[3830] CQWW CW NS3T SOSB/80 LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: NS3T
Operator(s): NS3T
Station: NS3T

Class: SOSB/80 LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:  128    15       56
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total:  128    15       56  Total Score = 22,507

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Yep, I picked a bad year to do a single band effort on 80 meters, but it was
either that or nothing at all, since my days during the weekend were off-limits
to contesting again in 2011.

Conditions for me were a bit down on Friday, though that turned out to be the
much better night.  I heard lots of zone 16 stations, but couldn't get any of
them to even give me a "?" in return.  Same thing with zone 20.  Oh well.  100
watts doesn't do the trick all the time.  In 2007, I had 19 zones and 78 DXCC -
this time I was lucky to get to 15 zones and 56 DXCC.  Never could get most zone
15 stations to answer me either.

I used four different antennas in my backyard for this contest - a regular 80m
vertical, a sloping 66 foot wire aimed to the Pacific, a pair of phased
inverted L's aimed at Europe and a 210 foot wire that broadsided EU.  It was
great to watch how the propagation changed through the night and how one
antenna would work better than the others for awhile and then change.

Funniest moment came on Saturday morning, when I was trying to get NH2T for a
double mult.  Of course, I am sending NS3T, which isn't much different.  I got
him last year on 40 meters, but not this time on 80 unfortunately.

I was ready to go all night again on Saturday night, but you could tell when
the sun went down here in DC that the band wasn't right.  I went to the store
because I couldn't hear any Europeans, and then when their signals arrived,
they couldn't hear me.  Hell, I listened to VY2ZM barely get a "?" out of C5A
on 80 meters, which told me that it was a struggle for everyone.  Things were
so bad that I went upstairs and watched TV with the XYL because I couldn't make
any QSOs.

After falling asleep at the keyboard around 1am, I finally pulled the plug on
the second night after only putting 15 contacts in the log on day two. 
Frustrating, but still an enjoyable time as always.  I did make a few QSO's on
10 meters to get some new DX.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.  Send your photos and stories along to me for
radio-sport.net.

73 Jamie NS3T


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