CQ WPX SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 30-May-98, 31-May-98
Callsign Used : KK7GW
Operator : KK7GW
Category : Single Operator/Rookie
Default Exchange : 599 #
Club : Western Washington DX Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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80CW 3 3 8 2
40CW 62 61 82 47
20CW 22 22 18 22
15CW 17 17 18 11
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Totals 104 103 126 82
Final Score = 10332 points.
Hours of operation: 12
Power: 100 watts
Station: Kenwood TS-530, dipole cut for 40m at 20 feet.
Comments: Well, for me, this was a lot like SS. Out of 103 valid QSO's,
71 of those were 0 pointers. Out of about the 30 QSO's that I got
running, all but 2 were 0 pointers.
I had intended to go the whole 36, but things intervened. Saturday
morning came, and the rate meter stayed right near 0. I finally got fed
up, and as others did, as evidenced by the TR reflector, I checked
e-mail. Then I found out part of the reason the bands were awful...a
nice solar flare. I had to baby-sit Sat. night so that took out that.
Then I slept until around 10:30 am local, after going on about 4-5 hours
sleep for about the last week. My antenna situation puts me easily 20
db down from most stations on 20, so I couldn't capitalize on the tons
of EU I was hearing Sunday Afternoon.
I did however, work a couple new countries. I worked CP6AA on 15 (yes,
I have never worked Boliva), and also RW2F on 20 (one of my 3 EU QSO's
on 20) for my first UA2.
This summer should be fun getting more and better antennas up in the
air. See you all in Field Day, and then in IARU.
David Jones, KK7GW
kk7gw@hotmail.com
Trustee for the Juanita Contesting Club-KD7BWU
jcontesting@hotmail.com
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