[3830] CQWW CW M/N2WKS SOAB(A) HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: M/N2WKS
Operator(s): N2WKS
Station: M/N2WKS

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: England
Operating Time (hrs): 28

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   17     3       10
   80:  310    10       54
   40:  316    16       70
   20:  626    25       90
   15:   58    17       35
   10:    0     0        0
------------------------------
Total: 1327    71      259  Total Score = 817,080

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Callsign was a mouthfull (fistfull?) which made S/P difficult.  I hope everyone
logged it correctly (M/N2WKS) and not as any of the busted versions.  I will
have to get a local callsign for next time.  

I had diffuculty on the low bands and I will need to improve the antennas on
40/80/160 as I could not be heard by many even here in Europe.  Conditions did
improve later on Saturday night on both 40 and 80 and I was able to run for
periods of time on both but 160 was not very productive.

I guess I missed the 15 meter opening as I was only able to work a handful and
nobody was particularly strong except a few of the guys in the caribbean.

20 was the money band and I pushed the rate meter up over 200 a couple of times
which I usually can't even do in morse runner so it was a lot of fun.

I used an ICOM 7700 for the first time and it was so clean even right next to
strong stations that it made it much easier to run then I am used to with the
756pro I normally use.  I hope I did not get too close to people not realizing
it, if I did it was not intentional.

I tried to use the Rigexpert tiny and I couldn't get CAT working.  CW worked ok
but I noticed it was CPU intensive which was a bit annoying on this single cpu
machine...probably not an issue on a dual core box but I probably should have
used the rigexpert plus.  I wasn't able to get CAT working from the rigexpert
plus with n1mm and an FT2000 either so I have some computer issues to work
out.

QSO total was a record for me but point total was not due to all the 1 point
QSOs I had with EU stations.  I will need to work on a plan to balance this so
I can improve my score next time.

QSL via LOTW.  73 es thanks for all the QSOs.

Zev M/N2WKS


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