CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V26B
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 95 7 13
80: 483 12 59
40: 1280 29 94
20: 816 30 81
15: 1622 30 90
10: 1173 27 90
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Total: 5469 135 427 Total Score = 7,668,490
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This was my sixth CQ WW CW SOAB LP effort from V2 and as always, it was a
blast.
My operating strategy involves trying to strike the right balance between
running three point QSOs (primarily Europe), hunting for multipliers and running
two point QSOs. Prior to each contest, I develop a target for how much time I
plan to spend in each scenario. I generally found that conditions to Europe
were not as good this year as in years past, and I ended up spending about twice
the time I had planned running North America. This obviously had an adverse
impact on my QSO point total, which was down by 10.5% from last year.
The following is summary my productivity in each of these scenarios:
QSOs/ Points/ Mults/ Points/
Scenario Hr QSO Hr Hr Hrs
Running 3 Pointers 133.5 2.67 12.8 175653 27.9
Hunting 22.7 2.49 23.6 322217 4.6
Running 2 Pointers 168.8 2.08 9.8 133530 9.7
Overall 129.5 2.49 13.3 181969 42.2
My rates this year were more erratic then in years past. I struggled during the
first four hours of the contest, where I found conditions on 40M to be poor. I
gave up on 40M and went to 20M at 0230Z to work NA in order to try and bolster
rates. When I first went to 80M at 0430Z, I encountered an intermittent HI-SWR
problem on the 3 element wire beam. I eventually determined that the problem
was caused by a bad coax segment. Fortunately, the failed coax was easy to
isolate and replace and I had a spare segment. I only lost about 30 minutes
total solving this problem. I took my first break at around 0830Z feeling quite
frustrated about my progress to that point.
Things were much better when I got back on at around 1020Z. Sunrise conditions
to JA were the best I have ever heard and I was quite pleased to see 10M open.
Saturday daylight hours were very productive with high rates including six
consecutive hours at 170+. The rates were such that I was able to catch up and
surpass my cumulative QSO target and I was feeling much better. However, things
took a turn for the worse at around 22Z when I started to experience broadband
noise bursts. These were 1 to 2 second bursts that occurred every 10 to 15
seconds, wiping out all the bands. I suspect that these bursts came from a
nearby high power BC station. All I could do was tough it out; it was very much
like operating through a local lightning storm.
I took a break at 0230Z, somewhat fatigued from dealing with the noise bursts.
Fortunately, the noise was gone when I got back on at 0420Z, enabling some
exciting low band runs.
Sunday daylight hours were also quite productive. I thought 10M was not quite
as good on Sunday, but 15M was fantastic. I was also pleased to achieve my
first 200+ hour at 20Z on Sunday.
Another observation is that 20M was not productive for me. I was never able to
sustain a 3 point run for more than 30 minutes and my multiplier count on 20M
was a real disappointment.
My thanks to N3OC and the balance of the V26B crew, as well as WT3Q and V21N for
their help again this year. I plan to return to Antigua for CQWW CW 2005.
QSL to AA3B.
73 Bud V26K / AA3B
Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
00 -+- -+- 109/39 2/3 -+- -+- 111/42 111/42
01 - - 127/15 - - - 127/15 238/57
02 - - 43/7 87/4 - - 130/11 368/68
03 - - 85/5 42/2 - - 127/7 495/75
04 - 63/20 26/1 - - - 89/21 584/96
05 43/12 44/10 7/3 - - - 94/25 678/121
06 - 21/8 97/3 - - - 118/11 796/132
07 28/0 38/2 43/5 - - - 109/7 905/139
08 -+- 73/6 12/2 -+- -+- -+- 85/8 990/147 13
09 - - - - - - 0/0 990/147 60
10 - - 74/3 - - - 74/3 1064/150 23
11 - - 38/4 - 124/44 1/2 163/50 1227/200
12 - - - - 9/0 170/47 179/47 1406/247
13 - - - - - 196/20 196/20 1602/267
14 - - - - - 170/5 170/5 1772/272
15 - - - - 73/7 105/5 178/12 1950/284
16 -+- -+- -+- -+- 199/12 -+- 199/12 2149/296
17 - - - - 197/7 - 197/7 2346/303
18 - 1/0 1/0 62/31 40/5 28/8 132/44 2478/347
19 - - - - 1/2 140/8 141/10 2619/357
20 - - - 114/14 1/0 3/5 118/19 2737/376
21 - - - 141/7 6/1 3/4 150/12 2887/388
22 - - - 3/4 84/10 - 87/14 2974/402
23 - 3/3 54/7 5/7 - - 62/17 3036/419
00 -+- -+- 124/3 -+- -+- -+- 124/3 3160/422
01 1/2 7/3 36/1 5/0 1/0 - 50/6 3210/428
02 - 53/7 - - - - 53/7 3263/435 30
03 - - - - - - 0/0 3263/435 60
04 - 60/4 - - - - 60/4 3323/439 22
05 - 99/5 - - - - 99/5 3422/444
06 2/1 14/3 70/3 1/2 - - 87/9 3509/453
07 1/0 6/0 94/4 1/0 - - 102/4 3611/457
08 19/4 -+- 3/0 -+- -+- -+- 22/4 3633/461 40
09 - - - - - - 0/0 3633/461 60
10 - 1/0 8/8 1/1 - - 10/9 3643/470 39
11 - - - 9/4 69/3 57/1 135/8 3778/478
12 - - - - 44/3 89/5 133/8 3911/486
13 - - - - 156/6 - 156/6 4067/492
14 - - - 1/1 125/6 11/1 137/8 4204/500
15 - - - - 146/4 18/1 164/5 4368/505
16 -+- -+- -+- 52/17 1/1 10/1 63/19 4431/524
17 1/1 - 1/0 24/2 8/1 74/0 108/4 4539/528
18 - - - 87/2 - 84/2 171/4 4710/532
19 - - - 50/4 129/4 - 179/8 4889/540
20 - - - - 208/2 - 208/2 5097/542
21 - - - 120/6 1/2 14/2 135/10 5232/552
22 - - 103/7 9/0 - - 112/7 5344/559
23 - - 125/3 - - - 125/3 5469/562
Ttl: 95/20 483/71 1280/123 816/111 1622/120 1173/117
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