CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2020
Call: WX3B
Operator(s): WX3B
Station: WX3B
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Maryland
Operating Time (hrs): 7:26
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 1 1 1
40: 11 5 10
20: 505 13 48
15: 188 14 43
10: 57 11 24
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Total: 762 44 126 Total Score = 365,330
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
On Saturday I joined team WW2DX remotely utilizing my PC to run 20 meters from
4:30am until about 5:00pm. It was an amazing experience and much to my
surprise, it *felt* just like being in front of a real radio. This was my first
serious remote effort and I was impressed. Many thanks to Ray W2RE, Lee WW2DX
and Rock WW1X for the invitation to operate, and their enthusiastic support
before, during and after the event. We had a great team of old men and
"young" old men that made it particularly enjoyable.
On Sunday I arrived at the Chateau WX3B about 10:30am and immediately started
DXing on 10 meters. That was a lot of fun, even if it did cost me some prime
time runs on 15 & 20. I was surprised how many Europeans were workable,
even two relatively loud Russians showed up, one I couldn't work (he got 3 Bravo
but that was it), and the other was an easy QSO. New England stations were
RUNNING Europeans on 10 over the weekend!!
After about 2 hours of that fun I took a short break and found a juicy frequency
on the bottom of 15 meters. Being fresh meat on Day 2 of a contest is like
going on a DX-pedition. I ran almost 200 QSOs on 15m and my rate dried up. The
band was still wide open but I could tell everyone must have QSYed to 20, which
was my next gig.
I fired up on 20 and found another great spot near the bottom of the band and
had an absolute ball for about 500 QSOs.
This may not be a way to generate a big score, but it was 7+ hours of pure
excitement, DXing and GREAT RUNS!!
My multiplier totals show my focus was on QSOs...there very few pounces (except
on 10 meters...which was all pouncing).
I saw 10 break wide open to South America by looking at K3AJ's spots in the late
afternoon, however the pileup on 20 meters was too good to give up.
I say bring on the rest of the contest season, I'm ready!
73,
Jim WX3B
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