CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: W1DYJ
Operator(s): W1DYJ
Station: W1DYJ
Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 26
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 7 2 2
80: 76 12 42
40: 187 17 62
20: 146 19 66
15: 69 20 50
10: 95 16 50
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Total: 580 86 272 Total Score = 581,034
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My 9th attempt at this contest, I find myself slowly getting better
at CW. I still cannot run -- mostly due to non-existent typing ability.
But I can verify calls once pulled into my logger up to about 40 WPM.
So I set some goals for myself as I always do:
* A personal best -- requiring 350K points and 450 Qs
* My usual goal of AK on 80 -- one of these day I will complete 5BWAS!
* And a stretch goal of 20 hours / 500 Qs / 500K points
Friday night seemed a bit slow: 40m was the place to be. (The 40m
portion of my HB fan dipole is probably the most credible.) With
breaks for a (streaming) jazz concert and the 11pm news I gave up
at 12:48pm local with a **blistering** 25K points.
Determined to finally bag the elusive AK/80m 250th state for 5BWAS,
(which really would be 7BWAS) I was up at 3:45 local to search for
any signal from up north -- but no joy... 160 & 80 were very quiet,
40 was again the only band with anything useful. One hour BIC and
back to bed.
Saturday morning -- at least the human portion of the morning after
breakfast -- was the time for 10m. It was great to see 10 again,
and I gathered 4 new band-countries. 15 was OK so I ignored 20.
By this time it was getting dark and 40 came alive. I finally gave up
at 10:48 local to watch the 11pm news and go to bed.
Given the poor experience Saturday early-AM, I got up at ~6 AM Sunday
hoping to catch the 20m EU start. Given that I more-or-less ignored 20
on Saturday, I was "fresh meat!" At 7:43 AM I had my new
"personal
best. I then started moving around the bands: 20>15>10>20, etc. This
is when I was hearing the weird 15m stuff -- check below.
I finally beat my "stretch goal" at 1:29 pm local, after 16
"real" hours
of BIC. With that under my belt, I switched to looking for mults, which
turned out to not be very worthwhile as I had most of the ones spotted,
and taking many breaks. Finished at 6:34 local for dinner.
I felt good, but tired.
Some final observations:
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With my VERY sub-optimal 160 "antenna" I had no 6-banders.
(All 160 Qs were US & Canada, and Zones 4 or 5.)
I did have six 5-banders: V26K, P44X, C6AGU, PJ4K, HQ9X, GM5X.
Sunday morning on 15m -- I heard an echo on ALL weak EU stations.
This echo was a fraction of a second, ~100ms??? (Yes -- 80ms is
the minimum a human can discern.) As the transit time around
the globe is ~ 150 ms, and my 15m antenna is a rotary dipole,
was I hearing the RF on both SP and LP??? Interesting!
FINALLY -- thanks to my wife, Maren, for putting up with me...
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Rig: TS-590SG
Actual BIC = 18 hours (Classic "60 minute" time = 26 hours)
98% "C&P"
Antennas:
Upper HF - Roof Tower
10: HB 5el yagi @ 30ft
15: HB Rotatable Dipole @ 33ft
20: HB Moxon @ 36ft
160/80/40 HB Fan dipole: trapped 80/40/30 [SE-NW] AND trapped
160/75 [S-N, with North end turning a few times to
fit in the yard] -- 35' at center, between 30' and 15' at
the various ends (a small back yard!)
Logger: N3FJP Contest Log V 6.0.3
73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
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