WAE DX Contest, CW
Call: VK6AA
Operator(s): VK2IA
Station: VK6ANC
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Perth, WA
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80: 18 0 7
40: 560 505 41
20: 554 627 40
15: 515 508 36
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 1647 1640 303 Total Score = 995,052
Club: VK Contest Club
Comments:
First of all, thanks to all fellow NCRG club members for their constant effort
to improve and maintain our club station VK6ANC/VK6NC in Perth, 2,000km away
from home. Always a great pleasure to operate from there, even at this time of
the year when outside temperatures are a bit on the cold side. Wish I would
live a bit closer to the action, but I guess everything’s a bit of a
compromise in life…
It was my first serious WAE participation since ages. Great to see old and new
friends again on the air, I just love working EU from this part of the world
and WAEDC is the contest to be in…
For those who have not experienced the EU side of this contest and I am
referring to the QTCs �" it’s a piece of cake if you are DX and use
state-of-the-art logging software. Just hit a few keys and you’re in. Repeat?
No worries. May require another key or move the mouse a bit. So hats off to all
you guys in EU for taking up the sometimes quite challenging task of receiving
QTCs over an entire weekend!
I started the contest a bit later than expected as I must have punched in the
wrong code for the alarm system when I arrived at the club. A quite efficient
system, I must say: It definitely keeps burglars out including myself who
forgot the proper procedure of resetting it… After everything was sorted, I
could get on the bands with 20 wide open to EU. Here’s a bit of a band
summary:
10: No EU heard during the entire weekend except for South East Asians running
EU. Had a constant S5 noise floor, so there might have been a weak opening, but
I could not hear anyone.
15: Better than expected, band closed at around 12 UTC. Open to EU both long
and then short path in our afternoons/early nights. VK6 definitely is on the
‘better’ side of the country when it comes to EU short path at current
sunspot numbers.
20: In good shape, both long and short path. Competing with NA stations for EU
contacts at times while most EUs were pointing their antennas away from us.
Nothing we can do about it…
40: Good signals from Western EU a few hours before their sunset. Most
productive time during greyline peaks and until approx 1 hour after local EU
sunsets, worst time approx 2 hours before and until our sunrise. Thanks to
everybody for calling and apologies for asking for quite a few repeats mostly
on day 2 when weaker signals were covered by noise.
80: Only a few Qs. Heard some good signals but couldn’t get through.
There’s some antenna work going to improve this, hopefully.
Best DX: D3AA on 80m 599++ �" not a contest QSO, of course ;-)
Be back next year?: For sure.
Suggestions: I know it was brought up a number of times over the years for
CQWW. But swapping dates for both SSB and CW every other year might be
something to consider �" WAE CW in September would be awesome! Keeping
such a change in everybody’s face shouldn’t be a problem these days with
internet, email etc.
Thanks again for all Qs, mults and QTCs!
73
Bernd VK6AA-VK2IA
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