VE2TZT
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Re:CQWW 2015 - 2015/11/30 19:49
Call: VA2EW
Operator(s): VA2EW
Station: VA2EW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Montreal
Operating Time (hrs): 43
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 200 10 26
80: 419 12 48
40: 788 23 76
20: 987 27 89
15: 947 24 81
10: 74 20 49
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Total: 3415 116 369 Total Score = 4,307,770
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
43 hours is a personal record by itself but it was not so difficult except the first morning. It was the fun all the time except the tree times when an idiot started to run on my frequency without the possibility to pretend that he could not ear me.
Thanks to the P3 it is not a big deal to find an other run frequency but it costs a minimum of 5 minutes to re-warm a run.
The propagation was not that great on high bands and it was anticipated by the forecast including the good low bands behavior. Here in QC we are the first to lost 10m so we had to deal with a poor 10m, impossible to run on it, just S&P on my side. The 20m was cut earlier as expected, the same for 15m which additionally was carrying weak signals, so I was permanently questioning myself about a band change for the run. No 15m run to JA this time but about one hour on 20m Saturday evening.
The low bands were great, the 80m being the star. Imagine: I was able to run consistently with Europe with 100W avoiding for a while the 40m mess.
The first night the 160m was disappointing but it got forgiven the next night when I was able to maintain a run with European stations, I even took the authority to call EU only because my ears were fed up and broken by those 59+40dB excited and insisting local W1 signals calling me when my AF button is turned at maximum while I am sorting out of the noise that weak multiplier ...
My SO2R ability is improving, I spent 90% of the time running with only one ear while the other is S&Ping. It is still at the cost of some repeats but I have understood that it is a question of focus: I must concentrate on the rhythm of the focus, each time the CQ ends I must re-focus on the run ear, if I do not do that, I may miss the beginning of the callsign especially after 40 hours without sleeping. When that focus rhythm is automated things will be great.
A little story to finish : I was happy to ear F6BEE Jacques at 6V7A and surprised how he sorted out my 100 watts of his heavy pile-up after only my 3rd call. the point is that I realized just after the contact that I had messed between the two rotors and 6W was right on the side of the yagi...
Finally, I confirm my previous experiences, I am very surprised by what can be done in LP, I am currently learning much that way, far more than if I were HP, I should compare that to a marathon man who should train with a weighted backpack, when he will remove the backpack...
73's and see you in the 160 ARRL
Gilles VA2EW
Post edited by: ve2tzt, at: 2015/11/30 19:59
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