Kia ora,
Another challenging contest, this is what I ended up with:
Band qso points mults
3.5 2 34 1
7 44 1512 32
14 188 7480 64
21 85 2885 37
28 3 65 3
Totals 322 11936 137
Continents - 5
VK bonus points - 4300
Claimed Score - 8,207,860
Highs, lows and other things:
NA 20m/15m better than last year. 10m great signal from
W2NDP...but no other NA copied ? hard to figure out.
All EU zones 14/15/16 contacts down on last year. JA contacts ?
twice last years total.
Still too many stations with big mouths and small ears around,
strange how the same old stations, a lot of them running low power
and modest antenna set-ups come back top me after my first call,
but some strong signal S7/9 stations can never seem to copy me
no matter many times I call. Seems to be the same ones every
contest.
VK bonus points ? best ever, more VK?s active. 5-bander with
KH6ND again. Number of contacts and multipliers up on last year,
contact points down a bit.
Missed out on an African contact ? path did not open ? haven?t
heard the ZS6DN beacon for some months now. Kept a close
watch on the packet spots, but when CN8LI was spotted the freqs
were empty here. Pity that EC8AUZ cannot operate on 20m.
Overall very enjoyable ? thanks to Colin and ANARTS for organsing
a contest that evens things up a bit, and to everyone else for the
contacts.
And now for your amusement, some trivia:
I got to thinking, wonder how many times in 29 hours I called CQ ?
so I converted the MMTTY receive window text file to Excel file, did
a sort, and this is the result:
CQ calls - 2265
de ZL2BR calls ? 774
I reckon my 322 contacts were about 50-50 running/s&p modes,
which means that it took 13.89 CQ calls to get a reply or 4.75 calls
to someone else to get a contact. Taking into account the time to
send exchanges, repeats etc my total transmit time came to
around 7 hours out of 29 hours operating. Obviously I need to do
more transmitting in future contests, and less time listening!
73, Frank ZL2BR
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