Loin d'être mon contest favori, ce fut une opération très sporadique durant mes périodes libres. La température a cependant été du côté des contesters, quel temps de chiens toute la fin de semaine... pas moyen de travailler dehors.
J'ai vu les spots de Claude, Victor et Louis passer sur les clusters. J'ai vu passer Jean-Pierre et Victor en spot à quelques reprises. J'ai spotté Gilles VB2T aussi souvent que je l'ai entendu.
Bonne semaine
Dany VE2EBK
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Part time operations. I had to work on Sunday. Also decided to get enough sleep. I have recently started new job so need to be in a good shape next Monday.))
That was my first try to run CQ WPX CW with Low Power. The only TS-590S - 90-100 watts And you know what? That was not bad! Much better then expected. Even with constant aurora signal distortion and bad propagation. Anyway that was not easy to get run rate more then 60 q/h with LP. Got only 7 hours from 19 with a rate more 60 q/h. The best - was 77 q/h.
Heard many VE2s. Have VE2FK, VE2EZD, VE2LX. VB2T, VA2BBW, VA2ES in my log. Thanks for all the QSOs.
73!
Victor
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 08:05Very good Victor.
In my case, I believe I am getting to the limits if my current station.
The only way to improve now is injecting $$$$$, tower, a real beam, a vertical, a better rig etc...
Unfortunately, I dont have money for that.
Unless I win the lotto.
73 all, have a good summer.
PS, At least added a new DXCC, Vanuatu
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 11:49500+ QSO en low power c'est très bon Jean-Pierre, faut le faire. Oui, il y a tjrs un TRX plus performant à quelque part mais c'est pas ça qui fait la différence, l'opérateur restera tjrs le plus important.
73 de VE2FK
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 14:01Jean-Pierre, si tu veux vraiment être plus compétitif, tu peux investir sinon ne change rien. Moi aussi je me suis senti un peu à la limite de ma station en fin de semaine. Personnellement, j’ai trouvé la propagation très médiocre. Je copiais plusieurs BY et autres de la même région appeler CQ sur 20m mais je n’ai pu passer LP. Pourtant qu'en CW j'aurais dû me faire copier.
Ma devise maintenant est : « Petite installation égale moins d’entretient et plus de temps pour opérer et grosse installation égale plus d’entretient et moins de temps pour opérer ».
À toi de chosir et surtout de ne pas oulier que ça reste seulement « un jeu ».
73 Dany VE2EBK
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 14:37Merci pour vos commentaires très appropriés.
C'est juste que je m'endors (littéralement) devant mon rig quand je run et que je fais 1 QSO aux 2 minutes. Faut que ca brasse bien plus que ca pour que j'ai un peu de fun.
C'est pas par vantardise, c'est vraiment une question d'argent maintenant.
Quand j'aurai mon nouveau boulot, je vais peut être penser à quelque chose d'un peu mieux, mais, non, je veux pas passer mon temps en entretient.
À dimamche peut-être (Sorel)
Maintenant je travaille sur le field day local.
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 21:02C'est juste que je m'endors (littéralement) devant mon rig
Jean-Pierre, ce n'est pas ta station que tu dois changer, ça te prend seulement un petit « remontant ». Fais comme nous à Québec !
73 Dany
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/27 22:41Bravo à tous. JP quand ça va de même ici, je regarde les logs des concours en 2006-7-8-9 quand on n'avait que 3 bandes pour jouer, on trouvait le temps bien long. Moi je trouve que tu fais très bien et en plus tu trouves toujours la façon de t'amuser en essayant des nouvelles choses ou aventures, chapeau!
73, Fabi
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Re:CQ WPX 2013 - 2013/05/28 01:16Bonsoir à tous,
Call: VB2T Operator(s): VE2TZT Station: VE2TZT
Class: SOAB HP QTH: Montreal Operating Time (hrs): 35H30 Radios: SO2R
Who said that QC is not on the air ? During this contest I was called by :VA2BBW,VA2ES,VA2SG,VA2WA,VE2AWR,VE2EBK,VE2EZD,VE2FK,VE2IR,VE2KOT,VE2LX,VE2QV,VE
2ZA. Thanks to all of you for your contribution and especially to those of you who spotted me, I felled the boost each time. According to DXsummit, the champion is Claude (5) followed by Dany (4) and Victor (3). BTW, Victor, I am glad that you found a new job.
The conditions where very unusual for me but interesting. The flutters are not unusual working North of Europe but when you can hear the flutters on 20m working South you understand that something is abnormal and K=5 during 9 hours plus K= 4 during 28 other hours of a contest are not usual. Except those considerations, the signals on the low bands were clear, low noise and strong signals. Perhaps the DB42 with its 3 el helps but I never had such clear and strong signals on 40m at every hours of the night by the past. On the other hand except to JA from where signals were very strong and clear without flutters, the 20m was very noisy. The big missing was of course the 15m which opened only sporadically, forget the 10m.
The contest started badly for me, my double band decoder decided to get a migraine crisis just at the starting of the contest and trying to fix was a bad decision : not only I lost 1H20 but I did not find the problem. Then, as the other half of the decoder was working, I decided to give up and will have to change the 2sd radio filters by hand like in the older times during the whole contest. I was not happy because not only I had lost a very good 40m hour full of 6 pointers but I knew that I had also lost 1H20 of sleeping. Starting late had a funny side, during the first 2 hours many contacts where asking again my # finding it was too low for my special callsign and I guess that some competitors were thinking the first day that they had a comfortable lead over me.
As the rates were not very high, I trained my SO2R (Jean Pierre : Le SO2R est la seule solution que j'ai trouvée pour combattre l'ennuis des 60/heure et moins). Currently I am not able to work SO2R over 80 qso/hours. What I do : I find a station on the second radio and when my CQ has no answer two times, I answer to the guy CQing on the second radio. I made more than 100 Q`s on the second radio even if the Spider beam leaved me on Sunday morning(I have installed for this contest a Tribander Spider beam at 12m as a second antenna ). The reason was that the coax was partially cut by the gardeners in the grass and even if I saw that the Friday, I did not see how deep was the cut then with the rain the center conductor shorted to the braid.
A last thing, most of you did not appreciate the rain, I did. This rain was providential for me, it had completely sunk the arcing S-7 noise that I usually have. Then for the first time since several quarters I had a full local noise free contest.
So, an overall good radio time here even if it left me quite tired.
73`s Gilles VE2TZT/VA2EW/VB2T
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