[CCF] WPX CW OG7A(OH6MW) SO(A)AB HP

[Ari Vepsäläinen]

CQ WPX CW kisa on käyty viikonloppuna, kiitoksia monista OH-qsoista.

73 Ari

>                      CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2019
>
> Call: OG7A
> Operator(s): OH6MW
> Station: OH6MW
>
> Class: SO(A)AB HP
> QTH: kp20
> Operating Time (hrs): 35
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
>   Band  QSOs
> ------------
>    160:   52
>     80:  226
>     40:  673
>     20: 1368
>     15:  315
>     10:  204
> ------------
> Total: 2838  Prefixes = 1080  Total Score = 6,309,360
>
> Club: Contest Club Finland
>
> Comments:
>
> It was fun. Now it is Monday morning, tired but happy. Day off from work. Some
> equipment problems, we had thunderstorm on Wednesday and noticed when assembled
> the station that one of the towers was not rotating. Did some quick tests and
> decided that the one is going to be fixed direction tower in this contest.
> Probably lightning damage in the motor.
>
> Propagation was not as good as it was in 2018. Both 15 and 10 had ES-skip to
> south, some fast runs but can't remember any special dx propagation over there.
> Some ZS etc. 20m had both NA and JA propagation but aurora gave us problems here
> in north and propagation was far away from great 2018 conditions. Both JA and NA
> openings on 40m but influenced by aurora. Nice EU runs on 80m.
>
> I started so2r dual cqing from the first hour, in the beginning 40 / 20, later
> 20/15 and 20/10. Some relay problems which I couldn't fix during the contest but
> fortunately not so severe. Just made me to make more copying errors than SO1R
> ops. Had to ask repeats more often etc. But dual cqing was great extra to this
> propagation and conditions. It probably sounded sometimes that I was deaf but
> actually it just meant that I had a group of callers on the other band and
> making qso on the other band. As a total result it surely gave me some extra
> qsos. Not so fluent and smooth than SO1R but more efficient in the long run.
>
> Operated 35 hours. Rest periods were not propagation optimized but actually
> optimized for "Total fun factor of the weekend". So I watched both
> Formula 1 Monaco grand prix and Icehockey world championships. Finland won the
> ice hockey world championship. Fantastic.
>
> I reached the current Finnish CQ WPX CW record in my class, single op all band
> assisted, but my margin is too small. Teijo OG6N is going to keep the record.
>   
> Thank you very much for all the qsos, it was great fun. See you in next
> contest.
>
> 73 Ari OH6MW OG7A
>
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