CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N4GG
Operator(s): N4GG
Station: N4GG
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 12:18
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 4 4 4
80: 21 10 15
40: 111 19 64
20: 117 22 73
15: 190 29 99
10: 178 28 103
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Total: 621 112 357 Total Score = 810,432
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Thanksgiving company cleared out at 5AM Sunday morning - time to start
contesting!
The high bands were in great shape - nice to have some sunspots. 80 and 160
sounded awful Sunday evening...and 40 was not as loud as I'm used to either.
I
guess this is the new "normal."
Almost all S&P and playing around. Stayed on 10 to get DXCC, then droped to
15
and missed DXCC by 1 country. All that hurt the score, but I was out to
have
fun and work friends - plus check some new antenna arangements.
I ran packet merged with skimmer for two hours. YUK! I like to S&P up the
band and stop and call a CQ or two every time I find a hole. That was
causing
me to get instantly skimmer-spotted and after 20 minutes of that I was
spotted
on lot's of different QRGs on the same band. Also, IMHO the skimmers
feeding
the system have accuracy far worse than the humans. I was N4GM lots of
times -
other busted calls littered the band map. No more skimmer for me, TNX.
Lots of fun - some great scores out there. Courtesy seem very good, clicks
were at a minimum - it was a nice day.
2X: FT1000MP+INRAD, ACOM 2000A; WRITELOG, HomeBrew SO2R, Wires in the
woods.
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