[3830] CQWW CW 8P5A(W2SC) SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: 8P5A
Operator(s): W2SC
Station: 8P5A

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Barbados
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  329    16       47
   80:  752    24       82
   40: 1426    29       89
   20: 1423    30       93
   15: 1496    31       94
   10: 1901    30       95
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Total: 7327   160      500  Total Score = 12,254,880

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

24 Hours before the contest, I was at the Thanksgiving night football game in
New Your with my wife and kids.  Got back to the hotel at 1AM and up at 5:30 AM
to catch an 8AM flight to Barbados.  Got to the station at 3:15PM (1915Z)to do a
checkout and  debugged a bad connection in an amp keying line.  With station
ready, I rested for 90 minutes (but could not sleep), ate dinner and then
operated 48 hours straight through.

Fell about 15 mults behind last year in the early going and struggled all
weekend to make them up.  Ended up within 1.5% of last year's score.

The pileups were intense all weekend and overwhelming at times, particularly
with limited rest.  80 was tremendous the first night and had a great, but
brief, 160 opening to EU the second night.

Overall great contest and congratulations to the winners

QSL via NN1N and LoTW

Thanks to my wife Kathleen for her priceless help

Happy 46th year of Independence for Barbados.

73, Tom W2SC


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