[SCCC] All Asian SSB WN6K SOAB
Paul E.Dorey
wn6k at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 3 15:44:53 EDT 2012
All Asian DX Contest, SSB
Call: WN6K
Operator(s): WN6K
Station: WN6K
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Vista, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 25:38
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 1 1
40: 291 94
20: 151 57
15: 365 109
10: 0 0
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Total: 808 261 Total Score = 211,149
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
I always like the AA Contests although I have been more partial to the
CW versions but thought I would give the SSB a go this weekend. This
was one that you better have given your all on the git-go just because
of those Solar Flaring activities that pop up out of nowhere. In that I
had another family outing to celebrate 'someone's birthday' on Friday, I
did not get the early start but stayed up till dawn on Saturday morning
to try and make up for it. Even then, the early subtotals were a bit
disappointing.
Ten Meters never opened here to me... heard lots of trans-equatorial
from SA to JA but never heard the JA side. 15m seemed fair and the JA
mults seemed to be steady enough to hold me the first night and when I
moved to 20m, it seemed almost too late for them. Hung in for a long
time WATCHING the slowwwww greyline map crawl its way to JA sunset and
jumped on 40 about 2 hours before the good time there and worked a few
of the loud JA's that were running power and/or antenna's enough to hear
me. Popped back and forth for a while to 20 to see if perhaps there were
a few stragglers there but swung back to 40 and worked them till my
sunrise and hit the sack.
Woke up at 1:00 PDT and after a quick shower and a bite to eat, found
that the band (20) had a few folks to work and then beat feet to 15
which was productive as usual. Kept checking 10 but still no joy there
- when 15 died, I went to 20 and milked it till the early 40 UA0/9s were
just showing. I had made a decision to stay on 40 longer on the second
morning but quit at 7PDT and set my alarm for an 11 PDT wakeup.
Sunday Contesting is a real drag and I think that other than the hopes
of getting some more sprinkles of JA mults it was pretty much as
expected. I worked lots of them on three bands and ages were highest 88
with the lowest 8 who must have been at his Dad's rig who gave me a 49
earlier on another band. Except for one UA0 on 80m, it was like a
windblown snowy night in a Wyoming Prairie - tiny very imperceptible
signals for the most part with one of the YKA stations that could be
heard but I was not being heard. A JA who I had not worked me on the 3
bands asked that I move to 20m on Sunday afternoon but he never found or
heard me and neither did anyone else from that direction.
During the past couple of weeks, I have found openings to 4Z/A(insert
number here) on 20 and sometimes even 15 in our early evenings when
casually looking for evening DX but I never heard anything short of one
Kazakhstan station on Friday night. So it appeared to me early that my
western Asia was going to be my only real alternative and frankly a 7K4
or whatever JA mult counted just as much as a few from the other
direction and I was picking those mults up about every 5-8 Qs anyway.
Sunday was the day the flare from the CME from spot 1560 started to show
its effect which added to the 'fun'. It was slow enough on Sunday that I
was able to compare notes with Dick, W6TK and Dennis, (N6KI) NX6T and
though there were running a bit more dB than I, they reported the same
as I was experiencing. BTW, AA does not have a HP/LP for us - we are
all "HP" in non-Asia so I cranked my FT-5k up to a whopping 200w out...
might have helped to have at least 800 more out I guess. Finally I did
work a few stations who thought I needed the 'sympathy QSO' as they did
not count for anything - one guy, some YB5 was insisting that I had to
work him because he WAS in Asia - Indonesia IS ASIA he says... and after
all I WAS calling CQ ALL Asia wasn't I? No way to 'splain' that one with
our limited language barriers going on was there?
WN6K - 59/64
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