[3830] CQWW CW ES5TF(@ES5EC) SOAB(A) LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: ES5TF
Operator(s): ES5TF
Station: ES5EC

Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: Tartu
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:    0     0        0
   80:   56     8       45
   40:   82    15       52
   20:   77    17       53
   15:   85    26       57
   10:   12     6       12
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Total:  312    72      219  Total Score = 177,801

Club: 

Comments:

I worked this contest as a "holiday-style" one, because I had to stay at home
most of the time (and I don't have any usable antennas at home). Without audio,
I treated CW as any other digital mode and decoded it using MixW. Because most
running stations were using computers anyway, it was not a big problem to
decode those "almost perfect" CW signals using a computer program.
During the contest time I was connected to ES5EC clubstation computer with
rdesktop, unfortunately just the screen picture was accessible to me.
Most of the QSOs were worked using DX Cluster information (most of my QSOs are
also multipliers). Just during Sunday afternoon, it was possible to listen
audio at the clubstation and oh my how much better it was :-D
Our clubstation has a Kenwoon TS-2000 transceiver without external amplifier,
antennas are simple delta loop for 80m and also a tribander for 20-10m bands.
It was not a big surprise that tribander gave me possibility to pick up some
pretty rare countries, but working Japan, Africa etc on 40m with simple wire
antenna from center of the town - that was real "shock" to me.
When contest was over, I was pretty surprised to see such QSO count and not
that bad final score too.

73!
Tõnis, ES5TF


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