I'm surprised!
After looking some of CQWW 2007 CW logs, I'm wondering how it is
possible to be that good SO2R guy as some of CQWW logs pointed out.
As an example, let's look one of European Top 10 entries (#5) in
previous CQWW CW. I have to say that 9A1A is real king of SO2R.
Actually it's not enough that we see great SO2R operating, but it's
more like SO3R. That's something I remember CT1BOH said once that SO3R
may be possible some day... From the log you can see that there's
pileup going on on both 40M and 80M, but also in between there's some
Q's made with 3rd radio (many Q's showing frequency of 3500, 7000 in
log meaning radio had no CAT connected like 1st and 2nd radio had).
But hey, because rate is only something like 4 Qs/minute, there's
plenty of time to S&P with B VFOs' of A and B radio with good SO3R
setup. So meanwhile working new mults with 3rd radio, you can actually
S&P with B VFOs' like in example below. Running pileup on 3525 and
7025 and working mults on 80M and S&P some Qs' like DF0HQ on 80M and
N3RS on 40M, not bad!
So I really have to say that I admire operating skills of Emil and
other guys doing the same. I would not be able to do the same no
matter how hard I practice. And if you see same kind of operating in
my SO Unassisted log, you can be quite sure that I've been cheating in
hard way. With only two ears, I just can't figure out how I could
manipulate my brains to work so efficiently with 5 RX at the same
time.
Here's just one example from log:
(Pay attention to frequencies and QSO rate)
3525 CW 2007-11-24 0104 9A1A 599 15 EW8DX 599 16 1
3525 CW 2007-11-24 0104 9A1A 599 15 S53MM 599 15 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0104 9A1A 599 15 S57Q 599 15 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0104 9A1A 599 15 S52OP 599 15 1
3528 CW 2007-11-24 0105 9A1A 599 15 DF0HQ 599 14 1
3500 CW 2007-11-24 0105 9A1A 599 15 EF8M 599 33 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0105 9A1A 599 15 N3RJ 599 05 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0106 9A1A 599 15 DJ3WE 599 14 1
3530 CW 2007-11-24 0106 9A1A 599 15 M6T 599 14 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0106 9A1A 599 15 AA4V 599 05 1
7025 CW 2007-11-24 0107 9A1A 599 15 EI4HQ 599 14 1
3525 CW 2007-11-24 0107 9A1A 599 15 RV9SV 599 16 1
7001 CW 2007-11-24 0107 9A1A 599 15 N3RS 599 05 1
3525 CW 2007-11-24 0107 9A1A 599 15 OK3R 599 15 1
3525 CW 2007-11-24 0108 9A1A 599 15 HB9CT 599 14 1
Also I'm little surprised of S&P capabilities of some unassisted guys.
But maybe if I could also handle 5 RX simultaneously, I would find
multipliers like some others do, up and down on the bands with quite
nice rates:
14015 CW 2007-11-24 0753 9A1A 599 15 UU7J 599 16 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0754 9A1A 599 15 UR7QM 599 16 1
7040 CW 2007-11-24 0754 9A1A 599 15 3X5A 599 35 1
14017 CW 2007-11-24 0754 9A1A 599 15 9K2HN 599 21 1
14000 CW 2007-11-24 0754 9A1A 599 15 LT1F 599 13 1
7026 CW 2007-11-24 0755 9A1A 599 15 IS0/K7QB 599 15 1
7019 CW 2007-11-24 0756 9A1A 599 15 HC8N 599 10 1
14000 CW 2007-11-24 0756 9A1A 599 15 3X5A 599 35 1
7013 CW 2007-11-24 0757 9A1A 599 15 Z37M 599 15 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0758 9A1A 599 15 IR4X 599 15 1
7052 CW 2007-11-24 0758 9A1A 599 15 YS/K9GY 599 07 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0759 9A1A 599 15 UA9CLB 599 17 1
7072 CW 2007-11-24 0759 9A1A 599 15 TI5N 599 07 1
14042 CW 2007-11-24 0759 9A1A 599 15 C4N 599 20 1
7032 CW 2007-11-24 0759 9A1A 599 15 LZ9W 599 20 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0800 9A1A 599 15 C4I 599 20 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0801 9A1A 599 15 RK3QWW 599 16 1
7038 CW 2007-11-24 0801 9A1A 599 15 5J0A 599 07 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0801 9A1A 599 15 B7P 599 24 1
7006 CW 2007-11-24 0801 9A1A 599 15 T99W 599 15 1
14028 CW 2007-11-24 0802 9A1A 599 15 OH0E 599 15 1
7051 CW 2007-11-24 0802 9A1A 599 15 OE5CWL/6 599 15 1
14025 CW 2007-11-24 0803 9A1A 599 15 ES5TV 599 15 1
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing personal against Emil, 9A1A. I'm
just using his log as an example on how on earth this kind of efforts
can be listed in top ten listings! I do accept that it may not be
possible to check all logs that carefully, but if even serious entries
are not checked, it makes me very sad when thinking the future of
contesting.
73 de Toni, OH2UA
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