2
Africa          CW    1    5    5    7   10    6   34     1.0
Oceania         CW    0    0    2    6    0    2   10     0.3

Hola!!

This has been my first contest experience out of NA and it was
both frustrating and interesting, frustrating 'cause of murphy
hitting me in all ways. From losing my conecting flights and making 
it into Spain with 3 hours of sleep in three days to find 160 useless and
Rf problems on 80 and finally catching a terrible flu
(fever,headaches,cough etc,,,)

Thanks to my friend Eduardo I had all the attentions that anybody
would like on a contest, his family was great in helping feel right
at home. Hes got a great station on beautiful Barcelona, on top of a 
building consisting of an X9 with 1 40 mtr element and dipoles.

I was expecting better propagation, since I heard all the NA stations 
doing so well, especially KC1XX who was 20 db louder than everyone
when the bands opened.. Congrats!!! 10 mtrs was a little dissapointing
from EA, but I loved the Low bands, everybody so close by is great and keeps
a very tired and sick operator awake.

Now I know why everybody loves to go to EA8/EA9, I guess that it is an
impossible location to beat when you are so close to both radio worlds.
Propagation is a little tricky.... A good advice..before operating from a 
location take a few days to learn it well, dont rely on MUF/grayline and
propagation programs for your strategy, a contest is not normal dx
conditions!!!

Thanks and see you when rebuild is completed after hurricane George's!!

Felipe
NP4Z

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