CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KH6LC
Operator(s): NH6V
Station: KH6LC
Class: SOSB/80 QRP
QTH: Kea'au, Hawai'i
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 132 19 25
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 132 19 25 Total Score = 15,576
Club:
Comments:
This was my first attempt at QRP in over 30 years of contesting. I could have
picked the CW weekend, or even a better band, for my initiation instead, but
that would have made things too easy! I was really amazed at what could be
worked on 75-meters with 5 watts into a 4-square array. A big "mahalo" goes
out to all who worked so hard, and patiently, to pull my weak signal out of the
noise. Several QSOs took upwards of 5 minutes to complete!
Conditions were good, with extremely low local QRN. Needless to say, there was
no need to utilize the newly upgraded receive antenna system since I really
couldn't work anything under S-6 anyway. I even got away with throwing in some
attenuation and decreasing the RF gain, just to make it easy on my ears while
tuning.
Best DX worked: EA8CMX (13,000 km). Best DX heard: C91WW & ZS9X (19,000 km).
I heard about a dozen BYs, but managed to finally work only B7P the second
night. The "Golden Alligator" award goes to BT4EXPO. I didn't hear him even
complete one single QSO during the many times I had him tuned in!
I was disappointed that I was unable to complete QSOs with any of the several
stations I heard in zones 10, 11, and 12.
The list of multipliers that I heard is longer than that of which I worked.
Countries Zones
--------- ---------
9M6 2 1 2
BY 1 3 57
CM 1 4 11
E5/s 1 5 8
EA8 1 6 2
FO 1 7 1
JA 18 8 4
K 67 9 4
KH0 1 13 1
KH2 1 19 3
KH6 6 24 1
KL 2 25 18
KP4 2 27 2
LU 1 28 2
P4 2 29 1
PJ2 1 30 4
PJ4 1 31 7
TI 1 32 3
UA9 3 33 1
VE 9
VK 5
VP5 1
VP9 1
XE 2
ZL 1
It was interesting, and oddly entertaining, though I'm not sure if I'd want to
do something like this again.
73 and aloha,
Rob, NH6V
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