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Re:ARRL 160 CW 2013 - 2013/12/08 17:00
Call: VA2EW
Operator(s): VE2TZT
Station: VA2EW
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: QC
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1453 Sections = 78 Countries = 39 Total Score = 405,990
DUPES =81 !!!!
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
Comments:
Certainly, the most pleasant ARRL 160 that I have worked. Not at the
propagation level of 2009 but fairly good conditions if we except the Magnetic
storm during the second night.
Good signals from Europe, strangely not so good from California, I am even
missing two CA sections.
On the station side, everything worked perfectly and at least, it looks like
Hydro had solved my last year arcing complain, for the first ever I had not
noticed any arcing noise for the whole contest .
I have tried a new S&P/Run strategy that should provide slightly less
multipliers but more Q's. We will see against the results (last year I was #10 SOHP)if it was a good choice.
The current 3830 shows that my score is 78% of the TOP 4 mean compared to 71% last year with exactly the same TOP 4 guys. So we can already say that something had been improved. In any case it is very encouraging and I think that I have found a direction to dig for improving my score and I expect to even improve that for the next CQ 160m.
My best DX was VK2 and the guy was very patient
Congrats Victor fot the T32, I looked forward them all the contest but was not able to find them. Perhaps they called me but did not heard them.
Yes the 2sd night is always VERY boring as well for ARRL 160 and CQ 160. Everyone has already contacted everyone and it's hours of unanswered autoCQ with guys tired and furious of they precious run frequency. A good indication: my effective working time is 31 hours and WINTEST which calculate with the 10mn rules says 29H43. Then I got several periods of more than 10mn CQ without answer. The fact is that if you do not play this game you will miss about 100 Q's and 3 to 5 multipliers.
I think that both contests should be limited to 20 hours of operation which should oblige guys to more tactical choices.
Thanks to everyone for the calls, especially between 8 and 12 UTC...
Gilles VA2EW and VE2TZT
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