[3830] Commonwealth VE3BR SO-Restricted24 LP

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                    RSGB Commonwealth Contest - 2019

Call: VE3BR
Operator(s): VE3BR
Station: VE3BR

Class: SO-Restricted24 LP
QTH: FN03es
Operating Time (hrs): 14

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:   26
   40:   69
   20:   72
   15:    3
   10:     
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Total:  170  Total Score = 2,910

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

Radio: Ten-Tec Orion
Antenna: DX-Eng 80/40 Thunderbolt 55ft Dual Band Vertical
Software: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7557.0

My assessment of propagation: better than the last year, but still much worse
than the top of the cycle. 10 m - dead; 15 m - in a coma; 20 m - some signs of
consciousness, but not much that one can do with 100 W and an 80/40 vertical; 40
m - noisy, but otherwise respectable; 80 m - noisy, never opened long, but I
managed some Gs. High points: 16 VKs/ZLs in the log on 40 within first 2 hours
of the contest and 3B8XF answering my Saturday sunset CQ on 40. I doubt very
much if those with high power and directional antennas can fully comprehend the
joy of that :) Low point: the boredom of the last 10 hours when 20 was gone, I
generally run out of stations I could hear and work with my vertical, I couldn't
hear much on 80 and everybody and their cousin I heard on 40 I had already
worked the previous night (not quite true, I added half a dozen VKs/ZLs the
second night). Maintaining motivation was a challenge :) Overall, N1MM+ says I
had 14 hours on and 10 hours off, but that counts only off-times longer than 1
hour and not my mini-breaks for reading, chatting with the family and late night
watching of "Kung Fu Panda" (hey, "de gustibus non est
disputandum"). Last 10 hours were really "social", peppered every
15 minutes or so with 5 minute stints at the radio to find almost nothing new
there. The rate? Believe it or not: about 1 Q per hour. Tough slogging. Still, I
cannot help it - I like this contest. See you next year...

As usual, it's the emptiness of a giant arctic ice floe out there... when you
are running low power to a vertical.


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