[3830] CQWW CW XE2B SOSB(A)/10 HP

Mon Nov 28 22:47:42 PST 2011

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: XE2B
Operator(s): XE2B
Station: XE2B

Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP
QTH: AGS
Operating Time (hrs): 25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10: 1808    30       88
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Total: 1808    30       88  Total Score = 510,940

Club: Grupo DXXE

Comments:

Raw score

Well, I prepared myself prior the contest with good sleep the previous
nights and mentally preparing my contest strategy.

Howeverâ€¦... I never suspected what was coming just 6 hours before the
contest . Read the story at the very end.

DAY1  (Local start: Friday 6PM)
Out of focus, I started very slow, mostly S&P and limited runs.  Some AS juicy
multipliers were worked. I was called by the big signal of FO5RH,
followed by fellow contester XE1CT in a skewed path to get own Zone 6.
Band closed at 0321z.

I went downstairs to have dinner and watch TV trying to relaxâ€¦.
Back to the rig around 0600z, to check if could manage short skip QÂ's
with W5 stations -which a had been a common happening in the past few
weeks , and quit after calling with no results after 10 minutes.

After a really bad sleep night, I awoke at 1235z, ate some fruit and
found out that the band was starting to open. I began S&P finding some
Caribbean stations, but I still could not concentrate and wasted a lot
of time doing S&P, only managed around 70 QÂ's on this first 3 hours of
my local morning.
Nevertheless, I started a decent EU run around 1543z. 
The last European worked EA7GYS got in the log at 1832z, which managed to
sneak
in the middle of my NA run!
South Pacific opened around 2045z.
Minutes later,when I was running nicely -C5A called me at 2050z, 
breaking out the pileup with a huge signal.
 Surprises kept coming when zone 40 called me at 2106z!
After several years of drought -the long awaited JA opening happened
at 2145z and lasted for more than 2 hours. A total of 132 JAâ€™s out of
253 Qâ€™s on this period â€" something unseen for years!

DAY 2
The band finally closed earlier than the day before at 0107z, with a
tally of 973 QSOÂ's -just shy of the 1,000 target mark for this time
frame.
 Then went again to reload batteries (supper) and have some sleep.

1322z: I started doing S&P at our local morning, with an EU opening.
1414z: switched to run mode due to improved propagation and a nice empty slot.
 1938z: good surprise, snatched zone 28 when YB9BON calls me long path.
Conditions to EU wrapped up at 1917z.
I started S&P but got quickly upset for the lack of ID of several
stations â€¦.  Come on folkâ€™s, other than TU or QRZ?  We are not yet
mind readers to figure it out what is your callsign. So I went back to
running mode, working stateside.
JA opened up at 2156z and kept there until the end of the test.
The final count was 1,808 QSOs including the dupes. Still short of my
2,000 QSOâ€™s target.

Nevertheless my best personal score ever, for this band/mode.

STATICS

- CONTINENT	%
NA		57.1
EU		20.7
AS		16.2
SA		 2.7
OC		 2.6
AF		 0.7

- DXCC WORKED
K
JA
DL
VE
G
EA
F
OK
SP
PY
LU
VK
I
PA
ZL
UA9
GM
S5
ON
OE
KL
9A
UR
UA
SM
LY
KH6
EI
EA8
OZ
BY
YU
LZ
KH2
GW
GI
YO
HB
HA
CT3
YV
P4
OA
LA
FO
FM
EU
CX
CT
C5
ZK2
ZD8
YB
XE
VP9
VP8
VP2V
VP2M
VP2E
V2
UA2
TK
TI
PJ4
OX
OM
OH
LX
KH0
J7
J6
IT9
HP
HL
HC
GJ
FK
EA6
E7
E5/n
CU
CM
CE
C6
9M6
9L
9K

- Max Rates:
2011-11-27 2043Z - 5.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour 
2011-11-26 2033Z - 2.8 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 168 per hour 
2011-11-26 2102Z - 2.4 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 143 per hour

- Best runs > 100/hr
2011-11-26 1810 - 1905Z,   28116 kHz, 128 Qs, 138.9/hr
2011-11-26 1907 - 1921Z,   28116 kHz, 24 Qs, 103.0/hr
2011-11-26 2002 - 0035Z,   28044 kHz, 470 Qs, 103.0/hr
2011-11-27 1809 - 1932Z,   28021 kHz, 155 Qs, 111.9/hr 
2011-11-27 1935 - 2107Z,   28039 kHz, 195 Qs, 126.3/hr

THE STORY
Friday noon local time -about 6 hours prior the contest starts, I was
wrapping up my business meeting with a client, when my cell phone
rang. It was my son who told me that we have had a burglary at our
QTH!  It was the first one since we moved to this QTH in 1994.
I freaked out and drove frantically to get there, just visualizing the
worst (Rig hardware and valuables stolen, etc)
When I got there, 15 minutes later, there were already 4 patrol cars
and a bunch of police officers. I   found out that a good neighbor had
called the cops when he noticed the burglar had jumped out from a
window upstairs. Apparently, he had just enough time to break in and
for some reasons he exited quickly.  The burglar managed to escape the
dragnet.
Needless to say, we at home were totally upset by the event and
couldnÂ't sleep well the first  night of  contest, which -again, it
starts locally on  Friday at 6PM.
Fortunately, none of the electronics or hardware equipment was
touched; the bad guy just focused on jewelry/gold that we kept in a
wooden box; this of course, was totally emptied.

Thank you for all the Q's! 

Luis

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