CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE9CB
Operator(s): VE9CB
Station: VE9CB
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Brunswick
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 41 3 5
80: 200 14 49
40: 269 19 75
20: 2170 27 109
15: 205 21 72
10: 48 6 18
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Total: 2933 90 328 Total Score = 3,139,598
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
2017 was a much better year. My score is less than half of last year's result,
and I made only 2/3 the QSOs. On the low bands, it was an unusual struggle to
be heard in Europe, and I could never get any runs going. Twenty metres was
extremely productive. Despite my best efforts to spend time on the other bands,
20m counted for about 75% of my contacts. Fifteen metres showed signs of
opening to Europe, but the opening was marginal. Ten metres was very poor.
Two days before the contest, my 160m Inverted L (about 25 metres or 80 feet
tall) was wrecked by a falling tree. Friday afternoon before the contest, I
tried to put it back up in high winds and I could only manage to get it up about
40 feet or 12 metres. Even if I had been successful in retoring my 160m
antenna, it wouldn't have chnaged much.
I discovered that my 40m 4-square will set off my house's smoke alarm when I
transmit to the south-west, so I spent very little time steered towards the US.
So, each contest its own unique experience.
It was great to hear the VP6D ops on 15m. Thank you for showing up and giving
us all a multiplier we would never, ever expect to work.
It was also great to hear my buddy Ron 6W1SU (aka VE3REV) making another big
effort.
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