Hi All!!
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1998
Call: EA3NY Country: Spain
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
Zone: 14
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 31 34 1.10 5 25
80 436 795 1.82 14 63
40 787 1575 2.00 25 66
20 608 1342 2.21 32 83
15 804 1705 2.12 29 87
10 682 1648 2.42 30 78
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Totals 3348 7099 2.12 135 402 => 3,812,163
Continent Statistics
EA3NY CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator 29 Nov 1998 2359z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America CW 1 157 356 314 394 447 1669 49.5
South America CW 0 1 5 8 21 12 47 1.4
Europe CW 29 255 393 238 353 201 1469 43.6
Asia CW 0 20 33 35 33 22 143 4.2
Africa CW 1 5 5 7 10 6 34 1.0
Oceania CW 0 0 2 6 0 2 10 0.3
Hola!!
This has been my first contest experience out of NA and it was
both frustrating and interesting, frustrating 'cause of murphy
hitting me in all ways. From losing my conecting flights and making
it into Spain with 3 hours of sleep in three days to find 160 useless and
Rf problems on 80 and finally catching a terrible flu
(fever,headaches,cough etc,,,)
Thanks to my friend Eduardo I had all the attentions that anybody
would like on a contest, his family was great in helping feel right
at home. Hes got a great station on beautiful Barcelona, on top of a
building consisting of an X9 with 1 40 mtr element and dipoles.
I was expecting better propagation, since I heard all the NA stations
doing so well, especially KC1XX who was 20 db louder than everyone
when the bands opened.. Congrats!!! 10 mtrs was a little dissapointing
from EA, but I loved the Low bands, everybody so close by is great and keeps
a very tired and sick operator awake.
Now I know why everybody loves to go to EA8/EA9, I guess that it is an
impossible location to beat when you are so close to both radio worlds.
Propagation is a little tricky.... A good advice..before operating from a
location take a few days to learn it well, dont rely on MUF/grayline and
propagation programs for your strategy, a contest is not normal dx
conditions!!!
Thanks and see you when rebuild is completed after hurricane George's!!
Felipe
NP4Z
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