CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: K8AJS
Operator(s): K8AJS
Station: K8AJS
Class: SOSB15 LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 25:30
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 0
20: 0
15: 389
10: 0
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Total: 389 Prefixes = 328 Total Score = 291,264
Club:
Comments:
Friday evening was promising, and I was looking forward to attacking the contest
again on Saturday morning.
Fifteen meter band conditions on Saturday were such that I was seriously
tempted to bag it and do something else for the weekend. I have a usual
circumstance early in the morning, when running low power, where I can hear
Europe but they can’t hear me. This condition usually dissipates later, and I
can make contacts with little difficulty. This time, the condition lasted almost
all day. I was never able to satisfactorily make EU contacts. Frustrating, to
say the least. It took me seven hours on Saturday to add as many contacts to
the log as I had made Friday evening in about an hour and 45 minutes.
Sunday was much better here, and I stuck it out and kept BIC all day until the
end of the contest. In all, I had fun, didn’t make nearly as many contacts as
I would have liked, but it was a learning experience which will be useful in
future contests (next time, if I’m running Single Band, pick a lower band and
run high power).
One disappointing result of the poor conditions was that while running low
power I can usually spend some time running, this time it proved to be
fruitless. I spent all my time in search & pounce mode.
Given that this is not, really, a 100% DX contest, I was pleased to see that
despite overall conditions that can charitably be described as sorrowful, when
all was said and done I had managed to work 80 countries over the weekend .
Thanks to all for the contacts, and I’m looking forward to seeing you in the
next onE!
Rig: Elecraft K3 w/ P3, 100 watts
Ant: 3 element quad
Software: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.5707.0
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