160 0 0
80 0 0
40 2 2
20 352 51
15 435 51
10 26 5
TOTAL 815 109
266,505 claimed score
What was up with the bands?! Only 2 qso's on 40! All of the Carribean and
EU stations were loud, but very few stateside, and the ones I heard were
not loud at all. I CQ'd around 7079 listening up for an hour once, and
nothing at all. During the CW weekend, it was all I could do to run down
the pile-up! Anyway, the first hour was killer. I was cqing on 21355 to
hold a run freq, working guys periodically, and then it came. After
working K9PPY who stood by on freq, a "QRZ Contest Whiskey Lima Seven Kilo
Yankee" it was chaos! 253 q's in the first hour. That included several 2
or 3 minute breaks with no qso's, just cqing. That was pretty much the
only highlight of the weekend. Except for a nice run on 20, but the QRM
was terrible there as usual. I got bored cqing endlessly, so I just went
and watched TV for a while, hoping Saturday would be my 10m day. HA!
Anyway, to make a long story short, very few qso's were made because I did
not feel like having a low rate. I was more interested in honing my phone
pile up skills. :)
Many people asked me to move to 10m, with no luck. I cq'd there for 2
hours, picking up a whopping 26 qso's with 10 of those being S & P. See
everyone in the next one.... whatever it is.
-Chris
Rig: Knwd TS-570DG and a HAND MIC! sore thumb....
Ant: 10-20 TH7 at 50 feet
40m 3 elem full size wire yagi
80m dipole (never got used though)
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