CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W4QO
Operator(s): W4QO
Station: W4QO

Class: SOSB(A)/10 QRP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                   
  80:                   
  40:                   
  20:                   
  15:                   
  10:  238    25      89
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Total:  238    25      89  Total Score = 78,204

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

WOW! Decided that since 10M had been open so much lately, I would go single
band ASSISTED QRP.  I was not disappointed.  I knew I could not put in a full
weekend to this so this influenced my decision.  Wall to wall sigs at times.
And LOUD!  Totally S&P so 24 per hour was not bad.  I was shooting for 100
countries and that is what I concentrated on. But 89 is not bad for QRP.  Used
a 3 element yagi at 60' and 4.8 watts to KX3.  I have a pretty high SWR down in
the CW band; something like 4:1 but the internal tuner made the rig happy.
Antenna is 260' from the shack to the top of the tower.  1/2" 75 ohm
hardline most of the way.  Also used the 80M loop at 75' for stations out of
the beam heading by a great deal. It was fun, tailending folks like N4GG and
NQ4I once or twice.  Thanks to all for digging me out; however, I would say
that the "fill" rate was only about 5 percent.  Missed Guam, Costa
Rica and Paraguay as pileup too large. Worked some pretty weak ones when they
weren't busy.


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