[3830] CQWW CW W7RM(@K2PO) M/2 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W7RM
Operator(s): KI7Y WS7L K5ZM WI7N KN7K K2PO
Station: K2PO

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  114    22       42
   80:  326    29       82
   40: 1058    32      115
   20:  778    37      119
   15:  162    22       48
   10:    4     1        1
------------------------------
Total: 2442   143      407  Total Score = 3,480,400

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

Another fun weekend with the Willamette Valley DX Club, activating the W7RM call
sign of Rush Drake (1918-2005).

Fun time, but we miss 15m (and 10m).  

Our only European on 15m was CR5E, and our only QSOs on 10m were local.  Even
our usually-reliable 15m JA run was pitiful:  8 Qs.  (We worked more JAs on 160m
than 15m: 12 to 8.)  Our 10/15 mults were down 39 over last year (from 111 to
72), and our QSO count on those bands plummeted from 473 to 166.  

However, 160m, 80m and 40m were terrific.

The east coast big guns might chuckle, but we were able - a few times - to run
Europeans on 160m.  "Run" as in CQ and have Europeans call us (7 EUs
in one 30 minute run, for instance - together with lots of US callers...). 
That's unprecedented in my experience on this far side of the auroral circle.

We set a station record for countries worked on 160, 80 and 40m (42, 82 and 115,
respectively).    The mult bell kept ringing - right through the final hour. 
(The last mult was P33W in zone 20, at 3:50 pm local time, on 80m.)

A dedicated bunch of ops made the big numbers possible.  KI7Y was the first to
arrive and the last to leave, and put in the most BIC time.  WS7L made the long
drive twice, working through most of both nights.  K5ZM kept the rate up and the
mult bell ringing long after all the easy QSOs were already in the log.  WI7N
worked the first nine hours straight and got us off to a fast start, while KN7K
joined Saturday for a mid-day stretch and made the most of our short 20m opening
to Europe.

Tnx to all for the QSOs - especially the ops who traveled to activate mults for
the contest!

73,

/Bill, K2PO
Portland, Oregon


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