ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: NN7SS
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40: 16 10
20: 140 46
15: 112 35
10: 67 20
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Total: 335 111 Total Score = 111,555
Club: Western Washington DX Club
Comments:
Another foolish QRP outing!
First hour good on 15m, then to 20m for more JA's and
Pacific, but thick SSB QRM and deep pileups made slow
going. 20m died about an hour after sunset at 03Z.
I saw no sense in trying 40m SSB QRP to Eu with a high
A index, so I slept until 10z to try JA's and Pacific
on the low bands. At full dark, I heard hundred of DX
stations, but nothing could be worked on 160m or 80m
while QRP. Very frustrating. Even 40m only provided
six countries. 40m was much better at sunrise 15z
Saturday morning.
Then 20m to Europe, after a little distraction trying
too hard to work rare DX. Then I remembered, when QRP,
only try S9+ stations. Eventually, I worked two dozen
new countries, and even 9K Kuwait! I heard twice as
many countries that I couldn't work QRP. Three hours
and the European signals faded, so then tune-and-shout
to find Caribbean and South America. 10m especially
faded up and down a lot. Saturday night (Sunday morning
UTC) on 40m I worked three new mults but otherwise not
too good for me QRP. Sunday was a lot of tuning for
new loud stations that I hadn't worked Saturday. I
could hear Europeans on 15m, but not work any...
Finally I passed 300 QSOs, 100 band-countries and 100K
points and after yelling Hooray! my motivator ran out.
Final tally: 64 unique DXCC entities, and this score
would have been 7th place in W/VE QRP last year.
As usual, many DX stations do not identify often enough.
NN7SS (K6UFO op)
20m-10m: C-31XR at 71ft.
40m: Force 12 Delta 240 at 78ft
80m: Half-sloper from 60ft
160m: Inverted L over metal garage roof
Yaesu FT-1000MP turned down to 5 watts
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