[CCF] All Asian CW OH0X(OH6KZP) SOAB HP

[Kim Östman]

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t. Kim


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                    All Asian DX Contest, CW

Call: OH0X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH0X

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Brando
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    4     4
   80:   24    23
   40:   91    65
   20:  525   193
   15:  859   223
   10:   48    40
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Total: 1551   548  Total Score = 893,788

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Nice contest on Saturday, but things got very slow on Sunday due to insufficient activity. Shorten from 48 hours to 24 hours?

It's a lot of fun to compare peoples' ages through the exchange number. Despite having just turned 37 years of age I'm clearly in the "wet behind the ears, perhaps still wears diapers" category :) The majority were over 60, but I also worked a handful of operators who are younger than myself.

Bandwise, 20m and 15m were in full swing, and I thought 15m was fabulous with practically 48h of condx from OH0 to JA. Quite a bit of summer QSB on both bands, with a lot of age number repeats requested. 

Had to finish the operation and go to bed at 22 UTC (01 local) on Sunday evening, as I needed to get up just after 03 UTC for travel back to the mainland. Couldn't risk falling asleep or not being in control of my faculties in the midst of a crucial meeting this morning! Consequently I also missed the 10m JA opening at the end, which at least Kazu JK3GAD @OH8X caught.

160m/40m suffered due to an antenna handicap (160m sloper away from AS and a single 2-el 40m shorty), and the low bands 160/80/40 suffered as a whole due to our lovely northern "midnight sun" and the consequent lack of a simultaneous period of darkness in OH0 and JA. When comparing to the competition's scores, the midnight sun reflects as a huge dent in the 40m totals. 

Worked over 50 non-Asian stations who called in, perhaps due to me being a semi-rare OH0. This inflated my QSO totals at the cqcontest.net scoreboard, but this did not scare LY5W @LY2W who kept closing in on my score on Sunday no matter what I tried. After having caught up during the day and evening, at 22 UTC he took the torch and ran with it, well done Sam! 

Thanks for the QSOs, and thanks to the others in the Radio Arcala and Brändö Island Group teams for the support!

73
Kim OH6KZP