[3830] CQWW CW VE4EA SOSB(A)/15 LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: VE4EA
Operator(s): VE4EA
Station: VE4EA

Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP
QTH: WINNIPEG
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:  728    33      117
   10:                    
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Total:  728    33      117  Total Score = 263,700

Club: Manitoba Contest Club

Comments:

As expected, band conditions were better than average.  Although, there might as
well have been an iron curtain separating VE4 from anything over-the-pole.  

I did work XV5 and HS0, but either the Asian expeditions were behind said iron
curtain or chose to stay away from the CW madhouse.  

Essentially, this was a semi-serious entry with the following objective:
A. Work 100 countries - A

B. Make lots of QSO's - C- (I was planning to make minimum 1,000+ Qs)

C. Work the deep Asian Expeditions - F

D. Have fun - Pass (except I that had to take frequent breaks, because my head
phones were irritating my skin).  Does anyone have a solution?

E. Hunt for new countries, band-slots, expeditions, regardless of mode/band. 
A.(I made friends with lots of African ops and expeditions this week.  THANK
YOU!

F. Improve my CW -D  CW is still my favorite mode, but man do I ever still need
lots of practice  :-(

G. Learn more about N1MM - A++ (Whoa Nelly.  Not the way I would like to learn
ie. while ready to slit my wrists.  For a couple days I thought I'd be paper
logging! Thanks to the many both on-and-off reflector who helped me put my N1MM
back together, after I somehow blew-it-up 2 days before the contest.)  This was
20+ hours of my life I'll never get back. 

H. Surprise of the contest.  80m activity.  I'm not recording my results in
this submittal, but, I had a ball on 80m, even with my low dipole.  I thought
conditions were decent. No doubt the night-time hours I spent on 80, affected
my alertness during daytime hours.
I could hear greyline Asians, but KH6 was as the limit of stns who could hear
me.  (12 zones and 12 countries).  Does anyone have a large helium balloon I
can borrow for next year?  

I hope to see many of you in the ARRL 10m test in several weeks.  
73, Cary VE4EA

100 watts to a TH-7 at 50 ft.
Wires for low band (80).


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