Prior to the contest, Drubber sent an email containing the
following quote, "...the difference will be the amount of time you have
your butt in the seat!! Perseverance pays off..." Well, since I
left 2 hours plus on the table, I need write nothing
more.
Congratulations to Kevan, N4XL, for a very fine
job and a personal best. I really enjoyed the banter of emails prior to
the contest. Unfortunately, I did not find him during the contest for that WW4
prefix. Still not sure who won the N4XL vs KT4ZB completion as I did make more
contacts than Kevan...What do you all think?
Enjoyed talking to the SECC members that I found, but I think
PJ4Z was so busy on the high bands I never found them on 40 m or 80
m.
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CQWW
WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KT4ZB
Operator(s): KT4ZB
Station:
KT4ZB
Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP
QTH: Savannah, GA
Operating Time
(hrs): 33.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
9
40: 188
20: 415
15: 436
10: 299
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Total: 1347
Prefixes = 691 Total Score = 2,256,115
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
What a difference a year makes. Moreover, this was like two
contests in one for me. Friday night and Saturday conditions were good to very
good. But Sunday was brutal. Both 10 m and 15 m were barely responsive. So I
ended up taking some time off to visit with my wife's friends who were in town
for the weekend. As a result I left some time on the table. Fortunately,
conditions improved late in the afternoon and I was able to work a good number
of South American stations on 10 m to add to the one pointers that I got in the
US. All totals were down from last year and that will be so for the next few
years. Probably 80 percent S&P with best hour at only 66; best run rate was
99.
I put a new horizontal loop up just before the contest and
discovered that a contest is probably not the best time to try it out. My 40 m
dipole seemed strong on 40 so I stayed with that for most of the contest. I did
drop down to 80 m for a little while and used the loop for a few contacts. I do
know it works as I found KH7XX in Hawaii on Sunday morning. Also for the first
time ever, I had an unknown problem with N1MM. A mysterious letter D would
appear in an entry window and the Available Mult window would sometimes work and
then not work after changing bands. The program also crashed several times
during the weekend.
The DX was very good with Saudi Arabia, China, India, Israel,
Turkey, Korea, Samoa, Cook Islands, New Caledonia (2 bands), Vatican, San
Marino, Mongolia, Malawi, some nifty UA's and UN's and working 35 JA's from
Southeast Georgia added to the fun of low power contesting. And, you got to love
some of those lengthy prefixes like DX65DARC.
WPX is probably my favorite contest and I always have a fun
time. Thanks to everyone for hearing me and working to get my
exchange. Also, thanks to CQ and the contest committee for all their
work.
Best - Jere
FT 1000-MP Field, TH6-DXX, dipole and loop in the trees and
N1MM+.