[SCCC] WPX CW WA7BNM SOSB15 LP

[Steve Harrison]

On 5/25/2025 8:36 PM, Bruce Horn wrote:
>                      CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2025
>
> Call: WA7BNM
> Operator(s): WA7BNM
> Station: WA7BNM
> ...........
> Comments:
>
> Strange conditions. Friday evening JAs were few and weak, but a 9M6 was loud.
> Both Saturday and Sunday mornings good openings to Zones 15, 16 and 20. Was even
> able to CQ with my mighty 100W and work those areas for a brief time. Only a
> couple of SA QSOs and no Caribbean stations heard.

Strange, indeed! My experience was plenty of JAs, especially today, with 
lots of SA and Caribbeans ripe for the picking. However, although the 
SAs were strong enough to work Saturday afternoon, I could not get 
through to most of them then; not true today. What amazed me were the 
Europeans who called me very late today; AFAIR, Europe used to fade out 
after about noontime in the olden days. Heck's Bells: I could even 
very-weakly hear some of the Europeans who were working SAs on 10m all 
the way through 3 or 4 pm both days. I almost cried when I just could 
not get through to a fairly-weak 5Z4A... 8-(

And I only had my 160 meter inv L fed with an antler tuner, while you 
had a beam!! Odd......

40m, though... THAT was a real oddball. So much multipath and so many 
echoes that some JAs were hard to copy at times. 3W9A was showing over 
S7 on 40m and easily copiable between the storm crashes on 80m; yet, I 
never managed to get through to him. Very few W/K's were calling him, 
too. I used an AL-811HD with four 572Bs running off just 1350V under 
load (extremely low plate voltage for 572Bs), producing maybe 550W on 
10m but closer to 700+W on the other bands.

Steve, K0XP