CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: 6V7N
Operator(s): DL1EFD
Station: 6W7RV
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Somone, IK15LL
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 24 9 21
80: 225 16 57
40: 1123 27 92
20: 1475 29 98
15: 1590 25 97
10: 57 12 18
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Total: 4494 118 383 Total Score = 6,690,855
Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Comments:
This was my first CQWW as a single OP from Africa after operating PJ4W in 2002
and FG5BG in 2005, always SOAB LP.
Looking at the logs from 6V7D and 6W1RW in 2006 my goal was about 4900 QSOs and
515 Multipliers, resulting in 7.5 Million points. I missed that goal mostly
because because I couldn't make use of the good conditions on the low bands. I
could only once get a short run going on 80 and I had difficulties being heard
at all on 160. 10 was also a disappointment but I hadn't expected much after
watching conditions the first week down here.
I was lucky with the AC power. It only failed 3 or 4 times for a few minutes
and once for about 45 minutes, luckily never in a big pileup. I could quickly
plug a battery in and continue from that. There was no need to start the
generator which was there just in case. Everything else worked flawlessly, also
a first for me (knock on wood).
I started on 20 but couldn't get a run going so after a scan of the band giving
me CE0Y I went to 40 running Europe. Rates were not what I had hoped for but OK.
Then 80 and 160 for a disappointment. At the end of the night I was down over
200 QSOs from my goal.
The daytime brought productive runs so I kept that difference. No Europe on 10
that I could hear apart from EA5 and CU2X on the first day. 3X5A were working G
but I couldn't hear anything at all.
Around 1430h 10 opened to the East Coast for 45minutes working mostly big guns
and a few Caribbeans. At the end of day one I had 2461 QSOs and 400
Multipliers.
At 0200 I had a little over 2 hours sleep in the chair and I woke up more or
less refreshed. I had a little down period during the day again but finished
the contest without problems.
Before sunrise I can get my first run going on 80, the Packet pileup forced me
to go split and I managed a 92QSO hour on 80 before going to the higher bands
again.
At 1100 a loud and lonely UT2FA came in on 10 but a CQ produced no further
QSOs. 10 didn't open to the US on the second day either. Only Europe in the
were some EA5, UT2FA, CS2T and CU2X.
The USA pile-ups on 15 and 20 on the second day were still unbelievable. I
still need to learn how to hear better. Sometimes I just couldn't hear even
partial calls. The K3s variable bandwith is a great help in managing pile-ups
though. When the pile-up was normal I would use 400Hz and narrow it down to 200
or 150Hz when it got too hard.
6band-QSOs with 3X5A, CU2X, HC8N and KC1XX.
Congrats to Bud AA3B/V26K for another great scores. Let's see what the guys on
Aruba were doing...
Merci to Jan-Francois 6W7RV for being my host.
Equipment:
Elecraft K3
10m 3el @17m
15m 3el @15m
20m 3el @15m
40m-160m Titanex V80
K9AY-loop (although rarely used)
Writelog 10.58f
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 79/32 7/12 --+-- --+-- 86/44 86/44
D1-0100Z - - 90/22 - - - 90/22 176/66
D1-0200Z - - 138/3 - - - 138/3 314/69
D1-0300Z - 48/29 4/4 - - - 52/33 366/102
D1-0400Z 3/5 21/16 1/1 - - - 25/22 391/124
D1-0500Z 3/6 2/2 93/4 - - - 98/12 489/136
D1-0600Z 7/10 14/4 27/11 - - - 48/25 537/161
D1-0700Z - 3/2 2/1 85/33 - - 90/36 627/197
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 181/20 --+-- --+-- 181/20 808/217
D1-0900Z - - - 96/3 63/29 - 159/32 967/249
D1-1000Z - - - - 104/19 2/2 106/21 1073/270
D1-1100Z - - - 1/1 128/8 1/2 130/11 1203/281
D1-1200Z - - - - 98/7 2/3 100/10 1303/291
D1-1300Z - - - 1/2 94/16 - 95/18 1398/309
D1-1400Z - - - 1/1 82/12 30/10 113/23 1511/332
D1-1500Z - - - - 104/2 16/7 120/9 1631/341
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 98/21 --+-- --+-- 98/21 1729/362
D1-1700Z - - - 1/0 181/1 - 182/1 1911/363
D1-1800Z - - - 92/0 46/5 - 138/5 2049/368
D1-1900Z - - - 145/8 - - 145/8 2194/376
D1-2000Z - - 12/6 - - - 12/6 2206/382
40
D1-2100Z - - 112/3 - - - 112/3 2318/385
D1-2200Z - - 112/1 - - - 112/1 2430/386
D1-2300Z 4/4 14/10 13/0 - - - 31/14 2461/400
D2-0000Z --+-- 12/3 32/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/5 2505/405
D2-0100Z - - 124/10 - - - 124/10 2629/415
5
D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2629/415
60
D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2629/415
60
D2-0400Z 5/4 1/1 1/1 - - - 7/6 2636/421
17
D2-0500Z - 19/0 23/3 - - - 42/3 2678/424
D2-0600Z - 91/6 - - - - 91/6 2769/430
D2-0700Z - - - 95/4 - - 95/4 2864/434
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 107/4 2/3 --+-- 109/7 2973/441
D2-0900Z - - - 22/0 43/2 - 65/2 3038/443
D2-1000Z - - - 88/1 17/1 - 105/2 3143/445
D2-1100Z - - - - 87/2 1/2 88/4 3231/449
D2-1200Z - - - 8/3 64/4 - 72/7 3303/456
D2-1300Z - - - 72/4 - - 72/4 3375/460
D2-1400Z - - - - 54/1 - 54/1 3429/461
D2-1500Z - - - - 63/3 5/4 68/7 3497/468
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 154/4 --+-- 154/4 3651/472
D2-1700Z - - - - 148/1 - 148/1 3799/473
D2-1800Z - - - 86/2 57/1 - 143/3 3942/476
D2-1900Z - - - 171/2 - - 171/2 4113/478
D2-2000Z - - - 117/4 - - 117/4 4230/482
D2-2100Z - - 92/13 - 1/1 - 93/14 4323/496
D2-2200Z 1/1 - 59/1 1/2 - - 61/4 4384/500
D2-2300Z 1/0 - 109/1 - - - 110/1 4494/501
Total: 24/30 225/73 1123/1191475/1271590/122 57/30
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