[UK-CONTEST] GW7X-WPX -SB40 HP

[Clive Whelan]

Yo dudes ( streetwise talk, Ed)

Remind me never to do SB40 ever again, it's one tough row, and 
three shots in 12 months ( WPX2001, ARRL DX 2002, WPX2002) is 
enough to test anyone's sanity!


Last year's effort with a single Butternut produced only about 
100 less QSOs and 250K less points, so on the face of it, the 
pair of phased Butternuts has not done very well this year. 
Excuses, well the operator is a year older, and that does not 
help for sure. Staying awake is a young man's game, and if I 
seemed to be slow to respond to your call, or even CQ'ed in your 
face, it was probably because I had fallen asleep with my finger 
poised above the F1 key, and was only woken by the call! 
Amazingly on most of these occasions, I found that I could 
remember the callsign; suppose there may be some subliminal 
process at work here?


The bad news for me is that mega-gun UA2FB seems to have dropped 
down from 80 to 40m this year, and there is simply no way to 
compete with a station of that ilk. He was consistently S9 or 
more, even at local noon, when absorption peaks. His big-gun 
peers in HA, OK, S5 etc, were by comparison, not even moving the 
meter. Oh for a tower at this QTH. Pretty place to live, shame 
about the conservation area status. Oh well, at least I get to 
smell the flowers when the rate drops!

The slightly better news is that S54A ( LP) who finished 1 place 
behind GW7X last year has dropped 30% on score, and has barely 
broken the 1M point mark. Perhaps he wasn't trying so hard, or 
maybe the residual effect of the recent coronal mass ejections ( 
posh name for a flare, Ed), were still exerting some influence; 
let's hope it's chips!


Highlights, erm not many actually, but if pressed being called 
by KH2, and the various VK/ZL boys on the Short Path through the 
teeth of the Eu QRM.


Lowlights, absoludimenda nada from JA, and missing the GW0  
mult., although I heard and worked my first MW3 on any mode. The 
the bloke was a very respectable operator actually; maybe 
there's hope for them after all! Yet again nothing from GI.


73


Clive

                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: GW7X
Operator(s): GW3NJW
Station: GW3NJW

Class: SOSB40 HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40: 1271
   20:     
   15:     
   10:     
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Total: 1271  Prefixes = 549  Total Score = 2,117,493

Club: 

Comments:

TS870
Alpha 78
Butternut HF9Vx2
Writelog 10.3




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