CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: RW9OWD
Operator(s): N6ZZ
Station: RW9OWD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Siberia
Operating Time (hrs): 43:30
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 21 6 13
80: 196 13 52
40: 256 24 76
20: 815 29 91
15: 494 26 87
10: 634 25 86
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Total: 2416 123 405 Total Score = 3,285,216
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
RW9OWD is the club callsign of the Novosibirsk State Technical University.
Thanks to RW9OW and the rest of the NSTU contest crew for agreeing to stand
aside so I could do a SOAB effort from Zone 18.
Only 3 hours of > 100 QSOs made for a long time sitting in the chair! This
would have been a good situation to do SO2R, but it just wasn't possible.
10 meters was surprisingly productive. The 6-element yagi atop a 9-story
building definitely gets out! The 20 meter 5-element yagi also performed
effectively. 15, with a 3-element beam, was a bit disappointing....the band
just never sounded very good. Antennas on 40, 80 and 160 were wires....that,
along with some local noise made those bands very tough going. With a location
that's as far from major population centers as this one is, big antennas are
very welcome!
As usual from the higher latitudes, the echo effect provides some interesting
challenges. The echo was so pronounced, that the second and third iteration of
a character would obliterate what was being sent the first time around.
Sometimes even sending slow didn't improve the situation.
Also, the band openings, especially on 10 and 15 were extremely sharp...a
station would go from having a good signal to being totally inaudible just one
character later....just like somebody had suddenly disconnected the antenna. A
return to the band 10 minutes later might again reveal audible signals.
Continent List 2002 CQWW CW - RW9OWD
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 0 0 10 360 3 2 375
VE calls = 0 0 0 27 1 0 28
N.A. calls = 0 0 0 10 3 3 16
S.A. calls = 0 0 2 11 2 7 22
Euro calls = 14 154 142 347 328 489 1474
Afrc calls = 0 2 7 7 11 13 40
Asia calls = 7 21 32 31 37 30 158
JA calls = 0 18 55 20 105 82 280
Ocen calls = 0 1 8 2 4 8 23
Total calls = 21 196 256 815 494 634 2416
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