What great fun! Now, the wait to see who all worked and how they
scored. Trust you had half as much fun as me.
Best - Jere
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To: 3830@contesting.com,
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Sent: 10/28/2013 11:17:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj:
CQWW SSB KT4ZB SOAB Classic LP
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KT4ZB
Operator(s):
KT4ZB
Station: KT4ZB
Class: SOAB Classic LP
QTH:
Operating
Time (hrs): 23.6
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones
Countries
------------------------------
160:
3 3 3
80: 14 8
11
40: 67 11
31
20: 196 22
72
15: 263 26
82
10: 381 26
82
------------------------------
Total: 924
96 281 Total Score = 990,002
Club:
Comments:
So...the CQWW contest committee decided to add a new
overlay contest and call it
Classic Radio. And the rules say,
non-assisted, and only 24 hours. Okay, the
24 hours is all right;
but, non-assisted and low power sounds like work to me.
Also, it reminds
me of contesting with my old FT990 and a 40/80 meter dipole
strung across
the lot in midtown Savannah years ago. Memories aside, I decided
to give it
a try.
Holy cow, where did all these stations come
from? Plus, the solar flux was
at 160+ and 15 meters was wide open to
Asia. Friday evening was thrilling with
26 JA's, Guam, Mariana
Islands, VK, Philippines and Palau in the log. It was
almost impossible to
work 40 meters with low power. The weekend was all
S&P, even the
big stations were having problems holding a frequency. I
heard but
never worked the GT8 calling CQ under two big guns fighting with each
other
over the frequency...I've been here for 2 hours...NO, NO, I've been
here
for 3 hours...oh my, maybe that's why it's called amateur radio.
It's amazing to see stations on 10 meters above 28.8
MHz. Although I worked
non-assisted, there were great DX contacts �"
3V7A, 5W1SA, 7Z1SJ, A71BX,
AH0BT, AH2R, B9/BY9GA, DU7RH, E2E (probably the
first time I've ever worked
Thailand in a contest), IS0BSR, NH2T, OA4SS,
SV9FBG, T88AZ, TF3CY, V47JA,
VP2MDG, and YM3KM to list a few. Special
mention goes to HK1NA for the first
station outside the US for me to work
on all six bands! Another of my favorite
contacts was working a KH6
on 80 meters. Gosh, I wonder what all I missed as I
had no spots on
the bandmap?
Thanks to the CQWW committee for sponsoring
this great contest and the new
Classic Radio overlay...A+++. And
thanks to all the folks around the world
whose contacts filled my log.
Best - Jere
FT1000mp Field (100w), TH6DXX, dipoles and
N1MM.
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