[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity

[Yuri]

Well, he might still get his 1000 points towards WRTC-2018 qualification.

Yuri  VE3DZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: 15 September, 2015 02:32
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity


> 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:
> 
> =   =   =   =   =   =   =
> 
> 
> (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.
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