CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1997
Call: WO1N Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 13 16 1.23 3 6
80 38 62 1.63 9 16
40 61 161 2.64 14 42
20 147 398 2.71 19 67
15 94 251 2.67 18 48
10 24 57 2.38 8 17
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Totals 377 945 2.51 71 196 => 252,315
Hours operated: 30
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Operator List: K1WD + WO1N
Equipment Description: FT1000D, R7, 160Inv-L, Off Center Fed wire
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Soapbox:
I took Friday off to deal with real life things but during the course
of the day realized I could probably find some time to put in a
casual effort. I manage to find time to layout the first layer of
radials for the 160 inv-l, set up a log file and find a microphone
Friday evening I hosted my local radio club Board of Directors meeting.
K1WD showed up and expressed an interest in getting on the air,
so suddenly we had a Multi-Single team. Our first Q was at 0122 with
CI9DH on 160M. Those guys were everywhere this weekend.
I run basically a pw station with low power, wires and verticles so
I never feel loud and decided to do all search and pounce to practice
the technique. This was the first serious test with the FT1K I picked
up used over the summer. I now know another reason I kept away from
SSB. My previous radio just could not handle contest conditions and
would add its own mixture to the cacophony of signals to make it very
tiresome. The FT1K on the other hand, seems to not loose its cool and
the signals were very much distortion free. Much easier on the brain.
Basically 80 and 160 were a bust for us, but 40 through 10 were quite
good. I pulled the plug at 0623Z Sat. with a whopping 36Q's in the
log. We didn't start up again until 1345Z. K1WD S&P'ed for a couple
of hours on 20 and 15 with good results into Europe. I took over and
basically multiplexed family duties, trips to the stores, out to dinner
etc. for the rest of the day. Finally at 0110Z Sun. I was back at the
station sweeping the bands as quickly as I could, never considering
trying a run. K1WD took over at 0300Z and routed out some very nice
pacific mults in the dark hours of Sun morning. I picked up the station
at 0930 GMT and basically kept sweeping 160 - 40M until chasing DX on
40 was no longer productive. On to 20M at 1144Z. The next few hours
were the best of the contest producing S&P rates 50-65 an hour. 15M
was equally productive.
Unfortunately I had to walk away from the best hour of the morning to
attend to family commits. Pretty much the rest of the day was on and
off and K1WD was tied up all day too. A couple of hours at K1TWF's
to put up some tower sections was well worth the fresh air, keeping
this effort in the casual category. In retrospect I should have tried
running on 20 and 15 and was dissappointed I didn't sweep the V26B
guys on 6 bands (missed them on 160M). On the other hand everyone on
the bands seemed to be in good spirits. I know I was glad we
weren't all jammed into 20M during the day as in recent years.
CU in the next one,
Ken
WO1N
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