[3830] CQWW CW K6KM SO(A)AB Rookie HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020

Call: K6KM
Operator(s): K6KM
Station: K6KM

Class: SO(A)AB HP
Class Overlay: Rookie 
QTH: California
Operating Time (hrs): 15

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:    7     3        3
   80:   19     8        8
   40:   67    18       25
   20:  155    24       43
   15:  119    19       32
   10:   34    10       10
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Total:  401    82      121  Total Score = 212,338

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

>From a small pistol station. This was the best contest I participated so far.
Propagation was decent, CW makes it fast and lots of activity.
Now the bad news... my QTH is so noisy that at night I had S7 on my vertical and
S9+20 randomly on the receiving Wellbrook loop from my other neighbor. During
the day is a decent S5.
Station small: AV680, IC7300 and KPA500.
I used everything I learned from my Masters: NA6O, N6WM, N6RO. This knowledge
allowed me to win some epic pile-ups. Yes! With a sling shot station. Lots of
BIC to compensate the modest shack. My new helical vertical 160m gave me a few
Canadians. 80m is terrible as I have only 10KHz bandwidth (constant tuning). So
I went to watch a movie with the family at night.
Hope one day to run this contest from a real station (no noise and antenna
directivity).
KB


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