[3830] CQWW SSB KH6LC(NH6V) SOSB/80 QRP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: KH6LC
Operator(s): NH6V
Station: KH6LC

Class: SOSB/80 QRP
QTH: Kea'au, Hawai'i
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:                    
   80:  132    19       25
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total:  132    19       25  Total Score = 15,576

Club: 

Comments:

This was my first attempt at QRP in over 30 years of contesting.  I could have
picked the CW weekend, or even a better band, for my initiation instead, but
that would have made things too easy!  I was really amazed at what could be
worked on 75-meters with 5 watts into a 4-square array.  A big "mahalo" goes
out to all who worked so hard, and patiently, to pull my weak signal out of the
noise.  Several QSOs took upwards of 5 minutes to complete!  

Conditions were good, with extremely low local QRN.  Needless to say, there was
no need to utilize the newly upgraded receive antenna system since I really
couldn't work anything under S-6 anyway.  I even got away with throwing in some
attenuation and decreasing the RF gain, just to make it easy on my ears while
tuning.

Best DX worked: EA8CMX (13,000 km).  Best DX heard: C91WW & ZS9X (19,000 km). 
I heard about a dozen BYs, but managed to finally work only B7P the second
night.  The "Golden Alligator" award goes to BT4EXPO.  I didn't hear him even
complete one single QSO during the many times I had him tuned in!

I was disappointed that I was unable to complete QSOs with any of the several
stations I heard in zones 10, 11, and 12.

The list of multipliers that I heard is longer than that of which I worked.


Countries           Zones       
---------	    ---------
9M6     2            1      2       
BY      1            3     57      
CM      1            4     11      
E5/s    1            5      8       
EA8     1            6      2       
FO      1            7      1       
JA     18            8      4       
K      67            9      4       
KH0     1           13      1       
KH2     1           19      3       
KH6     6           24      1       
KL      2           25     18      
KP4     2           27      2       
LU      1           28      2       
P4      2           29      1       
PJ2     1           30      4       
PJ4     1           31      7       
TI      1           32      3       
UA9     3           33      1       
VE      9                
VK      5                
VP5     1                
VP9     1                
XE      2                
ZL      1                


It was interesting, and oddly entertaining, though I'm not sure if I'd want to
do something like this again.



73 and aloha,

Rob, NH6V


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