[3830] WPX CW VE3RSA SOAB QRP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: VE3RSA
Operator(s): VE3RSA
Station: VE3RSA

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    1
   80:   32
   40:  122
   20:   89
   15:   42
   10:   31
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Total:  317  Prefixes = 187  Total Score = 189,244

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

After going to all the trouble to find a beautiful location in the countryside
to operate from, with a great view,  towards Europe and Japan, that just
"happened" to be the property housing a wonderful Bed and Breakfast, with the
most accommodating owners, it would have been nice if the ionosphere had been
in a better mood!

Conditions were sub-par from what I hoped for, as noted by others, and no, not
a single JA heard , though i want to thank all those DX stations for their
perserverence and uncanny receiving abilities to hear my 5 Watts but especially
the 2 ZL's that I worked (ZM4G & ZM1A) and IM3QBR. Thanks guys!!

This was my first time using a beam which fortunately arrived a few days before
the contest from Mosely. Although a simple TA32 2 element tribander and only 25
feet in the air, it really turned out to be a key for this years test and many
of the stations that were not above the noise on the wires were workable on the
beam. I love it!!


I hope conditions perk up for November. 

See you all then, 

Tom  VE3RSA


2010 setup:

elecraft K2 barefoot 
5 band Alpha Delta dipole as inverted VEE - center at 40'
136ft long wire with 10 radials 

TH2 at 25' (yipee!- finally)


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