[3830] WPX CW P44W SOAB HP

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Tue Jun 1 01:48:30 EDT 2021


                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: P44W
Operator(s): P44W
Station: P44W

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 35:58

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  132
   40: 1203
   20:  803
   15: 1015
   10:  176
------------
Total: 3329  Prefixes = 1144  Total Score = 15,704,832

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Station:  K3S, MLA2500 (800w) Win-Test Software
160/80 Inverted V
3 ele 80m and 4 ele 40m Wire Beams (EU)
F12 Delta 240
F12 C31XR
F12 C3S
Beverages NE, NW, N/S, E/W

It never get's old visiting Aruba for contests. Fortunately I found nothing
major broken since the last fall's CQWW CW. Laying out the 2000 feet of coax and
control cables and then raising the two wire beams was completed in a leisurely
1.5 sunny hot days. But unlike last fall when everything was a lush green, the
landscape has browned out from prolonged dry weather. 

With the sun playing games earlier in the week the expected conditions for the
contest were in some doubt.  Fortunately things just seemed to get better and
better. Fantastic to have 15M open worldwide for many hours.  Even 10 meters
showed some life. 20M was unproductive between 1400 - 1900 both days from here.

I'm once again pondering if using a special call is a plus.  Many operators came
back to me with P40 instead of P44.  Perhaps the 30 years of P40w 'conditioning'
is in play? Also found the number of repeat requests particularly high this
year, but maybe fast QSB conditions were a problem for all of us. 

80 and 40 meters were particularly quiet here for May - listening on the TX
antennas was not painful at all. But the beverage antennas helped many times,
particularly when a local power grid noise would appear each afternoon.

CQ WPX is all about points per QSO, and is won or lost based upon how well you
manage 40 and 80 meters.  I chose to stick with 40 meters most of both nights
sacrificing rate for the potentially higher Q points and overall score. The 4
ele 40 meter wire beam pointed at EU was particularly effective this weekend. 
The 3 ele 80 meter wire beam was too at times but conditions were not quite good
enough to support a sustained rate on 80. The effect of wide-spread T-storms
across the USA the first night was obvious.

15 meters turned out to be the best band this weekend from Aruba. Seemed there
were endless callers both days from EU and the USA ... signals were very strong.
After enduring many years of depressed conditions this was a complete joy to
experience.    

Congrats to OM3GI, LZ5DB, and KT3Y for their excellent operating skills and
superior band selection/time strategies.  BRAVO!

Looking forward to the next time.

73, 

John, W2GD (also known as P40W)


------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0    161      0      0      0    161    161    4.8
0100       0      0    148      0      0      0    148    309    9.3
0200       0      9     91      0      0      0    100    409   12.3
0300       0      0    116      0      0      0    116    525   15.8
0400       0      0    111      0      0      0    111    636   19.1
0500       0      0     87      0      0      0     87    723   21.7
0600       0     17     20      0      0      0     37    760   22.8
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    760   22.8
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    760   22.8
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    760   22.8
1000       0      1     64      0      0      0     65    825   24.8
1100       0      0      6     69      3      0     78    903   27.1
1200       0      0      0     36     34      0     70    973   29.2
1300       0      0      0      2     88      0     90   1063   31.9
1400       0      0      0      0     81      0     81   1144   34.4
1500       0      0      0     16     24      0     40   1184   35.6
1600       0      0      0      0     20      0     20   1204   36.2
1700       0      0      0     33     63      4    100   1304   39.2
1800       0      0      0     64     23      7     94   1398   42.0
1900       0      0      0      0    140      0    140   1538   46.2
2000       0      0      0      0    132      0    132   1670   50.2
2100       0      0      0      0    130      0    130   1800   54.1
2200       0      0      0      0    123      0    123   1923   57.8
2300       0      0      0    128      3      0    131   2054   61.7
0000       0     29     57      1      0      0     87   2141   64.3
0100       0      3     64      0      0      0     67   2208   66.3
0200       0     41     34      0      0      0     75   2283   68.6
0300       0      0     73      0      0      0     73   2356   70.8
0400       0     24     29      0      0      0     53   2409   72.4
0500       0      2     46      0      0      0     48   2457   73.8
0600       0      6     18      0      0      0     24   2481   74.5
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2481   74.5
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2481   74.5
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2481   74.5
1000       0      0     17      4      0      0     21   2502   75.2
1100       0      0      0     32      0      0     32   2534   76.1
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2534   76.1
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2534   76.1
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2534   76.1
1500       0      0      0      0      0     54     54   2588   77.7
1600       0      0      0      0      0     79     79   2667   80.1
1700       0      0      0      0     25     26     51   2718   81.6
1800       0      0      0     22     37      5     64   2782   83.6
1900       0      0      0     14     89      1    104   2886   86.7
2000       0      0      0    111      0      0    111   2997   90.0
2100       0      0      0    114      0      0    114   3111   93.5
2200       0      0      0    122      0      0    122   3233   97.1
2300       0      0     61     35      0      0     96   3329  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    132   1203    803   1015    176   3329

Thanks to Bob, K8IA for this report.


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