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Re:CQWW SSB 2013 - 2013/10/28 09:59
Bonjour a tous))
That was a great contest. Great propagation. The same as that was in 2011.
My results:
CQWWSSB Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2013-10-25
CallSign Used : VA2WA
Operator(s) : VA2WA
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH-Assisted
Mode : SSB
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty
14 991 2679 36 119
21 1334 3841 38 124
28 1365 4028 34 130
Total 3690 10548 108 373
Score : 5,073,588
Total Time On 30:42 (1842 mins)
Rig: Kenwood TS-590S + AL1200 ( 1kW)
Ant: SteppIR DB-11 yagi
As you see that was a part-time operation. My new job boss wanted me to come to office on Sunday afternoon to do some stupid network upgrade (I'm working as sysadmin to earn money for my HAM radio "disease"). So I couldn't count on getting a good position in the SOAB HP Assisted category.
I've got my vertical broken just right before the contest. It's not a big deal to repair but would take few hours. Since I couldn't run for full time and the result was not a target I decided to concentrate on testing of my "fresh" installed SteppIR yagi DB-11 on 20-15-10 and to try different phone contesting "techniques" for future phone contests. Of course I enjoyed propagation on 20-15-10. It was really beautiful!. I was really surprised to see how many interesting things I usually miss switching to 40-80 right before sunset! The 20m band was opened almost 24 hours! European station were loud during all the night! An endless JA pile-up! I was lucky to get even a small pile-up from YB stations!
The new set up was working pretty nice so I could run pile-ups with a maximum rate up to 239 q/h. (That means a full hour since a 5 minutes rate sometimes was over 360 q/h).
Thanks for all the QSO's! CU in the CQ WW CW 2013!
73!
Victor
Post edited by: va2wdq, at: 2013/10/28 10:17
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