CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: 8P5A
Operator(s): W2SC
Station: 8P5A
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Barbados
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 101
40: 767
20: 2212
15: 2157
10: 1010
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Total: 6247 Prefixes = 1386 Total Score = 24,019,380
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Great rates and great conditions
The weekend was still confounding as the greatly improved conditions yielded a
lower score than last year. Despite enormously loud signals on 20 before the
contest, the band went long and I did not come anywhere close to the 330 hour I
had at 0Z last year. The lowbands were notably down and the number of 4 and 6
point QSOs was well below last year. I expected to make it up on the high
bands but it never seemed to happen. A strong JA opening allowed me to beat
last year's multiplier total, but I did not work as many EU prefixes. Clearly,
some new analysis needs to be done around reformulating the strategy as
conditions improve. In the mean time, I just ran a hard as I could and hoped
to accumulate multiplers.
Twenty was open, but not necessarily runnable, nearly all night long. It was
great to hear UP0L on 15 just past midnight local time. I tried many times get
an EU run going on 10. It seemed about to break wide open several times, but it
was never really productive.
After the hurricane during CQWW SSB, the station has performed flawlessly for
the three subsequent contests.
Thanks for the contacts and for one of my favorite contests
QSL via LoTW or NN1N
73, Tom W2SC
Station
K3/AL1200
K3/TL922A
10 5L10. TH7, C4E
15 5L15, TH7, C4E
20 4L20, TH7, C4E
40 3L40, Rotatable Dipole
80 Inverted V
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