[WWYC] CQWW CW
Bostjan Voncina - S55O
bostjan.voncina at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 03:42:05 EST 2014
Hello!
First i would like to say it was FUN!
Second it was totaly heard that in the hd2a there is an eu guy who knows
how to work pileups. It was never so easy to work hd2a as far as i
remember, so thx Thomas. I'm sure all your cycling around and being sturdy
as a horse after all that cycling did had you in the top shape.
Nevertheless, you didnt have lots of hamradio because of that and the
hunger for qso took over. It's a splendid score in prospect of all the
antennas and all...i'm sure with 800w more and some improvement on the
station + aclimatization you would've gotten even higher. My hat is off :)
I've played around for 26h @ S51A station since my buddies s51zj and s54kp
were working in the classic LP and HP category. So i took the hours and the
bands that they were not using. It was totaly worth it..
Best things that happened in the tests ?
Calling 2 times 1 guy and getting response from the next one (close) too
and wokring 4 qso's with 2 calls :) It's fun how the timing overlaps :)
Next best was n4ww cqing as hell on 28 Mhz, on the same frq there was
vu4kv.. (heard him cuz my anntenna was pointed east...easiest DX done with
1 call...N4WW never knew what happened.. (didnt hear any of us i think :).
8p5a hears better if i go 36 wpm or more instead of the normal 30...scarry
guy :) but easiest to work from the carribian for me. 4 calls = 4
bands...crazy op.
Tryed to go to sleep saturday nigh local time 21.00 till 23.00 but couldnt.
This then killed me at 6 am local time ( 5. utc) and i was hearing noises
and people chatting around...
After not being able to copy...OMG!!! W1TO who needed to resend his call 3
times i called it quits and went to bed. The decoder was dead :) (in my
head of course).
Happy to hear you all and the condx were great :P I think it was a while
(since 2013 cqww cw ) that i heard the bands in such a shape and no flares
around. Clean, nice and without noise...
since i had time, i took 2 breaks (the stations were manned by the other
ops) and went home to my fiancee to eat some good food.
The intake in the contests resulted in 6 power drinks ( BURN and red bull)
, 1 chocolate and 3 sendwiches.
I'm doing some op quality research and i do this by turning wpm to 36 or
more and work S&P with my personal call...allways fun to hear back ---
..--.. :)
Hear you next time
Bostjan S55O
2014-12-02 22:59 GMT+01:00 Thomas Andersen <thomas at oz1aa.com>:
> Hola!
>
> I worked G0MTQ the other day... thought for a moment it was you Lee :-)
>
> Otherwise my most funny moment from the contest happened on Monday. I
> was listening to some local guys chatting away on the 2 meter repeater
> (in Español but I got most of it). One of them had visited HD2A during
> the contest and he was explaining what he had seen: "A strange gringo
> sitting alone in the shack typing very fast on his small laptop. He
> hardly had time to talk with me... I think it was a digital mode....
> but it could have been.. what is it called... CW. He said he had made
> 3000 contacts in 24 hours but I don't believe him. How is that
> possible??? He put on the speakers so I could hear the signals and it
> sounded like a machine gun. He looked very tired said he was planned
> to spend another 24 hours in the chair. Very strange, very strange..."
>
> I was laughing a whole lot :-)
>
> I did manage to do 48 hours for the first time. I tried so many times
> from OZ7YY but never made it past 46. I think it becomes easier with
> age! Maybe not so bad to be 30+ after all :-)
>
>
> ENNAT!
>
>
> 73,
>
> Thomas OZ1AA / HC2OZT
>
>
>
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: HD2A
> Operator(s): OZ1AA
> Station: HD2A
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: Guayaquil
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------
> 160: 9 5 7
> 80: 304 21 48
> 40: 821 24 69
> 20: 1331 33 90
> 15: 1174 30 95
> 10: 2145 30 98
> ------------------------------
> Total: 5784 143 407 Total Score = 9,430,850
>
> Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
>
> Comments:
>
> A huge thank you to station host Alberto HC2AQ for making my dream come
> true.
> Absolutely first class hospitality down here in Guayaquil, a few degrees
> south
> of the equator.
>
> I started contesting when I was 15. Back then my heroes were not football
> players or movie stars but the likes of CT1BOH, N5KO, and N5TJ who were
> running
> CQWW pile ups all day long from exotic DX locations. This year, like my
> teenage
> heroes, I found myself in a 3-point location for CQWW CW - and what a
> thrill it
> was.
>
> I arrived at the HD2A QTH on Tuesday before the contest. Unfortunately the
> old
> FT-901 DM radio in the shack would only work on 20 m and down so I didn't
> get a
> chance to do much warm up running. Instead I spent a day putting up a low
> dipole
> on 160. On Friday morning HC2AQ showed up with a Kenwood TS-590 which
> would be
> the contest rig for the weekend. I was pleased to learn that the radio had
> some
> kind of adjustable CW filter. After hooking up the SB-220 amp which would
> give
> 500-600 w of output, the setup looked like this:
>
> TS-590 + SB-220
> 160: Inv V
> 80: Inv V
> 40: 2 el.
> 20: 5 el.
> 15: 4 el.
> 10: 5 el.
>
> A few photos over at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oz1aa
>
> I final test on Friday revealed that the 40 m beam had some kind of loose
> connection as the SWR would occasionally go sky high. Most of the time it
> would
> be OK, but I ended up not using the amp on 40. The SB-220 also doesn't
> cover
> 160.
>
> I managed a 45 min siesta Friday afternoon, and at 7 pm local time the race
> began. I started running JA on 10, then moved to 15 and 20 for US. The rate
> quickly climbed to 180 and I was indeed having lots of fun. 40 m seamed to
> work
> OK even with the 100 w, but things got tougher on 80. With 59+ local noise
> I
> could only hear the strongest EU callers. I imagine my frequency would have
> sounded like quite the zoo over there - sorry if you called and I couldn't
> pick
> you up. As expected the Inv V on 160 was no DX antenna, but with 100 w I
> struggled to work even my neighbors in HC8 and HK1NA. I managed 9 QSOs and
> decided I would have to be content with that.
>
> During the day 10 and 15 were almost unbelievable. I have never experienced
> such deep openings into EU and the US. The 60 min rate peaked at 204 Q/hr
> which
> was nice enough but could have been higher if the EU guys would have
> listened
> more and transmitted less. I liked NN1N @ KL7RA's comment about sending 20
> sec
> of dits to calm things down :-) Can only imagine what the EU pile up would
> have
> sounded like through the "AU blender" in KL7...
>
> I have tried to do 48 hours for a number of years but never made it past
> 46.
> This year I changed a few things. I don't normally drink a lot of coffee
> and a
> week before the contest I stopped all caffeine intake. My contest diet
> consisted of water, sandwiches, and a few pasta/chicken plates ready to
> eat. No
> chocolate, no biscuits high on sugar etc. Also being very fit probably
> helps. On
> the 2nd night as I started to feel really sleepy I had a diet coke and cup
> of
> coffee. This woke me up and I was able continue until sunrise without big
> problems. Just before the high bands would open I had another coffee and I
> knew
> I would be able to make it until the end. This in itself was a huge
> motivation.
>
> On Sunday the rates slowed down considerably compared to Saturday. In the
> middle the day it felt as if I was running out of US stations. I should
> probably have kept the beam on EU and JA somewhat longer. Another mistake
> was
> not moving multipliers around right from the beginning. I started too late
> and
> not aggressively enough. There is easily another 2-3 mio. points (or
> more?) to
> be found from this location.
>
> All in all it was an absolute blast. Normally a SOAB entry in CQWW, at
> least in
> my experience, requires a certain amount of suffering. Not this time! I
> never
> wanted to quit. In fact I would happily have continued for another couple
> of
> hours to break 10 mio points, or done the contest all over starting on
> Monday.
>
> Thank you all for calling in and for being a part of this amazing event.
> Some
> huge scores already posted and even more to come. Congratulations to all!
>
> Back then as I teenager my mind had not deceived me - it is good to be
> doing
> CQWW from an exotic 3 point location. I will be back for more in the years
> to
> come.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Thomas OZ1AA
> --
> http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com
> ---
> http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Lee Volante <g0mtn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > All quiet here after the contest. From 3830 and Facebook it seems like
> records were falling everywhere, or if not, there was certainly a lot of
> fun to be had.
> >
> > So, don't just copy and paste your 3830 scores, tell us a story.
> >
> > 1) Best moment travelling to / from contest station.
> > 2) Best hallucination or tiredness related mistake on Sunday evening. :-)
> > 3) Food and beverage summary. :-)
> > 4) Oh yes, best QSO or in-contest moment.
> > etc.
> >
> > You get the idea.
> >
> > I went to see Santa on Saturday, and did a lot of chores. Didn't even
> get to #wwyc to see who had worked 41 zones yet. Next year...
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Lee G0MTN
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Lee Volante
> > To: wwyc at contesting.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:10 PM
> > Subject: CQWW CW
> >
> >
> > Hi lords, ladies and lids,
> >
> >
> > It's that time again - CQWW CW. What are your plans, and where are
> you going?
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure I'll even be QRV but I wanted to seize the opportunity of
> starting off this thread for once :-) After the contest perhaps we should
> talk about getting more life into the reflector and the group generally.
> It's been 10 years since 9A2004YC - where has the time gone....
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> > Lee G0MTN
> >
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