CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: NN3W
Operator(s): NN3W
Station: N3HBX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 46 10 18
80: 153 15 62
40: 204 22 80
20: 866 32 111
15: 905 31 107
10: 119 14 43
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Total: 2293 124 421 Total Score = 3,456,935
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks very much to John N3HBX for letting me op his excellent station. John
went down to Poolsville to operate from the farm and his home QTH was
available.
Conditions were interesting. Decent Friday night, good on Saturday on 15 and
20, not too hot on the low bands on Saturday night, and quite good on 15 and 20
on Sunday. I caught the 10 meter southern Europe "whisper" opening Sunday
morning and racked up on zones on mults. 15 and 20 were horrendously crowded
with stations calling CQ from 14150 to 14349.50 and 21201 to 21448. If you
didn't get a frequency early or couldn't stand 3 layers of stations, you were
not going to survive running.
Frankly, I'm rather disappointed with my score. After coming off of a win in
the ARRL DX, I decided to move up a rank to the HP category. Wow. What a
difference in what is a different formatted contest. I'm probably also being
fully educated on east coast running which is very different from the Left
coast.
I overslept on Sunday so I missed a lot of the morning EU work on 40 and the
Asia 40 run. Daylight savings threw me off by one hour. I had good runs on 20
and 15, until John's DX-3 amplifier blew up. That shook my confidence and I was
a real tenderfoot with the Alpha 91 and the Yaesu VL1000 as I think blowing up
all three linears would not have boded well for me.
Should have taken more opportunity of CQing on Friday night on 80 meters. That
Q score should be well above 250 with a 2 element beam.
Finally, I S&Ped way too much which forced me to go into what John calls "terra
incognito" (i.e., 14345 and 21435) to run when I did decide to run on 15 and
20.
On the flip side, John's station is VERY loud and there was probably not more
than a couple pileups where I had to call more than 4 or 5 times. When 5Z4DD
had his horrendous pile on 20 on Sunday, I droped my call in twice and got him;
same with V51Wm I also enjoyed working the 9V and JAS over the Europeans on
Sunday morning.
Finally, I got comfortable a "real" SO2R set-up via the WX0B hardware after a
good work in period. Running SO2R on 40 and 80 with both bands split is a major
challenge.
Will do better next year...
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