[3830] CQWW CW WO1N SO(A)AB LP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: WO1N
Operator(s): WO1N
Station: WO1N

Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: MASSACHUSETTS
Operating Time (hrs): 32.7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   45    11       19
   80:  200    15       58
   40:  244    25       81
   20:  260    25       79
   15:  310    22       82
   10:   35    14       21
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Total: 1094   112      340  Total Score = 1,338,092

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Station: FTdx5000, C3-SS at 38', 40MDi at 60', 80MVertDi, 160MInvL, N1MM+

 Soapbox : 

 Pre-Contest energy management was a total fail this year. It started with a
12 man tree crew complete with massive crane showing up Wednesday morning to
remove 3, 80+ foot trees from my neighbor's yard and perform crown work in my
yard. That made a mess, was a bit stressful and took all day, though I did
manage to replace one end of my 40M dipole rope that when I got it on the
ground saw that it was literally one good wind gust away from fail.

 Rain was expected Friday, so Turkey day included "final" fall leave
cleanup but the damn Red Oaks were not cooperating this fall and still had
substantial leaves that had yet to drop. This weekend was the last
opportunity for the town fall yard waste pickup. I was outside for four hours
chasing every available leaf.

 Turkey day meal was superb, including the after dinner nap. At which point
it was back outside to deploy the Inverted L. 3 hours later it was all
connected and about 1/3 of the radials deployed. Folks with better sleep
habits than me probably could have done this all in daylight. For me, it
was under the headlamp. Finished up about 0330Z.

 Unfortunately, I was wiped Friday and this feeling lasted through all of
the first day of the contest. It ended up impacting total BIC time in the
end. N1MM says 35:45 based on 60 min intervals but real BIC time is
calculated at 32:45, though I did make Qs in 40/48 hours.

 The station was ready to go but I got off to a really slow start, as usual.
The low bands seemed in good shape. Hacked and napped until 0943Z when I took
a 2 hour sleep break. 165Qs in the log. At this point it started looking
like an exact duplicate of the 2020 running. So, 1000Qs and 1M points
should be doable, I thought.

 I often neglect to attempt runs in the first day as they generally are
unproductive for a low power/low antenna station. I was surprised to see 7
attempts during the first day/night. All generate Qs but were short duration
and not really high rates. The best was 55Qs at 77/hr on 15M at 1500Z. Ended the
first day/night with 662Qs in the log. That was 200 and change better
than 2020. Hmmm. Took a 2.5 hour break starting at 0745Z.

 Four more attempts at running on the 2nd day with the best being 107Qs at 91/hr
on 20M at 1300Z and then 109Qs at 109/hr on 15M at 1430Z.

 A funny moment included fat fingering the keyboard at some point while running
on 80M the second night. Then, using the 2nd VFO led to really confusing
audio in the headphones. I figured I changed some audio setting with my fat
fingering, so I spent some time looking at the config setups etc. Only to
realize
I had merely reversed the headphones on my head. Duh!

 The scoreboard set me up for a good chase with fellow YCCC member, N1EN.
He jumped out to a large lead early in the test so that provided me
someone/something to chase. Got close, but Mike walked away with it.
Thanks, OM!

 I capped 1000Qs at 1800Z Sunday afternoon, at which point I took a 2 hour
break to, wait for it...rake more leaves. I really obsess over these as you
can probably guess by now. Finished up the last 4 hours in S&P/DX mode
other
than a short run (14Qs) on 40M in the last hour.

 In summary, a total blast, great conditions. More BIC time would have gone
a long way...

73,

Ken - WO1N


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