CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: P49Y
Operator(s): AE6Y
Station: P49Y
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 222
40: 723
20: 1504
15: 1831
10: 744
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Total: 5024 Prefixes = 1240 Total Score = 18,807,880
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
What a change from the last few years of excellent high band conditions. My
claimed score is actually just about the same as in 2014 (but well down from
W6LD's outstanding P40L score of last year from our station), but compare the
band totals: 2014, 10m:2357, 40m:267, 80m:0 versus 2016, 10m:744 (and almost no
EU), 40m:723, 80m:222.
But the station worked well, and my programing changes to CQPWIN to allow using
the K3's internal messages for both radios were successful. This was fortunate,
as I was losing my voice (due to the after-effects of a lingering cold) on
Sunday. The beverages worked great, and even helped out Saturday evening on 20
when a local noise source started up. They are very directional on 20, which
required constant switching among them to pick out answering stations.
Congratulations to Jean-Pierre, P43A, for a terrific 15m single-band score
using his brand new prefix, P45A. And congratulations to him and Cris (P43C)
for convincing the enormously bureaucratic licensing authorities on the island
to issue it for the first time. And Emily, P43A, Martin, P49MR, and Lisandro,
P40AUA, also handed out Aruban prefixes. Although Art, N3DXX, was operating
from Ben's QTH (formerly P49V), I never ran across him in the contest, though
we had a nice visit beforehand.
Thanks to everyone for participating. And special thanks to the many US hams
on 10m during our limited hours of propagation who weren't really in the
contest, but stopped by to hand out a number one. And, as usual, thanks to
John, W6LD, and Ed, W0YK, for keeping everything shipshape with the station
(and to Cris and JP for ditto with the house itself).
73, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y
Rig: K3x2, Alpha 91B, 86
Ant: 2 el 10, 5 el 15, 4 el 20, 2 el 40, 1 el 80, C31, beverages
Software: CQPWIN ver. 12.9
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