[3830] CQWW CW V26K(AA3B) SOAB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V26B

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 43.6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  219    14       43
   80:  669    17       76
   40: 1953    30      100
   20: 1738    26       97
   15:  811    24       70
   10:   35     7       16
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Total: 5425   118      402  Total Score = 7,056,400

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

This was my lucky 13th trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and 11th visit to the
V26B super station.  As always, I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N and Team
Antigua for helping to make this effort possible.

The station was in great shape when I arrived thanks to the work of Team
Antigua.  The only problem I encountered was intermittent high SWR conditions
when using the Stack Matches on 20M and 15M – I decided it would be best to
only use the top antenna in each stack and this seemed to work fine.  A NE
beverage was installed within 30 minutes of arriving.  AC power was solid.

My goal for the contest was 6000 QSOs and 8.4M.  I estimated an average of 2.5
points per QSOs.  I then developed QSO and multiplier targets for each band,
and time allocations for running 3 point QSOS, running 2 point QSOs and hunting
multipliers.  The following is a comparison of my actual performance to my
pre-contest goals:

Score          Score          Score
Goal           Actual         Delta

8400000        7056400	     (1343600)


        Goal    Goal  Actual  Actual  Delta   Delta
Band    QSOs   Mults   QSOs   Mults    QSOs   Mults

160     201    40      219     57      18      17 
80      612    94      669     93      57      (1)
40      1972   137     1953    130    (19)     (7)
20      1547   131     1738    123     191     (8)
15      1558   119     811     94     (747)   (25)
10      110    40      35      23     (75)    (17)

Total   6000   561     5425   520     (575)   (41)


Scenario       Goal   Actual   Delta	

Run 3 Pt       27.0    27.6     0.6   hours
Hunt            4.0     4.4     0.4   hours
Run 2 Pt       12.0    11.6    (0.4)  hours

Total          43.0    43.6     0.6   hours

Overall Productivity:

               QSOs/   Mults/  Points/
Scenario       Hour    Hour     Hour

Overall        124.5   11.9    162279
Run 3 Pt       138.2   11.6    158275
Hunt            19.1   18.9    256027
Run 2 Pt       148.1   10.0    136203

I obviously missed my pre-contest goal by several miles.  The primary reason is
that I did not have the productivity on 15M that I had anticipated.  The 15M
band did not open to Europe for very long and most of my contacts on the band
were with North America.  Certainly 10M was also a disappointment – I was not
able to work a single station from Zone 3, 4 or 5.

I was very surprised by the totals for 160M.  It was quite a thrill to have
many loud EU and AF stations call in on the second night around 02z.  I also
felt loud on 80M this year.

Thanks for all the QSOs.  I will go again in 2009.  QSL via AA3B.

73 Bud V26K / AA3B


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