[3830] CQWW CW W7YAQ SOAB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W7YAQ
Operator(s): W7YAQ
Station: W7YAQ

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Sisters OR
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   19     8        7
   80:   54    19       24
   40:  162    30       60
   20:  390    31       92
   15:  162    26       62
   10:   21     7        8
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Total:  808   121      253  Total Score = 820,182

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

First ever serious effort in this contest.  It wasn’t until a few minutes ago
when looking at the 3830 entries, that I realized that single operators were
NOT limited to 36 hours.  I wonder where I got the notion of a 36 hour limit. 
Next time I will read the rules carefully, although I’m not sure I could have
spent more time productively in the chair.
  
Lots and lots of S&P here.

Highlights:
-- Making contacts with stations with much longer CW calls than W7YAQ:
     JK2VOC/BA4TB, VP2V/DL7VOG, CE0Y/SM6CUK, and (my favorite) 8N1YT70Y/1
-- Being called by P29CW 2 minutes before the end of the contest – just about
the only non-JA response to a CQ
-- Finding TX3A on 4 bands, usually hanging out quietly just above the low band
edge
-- All the activity from Africa, and zones 7, 8, and 9; and from our VE friends
to the north
-- Working DXCC in a weekend

Lowlights:
-- Only 12.6 percent EU QSOs.  Note to Zone 5 guys – Working JAs from Zone 3
doesn’t compensate!
-- Eastern EU, Mideast, UA9 missing from log.  No zone 20, 21, 22, 34, six zone
16, one zone 17, two zone 18 Qs.  Heard but missed zone 39 (5R8ZO, VQ99JC).
-- Only 1 EU on 15 meters (CR2X)
-- Sticky rotator.  It took lots of control box CW/CCW rocking to move by end
of contest

Rig:  
K3 at 100 watts

Ants: 
160:   MA160V short top-loaded vertical
80:    Inv V at 65 feet
40-10: 3-el Steppir with 30/40 trombone dipole at 70 feet
    
73 and thanks for the fun and QSOs,
Bob W7YAQ


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