[WWYC] CQWW CW ON5ZO SOAB(A) LP

[Franki at ON5ZO.be]

Woohoo, those 8 hours of sleep made me human again. This de-zombification process was
needed after the weekend. And what a weekend. 1388 QSOs! With my setup! I made a
parallel wire dipole for 80/20/15/10 that seems to work pretty good for what it is,
and I already knew my 40m vertical dipole could hold its own in a contest. Add 100W,
shake well and you get ON5ZO's personal best score ever! Who'd ever think that I
would make the most QSos on 80m? Mostly EU though. 40m has a higher point-score with
most 3-pointers.
Mostly S&P, I went up 'n down the bands all the time. Some smaller runs once in a
while, even on 80m! I think that running is more fun and maybe it is less exhausting
in the long run because you are constantly busy. Conditions were not that good I
think. Nothing worked from VK/ZL land, not even 1 QSO. Even ZL6QH was weak. And did I
miss all the PY/LU's or were they just not as plenty as in other contests?

I was assisted, but actually I did more mult-hunting myself. Packet spots for good DX
atract a massive pile up, so small guns like me lose a lot of time. I chose to move
on and go looking for sweet stuff that wasn't spotted yet. Except on 40m where I can
et through pretty fast most of the times. I was listening to a real DX station that
hadn't been spotted yet, I forgot the call (I think it was the 5U station). He was
just starting on a frequency, I could work him after some calls, I was hoping that no
one would spot him before I worked him. He had a good rate even without the spots. I
worked him but kept listening and waiting to see a spot coming in. Then there was a
spot, and half a minute later there was a pile up and everyone kept caling and his
rate collapsed because no one would listen and jut keep on calling.
I'm used to packet, I was 'raised' like that as a contester, but I maybe I should
consider of dropping packet? I've done it before and it works, and I haven't had a
lot of benefit of it this weekend like I described above.

73, CU all, maybe (just maybe) in ARRL 10m.
Franki ON5ZO


>  CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: ON5ZO
> Operator(s): ON5ZO
> Station: ON5ZO
>
> Class: SOAB(A) LP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 35
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>   160:    9     2        5
>    80:  396    10       54
>    40:  379    17       70
>    20:  282    17       57
>    15:  186    18       50
>    10:  136    19       30
> ------------------------------
> Total: 1388    83      266  Total Score = 864,473
>
> Club: Worldwide Young Contesters