CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: ZL2IFB
Operator(s): ZL2IFB
Station: ZL2IFB
Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP
QTH: Wanganui
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40: 1967 35 115
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1967 35 115 Total Score = 869,400
Club: Other (specify when prompted)
Comments:
Having just moved home, I didn't quite have time to put up the new tower and
beam so I decided to have a go at the Oceania 40m record using 500W to a dipole
in the trees (good for USA) and a quarter wave roach-pole vertical on the lawn
(good for JA, UA and EU). Good choice! 40m conditions were excellent all
weekend. I matched the current record score (437k points) at the end of the
first day and all but doubled it in the second day. Now there's the
nail-biting wait for other claims to see if I've bagged it. It was a blast
anyway with over 2,000 QSOs (inc. dupes).
Apart from sporadic QRM from a Chinese over-the-horizon radar (?), 40m is a
pleasure to work in the Pacific with lower noise and much less local activity,
hence more space, than in Europe. Over-achieving 40m DXCC in a weekend shows
the new QTH is clearly getting out and I seemed to be hearing well, so things
are looking good for my return to DXing and contesting.
Hi spots: getting enough done in time to join the fun. Working over 20 G's
including long time pals and fellow CDXC members from 'home', many of whom were
dotted around the globe. Being loud and interesting enough to search and pounce
on most DX with one or two calls. Knowing just enough about propagation and
being confident enough of my sigs to safely delay calling most spotted DX until
the cluster QRM dissipated. Very few bad signals. Being spotted. Being called
by single- and double-mults. Using N1MM logger.
Lo spots: making too many sending errors (and no doubt logging errors too) at
local dawn due to sleep deprivation on top of my usual sloppiness. Missing HB0
and ZS mults. Too many zero-beat callers in pileups.
Next job here is to sort out the beam and get some LF aerials up the 50m hill
immediately behind the house. Also I need to rebuild the rotator control box
after my lovely XYL drove over it (my fault, obviously, for leaving it "hidden"
in the long grass while I built the beam nearby - silly me).
73 CU SN
Gary ZL2iFB
www.G4iFB.com
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