CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: KE1FO
Operator(s): KE1FO
Station: KE1FO
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: VT
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 3 2 2
80: 84 15 44
40: 142 23 80
20: 361 22 90
15: 47 13 34
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 637 75 250 Total Score = 579,800
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Great time. Had a short run on 80 on Saturday evening. Nice run on Sunday AM
on 20 - got there too late on Saturday AM, but still ran for a short while.
Lots of fun, and glad to see my CW is really improving. Not much I has to
really listen hard to copy, and most guys calling me while I was running I
could copy on the 1st try. The few times I had multiple callers I was fairly
easily able to copy enough to get only one guy to come back. All the equipment
worked flawlessly. Most of my SO2R was watching the mults build on a 2nd band,
seeing which ones I could hear and deciding when to leave my run freq to go
catch some new ones. Nice to work lots of the African mults - some through big
piles. I've learned that getting through a pileup is less about being loud or
sending your call lots, and more about listening and deciding on a strategy of
how to call successfully. Never spent more than a few minutes in a pileup, and
I only left a couple unsatisfied. Highlights were being able to run on 80,
having a great run on Sunday AM on 20, and working 80 countries on 40 and 90 on
20. Lookign forward to the next one!
Till then,
73 de Al, KE1FO
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