CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 30 4 3
80: 350 14 22
40: 500 26 63
20: 578 25 66
15: 400 28 48
10: 217 21 44
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Total: 2075 118 246 Total Score = 1,798,160
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
This was supposed to be the very best of contest weekends at the cycle's peak,
but instead we had so-so high band performance.
Total Qs on 20M through 10M were down by 385 from last year to just 1,195.
Managed to hit my target QSO production on 80M and 40M, but was off by hundreds
on each of the high bands.
Ended up with only 31 hours in the chair, with long sleep breaks both nights.
The EU openings were strong on 20M once they got going, but there just isn't
time to sufficiently work all three high bands during the brief polar opening
here. The openings were fleeting on 15M and 10M, where many EU mults were
missed.
End of First Night 1220z 1221z
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
------- -------- -------- --------- -------
QSOs 405 520 620 632 601
DXCC 46 77 100 73 84
Zones 36 47 49 55 41
Score 70,028 140,120 201,299 180,608 165,250
End of Second Night 0840z 0753z
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
-------- -------- -------- --------- --------
QSOs 1,200 1,150 1,313 1,647 1,385
DXCC 120 169 188 190 193
Zones 76 88 99 97 95
Score 493,528 658,691 850,668 1,081,703 942,912
Made my 350-Q goal on 80m at 1304z with good friend Tim N6GP at the far end.
Took an hour at 1200z Sunday to land the final 33 contacts to hit that target.
Great surprise: ZS2NF calling in loud on 40M early Friday evening. What a great
double mult.
40M was incredible... felt like a bottomless well of callers. I went beyond my
target of 450 Qs, and it was my best band for total mults + Qs.
80M was solid, too. I ended up with far more mults than last year, though not
as many as 2011. No Europeans worked, but the 3-element triangle of verticals
seemed to work at least as well to NA and JA as the 2-element array did last
year.
Had a few lowlights -- Saturday night, one of the ops at RT5G jumped on within
a few hz of me on 40M. There was no QRL?, just a sudden appearance. I called
him and he sent me an exchange immediately, so he knew I was there. I didn't
move and he lost an hour of production while I continued to work EU at a good
rate. NIL.
The non-IDing is a blight on contesting these days. Wasted a lot of time
waiting around for DX to send their callsigns -- not everybody is using
spotting networks, and they have ruined contesting behavior in my opinion. The
internet is not a layer of the ionosphere.
Despite these lowlights, the fact remains that CW contesting is at a high point
for participation and courtesy -- many patient and skilled operators make CQWW
CW a wonderful experience.
As the contest moved along, I reset my goals to at least beat my 2011 totals.
Got there with an hour to spare, and kept pushing hard in the final hour.
Thanks to all the callers in those frantic 20M and 15M runs, I came within 2K
of the 1.8M mark, which was my secret target for most of the weekend. Another
hour would have put me over the 2012 personal best -- guess there's always next
year. Maybe THAT will be the contest weekend of all time.
My thanks to all for the fun weekend.
QSOs Ctry Zones Score
2013: 2,075 246 118 1,798,160 < HP 31 hrs
2012: 2,365 249 104 1,888,550 < HP 36 hrs
2011: 2,114 248 109 1,725,024 < HP 32 hrs
2010: 1,721 180 92 1,033,056 < HP 32 hrs
2009: 1,777 158 92 950,750 < HP 31 hrs
2008: 1,580 129 71 670,600 < HP 25 hrs
2007 1,470 129 69 615,582 < HP 32 hrs
2006 1,476 163 78 775,297 35 hrs
2005 1,014 126 61 411,587
2004 1,421 146 79 697,500
2003 865 115 73 351,936
2002 675 147 63 313,740
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