[CCF] CQWW CW CT8T(OH1NOA) SOAB HP
Timo Klimoff
timo.klimoff at dnainternet.net
Wed Dec 3 17:53:35 EST 2003
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: CT8T
> Operator(s): OH1NOA
> Station: CT1DVV/ESV
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: Portugal
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------
> 160: 61 9 45
> 80: 662 18 70
> 40: 1164 26 85
> 20: 1426 33 91
> 15: 1257 27 100
> 10: 1498 30 90
> ------------------------------
> Total: 6068 143 481 Total Score = 8,164,416
>
> Club: Contest Club Finland
>
> Comments:
>
> New claimed European record.
> (my last year's record was 7,416,123 and brutto was ~7.8M)
>
> More problems than ever before ... when we had one problem solved then
faced a
> new one. The result was that I had only two hours of sleep before the test
(and
> being arrived after long day to CT on Thursday night). This made me feel
really
> tired during the contest. I could have done somewhat better well rested
and not
> stressed like now. During the contest I had some RF problems.
>
> Condx on 160m and 80m were much down from last year. Two first nights on
160m
> resulted very few qsos. Such a stations as LZ9W and OZ5W never heard me.
This
> reduced my multipliers a lot.
> 40 - 15m were great, after first 12 hours I had 2020 qsos. 10m was still
FB but
> US openings were shorter than in 2001 or 2002. On Sunday evening 15m
suddenly
> produced HUGE US pileups - funny thing was that West Coast came with an
auroral
> tone.
>
> I made new personal qso rate record: 225 qsos per hour (I wonder what is
the
> best qso rate ever achieved by OH op)(best 10min rate 270 qsos) and had 10
hours
> over 170 qsos per hour. First time I worked with CT Win -version (under
Windows
> XP) and it suprised me by working very well :)
>
> TS-870 + Alpha 91b
> 160m: delta loop
> 80m: dipole
> 40m: vertical
> 20m: 4/4el (fixed NA), KT34XA
> 15m: KT34XA
> 10m: 5/5/5el, KT34XA
>
> Thanks to my super Portuguese family: Santos CT1DVV, Rui CT1ESV, Teresa,
Carla
> and Andre. They made my third operation from Portugal possible.
>
> 73, Timo OH1NOA
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