CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: ZF2SS
Operator(s): ZF2SS
Station: ZF2SS
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Cayman Islands
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 300 14 39
80: 321 18 69
40: 1229 30 102
20: 836 32 105
15: 707 29 103
10: 1009 29 100
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Total: 4402 152 518 Total Score = 7,000,160
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Antennas: 6 el tribander at 40' fixed on NA, 6 el tribander at 60' that turns
40M vertical on the beach, with 2 elevated radials. Really.
Loaded 60' tower for 80/160
9 circle RX array
Rig: TS-950 and Flex PGXL amp
A big thanks to Stan ZF9CW for another chance at ZF contesting from his great
vacation home/station on Cayman Brac (ZF9)! Definitely XYL approved :)
My wife and I came down here for 2 weeks with the CQWWCW in the middle. We
spent some of last week on Little Cayman (ZF8), and we are diving 3 days this
coming week. Grand Cayman is ZF1 and visitors get ZF2 calls.
It is a "vacation" so I had to get some rest each night and not be
completely
out of it for dinner on Sunday evening. 36 hours operating sounded good.
The 9 circle RX array is amazing. Stan put it in the swampy jungle on his lot,
the path to each element has been hacked out with a chainsaw/machete. The
low band 40/80/160 numbers speak for themselves. And I slept each night...
The high bands were much better on Saturday. 80% of the 10M Q's were on day 1.
Just like W4's listen to W1 stations running EU that they can't hear, I would
listen to KP2M and P44W running and couldn't hear a peep. I had to listen for
quite a while sometimes, I needed their mult and I was off the back of their
beams...
The first goal was 4K Q's, but that came and went. Then DXCC on 10-40, then
finally I hit 7M and knew it was time to go for a beach swim and dinner.
I'll be on for a few hours Friday evening in the ARRL 160M test.
73 and thanks for the Q's !!! It got the pileup blood flowing in me...
Bill KO7SS / ZF2SS / 9A5SSS
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