CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VE4EA
Operator(s): VE4EA
Station: VE4EA
Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP
QTH: WINNIPEG
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 728 33 117
10:
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Total: 728 33 117 Total Score = 263,700
Club: Manitoba Contest Club
Comments:
As expected, band conditions were better than average. Although, there might as
well have been an iron curtain separating VE4 from anything over-the-pole.
I did work XV5 and HS0, but either the Asian expeditions were behind said iron
curtain or chose to stay away from the CW madhouse.
Essentially, this was a semi-serious entry with the following objective:
A. Work 100 countries - A
B. Make lots of QSO's - C- (I was planning to make minimum 1,000+ Qs)
C. Work the deep Asian Expeditions - F
D. Have fun - Pass (except I that had to take frequent breaks, because my head
phones were irritating my skin). Does anyone have a solution?
E. Hunt for new countries, band-slots, expeditions, regardless of mode/band.
A.(I made friends with lots of African ops and expeditions this week. THANK
YOU!
F. Improve my CW -D CW is still my favorite mode, but man do I ever still need
lots of practice :-(
G. Learn more about N1MM - A++ (Whoa Nelly. Not the way I would like to learn
ie. while ready to slit my wrists. For a couple days I thought I'd be paper
logging! Thanks to the many both on-and-off reflector who helped me put my N1MM
back together, after I somehow blew-it-up 2 days before the contest.) This was
20+ hours of my life I'll never get back.
H. Surprise of the contest. 80m activity. I'm not recording my results in
this submittal, but, I had a ball on 80m, even with my low dipole. I thought
conditions were decent. No doubt the night-time hours I spent on 80, affected
my alertness during daytime hours.
I could hear greyline Asians, but KH6 was as the limit of stns who could hear
me. (12 zones and 12 countries). Does anyone have a large helium balloon I
can borrow for next year?
I hope to see many of you in the ARRL 10m test in several weeks.
73, Cary VE4EA
100 watts to a TH-7 at 50 ft.
Wires for low band (80).
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