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Re:CQ WW SSB 2015 - 2015/10/23 15:53Good luck to the VB2T team!
CU in the contest.
73!
Victor
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Re:CQ WW SSB 2015 - 2015/10/25 18:44
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE2FU Operator(s): VE2FU Station: VE2FU
Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP QTH: Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 80: 40: 11 6 10 20: 40 13 27 15: 54 9 44 10: 242 24 83 ------------------------------ Total: 242 24 83 Total Score = 72,760
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
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Small participation giving QSO's S/P
10M SOSB LOW POWER ASSISTED
LOGS All BAND upload to LOTW Shortly
73' Phil
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Due to a major commitment this weekend I was only able to operate only half of the contest. Interesting propagation on higher bands but you had to be alert to catch it. 80m was very nice this time but I still need a better RX antenna. My hydro noise was back again on 15m and 20m but was a bit better today after the rain. Still looking for the exact location of the arcing but it seems to be quite wide spread making this job very difficult.
73! George VA2EN
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Class: SOAB LP QTH: Montreal Operating Time (hrs): 29 Radios: SO2R
Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 26 4 4 80: 35 8 14 40: 127 17 53 20: 419 21 75 15: 640 24 87 10: 318 28 77 ------------------------------ Total: 1565 102 310 Total Score = 1,808,268
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
Did not get the courage to do a full time effort in low power: the bands are full of crocodiles especially on the low bands so I have preferred to sleep during the night rather than losing my voice for nothing. Impossible as well to run on the US segments on 40,20 and 15m. day or night they are reserved to high power and particularly to European stations as with the earth rotation they always the first to be on the bands. If suddenly I was able to find a tiny hole, it was not long I was buried in it... So, most of my runs were on the sides, we can say marginal but I was able to run most of the time while S&Ping on the other radio. Of course big amount of time was lost to find new places to run after being ejected. BTW, VA2 prefix is a nightmare, when I think that there are so much VE2 with 2 letters who are doing nothing serious with their callsign...
The ten was great and it was even difficult to find a room to run up to 28900 Khz Sunday afternoon ...
Thank to this great propagation, I was also able to take advantage of the 4U70UN exceptional operation to work them on 10,12,15,17 and 30m CW during this weekend. This was my last missing bands for 4U/UN and I was very- very happy to be able to break the pileup being so close (500 km) on 10/12m. That greatly deserved the two hours that I lost during the best hours of the contest, an opportunity that will perhaps never happen again.
So, it is my first CQWW SSB LP and I can say that I learned much, surely more than if i did it HP.
Congrats VB2T for activating zone2
73's
Gilles VA2EW
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Re:CQ WW SSB 2015 - 2015/10/25 22:46Je l'ai fait de facon sporadique .. mais j'ai trouver une bonne propagation ..
There was a very good propagation. All the bands were in good condition except 160m and 10m. The 10m band was wide opened but I've found it a bit tough. That means 10m DX signals were much weaker compare to 15m. And there were some periods I couldn't easy to get through even with my 1.5 kw. Unfortunately I didn't improve my 40m antenna and I didn't replace my RX BEV antenna after a farmer cut of 200 meters from it. Came to St.Zephirine just 45 minutes before the test. So I had time just to check up everything, to plug in a head set and to get my logger configured for the contest. Everything there are configured for CW. That means 80m and 40m antennas are turned to a CW part of a band. Fixed that by using a manual tuner in a shack. Another one missing point I didn't have a SO2R controller for SSB. So just a single radio option was available for me ))) That was a huge gap since I used to share run and S/P technics. Usually I pay a big attention to mults and that means significant run rate slow down during calling DX. For example I lost about half an hour to get JA on 40m but unsuccessfully due to a not effective antenna on 40m. Sine I operate SSB contest very rarely I don't use PC for storing voice messages. Anyway have stored a CQ message in a TS-590S voice memory and that helped a lot to save my voice )))
I understand Gilles' point how it's hard to work SSB LP even with a good antennas in CQ WW. Honestly it's kind of mix of suicide and masochism in the same time.))) I was constantly struggling for a run frequency all the time. That was not easy even I had a signal report 59+20 db on 20m and 15m. But it still makes some sense to get a bit of alligators technique to survive.
Thanks for all the VE2 contacts especially these ones have been finished with a DX cluster spot. The automatic skimmer network doesn't catch SSB. And every human spot usually brings a huge effect! The best hour brought about 205 qsos. Still too far from the 250 q/h I made during VC2T CQ WW SSB MOST operation last year. Didn't get any one QSOs with VB2T. Looks like they had some issues there. Anyway I've got zone 2 on 4 bands with VE2IDX and VO2 stations.
73!
Victor
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I rise up my hat for Victor's results for his +41 hrs run. I expected nothing to break my own record seen I could not operate in some of the peak times on Saturday. I got zone 2 with the vo2 station, I could not reach vb2t station that were very busy with Europe... Interesting to get the same country number for 10 to 20m. I missed zone 23...I could copy many dx on 160m but this was very difficult to be heard so I just spent a short 30 minutes on that band. 80m was fair and I could work what I heard but the local ve2 chatting all running at kw level created difficult situations or malicious carrier.... I did most of my multipliers late Sunday on 40m. Thanks to my audio IF dsp that I can narrow to 1.5 kHz with the 80 db 3 kHz roofing attenuation I could copy a station at every 1 kHz. Signals were +5 to 30 db every where. On Sunday 10m was well open around 21 utc with the pacific and Asia on 10m. Yes the VA2 prefix isn't well heard in heavy qrm, often they hear VO,,, what was important I got good time on the air and by using some audio buffer programmed on N1MM logger to save my voice and not having the wife complaining too much for va2am call sign....
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