CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: KB4KBS
Operator(s): KB4KBS
Station: KB4KBS
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: GEORGIA
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40: 38 11 25
20: 40 13 32
15: 43 15 32
10: 39 14 31
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Total: 160 53 120 Total Score = 75,774
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
I am not a CW operator but I do enjoy contesting; so like a moth to a porch
light, I couldn't keep myself away. I had numerous interruptions and prior
obligations so I tended to just scan the band map and cherry pick green and red
highlighted stations that were multipliers. I discovered that if I knew what
call sign I was supposed to be listening for, I could hear and decode it in my
brain well enough determine if the zone in the exchange matched the prompted
answer provided by N1MM. On a slower band like 80M (now), I might be able to
hold my own as a multiplier rig op at a M/1 effort.
I hope I was able to pick up a few more new countries in order to achieve DXCC
for the first time - I'm jealous of you who were able to work 100+ unique
countries on multiple bands in the contest.
160 Qs in 8 hours spread over five time windows yields a 100% S&P rate of 20 Qs
per hour.
CW and RTTY are my wife's favorite contests as they are much less noisy than
when I shout my call sign "one hundred ba-zillion times" in a SSB event.
Station:
Kenwood TS-450SAT
MFJ 407B
Bencher BY-2
RigBlaster Plus
MFJ 949B
G5RV at 30'
N1MM
Thanks to all for the contacts,
KB4KBS
Scott Straw, KB4KBS
Roswell, Georgia USA
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