[3830] CQWW SSB C4Z(5B4AIZ) SOSB/15 LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: C4Z
Operator(s): 5B4AIZ
Station: 5B4AIZ

Class: SOSB/15 LP
QTH: Mazotos.
Operating Time (hrs): 26

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:    0     0        0
   80:    0     0        0
   40:    0     0        0
   20:    0     0        0
   15: 1301    33      105
   10:    0     0        0
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Total: 1301    33      105  Total Score = 476,280

Club: Chiltern DX Club

Comments:

Well, how about that? Not what anyone expected, especially considering band cndx
which have gone before in recent times.

I can only comment on 15mtrs as I didn't listen any other bands but 15mtrs was
in amazing shape. I reckon we will be seeing some pretty big scores on this
band. Saturday was just perfect, Sunday the band became unstable with quite a
lot of fading but generally of short duration and still very workable. I am an
ssb 'rookie' (one of those died in the wool cw ops) and I had a barrel of fun,
I have missed a lot  by forsaking this one over the years. 

Having had a little play in wpx ssb I thought I would give this one a go with a
full time effort. I had no great expectations of conditions or performance but
regret now that I slept over Saturday morning and missed the planned start time
by over 2 hours.Those two hours are critical at bagging  those far east
multipliers before europe and all their splatter, gets propagation. I made up
some ground on Sunday but would have liked two shots at it.

As a low power operator you don't expect to do a lot of running before getting
'bounced', sure that happened a lot but I was surprised at the amount of time I
was able to keep a run qrg. 15mtrs is such a great band with much more room than
the lower bands, still difficult at peak times because of splatter and packet
followers who cause chaos by continual calling and no listening but we have to
live with that or else reach for the off switch and go walk the dog.

The band seemed to be open to just about everywhere, I never had such strong
sigs from the Pacific boys before with long openings too, I was hearing them
and the JA's + VK4's for hours. Sigs from the west were never as strong, east
to west seems to have it for some reason. In the main the competing ops were
all great, thanks for the contacts and your company - it was a blast.

Zones missed were 1, 3, 6, 22, 31, 32, 35.
Didn't hear anything from 1, 6, 22, 31, 32.  z3 & z35 hrd but couldn't reach.
Delighted to pass the 100 countries mark, I wouldn't have put money on that
before the contest.

Eqp't - TS570 100W.
3 Ele Triband yagi up 16mtrs.

73  Brian  5B4AIZ.


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