[3830] CQWW CW N4YDU SOAB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: N4YDU
Operator(s): N4YDU
Station: N4YDU

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 39
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   32    10       18
   80:  138    21       63
   40:  452    26       96
   20:  377    26       93
   15:  441    28      100
   10:  618    28      101
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Total: 2058   139      471  Total Score = 3,533,730

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

What a blast! This is a personal best for me in CQWW by more than 1.2 million
points.  I had plenty of rest heading in and I was excited about potentially
great conditions â€" the propagation gods didn't let us down!

I spent 39 hours in the chair this time around and I would have done more if I
could have stayed awake. 10 meters was a little disappointing for me on
Saturday morning, but it just kept giving on Sunday. 15M was great as were 20
and 40. 80M was sluggish from here but the highlight was working a JA on Sunday
morning at sunrise. That is only the second time I have done that with 100
watts. I heard a JA on 160 but I was unable to work the station. 160 was more
of a wasteland for me this year.

Things were shaky before the contest began. I did a quick check of antennas on
Friday morning and noticed the SWR was high on the 80M vertical. I went to the
check it and one section of the T was on the ground. Not a big deal and it was
fixed within 30 minutes. All was well â€" so I thought. I went out for some
food in the afternoon and returned to the shack about four hours before start
time. The computer was toast. No worries though, my laptop already had Wintest
loaded on it and I had a few USB to serial adapters. After about 20 minutes I
was ready to go again. I sure am thankful the original computer crashed before
the contest! The only other issue during the contest was my 10 meter antenna
oriented NE/SW broke (my fault). I took 20 minutes to throw up a dipole for 10M
on Saturday and I had a backup antenna that worked fine.

So that’s it â€" a grand CQWW CW is now history. In 22 years as a ham, it
just keeps getting better.

73,

Nate/N4YDU

Station: ICOM 781 and ICOM 765

Antennas: 
160M: Inverted L
80M Inverted V, T vertical
40M Dipole at 70 feet 
20M 2 Loops at right angles â€" one at 60 feet, another at 80 feet
15M 2 Dipoles at right angles one at 80 feet, another at 50 feet
10M 2 dipoles, one at 80 feet, one at 40 feet
Two 46 foot center fed zepps (open wire line) for all bands and second radio
use (very useful antennas)
K9AY RX array.


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