[3830] CQWW CW AB1J SOABClassic LP

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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J

Class: SOABClassic LP
QTH: Waltham MA
Operating Time (hrs): 22:53

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    0     0        0
   80:   31    10       16
   40:  123    14       52
   20:  162    15       62
   15:   84    11       46
   10:    8     5        5
------------------------------
Total:  408    55      181  Total Score = 256,768

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

This is one for the YCCC, assuming small scores eventually add up.  I'm more
suited to single band efforts and my antenna problems compound with each band
added.  I went Classic for the first time to keep my BIC time under control. 
However, I spread out the time over the whole 48 hours, so it still absorbed
all my weekend.  No all-nighters.  Lots of cat naps but I was still pretty
tired at the end.

Conditions seemed poor and overall nothing exciting happened to me in the
contest.  All S&P.  I twiddled my thumbs waiting for the SO2R, dual-CQ, and
2BSIQ guys to get back to me.  I concentrated really hard on the speed demons,
especially zone 33, who put their paddles to the metal. As a group the 33ers
are the fastest and I think it's because they sit in the catbird seat with
short, clean shots to EU, NA, the Caribbean and SA.  They are loud and can get
away with such high speeds.  I imagine they have to slow down for JA and VK/ZL
where's there's more long path distortion.

I was unassisted, of course, but after working one extreme QRQ station, I fired
up CWGet just to check and he clocked in at 50 wpm.  I can't even properly copy
my own call at that speed.

I didn't check 10m often enough, but it was good to have at least a few QSOs
there.  80m was the other tough band for me, mostly Canadians and Caribbean
dxpeditions and making sure I got the USA and zones 3-5 along with VE2IM in
zone 2.

There's been a lot of chatter about logging incorrect exchange data.  At the
beginning of the contest EC2DX was sending zone 41.  I knew perfectly well
where he was and what he meant, so I entered 14 and went on my way.  I'm
dyslexic myself with numbers and call signs.  I think that's because letters
forming words make sense, while numbers, like telephone numbers, and calls are
just strings of characters.  Later on I noticed EC2DX made a correction to zone
14.

Thanks for the QSOs.

73,
Ken, AB1J

Flex 6500
N1MM+
Attic dipoles 20-10m
Outside stealth wire on 20, 40, 80m.
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