ARRL DX SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : VE6JY
Operators : VE6'S: LDX FR SLV DGG AQE MK BF JY
Category : MULTI-TWO
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
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160SSB 6 6 18 4 V,delta,dipoles @ 145
80SSB 38 37 111 24 2x bobtails, V,delta
40SSB 78 78 234 35 3 el @ 145'
20SSB 435 428 1278 79 5 el @ 145
15SSB 84 83 249 37 6 el @ 120
10SSB 1 1 3 1 7 el @ 50
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Totals 642 633 1893 180
Final Score = 340,740 points.
As others have noted, conditions were tough all over. Even the
stations we could hear couldn't hear us well, but we are used to the one
way propagation that is all too often the norm up here. 20 opened to
Europe at 0930 UTC with TM1C being the first in the log. Right on
schedule, 15m opened at 1300 with a narrow spot of signals coming from EA,
I and CT.Around 1400, both 20 and 15 closed to Europe and we really had no
area that one could run to, so just s&p till JA's came in on 20 later in
the afternoon. A 10m qso with PP5UB at 1900was the only one we made all
weekend, altho we listened a lot,the band seemed just on the edge, but
never opened. Finally around 2200 we had some results to JA on 20m but as
always, too shortlived to be a decent run.
Conditions the second night recovered a bit and a few 40m
Europeans managed to hear us, and 20m opened to Asiatic Russia by 0700
with a few western Europe signal mixing in. Good for some multipliers but
any runs were, again, too short. 15m was later, it opened (sort of, to EA,
I again) at 1400 which was about the time 20m closed down. Managed to hear
a few Europeans long path on 40 both mornings, but only able to work a
couple this am. 20 did open later, and stayed open to Europe (southern
areas like EA were favoured) till 1900 or so. Again back to s&p on 20 and
15 to the south. ZD8DEZ was our only African station all weekend, and I
don't even recall hearing anything from the middle east.
With the lack of conditions, it was hard to stay motivated for the
entire time but we did try. We tried to operate every minute like in the
next minute the band would open, but we were routinely disappointed! It
was also a good time to experiment on the hardware side of things. I built
up some stub filters just before the test and found that they certainly
worked well. Now to build more relay boxes so they can all be switched in
and out automatically. The switching matrix here is growing each contest,
currently 6 bands and 4 other tribanders/log periodic can be switched to
any of 3 operating positions, and up to any 3 can used at a site in any
combination (WX0B stack match boxes). Also made good use of a central
monitoring system where RX audio from all sites can be mixed and then sent
to a 900 mhz wireless headphone. Great for checking out which station is
QRMing some other band, or for letting the voice keyer run while you're
fixing a sandwich. Never had any RF from any of the sites get into the
phones (Radio Shack ones) either.
We'll likely do m/m in WPX, but with 28 day solar repeats,
things could be less than ideal then too...
73 Don
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
VE calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N.A. calls = 4 21 21 32 13 0 91
S.A. calls = 1 10 20 42 32 1 106
Euro calls = 0 0 7 221 24 0 252
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Asia calls = 0 0 0 22 0 0 22
JA calls = 0 0 16 99 2 0 117
Ocen calls = 1 6 14 9 12 0 42
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 6 37 78 428 83 1 633
VE6JY is Don Moman email: ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Box 127 Lamont, Alberta
T0B 2R0 (403) 895-2925
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