[NCC] [MRRC] CQWW CW 7J1AAI(W1NN) SOAB Classic HP

Tue Nov 28 01:06:06 EST 2023

Hi Jim,

I wasn't sure what station you would be operating from but I was 
disappointed that I did not hear you.  FL is usually pretty strong 
here.  I think the best opening was on 20 Meters late Sat night/early 
Sun morning your time so you probably weren't in your car then.  
Surprised to see your VFO showing 28130; I don't think I listened any 
higher than 28065.  I probably should have.  I know that sometimes you 
can find rare African mults up high in the band.

It must have been nice to sit by the ocean all that time.  Better 
scenery than the typical station.

Nice QRP score.  QRP is easy on the car battery so I suspect that had 
something to do with your category selection.

Hope to work you in the ARRL 160.

73, Hal

On 11/28/2023 11:04 AM, Jim Stahl via groups.io wrote:
> Hi Hal -
>
> I was looking for you from my HamStick station, but never heard you. 
> Some good signals from JA, even on 40 in the morning here, but I was 
> at the bottom of the caller pile so only a few worked.
>
> Not many MRRC/NCC folks heard, other than the K3LR group. I did work 
> NA8V for a double multiplier on 20 (I got a few insurance QSOs later) 
> and caught K8BL at K8AZ to say hello. I did have to beg K8GL to put me 
> in the log for my 15M USA QSO.
>
> For the NE OH and WPA guys, have fun looking at that white stuff!
>
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>
>
>
> On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 08:30:25 PM EST, Hal W1NN 
> <hal at japancorporateresearch.com> wrote:
>
>
> A great weekend.  Lots of members worked. Thanks!
>
> 73, Hal W1NN
>
>
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
>
> Call: 7J1AAI
> Operator(s): W1NN
> Station: JH1GTV
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> Class Overlay: Classic QTH: Tokyo
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------
> 160:        4      1           1
> 80:        42    10        12
> 40:     207     28        43
> 20:     325     28        44
> 15:     564     28       52
> 10:     345     29       58
> ------------------------------
> Total: 1472  124    210    Total Score = 1,277,721
>
> Club: North Coast Contesters
>
> Comments:
>
> Thanks to Shige Ohsawa JH1GTV for allowing me to use his fine station 
> in the
> western suburbs of Tokyo. This was my first operation at his place since
> 2019
> thanks to the interruption of the pandemic. Shige is the perfect host,
> providing me with hot coffee throughout the weekend and a great sushi 
> dinner
> Saturday night. He even put up a temporary dipole for 160 for me.
> Unfortunately
> I could not hear much and only worked four JAs.
>
> Shige's QTH is a 35 minute subway/train ride from my apartment in
> downtown Tokyo
> so getting to and from his place is very easy. On Saturday night he even
> drove
> me home so I could get a nap in my own bed.
>
> The equipment and antennas worked well. The station is very efficient 
> and I
> didn't have to touch anything but the radio's knobs. Unfortunately, I 
> cannot
> say the same thing for the logging software. I prefer Win-Test and a few
> years
> back I purchased a second copy to use at Shige's QTH. In the meantime he
> changed computers but Win-test makes it extremely difficult to move its
> software
> to a new computer and after fooling around for a couple of hours, I had
> to give
> up getting it to work and fire up N1MM. There are lots of minor
> differences and
> having to cope with N1MM's quirks throughout the weekend was very
> annoying. And
> moving the file from his computer to my own computer to submit the log
> after the
> contest presented a whole new set of problems which I won't elaborate 
> here.
> Win-test makes everything so much easier (except when you want to move
> to a new
> computer).
>
> The contest started with a rollicking 123 Q first hour on 10 meters but
> the rate
> dropped to 70 in hour two. 10 was in great shape and in addition to the
> morning
> US run, I had several good hours running Europe in the afternoon. But 15
> and 20
> were in terrible shape on Saturday and not knowing what conditions were
> going to
> be like on Sunday, I spent a lot of time on 15 and 20 working hard to
> put some
> contacts in the log. Signals were weak and the noise level was high.
> Fortunately
> conditions improved greatly on Sunday so much that I spent very little
> time on 10.
>
> Zone 5 signals on 20 were as loud as I have ever heard them.
> Low band conditions throughout the weekend were surprisingly good too but
> activity was understandably low with everyone focusing on the high bands.
>
> The real problem I had was my call sign. I had forgotten just how hard 
> it is
> for many ops to copy. This made S&P operation very inefficient. With 
> my own
> call in the US, I can S&P very effectively but not here. About 15% of ops
> catch my call the first time. The rest need several repeats, 
> occasionally as
> many as six repeats at 25 wpm. I like to operate at 35-40 wpm but QRQ just
> makes it harder, so I had to keep the speed down below 31 and 
> sometimes much
> lower to get through. A few ops simply ignored my calls, I guess
> preferring to
> work some with an easier call to copy. US ops are considerably better
> than EU ops in my experience. Interestingly, the Chinese ops did not 
> have much
> trouble with my call. Perhaps they are more accustomed to calls 
> beginning with
> "7". As someone else mentioned in their comments, the skill level of
> Chinese ops seemed much better to me than a few years ago. The Southeast
> Asians
> are coming along nicely too!
>
> All in all it was one of the best contests ever! Thanks to all of you
> who make this contest possible.
>
> 73, Hal W1NN & 7J1AAI
>
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