[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2018 - Area activity
Yuri
ve3dz at rigexpert.net
Tue Sep 15 19:02:02 EDT 2015
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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