CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: OX7A
Operator(s): OZ1AA OZ1DJJ OZ5DM OZ7AKT OZ7AM
Station: OX7A
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: GP47TA
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 3 3 3
40: 154 16 46
20: 1370 21 79
15: 292 16 49
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 1819 56 177 Total Score = 1,031,724
Club:
Comments:
Contesting in the Arctic is known to be challenging, but this time we got a real
taste of exactly how frustrating it can be.
CQ WW SSB 2018 was such a blast with huge pileups and more than 4000 Q's in the
log and we had great expectations for CQ WW SSB 2019!
This year we decided to go M/2, thinking it would be a walk in the park to beat
the standing zone 40 record as we did with M/S in 2018. However, the sun decided
to burp at the worst possible time -- with the nuclear bits and pieces hitting
us right in the face on Friday night.
For most of the contest period we had K-indicies above 3 -- even hitting 6 at
one point. On the first day it was as if someone had put a duvet over the
radio's speaker making all signals strangely faint and barely readable.
The low bands suffered from absorption -- the high ones never really opened.
Misery and sorrow all around.
Nature be a harsh mistress -- but on one account she did deliver; the most
wonderful auroral displays we could have asked for, with all the colours of the
rainbow dancing on the pitch black Arctic firmament -- so vivid that it looked
like one could reach out and touch it.
On the second day the storm appeared to have lost its breath a bit, with both
20 and 15 coming to live for a few hours at least. Some nice runs into both NA
and EU, but nothing compared to last year's contest.
All things considered; Greenland is a wonderful place and we have no regrets.
Lot's of people got their double mult and we thoroughly enjoyed handing it out,
but next year we might find some place a little closer to the Equator where we
can yell "Five-Nine!" into a microphone.
73 de OZ7AM and the OX7A team
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