[3830] VE6JY 15m ARRL SSB

[Don Moman]

Subject: VE6JY 15m ARRL SSB

    ARRL DX SUMMARY SHEET
    
    Callsign Used : VE6JY    s/op 15 hp

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   
 ______________________________________________________

   15SSB     995         978       2916       116 
 ______________________________________________________

 Totals      995         978       2916       116 

    Final Score = 338,256 points.


FT-1000mp Alpha 87A  6/6/6/6 145/105/70/35  6 el OWA 48' boom 

Beams are all independently steerable, and rarely used as a "stack".
Combining the top 2 did make some gain into Europe, but usually
combinations were used to cover several areas at once.  It was handy when
tuning for mults to select "all" and cover PAc/JA/Eu/CAm in one pass. 

Lots of solar disturbances up here, brief openings to Europe with good
rate, but many slow hours too. Took a little time off the first night to
answer some of the strong Eu signals on 80, sounded like that band was
pretty good. 

A couple of hours of JA at the start but the band was pretty well dead by
0400 with JT1KAA and 9M6AAC the last in the log.  There was a spotlight
opening to Italy around 0700, heard a few I stations chatting or working
DX, but not in the contest then.  Main opening started around 1000 with
GW4BLE being the first in the log. 
 Similar the second 24 hours with the last few hours being painfully slow. 
Nothing new to work and only hope of a q was catching a new station CQing
on the band.  Couldn't get over the 1000 Q mark on 15, worked 1 station in
the last 30 minutes - and that was by tuning, not by CQ. At least it was a
mult -CX!  Even CQing well below 21200 still produced quite a few US
stations calling in, oblivious of the band edge and also the nature of the
contest. 

For those of you in the British Commonwealth countries... look for VE6JY
operated by VE6BF in the BERU contest next weekend. 

73 Don

    Continent List  

                   160    80    40    20    15       ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --       ---
  USA calls   =      0     0     0     0     6         6
  VE calls    =      0     0     0     0     0         0
  N.A. calls  =      0     5     2     0    50        57
  S.A. calls  =      0     2     0     0    52        54
  Euro calls  =      0     7     1     0   510       518
  Afrc calls  =      0     0     0     0     7         7
  Asia calls  =      0     0     0     0    22        22
  JA calls    =      0     0     0     0   314       314
  Ocen calls  =      0     0     0     0    34        34

  Total calls =      0    14     3     0   995      1012

Mults 
KL      UA9     9M6     F       G       FM      YV      VP2M    9H      5Z
JA      HL      GW      GM      LY      VP9     V4      FG      ES      YN
ZF      VK      I       OE      IS      KP2     V2      PJ2     EA6     5H
KP4     ZP      DL      PA      SM      YL      J6      HR      SV      HP
YS      9Y      YU      EA9     EK      TI      3V      KH0     GI      8R
V3      V6      OK      LA      YO      J3      EA8     OA      LZ      CP
PY      ZL      9A      S5      HB      TG      HK      HC8     EI      KH2
HC      DU      UA      HA      ON      OZ      KG4     T30     A9      CX
XE      FK      Z3      UA2     UN      T9      CE      BV      OD      
LU      YB      EA      OH      8P      C6      VP5     CE0A    4U1I    
P4      V7      SP      UR      9J      CM      PJ7     EU      4X      
KH6     JT      OM      CT      VP2V    HK0/A   ZS      LX      TF      






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