CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KG1E
Operator(s): KG1E
Station: KG1E
Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP
QTH: Mass
Operating Time (hrs): 35
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 9
80: 53
40: 91
20: 501
15: 440
10: 129
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Total: 1223 Prefixes = 643 Total Score = 2,067,888
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Started off with the computer not controlling the radio and after finding high
SWR on our 80 Mtr antenna Friday evening, our visit from Murphy had only just
begun.Conditions during the start of the contest were poor since the A Index
was
24 and the K index 3 with lots of repeats of the exchange.After a fair start on
Sat morning during a lull in the action we decided to repair the 80 Mtr antenna
and in the process noticed that the beam was not pointing to where it should
be: off by 60 degrees or so.Along with this repair we found a squirrel had
chewed through the coax as it passed near one of our trees.More problems were
later found with our 30 year old TS-930S. Anyway, with most of these things out
of the way, our efforts started to improve a bit. 10 Meters did not open to EU
at all here, and 15 and 20 were rather weak signal-wise and the openings were
short. Conditions improved somewhat on Sunday with a good opening to JA in the
last hour.The poor conditions favored stations from the South. Almost half of
our 10 meter contacts were with PY.Conditions also seemed to favor the VK, ZL
and KH6 path.
Tried to run several times with negligible results except for twice being
spotted and buried with calls for 5 minutes from EU multis. Tough to run with
Low Power and 2 El Tribander. Nice to have US worth a point per QSO instead of
zero previously, but not worth calling US when low band DX is worth 6 points.
Casual operators seemed scarce due to contest being on Easter Sunday.
Hope to do better next year.
Thanks to all who pulled our weak signal out of the noise.
Station: TS 930S w/Piexx Force 12 C3 40/80/160 Inv V
AL KG1E
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