CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: NJ6G
Operator(s): N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Stanford
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 182
40: 1057
20: 1221
15: 84
10: 50
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Total: 2594 Prefixes = 797 Total Score = 4,607,457
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Too much happening in the two weeks before the contest to attempt to organize a
multi-op effort. I decided to go Assisted for a bigger contribution to the club
score.
In looking at last year's effort I realized I'd entered in exactly the same
category. That makes it easier to set goals. I had 791 claimed mults last year
so I was hoping to break 800 but only got 794 - still an improvement.
With 10 and 15 so poor lately I didn't think I'd improve on the overall QSO
count but hoped to increase my score by working more 6-pointers on 40 and 80. My
claimed score is exactly 100 Qs less than last year but I worked 120 more JAs on
the low bands which contributed to an almost 500K increase in claimed score. 36
vs. 35 hours on the air also helped.
I didn't even listen on 10 on Saturday while struggling to eke out a few Qs on
15. On Sunday when the SA signals on 15 seemed louder I moved up to 10 and
worked mostly LU, PY and CE but also caught PJ2T when their signal came up
briefly and had a loud XE2JS call me a minute later. I was surprised to see that
my claimed Qs on 10 are higher than all reported US scores including multis
except for two 10-meter single-banders much further south. I agree with N4BP
that the low-noise pre-amp in the KXV3B really makes a difference under these
weak signal conditions.
Spending so much time on 10 meant I was neglecting either 20 or 15 (or both).
Probably not much lost on 15 but my rate picked up dramatically when I finally
found a clear frequency on 20 to run.
Continental breakdown this year had 5% fewer NA and slight increases in Asia and
SA. All 15m NA was local, nothing else heard even on backscatter.
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AS 0 39 240 141 0 0 420 16.2
NA 0 131 727 890 9 7 1764 68.0
SA 0 3 17 60 72 43 195 7.5
OC 0 9 68 15 3 0 95 3.7
EU 0 0 1 107 0 0 108 4.2
AF 0 0 4 7 0 0 11 0.4
Thanks to Dennis, NJ6G, for offering the use of his callsign. Thanks for all of
the Qs and especially for all the repeats required on both ends.
73,
-Mike, N7MH
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