[3830] IARU WX3B M/S HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: WX3B
Operator(s): WX3B
Station: WX3B

Class: M/S HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:    0      0      0
   80:    0      0      0
   40:   44     95     25
   20:   96    235     63
   15:   15    121     30
   10:    0      8      2
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Total:  155    459    120  Total Score = 226,080

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

How about that - here we are at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, and Europeans
are coming in on 10 meters!  Before the contest - CT1ILZ and a few other
Europeans were 59+ on 28mhz at about 10:00pm local time - Friday evening.  

Enjoyed the first few hours on 15 & 20 - and was absolutely SURPRISED by the
awesome 40 meter propagation in the evening.  

This contest started off slowly for me, especially when I QSYed to 20 meters
and couldn't run a think except folks in my back yard.  I got quite good at
pouncing - and I truly felt like I was running 100w and a dipole the first
couple hours.

I also noticed that it was not "low antenna day" and I could hear everybody at
least 20db better than they heard me.  I called in the face of many Asians that
were S7 or louder that absolutely did NOT hear me.  I couldn't break the pileup
of local europeans working each other.  It was a lesson in humility and
patience....and importance of having higher antennas.

I took most of the afteroon and evening off - and returned at 11:00pm at night
to find 20 meters COMPLETELY open, and my signal was BACK.  Folks I could
barely here were answering me again.  The loud Europeans persisted until long
past 1:00am - even at my bedtime I heard some Europeans.  At 3:00am when I shut
down, I worked a few loud JAs on 20 and enjoyed having VK3IO call me on 40m SSB
with his S9 Signal.


This contest was great fun, and I sure hope these conditions hold up for the
upcoming WAE contests.

Special thanks and appreciation go out to the WRTC participants and that entire
group that organized and ran such a fine event.  Makes me wish the WRTC call
signs themselves were multipliers!  

I did not pay attention to the WRTC participant list and of course hearing the
best of the best, all at the same time, is a rare treat and instant graduate
level course on contesting.  


73!

Jim Nitzberg  WX3B


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