[3830] All Asian SSB VE6CNU SOAB HP

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                    All Asian DX Contest, SSB

Call: VE6CNU
Operator(s): VE6CNU
Station: VE6CNU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:           
   40:    1     1
   20:  152    57
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  153    58  Total Score = 8,874

Club: ALBERTA CLIPPERS

Comments:

This was a very busy weekend with tons of contests going on simultaneously.  I
was really looking forward to the All Asian SSB contest with the hopes that
propagation would be better than last year.  I guess I have to wait until next
year, hi!  The new thing for me was that I was using an amp in this contest and
also using a spotting cluster.  Up until now I have resisted spotting but this
was part of the contest so I decided to give it a try.  At the beginning of the
contest I was picking them off very easily but it soon became apparent that
there were very few new spots as time went by.  And since we have a pretty good
pipeline to Japan from Alberta, about 95% of all my QSOs were with JAs.  

Both mornings of the contest I got up early (4AM today) to see if I could work
Asia on 40m.  Yesterday morning I heard absolutely nothing, but this morning I
managed to work one JA at around 4:30AM local time (1030Z).  There was a
constant S7 noise across the band, which seemed part of the Alberta RF black
hole.  After 2 more hours of hearing nothing (except west coast stations
working Japan) I went back to bed!  

Sunday afternoon I managed to work more JA stations but not much else (a total
of 5 countries in all throughout the contest).  Its a good thing the mults are
by WPX prefix rather than by country prefix.  

73,

Jerry VE6CNU

Rig:  FT-1000MP
Amp:  FL-7000 (about 400W)
Ant:  TH6DXX @ 13m, Inverted Vee for 40/80
Software:  N1MM


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