[3830] CQWW CW K8GU SOSB40 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022

Call: K8GU
Operator(s): K8GU
Station: K8GU

Class: SOSB40 HP
QTH: EM79vp
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:  217    21       65
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:                    
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Total:  217    21       65  Total Score = 51,858

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

Station:  Elecraft K2/100, Drake L-4B (1 kW) amplifier, 80-meter dipole at 50
feet fed with open wire, more or less broadside to southern Europe.

Conditions were pretty good, with Europeans available from mid-afternoon past
their sunrise (I didn’t stay up this late, but did hear/work some in the
predawn here). The opening was deeper than I’m accustomed to, with plenty of
zones 15, 16, and 20. Japan was notably difficult, with only a handful of ESP
(unworkable) stations on Sunday morning. However, VR2KW (Hong Kong) and DU3T
(Philippines) were loud, 400-Hz apart, and utterly unworkable under the piles of
callers (and what I imagine to be a high local noise floor). South America was
notably absent as well, with the two Argentine stations I heard were ESP and
unworkable, a lone Brazilian was worked with effort. The remaining “South
Americans” were ABC islands. Like the Asians, the South Americans were mostly
off the ends of a full-wavelength dipole, not exactly a recipe for SNR.

Two new band countries were: UK9AA (Uzbekistan) and A44A (Oman) Not bad for no
cluster/RBN spots and already having 200+ countries on 40… Pleased to work
most of my friends who live/travel in/to some of these far-flung places.
Thanks!

73,

--Ethan, K8GU.
https://k8gu.com/


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