CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: K7HKR
Operator(s): K7HKR
Station: K7HKR
Class: SO(A)AB(R) LP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 4
40: 60
20: 44
15: 32
10: 0
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Total: 140 Prefixes = 101 Total Score = 23,331
Club:
Comments:
80 watts into 5-foot (75/40/20 meters) and 3-foot (20/15/10 meters) diameter
magnetic loops from AZ.
Only 18 entities as opposed to 28 in ARRL DX and two-thirds of my QSOs were
lower 48. Five continents, but Europe was hopeless with huge pileups on the
stations I heard. Being very new to this, I still picked up 5 new entities and
a big boost towards WAS and was happy to reach 100 prefixes. Plan to upgrade to
Extra before the next major contest, so that will help.
All S&P; with my boring prefix and a lot of frequencies in use, I didn't
bother calling CQ. 40 was my best band with less competition in the wee
hours. I went Assisted mainly to check for spots on 15 and 10, but did pick up
a few on 40 from spots. Never heard anything on 10. Always glad to get
anything on 75 as my loop should only be a few percent efficient there.
I wish I could have worked the last 3 hours of the contest because I was doing
well on 15. Had a report from Virginia of "big signal" which sure
doesn't happen very often! (He was +30, so there was a good pipeline at the
time.) As always, thanks to all of the good ears who picked me out.
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