M/M from K3LR
There's no truth to the rumor that the first words spoken by Dan Duffy, K3LR's
two-year old son, were "CQ Canada." But you can be pretty sure he's learned
that phrase now.
We still haven't figured out what kind of conditions we need to win one of
these things, but we plan to keep trying. Here's how we fared this time:
160 meters: In a word, ouch. Heard KC1XX working a layer of EU that we
obviously couldn't touch. Worked a few EU at their sunrise and got SV8 during
the last hour of the contest. N3BJ did a superb job.
80 meters: This is a 24/hour band at Tim's. New 3 el M2 yagi didn't really get
a chance to shine, as conditions were terrible. Except to Ontario, that is.
Not too much went wrong with the station, so K3LR had to stick in his chair the
whole contest. ND8L did a great job on days.
40 meters: Can't think of two people who I'd rather see on this band than K8GL
and K8CX. Lotsa experience here. No long path in the morning. No EU sunrise
opening. Good runs at local sunset, with some nice multipliers calling in.
What do you do when you make a sked with one JY and another shows up instead?
Worked lots of our Canadian friends during both days, thanks to W8JZ..
20 meters: Continues to be the money band. Very good VK opening at 0500z on
first day. Also had the best rate to JA in years on Saturday night. Northern
Europe was noticeably down. On the other, the population of Mediterranean hams
seems to be limitless. Signals were down on Sunday, as the MUF moved up. N9RV
abused both K3JT and KB3AFT on this band.
15 meters: A roller coaster ride. First night had enhanced propagation to JA,
with sporadic openings lasting 15 minutes at a time until 0400z. This kept
K3UA from conducting his usual exhaustive research into old QST's. Band opened
early the first morning with Africans before sunrise, but EU opening wasn't
"full." Plenty of west and south EU with a sprinkling of UA9's, with not much
else. JA was a total bust on Saturday night. Things were much better Sunday.
N3RA also operated, but impending wedding bells caused intense QRM.
10 meters: Knew things would be better this year when KA3JWJ had 10 Q's in the
log before sunrise. Sunday afternoon EU opening was the money maker, but
biggest thrill was working VE2QRZ/zone 2 in the middle of the night for a new
one.
Real award this year should go to Tim, K3LR, for getting the station in great
shape after much adversity. We'll see everyone on CW for another go at it.
* Pat
N9RV
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 16/5 66/5 58/33 82/42 28/17 4/3 254/105 254/105
1 17/5 59/11 27/10 51/14 3/1 4/2 161/43 415/148
2 13/4 45/5 23/11 30/7 23/3 . 134/30 549/178
3 8/4 19/10 23/12 23/4 13/3 . 86/33 635/211
4 5/3 24/6 22/8 17/3 . . 68/20 703/231
5 6/4 24/7 20/5 16/4 . . 66/20 769/251
6 5/3 41/9 24/5 54/5 . . 124/22 893/273
7 5/3 30/10 17/4 25/2 . . 77/19 970/292
8 8/4 19/7 36/6 4/3 ..... ..... 67/20 1037/312
9 3/2 15/4 10/3 5/3 2/2 . 35/14 1072/326
10 4/0 18/4 7/3 13/4 9/8 4/2 55/21 1127/347
11 3/0 18/0 8/1 78/13 23/12 5/2 135/28 1262/375
12 . 24/0 7/1 133/11 53/25 8/7 225/44 1487/419
13 . 23/0 10/0 90/7 95/20 32/24 250/51 1737/470
14 . 24/0 6/0 91/4 101/11 24/16 246/31 1983/501
15 . 18/0 17/0 69/3 97/10 12/6 213/19 2196/520
16 ..... 21/0 21/0 63/0 128/6 32/1 265/7 2461/527
17 . 12/0 11/0 83/2 56/3 23/1 185/6 2646/533
18 . 18/0 12/0 78/2 49/8 13/0 170/10 2816/543
19 1/0 17/0 16/0 66/0 46/5 27/0 173/5 2989/548
20 2/0 22/0 9/0 67/7 27/1 17/1 144/9 3133/557
21 3/0 13/0 5/0 39/5 18/2 18/3 96/10 3229/567
22 8/0 39/0 21/0 85/6 17/0 10/2 180/8 3409/575
23 9/0 17/0 32/2 119/4 5/0 2/1 184/7 3593/582
0 5/0 28/2 5/1 37/2 1/0 ..... 76/5 3669/587
1 8/0 40/1 6/1 14/1 . . 68/3 3737/590
2 8/0 28/1 16/3 9/1 . . 61/5 3798/595
3 4/0 10/3 9/3 3/0 . . 26/6 3824/601
4 4/2 13/3 2/1 5/1 . . 24/7 3848/608
5 8/6 59/3 10/0 10/1 . . 87/10 3935/618
6 7/1 32/0 11/1 10/3 . . 60/5 3995/623
7 1/0 21/2 9/1 4/1 . . 35/4 4030/627
8 ..... 4/0 10/3 ..... ..... ..... 14/3 4044/630
9 4/1 3/0 6/1 . . 1/1 14/3 4058/633
10 4/0 3/0 3/0 2/0 . . 12/0 4070/633
11 4/0 5/0 3/1 59/1 7/1 . 78/3 4148/636
12 . 26/0 4/0 76/1 27/1 9/1 142/3 4290/639
13 . 23/0 12/0 81/1 137/5 7/2 260/8 4550/647
14 . 13/0 24/0 55/3 111/1 46/10 249/14 4799/661
15 . 15/0 26/0 61/3 107/2 10/5 219/10 5018/671
16 ..... 6/0 14/0 69/2 74/4 17/0 180/6 5198/677
17 . 6/0 9/0 48/1 81/3 50/3 194/7 5392/684
18 . 6/0 7/0 60/3 57/1 43/2 173/6 5565/690
19 4/0 8/0 6/0 65/0 48/0 80/8 211/8 5776/698
20 10/0 14/1 11/0 52/1 40/2 65/5 192/9 5968/707
21 7/0 13/0 4/0 47/1 54/2 27/1 152/4 6120/711
22 4/1 13/2 46/4 45/2 27/3 16/0 151/12 6271/723
23 4/0 39/0 36/1 35/1 22/1 1/1 137/4 6408/727
DAY1 116/37 626/78 442/104 1381/155 793/137 235/71 ..... 3593/582
DAY2 86/11 428/18 289/21 847/30 793/26 372/39 . 2815/145
TOT 202/48 1054/96 731/125 2228/185 1586/163 607/110 . 6408/727
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