[3830] CQWW CW KO7AA SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: KO7AA
Operator(s): KO7AA
Station: KO7AA

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Arizona
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    0     0        0
   80:   33    16       21
   40:  261    35       86
   20:  255    33       63
   15:   76    20       49
   10:    5     4        4
------------------------------
Total:  630   108      223  Total Score = 610,590

Club: 

Comments:

I had a great time the first night, on Saturday morning I had 250/34/81
on 40M and figured 1M was a sure thing. Then the realty of DX contesting
from W7 hit me! 20M was poor to EU and 15M was worse. The enthusiasm
started fading.....I got on for the afternoon 20M JA/Asia run but spent
most of the weekend with the family.

  The strangest part of the whole test was during a JA run on 20M. Someone
signing TI3*** started CQing absolutely ZERO BEAT on me, 599 off the back
of the beam, without even a "?". He just wouldn't let up and even told me 
the freq was QRL. During 20 years in W0 I was isolated from hard core DX
contesting and had only read about down and dirty frequency stealing in
the contesting comments....certainly our domestic contests have little
frequency "spats" but this kind of aggressiveness was a first for me....

ANT: Optibeam 4020 (3 el 40/5 el 20) at 90'
     M2 4 el 15 at 38'
     Butternut HF2V

RIG: TenTec OMNI VI and ALPHA power

73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson, AZ


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