[3830] WPX SSB OH4A(OH6KZP) SOSB20 HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: OH4A
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH4A

Class: SOSB20 HP
QTH: Kisko
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:     
   20: 2879
   15:     
   10:     
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Total: 2879  Prefixes = 1104  Total Score = 7,057,872

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

A few single bands from the OH4A station this time, with OH6LI doing efforts on
160m and 15m.

I picked 20m, although I entered the competition a bit handicapped: The EU
antenna was known to be non-usable because of being buried in the snow, and on
Friday evening it turned out that the second 20m stack could not be used
either. So I hoped that my frequencies would remain somewhat clean and made do
with beaming in one direction at a time. Beaming east and west simultaneously
would have given a clear further boost to the score.

Fortunately the conditions on 20m compensated by being wonderful, probably the
best I've experienced since becoming a ham in 1994 (not active during the
previous solar maximum). They were in fact so good that at one point I suffered
big-time QRM from a nearby KL7, something I thought would never happen! :) Then
again, I'm sure I produced unintended QRM for many others with my presence,
that's how it goes in these "splatterfests." 

Eastward propagation was quite normal, but the US direction was fabulous; I
think that my DX percentage ended up a bit over 60. Started the contest with a
four-hour break, then broke for a few hours from Sat evening to Sun morning UTC
(with one hour of operating in the middle), and left a final one-hour break to
the end of the contest. I think the choices were quite successful, and the band
began closing in time for the final break just before 23 UTC.

Thanks to OH6LI for another radio weekend at their family's summer cottage. And
many thanks to all who were on the air, it was great to work you. We'll be back!


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