[3830] CQWW CW CT3EN(CT1BOH) SOAB HP

[José Nunes CT1BOH]

Call: CT3EN
Operator(s): CT1BOH
Station: CQ9K

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MADEIRA IS.
Operating Time (hrs): 46,5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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 160:   378    18        61
   80:   878    21        84
   40: 1724    28       103
   20: 1157    33       107
   15: 2161    34       121
   10:   185    17        50
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Total: 6483   151      526  Total Score = 13,041,051




Back from my honeymoon in Barbados, I finally have a chance to post my score.

First of all many thanks to Madeira Team - CQ9K Group. Without them
this operation would not be possible. A big thank you to CT3BD, CT3DL,
CT3BD, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KY, CT3IQ.

For the first time in many years I did not do the full 48 hours. I
felt asleep between 01:23 and 02:59z the second night loosing one and
a half hour during prime-time low bands. I was very lucky to wake up,
just by myself, god knows why, as I spent the night time totally alone
in the trailer, while the CT3 boys where sleeping down the mountain in
Funchal.

But lucky was my call. Two days earlier while climbing a tower to put
up the 80 meter antenna I hit a mast, opening my head – the result 12
stitches, right where the headphones sit in the head, not a very
comfortable way to operate 48 hours. The word for stitches in
Portuguese is the same as points, so everybody was joking I would
start the contest with 12 "points" ahead of the competition…
Take a look at http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh/pictures.htm and take a look
at my trausers still with the blood marks....


Also this contest was the second time using Win-Test
(www.win-test.com) and Ezmaster (www.hamradiosolutions.com) and
advanced SO2R mode. The first one I managed to break the IARU CW SOAB
World Record, and this time I'm claiming #1 in the world for my 6th
SOAB CQWW victory (http://ct1boh.planetaclix.pt).

 In Win-test I configured seven different operating scenarios for the
different operating situations I would face throughout the contest and
this gave me a new range of flexibility. Two of the scenarios were
particularly helpful with a
very marginal 10 meter band, providing me with a constant receiving or
transmitting presence on this band while running the pile-ups on 15
and 20 meter bands (of course just one signal at the same time).

I felt I should have done a lot better on the low bands.We need better
TX antennas. With better antennas and who knows what else... next year
I'am sure the score will be better.

73
José Nunes
CT1BOH, CT3NT