[3830] All Asian CW K3EST(@N6RO) M/M HP

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                    All Asian DX Contest, CW - 2023

Call: K3EST
Operator(s): K3EST N6RO N6WM WD6T WU6P WX5S
Station: N6RO

Class: M/M HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
OpMode: SO2R
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    2     2
   80:  103    53
   40:  422   130
   20:  613   179
   15:  549   156
   10:   45    32
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Total: 1734   552  Total Score = 1,037,760

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

Another FB weekend working Asians. The conditions were very variable. The
contest started very slowly and did not open OK until about 0430z on 20 and
later on 15. 20 remained open all night both nights, but volume dropped
significantly after 11z. Daytime 20 was almost closed both days from 17z to 05z.
Surprisingly, on Saturday, 15 opened at about 20z and remained good until 090z! 
Sunday was not so nice.
85% of our Qs were with Japan. Nice to see good activity from Vietnam and China.
Lots of Asiatic Russians were also present.  The contest was nicely parsed: 20
almost dead all day. 40 didn’t get going until 08z about the time 15 and 20
were dying to Japan. 10 never was good. Both days 10 opened about 2330z and
closed soon afterwards. 
We stuck with the contest all day even though only 15 was OK. Everyone did a
“Professional Contesters job”!
We had a good time. Thanks for all the QSOs. Thanks to Ken, N6RO for his
hospitality. 
Operator comments:
 
160: N6RO (Ken): first night, 2 Qs in 3 hours on 160. Second night= 0 Qs. Top
band was disappointing both mornings.

80: WU6P (Nian): first night 78 Qs the first night.
    6RO: second night SO2R 169 and 80.  3 hours on 80 and 160 (NO QSOs). 25 more
on 80.  Extreme QRN from Texas until 11Z Prop OK, but five BYs, VR2, DS5, XV9,
all CQd in my face.  Did manage one BY. 

40: WX5S (Matt): a few notes on 40. Conditions were Disturbed due to the high
index of 38 on night 1. Because the rate was good on 15 and 20, the 40 m start
was delayed by an hour and a half or so. Conditions improved on the second night
but activity were down I think that's because so many people were on 15 and 20
that they just didn't go to 40. So overall we're down some Qs from last year. I
did hear the vu 7 but didn't work him. He was split and not in the contest

20: K3EST (Bob): 2o started very slow. It finally, got going about 0430z and
remained open all night. There were lots of Asiatic Russians. JT1CO, 9N7AA and
A71WW all were workable. Both days on 20 the band was like daytime 40 from 19z
until after 06z Sat and closed almost completely from 19z to contest end on
Sunday. 
   WD6T (Dave): both days from 13z to 19z was SO2R 15/and 20. Dave did a FB job
trying to find any QSOs! 

15: N6WM (Chris): First night. At the start was pretty anemic, the band did not
functionally open until 0630z, but remained open through most of our night/early
am producing some good prefix multipliers as well as a fair amount of JA. 
Jumped back in to the test around 1900 Sunday and although the band was solid
into JA, there were limited callers.
    WU6P: from 19z Saturday to close Sunday morning. 15 was very good the entire
time on Sat afternoon to Sunday morning. 

10: N6RO: Sat. PM, decent but short opening on 10m- 38 JAs. 
    WU6P: Sunday PM  7 more in last half hour Sunday.


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