[3830] CQWW CW XE2AC SOAB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: XE2AC
Operator(s): XE2AC
Station: XE2AC

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: AGS
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    1     0        1
   80:  193    14       27
   40:  308    15       31
   20:  554    16       32
   15:  684    20       50
   10:  147    16       25
------------------------------
Total: 1887    82      166  Total Score = 992,992

Club: 

Comments:

Rig : FT-100MP

         Antennas : Alpha Delta DXA (160M-80M-40M) 
                    Force12 VR-3 (20M-15M-10M)
		    Two 3-ele monobanders (10M)


My original plan was to operate SO 10M HP.
	This was rapidly dropped once I realized the 
	sunspots trend was not going to be as good as the previous weeks ago.
	
	This forced me to review and retune the low bands slopper antenna,
	 -which over the last years, it seemed to lose his performance.

	The major findings were:
	1) Broken solder joint at the antennaÂ's feed point 
	2) Bad coax cable. (it had been replaced 5 years ago) 
	
	Both were fixed 2 hours prior the contest. However, this left no time to 
	adjust the 160M portion.
	
	Nevertheless, the above things paid off -particularly on 80M, which improved
the performance 
	on this segment	-tenfold on QSO's and four times better on multipliers.
	The above comparison done versus the 2003 CQWW CW edition.

	Lessons learned, (besides the antennas), check the connectors and
	 transmission lines every year.

	I really missed the Forced12 CXL on 40 thru 15M, which I sold it four years
ago.
	This left me to operate 80M thru 15M with the twin sloper and one vertical
dipole.
	
	160M - Nothing here.
         80M - Best performance ever, from this QTH
         40M - Good rates, but lower multipliers than 20003 
         20M - As usual, very crowded.
         15M - The stellar band on QÂ's and multipliers
         10M -Charmed by the 15M rate, I missed SundayÂ's aperture on this
band.

	There were two or  three occasions that I could not get to decode CW due to
saturation 
	on my brain. This forced me to go outside and get fresh breeze of air.
		

	This time there were no software hiccups. N1MM worked like a charm.

	
	So, the strategy was simple: be ATR (addict to rate) on all bands 
	-to compensate	the lack of yagi punch. 
	Yeah, I know, IÂ'd should cut it at some point to do more S & P, 
	but it was simply too much fun.
 
        Some additional info by N1MM logger:
            
        1) Maximum runs
         XE2AC Runs >10 QSOs:

2010-11-27 0144 - 0225Z,    3557 kHz, 55 Qs, 81.0/hr 
2010-11-27 0445 - 0512Z,    3563 kHz, 33 Qs, 71.9/hr 
2010-11-27 1707 - 1746Z,   21062 kHz, 82 Qs, 123.9/hr 
2010-11-27 1807 - 1830Z,   28037 kHz, 33 Qs, 84.8/hr 
2010-11-27 1957 - 2147Z,   21019 kHz, 192 Qs, 105.0/hr 
2010-11-27 2220 - 0101Z,   14060 kHz, 238 Qs, 88.5/hr 
2010-11-28 0218 - 0507Z,    7082 kHz, 216 Qs, 76.6/hr 
2010-11-28 0528 - 0548Z,    3586 kHz, 24 Qs, 71.4/hr 
2010-11-28 0549 - 0630Z,    3569 kHz, 47 Qs, 69.3/hr 
2010-11-28 1545 - 1613Z,   28035 kHz, 48 Qs, 103.6/hr 
2010-11-28 1628 - 1703Z,   21048 kHz, 55 Qs, 95.9/hr 
2010-11-28 1751 - 1802Z,   28039 kHz, 21 Qs, 112.7/hr 
2010-11-28 1821 - 2048Z,   21013 kHz, 276 Qs, 112.9/hr 
2010-11-28 2110 - 2345Z,   14044 kHz, 255 Qs, 98.2/hr 

         2) Max rates:
2010-11-27 1731Z - 4.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour 
2010-11-27 2010Z - 2.9 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 174 per hour 
2010-11-28 1933Z - 2.1 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 128 per hour 


             Thanks to all of for the QÂ's.


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