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CQ WPX contest SSB 2014 - 2014/03/31 18:42
CQWPXSSB Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2014-03-29
CallSign Used : VA2EN
Operator(s) : VE2NGH VA2UTC
Station: VE2NGH
Operator Category : MULTI-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
ARRL Section : QC
Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec
Software : N1MM Logger V14.3.1
Band QSOs Pts WPX
3.5 50 208 21
7 378 1688 190
14 419 1211 266
21 773 2131 327
28 746 2126 266
Total 2366 7364 1070
Score : 7,879,480
Total Time On 35:17
The R3 disturbance right at the start of the contest gave some very interesting propagation. The low bands were not very good Friday night but 20m was open to Europe right until 2 AM local time with strong signals. Saturday morning saw QSB on 10m and 15m and although the bands were open they were behaving strangely. For example we were running Europe on 10m and all of a sudden the band went dead - like someone turned off the switch! At 11 AM local I spotted an XW on 10m and he was coming in a true S-7! I had to ask again for his call to be sure. Then the high bands started to recover during the day.
I talked to a US operator Saturday night who told me 80m was very noisy all along the East coast during the night - you could hear the strong static crashes. Also my local hydro noise wiped out 20m late Saturday. The high winds and snow did not help! So we switched to 40m and had some very good runs during Saturday night.
Sunday morning 10m and 15m were in great shape with huge European pile-ups and during the early evening we had pile-ups of JA's, and even some 9M's.
We had planned to operate the full 48 hours but the team was very tired and we slept a few hours. Also I had a mechanical failure on the tuner which I had to repair. Even so this is one of the best scores this team has done in any contest so far at this location so we were quite happy.
It was just too bad we missed the Laval hamfest but I hope to cu at MARC in April.
73,
George VE2NGH
Post edited by: ve2ngh, at: 2014/03/31 18:47
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