[CCF] WPX CW OG8X(OH6KZP) SOAB HP

[Kim Östman]

Tämän kisan vei nimiinsä Lady Aurora, sata-nolla. Tietojeni mukaan hän  
ei edes osaa CW:tä, mutta perjantai-illan entree ja suoritus kisan  
aikana olivat sitäkin vakuuttavampia!

Pohjoisessa oli surkeaa, eikä Etelä-Suomessakaan varmaan kovin paljon  
hääppöisempää ollut.

- Kim OH6KZP


                      CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: OG8X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH8X

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Arkala
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
   Band  QSOs
------------
    160:   30
     80:  159
     40:  569
     20: 1330
     15:  554
     10:   22
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Total: 2664  Prefixes = 954  Total Score = 4,981,788

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

The nearly total absence of night-time darkness in OH8 (65 deg.  
northern latitude) and the presence of heavy aurora are a challenging  
mix for WPX CW.

A winning combination requires well-placed stints on the low bands and  
good high-band DX propagation, and this time it was not to be.  
Saturday was miserable, but there was some relief towards the end of  
the contest, especially when 15m opened to W6/W7. Achieving any record  
was hopeless in the face of generally absent DX openings.

I used the live scoreboard at cqcontest.ru, and it was a lot of fun to follow
my "local" SOABHP competition with Pekka, OH2TA, at OH0X. When my  
final rest period ended at about 1230z on Sunday, the purpose of my  
life became to close the ~500 kpts gap between OH0X and OG8X and to  
emerge victorious. A great way to avert the boredom of poor  
propagation, but even though I worked the two radios like crazy,  
nothing was enough this time :) Well done, Pekka.

Thanks to the Radio Arcala team for this opportunity. Special thanks  
to my host Veijo, OH6KN, for stimulating Friday-evening discussions  
around our shared profession of integrated circuits. And of course,  
thanks for the QSOs to everybody.

73
Kim OH6KZP