[3830] CQWW SSB N5AW SOAB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   20     8       12
   80:   89    20       48
   40:  186    30       80
   20:  292    33       95
   15:  438    32      103
   10:  129    12       31
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Total: 1154   135      369  Total Score = 1,614,816

Club: 

Comments:

Missed the last two years of CQWW SSB after a run of 11 years of serious entries
-  nice to be back!  Also great to see 15 meters back! Ten was improved but was
hoping for more after it was open to Europe several days just prior to the
contest but alas – those sunspots faded away. Did manage to work GM9T who
popped in briefly Sunday afternoon but that was it.

Surprisingly I set personal records for QSOs and multipliers on all three of
the low bands. I attribute a big part of that to the expanded privileges on 40
and 80 that I had not been able to take advantage of until this year. A big
thrill was finding JT5DX on 40 shortly after sunrise Sunday and working him on
first call for my 80th country and 30th zone.

Made some feeble attempts to run Europe on 15 meters without success –
impossible to find a frequency with the strong East Coast signals. Ended up
with 98 percent of my contacts being search and pounce – you can’t win that
way, even with low power.

Looking forward to CW but I’m glad there is a month to recover. Too many
contests this time of year!

Marv, N5AW

Radios: K3 and Orion at 100 watts
Antennas: 3L SteppIR at 42m, Th3jr at 23m, two C3’s fixed NE at 31m and 24m,
204BA fixed NW at 17m, 40 meter Moxon at 42m, 40 meter NW-SE Lazy H at 37m,
array of 5 sloping dipoles for 80 meters, elevated radials on 42m tower for
160. 170m beverage NW.

                                  Continent List

                    160    80    40    20    15    10   ALL
                    ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---
      USA calls =     3     1     1     1     3     2    11
   Canada calls =     5    18    17    23    36     2   101
       NA calls =     7    21    21    29    27    22   127
       SA calls =     3    12    21    53    73    98   260
     Euro calls =     0    21    78   133   188     1   421
  African calls =     1     7    10    14    15     6    53
    Asian calls =     0     2     4     7    14     0    27
    Japan calls =     0     4    17    22    50     0    93
    Ocean calls =     1     5    18    10    34     0    68

    Total calls =    20    91   187   292   440   131  1161

Worked 6 bands: D4C, KP3Z, P49Y and PJ2T


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