[NCC] Fw: CQWW CW W1NN SOSB/80 LP

[Hal Offutt]

I hope everyone had fun in the contest.

Thanks to K8BL for providing the rare USA mult on 80!


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: SOSB/80 LP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 14

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:
   80:  111    16       51
   40:
   20:
   15:
   10:
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Total:  111    16       51  Total Score = 19,698

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

I operated my station in Ohio remotely from my apartment in Tokyo.

The above includes only my 80 meter score but I also made a couple of 
hundred
other contacts on other bands which will be included in the log I submit.

I scrapped my plan to operate 10 Meters single band from 7J1AAI due to the 
poor
10 Meter propagation forecasts and because the stack switch was not working
properly.

Instead, I spent a lot of the weekend hovered over the front panel of my
TS-480, the rear end of which was sitting on the floor under my desk in Ohio
with a long connection via the Internet.  I decided to focus on the low 
bands
- mainly 80 meters - which I could operate during the daytime hours in 
Tokyo.
It is very interesting to be chasing contacts on 80 and 160 while sitting in
the sunshine.  I operated pretty steadily the first day and just now and 
then
on Sunday.  My antenna for 80 (a 204 foot long G5RV style antenna at 40 
feet)
is a lot lower than the dipole I use when I am home, so many contacts were a
struggle and quite a few European stations could not pull me through.  I was
obviously quite weak there.  The TS-480 is not a K3, but I could hear a lot
more than I could work.  However, most EU stations did not seem very strong
compared with past years.

I did spend a little time on 15 meters in the morning my time and worked 
about
50 JA stations using my 40 meter dipole.  I did not hear any JA on 10, so
maybe I did not miss much by not operating from 7J1AAI this year.

Thanks to everyone who worked hard to pull in my weak 100 watt signal.

73, Hal W1NN
Medina, Ohio via remote from Tokyo