CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N7WA
Operator(s): N7WA
Station: N7WA
Class: SOSB/20 LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 398 32 94
15:
10:
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Total: 398 32 94 Total Score = 136,584
Club: Western Washington DX Club
Comments:
With the low sunspot counts and the disturbed A, I was looking
at a long weekend running 20M S/B LP from the Pacific NW. So, I set
a goal to practice making the best use of both VFO's on my FT1000MP.
(Since I was single band, SO2R wasn't going to be any more
effective than 2 VFO's and less dangerous to my 2nd rig). I think I
made some progress as I could essentially set the main VFO on repeating
CQ and find a fair number of other stations in between transmissions.
Even some juicy mult's. I bumped up both the zone and country counts
over last year despite fewer Q's and fewer hours of the band
being open.
My fingers learned some new tricks on the keyboard side (staggering/aborting
CQ's and swapping VFO's) but the ears learned something better -
as I think I enhanced my abilities to identify an interesting prospect
with just snippets of code or the furor of a pileup. The 2nd VFO search isn't
as efficient as doing pure S&P but allowed me to do a few short runs
to JA/Asia and scan the bands as well. My brain is handling the two
audio streams better these days as well.
I think I worked everything I heard. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm
hearing quite enough after listening to another local, Dan/W7WA, work stations
several times (after the band died for me) that I couldn't even tell were
there.
Gonna have to work on that.
73
dink
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