CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VK8GM
Operator(s): OZ1AA
Station: VK8GM
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Alice Springs
Operating Time (hrs): 39
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40: 58 14 18
20: 398 26 73
15: 1141 29 80
10: 1329 28 75
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Total: 2926 97 246 Total Score = 2,956,317
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
First of all a big thanks to Greg VK8GM for the use of the station and for
fantastic hospitality. We had originally planned a M/S as VK8AR from Alice
Springs Amateur Radio Club, but as the other CW operator in town cancelled the
plan was changed to a SOAB effort from Greg's place in the last minute.
I arrived at the station 30 minutes before the start, installed N1MM logger,
plugged in my CW keyer cable, and started CQing on 15. I had only made a few
QSOs from Australia before the contest, so I had very little idea of what to
expect in terms of propagation. I soon figured out that if I just imagined that
Europe was US and the US was Japan, then openings and beam headings would
roughly correspond to what I'm used to :-)
The high bands were amazing from down here, and I spent all day running US and
EU like crazy - some of the most fun I can ever remember having in CQWW. I
didn't have any resonant antennas on the low bands, so missed a bunch of
multipliers there.
Equipment:
Yeasu FT-920
IC2-KL @ 400 W
8 el. log periodoc @ 12 m
A few pictures at http://flickr.com/oz1aa
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. I wonder where I will be for next year's
contest. Probably somewhere in South America.
73
Tom OZ1AA
http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com
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