[3830] CQWW CW SO4M(SP5UAF) SOSB(A)/40 HP

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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SO4M
Operator(s): SP5UAF
Station: SP4MPG

Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP
QTH: Barczewko
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40: 2296    39      156
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total: 2296    39      156  Total Score = 733,590

Club: SP DX Club

Comments:

Propagation was terrible here - close to the north-easter frontier of Poland. I
have never had a good run of NA stations during the contest. Never! Calling CQ
to NA was unproductive and wasting of time. Not a single station from Canada
after the first night. ALL stations from zone 3 were worked via long path.
Finally only 262 stations from the USA in the log and 15 stations from Canada.
Disaster. No NA stations = no good score. 
In such a situation I spent more time working S&P. The only missing zone is
6. I saw some XE stations and was always checking spots but I have never heard a
single sign from XE so I missed the country/zone multiplier.
Seeing the propagation problems I was trying to operate all the contest time to
make the score better. So almost 48 hours at the radio and of course I got
asleep during a CQ two or three times. Waking up when a station is calling you
is always a terrible experience. 

Thanks for all QSOs. Thanks to Mirek SP4MPG for the possibility to operate from
his contest station once again. The equipment: FT-1000MKV, PA, 3el Yagi (about
43m above the ground), K9AY array as an additional RX antenna. 
I am using N1MM Logger+ : wonderful contest software. I think we, N1MM users
community, owe so much to Tom N1MM and his team.


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