[3830] CQWW SSB VE9AA SOSB(A)/10 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA

Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP
QTH: 5
Operating Time (hrs): 26:13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10: 3027    35      146
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Total: 3027    35      146  Total Score = 1,470,806

Club: Maritime Contest Club

Comments:

CQWW SSB 2013
More ravings from a (10m) man---written as the contest progressed with only a
few edits afterwards.

Friday night. T-1.5 hours.  JA's are s9 on 10m WOW, this is gonna be great.
T-1 hour....almost no signals on 10m , but still some workable stuff @ 5/1
Clock strikes zero hour.  Ten is dead. Ho hum, Go watch TV.

Sat am. 6:30am. Sunrise in 1.5 hours.  Coffee made and ingested. No signals.
6:45am. Yup, still no workable signals, but I do hear some EME weak burbles
from N. Africa.and E. Eu.
7am. Sunrise in 1 hour.  Still vy dark here. I have just worked my first
station from the Ukraine. Uber weak but suprisingly he hears me.
The lil' beam is earning its keep. What will the day bring?>
7:20am  A TK/portable stn is literally banging in here and there are almost no
other signals on the band,  Bizarre !

First day is a bit of a blur, speckled with audio issues, operator issues,
antenna and SWR issues but for the most part "normal" contesting
experiences.

The EU run doesn't ran as long or as deep as I had hoped, as probably when they
are getting close to sunset, everyone has already moved to 15m. 
Still, it was intense at times and I saw the rate meter hit 400 a few times and
a couple sustained hours over 260 which is a first for me in this one.

When I got the wee yagi around to the USA it seemed like a vast wasteland, with
rates more like I am used to (100-125).  Dissapointing, but steady.

An hour before sunrise in JA, I was already hearing them and worked a dozen of
the louder stations. The pileups were fierce on the NA side, so 
I had to wait until signals peaked nearly s9 here to break through with any
kind of success.  

About halfway through the day (about lunch time) when the EU's slowed down and
the USA ops hadn't really come on board, I got playing around with the
availalable MULTS window in N1MM and figured out I should just be showing 10m
spots and sorted it so mults were at the top.  This
came in real handy later, as just before 10m died, I scrolled through the
mults.  Like shooting fish in a barrel and I can see the whole lure
of packet/assistance/skimmer, but ya know what? I would rather there be no
packet for anyone, and just tune for mults the old fashion way.
Call me stoneage. HI

Twice today I used the automatic voicing of letters/number feature built into
N1MM.  Once when I was coughing and another time when I had a mouth full
of hot coffee. It's my voice, but even with editing, it sounds robotic.  Both
ops 'accepted' it and worked me and moved on.  It should be a good feature for
SSB contests late at night.  My solution was to do 10m so I don't keep the
household awake much after dark.

No deep Russia, EY8 or VU2 heard at all the first day.  I had worked Nodir
EY8MM earlier in the week barefoot and a couple VU2's in the
JARTS contest last weekend, so that was dissapointing.  No Far East via LP
either. I'll try that a bit today.

I had planned to write a whole diatribe complainng about condx, but with 1600
Q's in my 10m log on the first day, who
can complain about that?  Condx were great, and with the first one in the log
an hour before sunrise, 10m was superb.

Now it's 24 hours later (Sunday morning) and I am already hearing II9P @
0956z....he's in the log, so I don't call.  

What will day 2 bring?

A GM3 makes it into the log @ 7:12am...about 45 mins before actual sunrise. 
He's pretty loud and no doubt aimed the other way.
Nobody else workable yet, so I am gonna go pour another cup of coffee.

WOO-HOO! VU2NKS in the log. I couldn't be happier.  :-)

EY8MM called in - wow, thanks Nodir

Sunday was mostly a blur.  Lots of packet pileups.

Was trying for a new SO 10m (A) record and may have made it.  After the dust
settles we'll see.

Don't think we'll see condx this good on 10m for 10 or 11 more years.

73 de Mike VE9AA IC7410, N1MM, ~500w, 5el @ 24' & HF9V and wimpy wire
groundplane.


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