[CQ-Contest] 2005 IARU observations from IK2DZN - LOW POWER

[Buck - N4PGW]

I got lucky.  One of the HQ stations disappeared while trying to get my call
information.  I took advantage of the situation and called QRZ on the
frequency to pick up contacts.  It was the best run I had.  Another station
asked if the frequency was in use, he was S-9 but didn't seem to hear me
answer unless he just did it on purpose to steal the spot.  He wasn't an HQ,
but I was out of business and had already contacted his station earlier.

I would love to have had a spot for my station to call CQ from.  

I saw one contest that requires stations to give up a frequency every time
they make a contact after a CQ.  IARU and other contests would make for a
better balance if they had this same requirement.  Just for a note, I
noticed that the first stations to start calling CQ contest did so a full
minute before the contest started.  They were there on the same frequency
until the last minute.  I guess the time could have been off, after all WWV
isn't always accepted as being the standard.

Regardless, I loved the contest.  I worked it with a  dipole in which one
end fell and the other is wrapped up in the tree branches, and ran only 100
watts.  Next year, I hope to have a better antenna system.

73 until the next contest... 
N4PGW
Buck


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of IK2DZN - Claudio Astorri
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:45 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] 2005 IARU observations from IK2DZN - LOW POWER
> 
> Dear Contesters,
> 
> 
> the excellent propagation forecasts prior to the HF Championship didn't
> obviously take the E-sporadic issue into account.
> 
> 
> During 2004 IARU I could work more than 300 Europeans on 10 meters and
> more
> than 200 Europeans on 15 meters. So half of my 2004 QSOs were E-sporadic
> aided.
> 
> LOW POWER contesters take great advantage by these openings, don't they?
> 
> During 2005 IARU conditions on 10 meters allowed me to work just 20
> stations
> and openings on 15 meters allowed me to work 130 stations, whose locations
> have nothing to do with E-sporadic.
> 
> What a difference from last year's conditions...
> 
> 
> Considering the closed E-sporadic situation I am so glad I managed to have
> just a 10% loss from last year's score; this took me a full 24 hour
> effort.
> 
> It also depended on my upgraded 20, 40 and 80 meter antenna system.
> 
> I can't imagine next year; it will probably be the toughest one for LOW
> POWER guys like myself.
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> 
> I fully agree with those claiming HQ stations do absorb lot of spectrum.
> 
> In many Countries in Europe we have just 60 gross (not net...) KHz as SSB
> spectrum on 40 meters (7040-7100 KHz).
> 
> There were times this weekend when just 1 or 2 HIGH POWER non-HQ stations
> could find spectrum in between the HQ's.
> 
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> 
> 
> One final question: do 160 meters make sense in this contest?
> 
> 
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> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Claudio Astorri, IK2DZN
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