[3830] WPX SSB OL4A(@OK1RF/OK1RI) M/2 HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: OL4A
Operator(s): OK1FFU, OK1RI, OK8WW, OM5AW, OM6NM
Station: OK1RF/OK1RI

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Brezina
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:  175
   80:  592
   40: 1632
   20: 2209
   15: 2290
   10:  249
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Total: 7147  Prefixes = 1728  Total Score = 36,101,376

Club: 

Comments:

What a competition in M/2 in Europe this year ! There are "EU grade" 3 Big Guns
in 9A -9A1A,9A1P,9A7A - all decided to go M/2. We knew about 9A1P and 9A7A but
we thought that 9A1A is M/M as always, so we have not observed how are they
doing.

We were frustrated after the first night with our poor doing on 80m (compared
to last year and 9A1P). Last year we had 3el.delta loop into NA, this year only
vertical. 
The propagation on HF was superb, better than last year - but still far away
from what was real maximum 11 years ago - check the old results on 10 + 15m.
LF was quite poor - as expected - far from last year.

Murphy was nice to us in last few contests - he decided it is time for serious
visit - I believe he was with us whole contest. It was probably not much
audible from outside (OK we had a couple of pauses...) but my car is full to
the roof of the junk to FIX.

NA was 45% compared to 39% last year. It says it all.
We expected there is going to be much less JAs but surprisingly there was about
the same 313 to 321 QSOs from last year.
China is still on the rise 98 QSOs compared to 64 from last year. The rise is
steady 50% per year !

Overall we all had fun, we are most happy that we finished neck-neck with 9A1A
"bandwagon" - considering our average and multipliers - the difference is 12
QSOs ONLY !!

Thanks for a QSO and hope to meet you in the next contest.

73 !
Jiri - OK1RI


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