CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: WC1M
Operator(s): WC1M
Station: WC1M
Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 18.75
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10: 952 29 113
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Total: 952 29 113 Total Score = 382,974
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
A full SOAB HP effort was not to be this weekend, so I did SOSB 10 â€" and
enjoyed it a lot!
Something new.
It’s a long story, with a combination of factors leading to the single-band
effort: two stress-filled months of work, a visiting relative I hadn’t seen
in years, my turn to make Thanksgiving dinner, being the least prepared I’ve
ever been for CW WW CW, and a nasty solar flare. After 90 minutes of futility
on 40, 80 and 160 Friday night, and feeling like it would be really nice to go
to bed early, I decided to hang it up and start a single-band 10 in the
morning.
I once did a single-band effort on 20 (I think it was ARRL DX), and absolutely
hated the grind. Not this time! 10 meters is the ideal band for SOSB: sunrise
to sunset is less than 12 hours, plenty of time to spend with family, plenty of
time to sleep, high rates (on Sunday, at least) and tons of interesting mults.
The only problems were terrible conditions on Saturday and no over-the-pole
propagation either day. No zone 17, 18 or 19, and a general dearth of Russians
and other Easter Europeans. Worked two or three JAs, just barely, and I’m
sure they were big stations running high power. Virtually no other Asians.
Oceania was pretty good, and even managed zone 29. But the band didn’t stay
open long enough to grab much JA and Asia.
Ended the first day with only 328 Qs (sans dupes.) Second day was much better:
624, with most of that being in a continuous five-hour stretch of running.
All in all, though, it was a real pleasure to spend a stress-free, mellow and
easy weekend on 10, the most friendly band â€" when it’s open. I have no idea
how I did, but it probably wasn’t a very competitive effort. No matter, it was
heck of a lot of fun.
And I can’t end without saying… There’s no meters like 10 meters!
Hope to back to SOAB HP in ARRL DX CW.
[Log submitted 30 minutes after the contest â€" probably a record for me. Would
have been faster, but had to manually edit the claimed score and the first try
got bounced for a 599 that had turned into a 9.]
73, Dick WC1M
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-1100Z - - - - - 1/2 1/2 1/2
D1-1200Z - - - - - 15/23 15/23 16/25
D1-1300Z - - - - - 19/16 19/16 35/41
D1-1400Z - - - - - 90/20 90/20 125/61
D1-1500Z - - - - - 98/13 98/13 223/74
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 39/10 39/10 262/84
D1-1700Z - - - - - 8/9 8/9 270/93
D1-1800Z - - - - - 23/8 23/8 293/101
D1-1900Z - - - - - 17/4 17/4 310/10
D1-2000Z - - - - - 3/1 3/1 313/106
D1-2100Z - - - - - 8/6 8/6 321/112
D1-2200Z - - - - - 7/4 7/4 328/11Z
D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 328/116
D2-0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 328/116
D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 328/116
D2-1200Z - - - - - 65/4 65/4 393/120
D2-1300Z - - - - - 161/5 161/5 554/125
D2-1400Z - - - - - 136/4 136/4 690/129
D2-1500Z - - - - - 102/3 102/3 792/132
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 82/4 82/4 874/136
D2-1700Z - - - - - 39/3 39/3 913/139
D2-1800Z - - - - - 21/1 21/1 934/140
D2-1900Z - - - - - 1/0 1/0 935/140
D2-2000Z - - - - - 1/1 1/1 936/141
D2-2100Z - - - - - 9/1 9/1 945/142
D2-2200Z - - - - - 6/0 6/0 951/142
D2-2300Z - - - - - 1/0 1/0 952/142
Total: 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 952/142
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
SA 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 6.3
AF 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 2.3
NA 0 0 0 0 0 91 91 9.6
EU 0 0 0 0 0 756 756 79.4
AS 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.5
OC 0 0 0 0 0 18 18 1.9
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
4U1I 1 1
5B 1 1
6W 1 1
6Y 1 1
7P 1 1
8P 1 1
9A 17 17
9H 1 1
9J 1 1
C5 1 1
C6 1 1
CE 7 7
CM 3 3
CN 1 1
CT 3 3
CT3 4 4
CU 1 1
CX 3 3
D2 1 1
D4 1 1
DL 156 156
E7 2 2
EA 47 47
EA6 1 1
EA8 6 6
EI 9 9
EL 1 1
ER 1 1
EU 4 4
F 41 41
FM 1 1
FS 1 1
FY 1 1
G 81 81
GD 1 1
GI 3 3
GJ 2 2
GM 7 7
GM/s 1 1
GU 2 2
GW 5 5
HA 17 17
HB 8 8
HC 1 1
HI 2 2
HK 1 1
HP 1 1
HR 1 1
I 65 65
IS 1 1
IT9 2 2
J3 1 1
J7 1 1
JA 3 3
K 34 34
KH0 1 1
KH2 3 3
KH6 3 3
KL 2 2
KP2 2 2
KP4 3 3
LA 5 5
LU 11 11
LY 3 3
LZ 16 16
OE 6 6
OH 2 2
OH0 2 2
OK 36 36
OM 13 13
ON 18 18
OZ 8 8
P4 3 3
PA 40 40
PJ2 1 1
PJ4 1 1
PJ7 1 1
PY 28 28
PZ 1 1
S5 27 27
SM 5 5
SP 27 27
SV 3 3
T7 1 1
TF 2 2
TG 1 1
TI 2 2
TK 1 1
UA 11 11
UR 20 20
V2 1 1
V3 1 1
V6 1 1
VE 22 22
VK 3 3
VK9L 1 1
VP2M 1 1
VP2V 1 1
VP5 1 1
VU 1 1
XE 4 4
YL 1 1
YO 16 16
YU 10 10
YV 1 1
Z3 2 2
ZA 1 1
ZB 1 1
ZD8 1 1
ZF 1 1
ZL 6 6
ZP 1 1
ZS 3 3
Antennas:
160M - trapped vee @90'
80M - delta loop @75, trapped vee @90'
40M - Cal-Av 2D-40A @110', 4-square
20M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72'
15M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50'
10M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50'. 6-el @115'
Tower#1: Force 12 EF-610, Cal-AV 2D-40A, 4-el SteppIRs, 160/80 trapped vee
770-MDP: Force-12 EF-420
AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515
AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E
Delta loop hung from a tree
dual 580' beverage aimed 20/220 degrees (not working?)
Equipment:
Elecraft K3 + Alpha 87A, Elecraft K3 + LP-PAN + Acom 2000A, Writelog,
LP-BRIDGE, PowerSDR-IF, YCCC SO2R Box, homebrew Windows antenna
switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), iPad running iDisplay for
touch-screen "button box", K1XM MOAS II USB Switch, TopTen and KK1L SO2R
switches, Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam Stack Switch and
StackMax
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