[SCCC] CQCWWPX 2019 K0XP

[Bruce Horn]

Hi Steve,

I share your frustration when attempting to work BY stations using low power, but try to remember that 100W doesn't produce an overwhelming signal in BY-land and they are most likely plagued with high local noise levels. GL.

73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)

----- Original Message -----
From: "k0xp" <k0xp at k0xp.com>
To: "SCCC Reflector" <sccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 8:51:15 AM
Subject: [SCCC] CQCWWPX 2019 K0XP

CQWPXCW Summary Sheet
CallSign Used : K0XP
Operator(s) : K0XP

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Assisted Category : ASSISTED
Band : 40M
Power : LOW
Mode : CW
Gridsquare : DM13EO
ARRL Section : ORG
Club/Team : Southern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7687.0

         Band     QSOs     Pts  WPX  Pt/Q
            7          78        415      61   5.3
           14         70        204      56   2.9
           21           5         12        3   2.4
        Total       153        631    120   4.1


Score : 75,720 all-band, 25,315 40m only
Rig :  FT-991A, Heath SA-2060A
Antennas :  49 foot sloping wire in Pine tree
Soapbox :  This entry is single-band, 40m, ONLY, although I include 
QSOs made on 20m and 15m. I entered this contest only to work new 
countries and especially, zones 18 and 23. Conditions Friday night on 
40 and 20 were OK, but seemed to deteriorate by Saturday afternoon 
and especially by sunset Saturday. It became clear as early as Friday 
night that the BYs, JTs and UA0s were deaf and/or not aiming antlers 
toward North America. None of the JAs or other Asians seemed to have 
receiving problems like all the BYs did. No problem, I will send the 
ones who did not respond to NA callers, such as RK0UT and especially 
BY3GA and JT5DX, a new crystal detector for their receiver (which 
does everyone think they use: 1N23WGs or 1N4148s??). Those two, 
particularly, really need hearing aids, and I offer them mine; it's 
obvious they need them much worse than I do. The JT, on 20m, was 
responding to Europeans but I never heard him respond to any NAs at 
all. I found it difficult to believe he could possibly have made 3000 
Qs, since he couldn't hear anything other than Euros. BY3GA was among 
the weakest of all the BYs (as usual). But even though most of the 
others were easily S9, they, too, seemed to be using crystal 
detectors for receivers; they rarely responded to anything but other 
BYs or some of the stronger JAs. Since I still need zones 18 and 23, 
I was watching those guys like a hawk. In comparison, very weak JA's, 
YB/YCs, and VKs/ZLs were very easy to work. Altogether, the pure 
deafness of the rare-zone Asians made the this contest very frustrating.

SteveH, K0XP
Mission Viejo CA

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