[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,9/14/2015 2:04 PM, Braco OE1EMS wrote:
> Just take a look into statistic and you will see

The choice of contests seems to be quite poor. From NorCal, I had 
roughly 90 minutes opening to Germany during WAG. K6XX, a superb 
operator with a great antenna farm on a mountaintop 70 miles S of San 
Francisco, posted this today about WAE SSB:

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(104 Q + 104 QTC) x  56 DX  = 27,040 points. 27 Hours. SOHP.

This was the most miserable contest I've suffered through. Propagation 
started out poor, improved marginally, then worsened again. Activity was 
light--both in signal strength and in numbers of stations on the air. 
Packet was "free", yet the screen rarely showed more than a couple of 
non-dupes, audible or otherwise.

How bad was it? After 5 1/2 hours, there were SEVEN stations logged. The 
best hour was a blazing 11. Overall rate was under 4/hr. Unlike Low 
Power Mike at W6YX, _most_ stations called came right back to me. My 
limitation was hearing the Europeans above the summer static. I stuck 
with it, hoping (or fearing) that the bands would suddenly open for an 
hour or so and the rest of the West Coast would capitalize on this 
opening. With so few Qs logged, it wouldn't take long to double one's 
score! The boys further north may have benefited from slightly better 
conditions, but it doesn't seem that any of us caught a dramatic opening.

After this weekend, I'm dreaming of raising hogs and neglecting my 
health so I will have something to discuss on 75m every evening. Or 
something like that...


         OPERATING TIME: 27:30:00
             CQ COUNTER: 110   and then some...
             RUN/SEARCH: 7/97 Qs
       UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 78

               SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.41.1 http://www.tr4w.net

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points Countries
   40SSB        27           27       27        18
   20SSB        69           69       69        32
   15SSB         8            8        8         6

  Totals       104          104      104        56

     Final Score = 27,040 points.