[Mldxcc] N6RK CQWW CW SOHP assisted

[Rick Karlquist]

Club:  MLDXCC

 Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN
   3.5      16      47   13   12
     7      55     160   40   19
    14      22      59   21   15
    21       2      5    2    2
 Total      95     271   76   48
Score: 33,604

Time:  6 hours

Just a casual effort looking for DXCC counters.
A few points for the club.
20 meters was lousy and 15 meters was non starter.
40 and 80 were medicre at night, but good in the
mornings.  The surprise was 40 meter long path.
Now that I have the Monstir (3 elements at 110 feet),
I can work 40 long path, which I could never do with
the inverted vee.  I was noticing that many QSO's
were with stations that weren't even copyable or
in some cases audible on the inverted vee.
Sunday morning was very productive.
Eastern Europe is easier than Western Europe on long
path because paradoxically it is "closer".
I easily picked up ZC4 on 40 lp, a moderately rare mult.
Also worked a few 80 meter long path QSO's to EU
using the vertical.  It also handily beats my inverted vee
on transmit, but never receives better.  I often transmit
on the vertical and listen on the inverted vee.

I would like to comment on A25NW's pileup management.  After 5 or 10
minutes, the pileup would get out of control.  One time,
some lid (NP2?/W2) kept calling no matter which station he
came back to, and also transmitted on top of A25NW half the
time (he was zero beat).  A25NW would simply vanish and show
up somewhere else on the band.  The pileup would slowly build
and then tend to get out of control again when it got spotted.
I noticed A25NW QSY every 10 or 15 minutes.  I finally was able
to work A25NW after trying on at least 4 frequencies.