CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: KQ2M
Operator(s): KQ2M
Station: KQ2M
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 0 0 0
40: 65 21 47
20: 387 22 77
15: 399 20 82
10: 24 10 22
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Total: 875 73 228 Total Score = 751,296
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This is the 20th anniversary of my operating as HD5X with a borrowed TS940 with
NO filters (my TS830 was stolen en route), a bencher paddle, hand logging and
no beverages! Despite these handicaps, I was the first op to break 6,000 cw q's
in a contest weekend, (before dupes and UBN) and finished 3rd in the world!
Of course in 2007, it is unthinkable to seriously compete without major league
radio filtering, a keyer, computer logging and receiving antennas! :-)
Now back to the present....
This was a limited operation with the few antennas that I still have up that
are working. 20 was a 4L pointed North @ 50' with a busted gamma match and 40
was a dipole @ 50' with one end touching the ground. Even with that you can
still work guys! (From Connecticut anyway...)
There were some real pleasant surprises in the contest... My 2nd 40 meter qso
at 1156z was HS0ZAR! I couldn't believe how loud Fred was and that I was able
to get through the pileup! Equally fun was working B1Z, also on 40 at 1149z on
Sunday. Both were new countries on 40 worked with a barely functional dipole.
XW1A was also a great surprise calling in on 15 @ 1350z Sunday. Working these
rare stations and dxpeditions make the contest so much fun!
This is a rebuilding year both for my health and my station. I am hopeful that
each will be back to contest readiness in the next year or two.
It was great to see so many truly-breathtaking low band scores and to be able
to qso so many old friends again. 73 and cu in 2008!
Bob KQ2M
kq2m@earthlink.net
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