ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: VA2WDQ
Operator(s): VA2WDQ
Station: VA2WDQ
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: nr.Montreal
Operating Time (hrs): 21.9
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 416
40: 163
20: 233
15: 21
10: 0
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Total: 833 Sections = 79 Total Score = 131,614
Club: Contest Group Quebec
Comments:
Rig: Yaesu FT-1000 (upgraded to "D")
ANT: 2 el. MQ-26, Inv-L 9m up
I hope we gave QC to everyone during the contest)) The following stations from
Quebec were active in the test:
VA2WDQ,VA2SG,, VE2XAA, VE2OP, VE2FK, CK2AWR (op.VE2AWR) and few more..
That my first time SS. The EXCHANGE looks really heavy and it's not easy to
RX/TX as in other contests. I think that will be more reported mistakes in
EXCHANGE than in other tests. After couple hours I got bad rate on 20m/40m -
just 36QSO/hour and I wanted to quit. But I have decided to continue but in a
relaxing mode (more time on CQ then S/P) as to get a good practice before CQ
WW. I didn't work all 24 hours. I took one extra hour for sleep. And I took one
hour for a beautiful Sunday dinner prepared by my girlfriend with a bottle of
wine .
The 80m band was unbelievable nice during the first night. I have started the
contest on 20m S/P but couldn't get a good rate. The propagation was not good.
Then I have QSY to 40m. The same thing! Strange but on 40 it was also very hard
to get every QSO. So the rate after 2 hours was really low - just 36 QSO/hour.
But then I QSY to the 80m I got real joy. So the rate was never coming down 60
QSO/hour. Sometimes it was up to 110 QSO/hour! So I went to sleep at around
02:30 PM with 400 QSO in the log.
Next day was great for all other bands except 80m ))) The 20m was absolutely
amazing before 8PM. I tried to repeat the Saturday's rate but it was
impossible. 80m was noisy and it was a challenge to get every exchange. And
there were not too many players.
73! es CU
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