[CQ-Contest] CQWW rtty - condx ?!

[Frank Hunt]

Interesting stats Bob, things were very different from this part of 
the world of course. All Europeans were in short supply here, 
especially northern and western. 

Ulli you were one of the strongest of the northern/western Eu stns 
that I did work, but southern and eastern Eu stns such as I4IKW were 
generally stronger than the N/W stns.

FWIW, here are the top countries from my 506 contact 40m SB effort.

JA - 140
USA - 132
VE - 21
UA/As - 19
HL - 17
VK - 16
UA/Eu - 13
I - 11
EA - 10
BY - 9
DL - 9
F - 8
LU - 7
UR - 6
The rest were 4 or less contacts.

73, Frank ZL2BR


On 30 Sep 2008 at 12:19, Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:

> This is a good question Ulli,
> 
> I don't have 40m only statistics. But this is my overall impression
> from 2008 CQWW RTTY.
> 
> During the contest the idea "where is northern Europe?" passed through
> my mind. I know the Scandinavian countries have a lot of operators but
> there seemed to be very few in my log. I operated about 24 hours and
> 50% of that time was during Sunday. I logged over 900 contacts. Here's
> the population of the Top-50 QSO's by country in my log (using SH5 to
> create this list):
> 
> USA (399), Canada (63), Italy (53), FRG (52), Spain (25), Japan (24),
> England (22), France (19), Netherlands (14), Poland (14), EU Russia
> (14), Belgium (11), Ukraine (10), Croatia (9), Hungary (9), Argentina
> (8), Czechia (8), Slovenia (8), Serbia (8), Hawaii (7), Brazil (7), AS
> Russia (6), Portugal (5), Madeira Is (5), Martinique (5), Bulgaria
> (5), Denmark (5), Romania (5), Galapagos Is (4), Sicily (4), Finland
> (4), Slovakia (4), Greece (4), Mexico (4), Latvia (4), Cuba (3),
> Morocco (3), Uruguay (3), Scotland (3), Switzerland (3), Honduras (3),
> Sardinia (3), Aruba (3), Venezuela (3), Macedonia (3), Ireland (2),
> Guadeloupe (2), Northern Ireland (2), Wales (2).
> 
> I also had a few contacts with other "northern tier" stations: Sweden
> (2), Svalbard (1), Norway (1), Iceland (1).
> 
> I don't think you can draw any firm conclusions from this information.
> You'd have to also determine the active contest station population for
> each country in order to qualify the ranking. If there was only 1
> station active from Norway that would counter their position at the
> bottom of my list.
> 
> >From my location in northern central USA, it "felt like" the northern
> >tier 
> countries were not being heard in my area. This was across all bands.
> Overall, signals were very potent when considering the SFI never got
> out of the 60's. Also the activity level was at a level I had never
> seen in 40+ years on RTTY. 2008 CQWW RTTY cut a 100-KHz swath out of
> 20m this weekend. Stations were stacked side-by-side from 14.050 all
> the way up to 14.150.
> 
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
> 
> P.S. I worked you during an S&P run for my contact #222. I don't
> recall the specific band conditions or signal strengths from that time
> frame.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ulli Grunow" <ulli.grunow at ospreyribs.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:40 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWW rtty - condx ?!
> 
> 
> > Dear,
> >
> > I was one of the active contesters during last weekend CQWW rtty.
> > Following the results issued on the 3830 reflector, I wonder, what
> > to think about the condx. More specifically what should I think
> > about the condx on 40m ???
> >
> > I was SOSB 40m in the high power class, and have the idea, that this
> > weekend again the more northern stations are much less favored or
> > even punished by the aurora zone.
> >
> > When I see the logs of southern Europe stations, I cannot believe
> > their results - especially S53M - how did you do that ?!
> >
> > Running 12m high elevated 4square 100% above steel plate of 2000m2
> > with saltwater all around, what can I do more to work DX ?!?
> >
> > But is was difficult to establish a good run to the USA, especially
> > in the first night. And only 25 JAPAN-stations worked (about 200
> > USA). That's a big difference to S53M (by the way already 25years in
> > contesting.)
> >
> > So: Can someone report from the USA, which stations they heard best
> > ? Who were the loudest from EU in the USA ?
> >
> > This was interesting: At 20:30 UTC (very early !) East coast
> > stations were strongest. The later it became towards their sunset,
> > the weaker they got. When it was darkness after sunset, USA-stations
> > where dropped by almost 20db in signal strength ! I worked the
> > Midwest when it was almost 3hours before their sunset. Later in the
> > night - nothing ! Someone from Norway reported the band was dead
> > during first night.
> >
> > Same situation towards Asia: I worked JA with best signals between
> > 14:30h and 15:30h - later the band was almost dead to the far east.
> >
> > Unfortunately no station from West Australia heard and no station
> > from South Africa. may be no activity on 40m
> >
> > REMEMBER: All questions about 40m - although other band information
> > may be very interesting, I don't know, as I only have a reasonable
> > antenna for 40m at the moment (no towers, no space = big problem)
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback and any reports !
> >
> > Ulli, ON5KQ
> >
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