[3830] CQWW SSB K4ZW SOAB HP

[k4zw at staffnet.com]

                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
                    
Call: K4ZW
Operator(s): K4ZW
Station: K4ZW

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Zones  Countries
-------------------------------
  160:     23      7     16
   80:    118     19     64
   40:    131     22     73
   20:    748     31    114
   15:   1017     35    132
   10:   1445     38    127
-------------------------------
Total:   3482    152    526  =  6,805,764

Club/Team: PVRC

Comments:

  10 meters Saturday evening was as good as it gets.  JA's were loud and 
plentiful.  Had a bunch of BV's, YB's, DU's and XV9TH answer my CQ's.  Sunday 
was a little like trying to run a race with the parking brake on as far as 
props go.  
  
  One of my goals this year, is to try and improve my multiplier totals.  
They've been a little weak at times last year as compared to other SOAB scores. 
 So far, so good.  Now if I could somehow master the art of generating some 
sort or run, however small, on 40 SSB.  
 
  This was also the first time I ran a contest for the full 48 hours.  I didn't 
really plan it going into Friday night.  It just worked out that way.  Call it 
luck or whatever but this time it wasn't a big struggle to keep going. ( I 
suspect that might change as conditions start to tail off during the upcoming 
years)  I don't know how much of an impact this had, but about three weeks 
prior, I really started to push myself in the heath center in the hopes of 
boosting my stamina a bit.  I also laid off caffeine during this period hoping 
that when I did need it during the weekend, it might be more effective.   
  Have a few station maintenance items to tend to like an overloaded T2X 
rotator that started to act up during the weekend and some intermittent 
connection in the 10 meter antenna system.  Nothing that impacted my overall 
score but just some of the routine things that go into keeping a station 
running.
   
  I'll be over in JT land for WW CW.  I think I'll be doing the single op thing 
but if not, then it will likely be a multi/something with my hosts JT1CO and 
JT1BG. In any event, count on some good zone 23 activity.

73
Ken K4ZW
           


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