WAE DX Contest, CW
Call: EF8U
Operator(s): KD4D
Station: EF8U
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Gran Canaria
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80: 113 136
40: 436 604 126
20: 618 499 104
15: 749 980 96
10: 319 153 70
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Total: 2235 2236 532 Total Score = 2,378,572
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
What an adventure. In many ways this was the easiest expedition I've ever been
on for WAE CW - driving around Las Palmas IS NOT the easy part though - we got
seriously lost at least three times! :-) The URE has a great station setup
for an urban station with two solid state amplifiers and two FT-950s.
The URE was a great host. Juan Hidalgo, EA8RM, set up the two SO2R position,
moving the radios and amplifiers - I didn't have to keep a list of everything I
changed or put it back! Teardown was almost trivial :-)
The ONLY hardware I brought was my trusty SO2R Master switching box and a bunch
of cables! Juan was extremely helpful in planning strategy - especially off
times which are much different here than in North or South America.
Before the contest, EA8ZS dropped by and gave me a few GREAT T-SHIRTS with EF8U
and KD4D screened on them. I'm sure the shirt raised my score.
Saturday's morning rates were not as good as I hoped - I had a grand total of
10, yes 10, QSO's on ten meters Saturday. The band never opened. As Juan told
me it would be, 15 meters was a bottomless pit of European callers. Sunday
morning, 10 meters opened with a bang and I had my best hour - 107.
A bit later Sunday morning, my trusty SO2R Master SO2R box failed. I had
intermittent CW keying problems late Saturday which I thought were RF. This
was the ONLY failure and it was in my equipment - the URE station had no
problems at all. I had an unexpected hour of off-time while I figured out the
real problem - I started with the radio, checked the computer, and finally
started looking in the right place. I reconfigured for one radio - re-wiring
everything - and used one radio for the rest of the contest.
I had hoped to beat EF8M's score from last year but that wasn't to be.
WAE CW was a lot of fun from EA8. 80 was EXTREMELY noisy, especially Friday
night, and 40 was noisy too. I had hoped for higher QSO totals, especially on
80. 15 was GREAT and I may not have spent quite enough time on 20 Saturday
evening.
Congratulations to VY2ZM (and K1LZ) for an incredible M/S score from PEI!
Thanks for the QSO's, QTC's, and QSY's! :-)
73,
Mark, EF8U (aka KD4D)
Hourly Rates, dupes and 0 point QSO's removed
Row Labels 3 7 14 21 28 Grand Total
10-Aug-2013 106 309 478 517 10 1420
0 8 60 9 77
1 23 32 55
2 34 21 2 57
3 20 19 28 67
4 2 34 36
6 50 50
7 99 99
8 12 81 93
9 7 77 5 89
10 5 74 79
11 3 86 2 91
12 5 75 80
13 6 37 1 44
14 1 1
15 7 45 52
16 22 26 2 50
17 75 3 78
18 64 8 72
19 43 34 4 81
20 58 8 66
21 17 20 2 39
22 1 33 2 36
23 3 21 4 28
11-Aug-2013 7 127 140 232 309 815
0 1 1 2
6 5 30 2 2 39
7 107 107
8 3 79 82
9 1 19 51 71
10 2 27 29
11 4 18 22
12 40 40
13 34 13 47
14 3 55 58
15 52 1 53
16 11 4 15
17 26 26
18 35 7 1 43
19 62 1 63
20 1 24 16 41
21 3 22 20 45
22 2 13 17 32
Grand Total 113 436 618 749 319 2235
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