[3830] CQWW CW SP4Z SOAB(A) HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SP4Z
Operator(s): SP4Z
Station: SP4Z

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Lapy
Operating Time (hrs): 44

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  233    15       61
   80:  891    29      102
   40:  868    38      139
   20:  671    36      128
   15:  130    28       59
   10:   10     3        8
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Total: 2803   149      497  Total Score = 3,379,872

Club: SP DX Club

Comments:

dear Contesters:
Low bands were in good shape
I was QRT on Sunday morning from 02:00 to 05:00 UTC for sleep
Really nice 30 min opening to NA on 15m on Sunday afternoon
but only for very directive area: VE1,W1,W2,W3
I am far to North-East of Poland, close to LY at EU border.
There no were other signals at that moment specially from
mults area of Carribean Sea even plenty of spots.
Strange very selective opening on 15m.

I wanted to rich 3000 QSO - but mults are worth that total score.
Congrats Balkans friends YQ9W LZ8A YR9P for their higher numbers of QSOs
in our category.

Plenty of work made before Contest with repair 3 antennas on
one mast. It put up on Friday - one week before Contest + Beverages
for season + hardware work on equipment setup of course.

TRCV was small IC7000 bcse FT1000MP Mark V was deaf due to some problems
with roofing filter perhaps - not time to check what was wrong
(borrow that rig few days before Contest)
Main Receiver had almost 20 db weaker signal than Sub-Rec.
So I used in IC7000 - 3 memo channels for each band with handly finding and
recording in few seconds a new spoting station and backing to CQ in main
channel
to not loose running freq (sometime was already busy after "Cluster" QSO).
Sometimes I hate that procedure but after mult QSO - feel much better.
Sometimes I was first working spoting station or monitoring that QRG
waiting for best moment to DX QSO during CQs in other time.
DSP in IC7000 really work good - cancelling QRMs from big stations
close my freq.

Lost few nice double mults like KH7X, HS0ZDY on 80 + few on 160m
I really recommend small split for rare stations on low bands:
QRMs slows rate that station. This method used 5H3EE, 7X0RY, XW1B

All and all I like that contest very much and there are plans
for next years.

73 Wes SP4Z

http://www.contesting.com/articles/943  (thank you Henryk SM0JHF)


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