ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1998
Call: DL6FBL Category: SO/15m/HP/UA
Mode: SSB
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BAND QSO PTS MULT Antenna
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160 0 0 0
80 0 0 0
40 0 0 0
20 0 0 0
15 1268 3804 57 3el Quad @ 24m (too small)
10 0 0 0
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All 1268 3804 57 => 216,828
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I decided to go for 15m single band, since I had a date Saturday
night. Additionally some friends were operating the European
VHF/UHF/SHF contest from a mountain-top nearby and eventually
would need some assistance.
Everything went fine. Murphy visited once: Shortly after 1300z
Saturday W/VE signals were not as loud as expected and in
addition I lost my frequency to FS5PL. Finding out why,
I checked the rig and antennas: Heavy winds had taken my Quad
almost 90 degrees off direction... I had to correct this
another three times over the day, before the winds calmed down.
Propagation was quite strange on Saturday. Some signals were
very loud, but on the other hand the band did not really open
to the northern part of the West Coast. Compared to the CW part,
when 15m died around 1830z, now you could work stations until
about 2200z (K1ZM was still 58 then).
Sunday's propagation was hot. Signals were louder and also the
Northern West Coast was ok (inspite that I missed Idaho).
And, as in CW, the band died around 1830z.
What now? My single band entry was complete. So I decided to
have some fun and go to 20m for an hour and hand out some points.
I took 14,335 kHz and started calling CQ at 1839z:
At 1904z I had 100 QSOs (25min)
At 1931z I had 200 QSOs (27min)
At 2003z I had 300 QSOs (32min)
At 2033z I had 400 QSOs (30min)
At 2106z I had 500 QSOs (33min)
That was a 200+ rate for over 2.5 hours... Big fun...
What now? At 2124z I took 7,082 kHz listening at 7,295 kHz. Some
time later I had to move a little, because at least two other
stations started using 7,295 also. I went down 0.5 kHz for the
rest of the contest:
At 2153z I had 50 QSOs (30min)
At 2224z I had 100 QSOs (31min)
At 2257z I had 150 QSOs (33min)
At 2320z I had 200 QSOs (23min)
At 2347z I had 250 QSOs (27min)
At 2359z I had 270 QSOs.
That was a 100+ rate for 2.5 hours in the last hours on 40m...
Just by having some fun I went beyond the 2,000 QSO mark.
Maybe I should have been operating all bands ????????????
See you all in CQ WPX contest.
73 de Ben DL6FBL
http://www.uni-erlangen.de/~unrz45/BCC/act/1997/DL6FBL/dl6fbl.htm
P.S.: I was very angry about some contesters, who were willfully
and knowingly stealing my frequency, overhearing complaints.
Maybe we need an extra category for good sportsmanship behaviour.
E.g. ZZ2Z, YT1R (SSB), IQ4A (SSB+CW) and GW3YDX (CW) would need
some extra "training" to win there. Anybody got remarks?
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