QSOs
80m: 204
40m: 333
20m: 477
15m: 94
10m: 0
Total: 1108
Continents: 6
Call Areas: 25
DXCC: 68
Total multipliers: 93
Score: 618,264
What a nice contest. Its a shame that the high bands never really came
around.
There's a lot of extra time on hand when everything goes quiet. Its funny
to hear the mass migration from one band to the other when it dies. One
second it seemed there were plenty of people on 80 and the next, it was
K4GMH, AA5AU, WW4LL, and myself and that seemed like it was it.
It was nice to work ZL2AMI. I gave him a welcome back message and im glad
to see him back. Not for the mult, but just to have a ham brother trying to
get things back to normal.
I know this is a British contest, but I sure seemed to work a lot of 007's.
No pun intended, I truly received a lot of serial number 007's!
Things went as planned other then the late start. Started 20 and 40,
switched to 20/15, and then back to 40 when 15 died. As 20 started duping
out, I moved that radio to 80. 40 is usually my hoss band, but 20 proved to
pull the most q's. I think I parked at 14.082 and held a run for somewhere
near 6 hours. It would come and go, but with no more then 2 or 3 cq's
between times, it was hard to leave the frequency. What a fun run!
40 pulled in some really nice DX. I was quite surprised for JY4NE. I asked
for a repeate to make sure I had the call correct. Thats a new one on RTTY
for me, he'll be getting a card. ZS6WN was also really loud on 40 at
10:00pm local time. The JA runs started around 2:00am local, which is their
sunset time, so that went pretty well as planned. I was disappointed that
it wasnt a "flood"
though. Chasing Mike all night, I figured a NW run of Asia would be the
only way I'd catch him. The weather here was not very pleasant, and kept
waiting each time I'd hear the swoosh of the rain for the lights to go out.
Mentioned that to Don, and he said it was time for me to go to bed.
I know that not everyone who works contests reads the reflectors, but I
guess we need to help the new guys along in other ways. I'll admit that
during a contest, I try to be all business, but the timeouts to give someone
suggestions always worries me that they'll think, "whos this guy to tell me
what to do".
Well, a suggestion that I kept making all night was mentioned in the
reflector.
Unless you're one heck of a big-gun station, sending your serial number 1
time on 80m rtty with a 100watt station and a dipole aint gonna cut it,
period. You could pick out the more experienced ops, when you ask for a
repeat, a different macro was sent, with ONLY the serial number, thats a
great heads up!
Ironbutt award has to go to 8P2K, who I heard calling cq on 20 meters, ALL
NIGHT LONG, way after the band had closed, but he stuck it out.
Got a couple of 4 banders, but nothing on 10. I looked back at scores from
3 and 4 years ago, with guys like Don, not even working 40 and 80 and still
having scores like we do today, racking up q's on 10, 15 and 20. Maybe
someday I'll get to see what that's like.
Multiplier Summary
Countries
4X 5U 6W 8P 9A A4 CM CN CT DL
DU EA EA8 ER ES F G GI GM GU
GW HA HB HK HR I JA JY K KH6
KL KP4 LU LX LY LZ OH OK OM ON
PA PY S5 SM SP SV SV9 T9 TA TF
TK TR UA UA9 UR VE VK VR XE YB
YL YO YU YV Z3 ZC4 ZL ZS
Call Areas
K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9
VK6
VE1 VE2 VE3 VE4 VE6 VE7 VE9
JA1 JA2 JA3 JA4 JA6 JA7 JA8
73
Charlie
KI5XP
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