[3830] CQWW CW LA8OM SOAB LP

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                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: LA8OM
Operator(s): 
Station: 

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Stavanger
Operating Time (hrs): 34
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Zones  Countries
-------------------------------
  160:                     
   80:    164      3     33
   40:    204      9     44
   20:    330     18     51
   15:    435     13     59
   10:    387     20     66
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Total:   1520     63    253  =  875,004

Club/Team: 

Comments:

After struggling through the famous Saturday conds , I joined the family for TV 
viewing and decided to take an early night.  Got up in the early hours, still 
quiet, back to bed => Had a good nights sleep and entered the chair well rested 
to surprisingly good conds on Sunday morning.  The mood quickly turned from 
’calling the contest a day’ and spending the day on more ’useful’ activities, 
to entering the addictive contest mode.  

High points: 

During one of my few 'cq test’ periods, with excellent 15m conds mid-day 
Sunday, I peaked  a rate of 145 q’s/hr.  Wow!   Suspicious of being a spot on 
some cluster, as there for a few moments was a ’wall of’ US callers.  Fun as 
long as it lasted. 

In the midst of a 10m cq-period with 'local' EU traffic came a call ’out of the 
blue’ from VK6HD.  Very encouraging.

Learning point:  Nevertheless chanceless in the most heavy pile-up 
competitions, spend more quality time on multiplier hunting. 

Equipment:  Kenwood TS-570,  Dipole (80-40),  Sigma5 Vertical Dipole (20-15-10)


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