[OZ-CONTEST] CQWW SSB OZ1ADL SOSB(A)/40 HP

[Jan Thøgersen]

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>                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
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> Call: OZ1ADL
> Operator(s): OZ1ADL
> Station: OZ1ADL
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> Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP
> QTH: Galten, Denmark
> Operating Time (hrs): 30
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> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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>   160:
>    80:
>    40: 1360    36      127
>    20:
>    15:
>    10:
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> Total: 1360    36      127  Total Score = 346,375
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> Club: Bavarian Contest Club
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> Comments:
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> This was my first real full contest with our new 3 elm. full size  
> Yagi at 20 m -
> see http://www.oz1adl.com
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> I was excited, as I usually only spend little time on 40, when we  
> operate M/S,
> and now I was going to be here for a whole week-end, with all the  
> noise and the
> broadcast stations - and not least, "riding" the interesting cycle  
> around the
> earth, where you can follow the greyline
> http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/greyline.html and try to figure out  
> where the next
> multiplier may come from...
>
> I started out nice and easy, trying to get a run frequency, which  
> was hard, very
> hard, but I got a good beginning and then started investigating the  
> new 100 KHz
> up above for the first time. It was very pleasant up there, but not  
> a lot of
> stations coming back to  my calls at first, but that seemed to  
> change over the
> week-end, as people were adjusting their strategies.
> ..Already at noon on saturday, I had made DXCC - What a fantastic  
> world there at
> 7MHz - almost anything was possible. I was working W´s all the way  
> up to 1
> o´clock in the afternoon - amazing - and then,  in came the JA´s  
> from the east.
> It was a lot of fun and all of a sudden I had Hawaii call me, still  
> with the
> antenna pointing east...and shortly thereafter Alaska... WOW, I  
> fell that ham
> spirit from my early boyhood, when I would work a G-station on 10 m  
> - and be
> facinated with the fact that it was possible for weeks thereafter...
> The band was getting more and more crowded and as people were being  
> pushed from
> one side, the stations were moving and adjusting like one big  
> organism - and
> then, of course, came the usual running of the gauntlet between the  
> daily users
> of the lower segment of the band, who were defending their  
> "territories" as
> vehemently as IT9RYH is "defending" 14.195 - the tone got pretty  
> bad both there
> and on DX Summit, but they were very helpful in spotting new  
> multipliers for all
> of us contesters...I wish there could be more mutual understanding and
> flexibility, that one week-end a year so that you don´t have to  
> spend your time
> arguing about bandplans with someone who doesn´t want to go try on  
> 17 m that one
> week-end a year...well, it´s there every year in one form or  
> another, and will
> hopefully change as more countries open up to the higher end of the  
> band - or
> the old defenders take another approach.
> I had many good moments during this contest, inbetween catching  
> flies in the
> shack while calling CQ - in fact, one could write a whole book - or  
> a song
> http://www.oz1adl.com/html/the_ham_band.html  about a contest like  
> this one and
> all the ups and downs you go through - and how tired you become...
> The last thrill was when VQ9A showed up, just about as I was going  
> to leave the
> shack and go to bed - a new country and a new zone - and good night!
>
> The family is calling...
>
> vy 73s de Jan, OZ1ADL
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