CQ World Wide WPX Contest 1997
Call: AA4LR Mode: CW Class: SOAB TS (with no T) LP
Band QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO Prefixes
20 32 48 1.5 31
15 10 18 1.8 10
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Totals 42 66 1.6 41 => 2,706
All reports sent 599. Total Operating Time: 4.8 hours
Equipment Description:
Venerable TS430S running 80 watts.
R7000 at 8 feet
Club Affiliation: South East Contest Club
Story:
Had little time to operate except some in the afternoons Saturday and
Sunday. My CW skill (if you can call it that) has improved somewhat.
Started out using paper and pencil, then later copied in my head. Still,
rates lower than 10q/hr are pretty abysmal. Cut numbers sometimes
confused me, sometimes not.
Propagation seemed a bit weird. Signals on 15m were weak both days, and
not much stronger on 20m. Worked several EAs, OHs and OKs, two S5s with
relative ease, but had hard time working Italian and German stations.
Never heard France or UK.
With signals on 20m so weak, I checked 40m, but found NOTHING. I'm sure
it was alive in the evenings. 10m was also completely quiet. All I can
say is "Come on, spots!"
Used my standard WPX policy for US stations: If I heard someone call CQ
with no answers, I'd go ahead and call, if they were running, I'd spin
the dial. No complaints from anyone about zero point QSOs.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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