[3830] CQWW SSB WW2DX M/M HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2020

Call: WW2DX
Operator(s): EA3HSO AA4LS KL9A K1TR WX3B W0AAE WT2P KN8U K0BBC WW2DX NP4G WW1X W9WTJ W4IPC W2RE
Station: WW2DX

Class: M/M HP
QTH: ME
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  134    10       30
   80:  494    14       59
   40:  794    24       71
   20: 1484    27       93
   15:  782    21       65
   10:  225    10       36
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Total: 3913   106      354  Total Score = 4,606,106

Club: 

Comments:

Yikes! Knocked out by ISP - 

Congrats to the KC1XX, K3EST and K1TTT teams! Nice work! 

We built a strong team of operators mixed between veteran ops and youths. Very
disappointed by the sudden ISP issue. I was the only op onsite while the rest of
the team was scattered throughout the world. 

We have operated more than 50 contests remotely the past several years and this
a first getting knocked out by internet failure at the location.
Also a first was an Aurora during a contest from Maine - The first day was tough
in Maine - the aurora sitting over Canada - made its way to the NE corner of
Maine apparently. While we held our own through the night on 160/80/40 but once
10/15/20 opened we felt the effects of the solar storm being far NORTH and EAST.
Ops to the south of us were running EU we couldnt even hear this was also noted
on 40m. Yes, sometimes the propagation in ME has zero advantage. Jeff VY2ZM once
told me that the aurora can really screw up the bands being far north. Well,
we're pretty far north right on the Canadien border. 

At 2200z or so the ISP crapped out. I still dont know what happened but it came
back on Sunday about 1000z, by then it was too late, I told the youths to start
a new log with their calls and have fun, fortunatley the backup generator kicked
in so I had heat throughout the night. We do have a savior for ISP in the future
that will solve these issues for good - Its called Starlink. Latest news about
it -
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/27/spacex-starlink-service-priced-at-99-a-month-public-beta-test-begins.html
Can build a station anyhere on the planet with Starlink and solar panels. 

The weekend prior to CQWW - the team of WW2DX, KC2UPN, WW1X and I spent a day in
Jonesport pulling out the old gear and installing FLEX radio and Expert 1K amps
(1000w) with our new servers. The FLEX RADIO portal remotely using our software
with builtin logger works absolutely perfect. The experience is unbelievable -
those who operated with us for the first time were blown away by the remote
system. Flex Radio has nailed it with the new 6600 and 6700 for us remote
operators and digital ops.

Here is the start to current status.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ui79t2jFo95b29et6

1.) Flex 6500 + Expert 1K
(Rotating tower)
GXP 16EL Tribanders @ 160/125/90/55
GXP 4EL 40M @ 175'

2.) Flex 6600 + Expert 1K 
15M 6/6/6 @ 135/90/45 top antenna rotates - two bottom fixed EU
80M 4SQ
80M 5EL wirebeam EU strung between two tower @ 150'.

3.) Flex 6600 + Expert 1K
20M 5/5/5 @ 175/123/71 top rotator bottom two fixed EU
40M 4EL fixed EU 110' + 2EL 40M rotator at 150'

4.) Flex 6600 + Expert 1K 
10M 7/7/7 90/60/30 fixed EU and 7el at 195' rotor
160M 4SQ

W1/Jonesport will be QRV in CQWW CW but it wont be M/M. 

Thanks to Lee WW2DX and Rockwell WW1X for all the hard work with the Flex radio
intergration and all the coding to make this work. 

Thanks,

W1/Jonesport (Remote Team)

Ray Higgins
W2RE.com


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