CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 14
40: 255
20: 533
15: 127
10: 12
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Total: 941 Prefixes = 515 Total Score = 1,445,605
Club:
Comments:
Here's the band breakout:
Band QSOs Pts WPX
3.5 14 55 7
7 255 1040 112
14 533 1393 353
21 127 292 42
28 12 27 1
Total 941 2807 515
Year QSO WPX Score (claimed)
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2006 941 515 1,445,605
2005 694 378 712,908
2004 -- -- --
2003 412 233 269,348 (VE7ASK)
2002 63 45 9,000
Gear:
80M 2 element inverted V beam aimed east
40M 2 element inverted V beam aimed east
40M 2 element inverted V beam aimed northish
3 element tribander (CL33) at 50'
FT920 and N1MM Logger
SFI at 85, A was 2-4 and K was 0-2 so conditions not too bad at all, given the
cycle position. One more dippy year to go.
Had a super time -- conditions were great Friday night and Saturday. EU path
open almost the weekend. Quite a bit worse Sunday (noise came way up). Worked
several new countries, and enjoyed the JA runs while they lasted on 40/20/15.
Heard more than I expected on 10M.
Disappointing early evenings on 40M, but sure opened up after midnight Pacific
time. So did 20M and 15M in the early hours of Saturday (0600z and later).
Had to work very hard for Qs on 20M and 15M on Sunday -- no one could hear me,
or I'd worked all those with antennas aimed NW.
The inverted-V 40M beam for NA worked very well, in all directions :) Powerline
noise not fixed; hydro RFI couldn't find the real source, but they fixed a
couple of possibles to no effect. Up to me to sniff out the source, I guess.
The noise probably cost me a couple hundred Qs on the three active bands (can't
work 'em if you can't hear 'em). Sorry to those I didn't pull in.
Kept looking at the SOABLP score summary from last year, and watched my score
float up through the ranks. Ended up chasing VE3JAQ's 2005 SOABLP totals of
1000 Qs and 474 WPX for 1,437,642. Edged over that benchmark score in the final
minutes with a few extra mults. Don't know how this will stack up against this
year's competition and conditions. Sure had a blast, no matter where I end up.
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