[UK-CONTEST] CQWW CW G3TXF SOSB/20 HP

[Nigel G3TXF]

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: G3TXF
QTH: North Devon
Operating Time : 39 hours

 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:  1991    40      131
   15:
   10:
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 Total: 1991    40      131

Total Claimed Score = 725,895

Club: CDXC - Chiltern DX Club

G3TXF : 20m SOSB – HP

After a couple of years doing SOAB, this year it was decided to take the
easier option and do SOSB. [It’s a load less knackering doing SOSB than
doing SOAB - especially if you have to put up all the antennas prior to the
Contest and take them down afterwards!] The chosen band was 20m.

The 20m antenna (an ancient Hy-Gain 204BA 4el yagi at 80ft) was put up on
the Friday and a few hours sleep were taken just prior to the start. The
first QSO on Saturday morning was at 0145z with LU8XW and the last QSO on
Saturday evening was D4B at 2159z. During late Sat/early Sun six more hours
sleep were taken, during which time 20m was hopefully all but dead.

The first QSO on the Sunday was ZL1CDX at 0428z. Operating was then
continuous on 20m right through to the end at 2359z on the Sunday. However
20m was very slow after 20z. The last QSO was made at 2227z (and as luck
would have it, it was 5H3KK – for z37 - the 40th Zone!). G3TXF continued to
trawl the band for the last 90 minutes of the contest but no QSO was made.
Anything that was audible (and there wasn’t much that was!) had already been
worked.

Total time at the rig (although not necessarily always able to make any
QSOs!) was 39 hours. Of the 1,991 QSOs on 20m, 715 (36%) were W’s and 104
were JA’s. Most of the JA's were on the Long-Path.

On Monday morning the old 20m beam was taken down and packed away. The CQWW
CW Contest (the world’s greatest Contest) was over again for another year.

73 – Nigel G3TXF