[3830] CQWW CW SN2M(SP2XF) SOSB(A)/40 HP

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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SN2M
Operator(s): SP2XF
Station: SN2M

Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 41

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40: 2678    38      157
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total: 2678    38      157  Total Score = 920,985

Club: 

Comments:

TNX all QSO's.
My congrats to DR1D / DK8ZZ result. Amazing QSO number!

Conditions in SP2 land were poor on saturday, it could be seen on livescore 
that southern EU stations are logging 2x more QSO's every hour... Fortunately,
this time I was mostly focused on battle with SN2B/SP2FAX station, who is quite
close to my QTH. Big TNX Mark SQ2GXO for the effort and great competition. 

After some tower works in September(TNX Andy SQ2A for help), actually one of
the 10-15m tribander yagi was replaced with new 40m beam. Now, the set up is: 2
x 2el Yagi (on separate towers) and 8 Bev's 160-320m long. RX side worked
extremely well, I can remember only few cases where I could not read a
callsign. But TX antennas are a bit too low (towers are aprox. 24m and 17m
high). And too small ;-)

This band offers a lot of possibilities during whole 24hrs, but I definetely
prefer the 36hrs limit for single op that we have in WPX. According to N1MM
stats I managed to be on the radio 41h:21min , so the final result could be
much more competitive, if I'd stay longer. But I after spending 3 days in the
fields, working on Beverage system and 3 nights working on cables in the
shack... I just was totally exausted, when the contest started. 

Most exciting moments were during sunday morning, when we had short but amazing
opening over the north pole. Many W6,7, VE7 were logged, including NL7V from
zone 1 (booming sig!) and the most surprising - few JA's at abt 7:00 AM UTC.
Signals came cleary from the north and were readable ONLY from 355 deg. The
funny thing is that I was wondering few days ago if it really makes sense to
put  one more Beverage, in such rare direction like North...

Band was crowded as always in CQWW but the worst thing we have to deal with are
those mad, blind callers when a new mult appears on the cluster. Many times I
noticed they DO NOT even hear the DX mult at all, but sending the call
endlessly... (eg. 9A1A calling V73NS on sunday and making very difficult the
QSO for others).

73's and CU in... WPX RTTY? ;-)

Mac SP2XF / SN2M


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