[3830] CQWW CW VA7ST SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    8     3        1
   80:  208    12       17
   40:  403    19       50
   20:  576    29       66
   15:  648    25       66
   10:  516    25       64
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Total: 2359   113      264  Total Score = 2,099,136

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Comments:

* Unassisted -- FT-2000 + SB221 + N1MM Logger
* 3 ele. SteppIR at 27' (47' Sunday)
* 40M SteppIR dipole at 27' 
* 2-element 40M diamond quad, apex 50'
* 3 x 80M elevated verticals (6 directions)
* 1 x 160M inverted-L

Total Qs: 2372 including dupes.

No complaints here -- the bands were mostly in great shape, antennas played
nicely, and I had a good night's sleep Saturday night.

Set out to beat my previous best from 2012, and managed that by a wide margin.
Surprising how equal the three high bands were here; usually 20M or 15M rises
above the others, but this weekend it was hard to choose where to spend my
time. Great problem to have -- but they won't be like that for much longer. 

The only slight lowlight was 40M which didn't produce European contacts and
countries like it did in the past two years. 

Fell about 100 Qs short of last year on 80M, but I also went to bed at 11 p.m
local (0700z) on Saturday night instead of working late on what seemed to be a
rather flat band. Might have had something to do with the US long weekend.
Still, Friday night was great on 80M -- was fun running JAs while it lasted.

Had many 100-plus hours, fought off a few frequency hijackings, and worked a
few rare countries (rare from BC, at least). I pushed quite hard during the
hours I was on, because solarmax only rolls around every so often -- I don't
know if we're past it yet, but things won't hold up for much longer. Must enjoy
it while we can.

I will remember this contest for a long time. Hope I get to play in a few more
like this one.

-- Bud VA7ST

       QSOs  Ctry  Zones  Score
2013: 2,372   264  113  2,099,136 HP 34 hrs
2013: 2,075   246  118  1,798,160 HP 31 hrs
2012: 2,365   249  104  1,888,550 HP 36 hrs
2011: 2,114   248  109  1,725,024 HP 32 hrs
2010: 1,721   180   92  1,033,056 HP 32 hrs 
2009: 1,777   158   92    950,750 HP 31 hrs
2008: 1,580   129   71    670,600 HP 25 hrs
2007  1,470   129   69    615,582 HP 32 hrs
2006  1,476   163   78    775,297    35 hrs
2005  1,014   126   61    411,587
2004  1,421   146   79    697,500
2003    865   115   73    351,936
2002    675   147   63    313,740


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