CQWW CW RESULTS

[Zack Widup]

                   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST  1995
 
 
      Call: W9SZ                     Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator Assisted
      Zone: 04                                 
      Operating time: 7 Hours
 
      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES
 
 
      160        0        0     0.00      0       0
       80       51      135     2.65     12      29
       40       58      153     2.64     18      44
       20       43      118     2.74     17      38
       15       17       44     2.59     11      15
       10        0        0     0.00      0       0
     ---------------------------------------------------
 
     Totals    169      450     2.66     58     126  =>  82,800
 
 
 
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
 
Club Affiliation: SMC
 
Comments: This was a very un-serious effort, I mainly wanted to play
with the new 80-meter antenna I just put up (dipole) - it seems to
work just fine and I worked 10 new countries on that band in the
contest! Conditions were excellent for this point in the solar cycle.
In the time I had to operate I had fun and I hope I helped a few people
with some QSOs!
 
73, Zack W9SZ
 

>From force12e at lightlink.com (Natan)  Mon Nov 27 20:17:54 1995
From: force12e at lightlink.com (Natan) (Natan)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 15:17:54 EST
Subject: W6XR/2 CQWW CW
Message-ID: <199511271519.KAA13344 at light.lightlink.com>

Dear Friends,

	This weekend I had the pleasure of having a guest operator
in Ithaca to do the CQWW.  Bob, N6TV came from the Bay Area
in Ca. to operate his first East Coast contest. 
Unfortunatly, I have little to say about his experience
since he is still sleeping after working 46 out of 48 hours.
 Some of his comments that he mumbled afterwards were
amusing:

	"It sure is crowded on 80 and 40 .......Signals from Europe
are sure loud!.....Where are the JA's?"

	I think Bob did a tremdous job for just stepping into a
relativly new station that really is not in the most
geographicaly advantaged area.  We did have other problems
too, as the TS950 died just before the contest and Bob had
to use the new Kenwood 870....The 870 has the most
incredible filters, but the front end needs work!  Of
course, not being able to use the beverages or EWE receiving
antennas really put the 870 to the test and unfortunately,
in my opinion, it could have done better handling the strong
signals.  A strong signal forced Bob to put in all the
attenuation possible and AIP and it stlll had artifacts that
interfered wtih the needed signal.  Right now, the 950 is a
better radio as the front end handles adjacent channel much
better.

	Propogation was not that good and the 10 meter score
certainly indicates that signals were avoiding the Ithaca
area once again.  The performance on 160 was way down
because you are listening on a vertical antenna and you
simply don't hear things!  The EWE was missed!

Totals follow:

160	30	10	18
 80	377	19	69
 40	728	32	100
 20	845	22	98
 15	528	25	85
 10	   8	 3	3

Totals  2516 Qs, 122 Zs, 373 Cs for 3,528,360

SO, high power, not assisted, one radio only, no packet

Rig....TS870 and Alpha 86

CT

Antennas,

160 -- vertical/groundplane
  80 -- rotatable dipole at 75'
  40 -- 2 element yagi at 85'
  20/15/10 2 ea. stacked C3s at 75 and 45 
  South...C3s at 50'

Natan , W6XR/2