CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5NZ
Operator(s): UA0OFF, N1LN, K5GA, K5NZ
Station: K5NZ
Class: M/S HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 20 9 19
80: 91 24 77
40: 611 35 128
20: 503 37 137
15: 593 35 140
10: 706 32 137
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Total: 2524 172 638 Total Score = 5,638,410
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
My first serious WW CW and what a blast! No good runs for us but we tuned the
bands hard and found lots of nice non-spotted mults! I asked each op to give me
a thought or highlight of the contest so here goes....
N1LN :
After working all night from Friday mid-night to Saturday morning, finishing up
with 80 and 160 grey line, it was time to sleep. What did I do... off to the
bedroom and turn on the sound machine. My favorite sound is the fan noise.....
What did it sound like??? - 80 / 160 noise. Kept expecting to hear CW.
Most memorable contact - we needed a JA on 160 and by Sunday am we still did not
have one. They
very loud on 80 - so I asked one that was CQing w/o anser to QSY to 160. He
said YES - off we went -
I called him and in the log it went. Zone 25 / JA (double mult) for 160.
One last item..... Chile is fine w/o beans as long as you have enough hot sauce.
:-)))
Bruce
UA0OFF :
Gentlemen, I had a great time this weekend, picking up a few pearls from the
pros in the process.
One fun highlight was finding YI on the 20m "hose" as the band was opening, way
before the W's started calling him, and breaking through his European pileup
with just a couple of calls. Couldn't quite get through to 4K so early
though.
Another chuckle was tuning across a desperate HT guy who cq'ed for a couple of
more minutes after our qso and left without ever being spotted (probably lucky
for him he didn't).
And finally it was fun to close the contest with a modest JA-fest on 10/15.
Thanks for letting me come play and learn. And Mike, thanks again for the
five-star contesting environment, the great food, and fun four-wheeling!
K5GA :
1st Highlight....breaking the pileups brought on by the internet spotting
systems. As K8CC said, those pileups brought out the worst in operators. In all
my years of contesting, I've never heard such insanity. To intelligently
outsmart these yo-yos and make the contact within 2 or 3 calls most of the
time,,,,well, that's fun.
2nd Highlight....telling Mike that a VU2 will be in the log via 40 meter
loooooooooong path Sunday morning. Instead, I got 2 of them. I think had I
stayed on 40 longer, we would have gotten an HS, XW, or 3W in the log also.
Bill K5GA
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Yep....we had a great time! Thanks to N5RZ and K5TR for helping me set some
goals for the contest from W5. Mike K5NZ
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