[NCC] Fwd: ARRLDX CW 7J1AAI(W1NN) SOSB/40 HP

[Jeffrey Ach]

Hal,

Thanks for the detailed report from 7J this year.  On 40, we had a terrible
time working JA and never did get DU, 9m, YB or others in the log.  We have
an RX 8cr on 40 and can rapidly determine the path to try to use.  We found
that in the morning, the path would start to the SW, and work itself North.
But for this year, it never got direct.  Most of the (few) JA we worked were
coming from the West.

The only antenna we have for TX to JA is our 4 el OWA at 125', so we usually
lag the big guys by quite a bit your way, but this year was really hard.
The absorption over the pole kills us when the K moves up.  

THEN, we had only 2 JA (and had to work at that) on 15.  15 is one of our
"money bands", but here, it was the low SFI I think that got us!

Thanks again for the info from your side.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: NCC [mailto:ncc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Hal Offutt
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 8:12 AM
To: North Coast Contesters; Mad River Radio Club
Subject: [NCC] Fwd: ARRLDX CW 7J1AAI(W1NN) SOSB/40 HP

Happy to work a lot of NCC & MRRC friends (except for those in Michigan, see
below).

A relatively loud K8AZ was my 49th contact and only the second station east
of the Mississippi to make it into the log - at 0657Z (2 AM EST).  
Thanks to Tom & Crew!

Looks like conditions for W/VE were not so bad.  I hope everyone had a good
weekend.

73, Hal 7J1AAI (AKA W1NN)


ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: 7J1AAI
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: JH1GTV
).
Class: SOSB/40 HP
QTH: Koganei city Tokyo
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   160:
    80:
    40:  573    51
    20:
    15:
    10:
-------------------
Total:  573    51  Total Score = 86,139

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

Thanks to Shige, JH1GTV for hosting me again at his fine station. He is an
excellent host, bringing coffee, tea and even a sushi dinner!  And his
station is also excellent:  3 el yagi at 120' and ICOM 7851 + Kenwood TL922
@ 1 KW.

This was a tough year to be SB40 from Japan.  Compare the above score from
my claimed scores from 2009 and 2011 and you will see what I mean.

2009  712 X 50 = 106,800
2011  822 X 50 = 123,300

In the past I have had rates as high as 93/hour on in this contest, but this
year my best hour was 60.  Only three hours were over 50 and only six were
over 40! This makes for a pretty boring weekend.  I tried to keep busy using
the sub-receiver on the 7851 during the short periods between my CQs and I
did work
20-30 stations this way, but I think most of them would have called me
anyway.


Most Zone 4 and 5 stations were really weak, and rapid QSB made things
doubly difficult.  W2FU has a great station but it took me about four tries
to copy his call.  Even K3LR was weak.  I could tell that there were quite a
few really weak callers, but I just couldn't pull most of them in, even
though there was not much noise this year. It never felt like the band ever
opened properly to the northeastern part of the US.  FL, GA and AL were
pretty loud. Activity from the rest of the country also seemed down.  Maybe
they were busy on other bands.


I managed to work 46 states, missing only NE and MI.  I guess MI is the new
SC, which years ago was pretty rare.  Have all of the Michiganders gone
south?  In recent years, KY has been tough to find in a lot of contests but
this year I must have worked over 10 of them.  Among the Canadian provinces,
I only heard and worked VE3, VE5, VE6, VE7 and VY1 (two of them!).  And of
course I missed DC as well.

Maybe next year?

73, Hal W1NN/7J1AAI




The above figures do not include 36 dupes.  I guess a lot of people copy my
call as ZJ1AAI.


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