[3830] CQWW CW RW9OWD(N6ZZ) SOAB HP

[n6zz at zianet.com]

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: RW9OWD
Operator(s): N6ZZ
Station: RW9OWD

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Siberia
Operating Time (hrs): 43:30

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   21     6       13
   80:  196    13       52
   40:  256    24       76
   20:  815    29       91
   15:  494    26       87
   10:  634    25       86
------------------------------
Total: 2416   123      405  Total Score = 3,285,216

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

RW9OWD is the club callsign of the Novosibirsk State Technical University. 
Thanks to RW9OW and the rest of the NSTU contest crew for agreeing to stand
aside so I could do a SOAB effort from Zone 18.

Only 3 hours of > 100 QSOs made for a long time sitting in the chair!  This
would have been a good situation to do SO2R, but it just wasn't possible.

10 meters was surprisingly productive.  The 6-element yagi atop a 9-story
building definitely gets out!  The 20 meter 5-element yagi also performed
effectively.  15, with a 3-element beam, was a bit disappointing....the band
just never sounded very good.  Antennas on 40, 80 and 160 were wires....that,
along with some local noise made those bands very tough going.  With a location
that's as far from major population centers as this one is, big antennas are
very welcome!

As usual from the higher latitudes, the echo effect provides some interesting
challenges.  The echo was so pronounced, that the second and third iteration of
a character would obliterate what was being sent the first time around. 
Sometimes even sending slow didn't improve the situation.  

Also, the band openings, especially on 10 and 15 were extremely sharp...a
station would go from having a good signal to being totally inaudible just one
character later....just like somebody had suddenly disconnected the antenna.  A
return to the band 10 minutes later might again reveal audible signals.



               Continent List  2002 CQWW CW - RW9OWD

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =      0     0    10   360     3     2    375
  VE calls    =      0     0     0    27     1     0     28
  N.A. calls  =      0     0     0    10     3     3     16
  S.A. calls  =      0     0     2    11     2     7     22
  Euro calls  =     14   154   142   347   328   489   1474
  Afrc calls  =      0     2     7     7    11    13     40
  Asia calls  =      7    21    32    31    37    30    158
  JA calls    =      0    18    55    20   105    82    280
  Ocen calls  =      0     1     8     2     4     8     23

  Total calls =     21   196   256   815   494   634   2416


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