[ADXA] CQ WW CW - W5RZ

Mon Nov 25 20:39:11 EST 2024

I had a pretty good time in the CQ WW and hit it pretty hard after allowing
for 8 hours sleep per night, leisurely meals, and three or four football
games.

With my 100 watts and wires in the trees I managed 224 QSOs and 65
countries. Don't think I got any new ones though.

I worked four ZF5T-bands.

Funny about the offsets - that's a thing I do to try to get an edge
although I don't know if I'm kidding myself or not. I usually set XIT to
about +50 Hz. Based on the pitch of the last station the guy worked, I'll
adjust up or down, up to about +80 Hz at times, which has been effective. I
try to not go overboard as I don't want to get out of the other guy's
filter BW.

73

Nick, WA5BDU

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 5:10 PM BILL KENNAMER <k5fuv at prodigy.net> wrote:

> This reminds me of an operation from K1KI a few years ago. K1RO was
> getting frustrated trying to work an HH2 on cw. I told him to go up 100
> cycles and call (I knew from experience how that guy worked), and he got
> right through. Works in most pileups most of the time.
>
> FUV
>
>
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>
> On Monday, November 25, 2024, 4:35 PM, w5znjoel at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>
>
> I’m working on my CQWW report for the group. Too many distractions today
> but I did want to go ahead and comment on your last note – auto zero beat.
> I want to believe I’m a decent pileup op (when I’m being called by the
> pileup). I can pick out calls even if there is a very slight difference –
> ask K5UR when I picked him out from the very bottom of a HUGE and LOUD JA
> pile up when I operating on 17 meters from KH6 many years ago. He was weak
> (sorry Rick) but he knew to be just a tad different in freq from the rest
> to get my attention.
>
>
>
> This weekend. I would have five or six callers from EU and they were all
> EXACTLY on the same freq and about the same signal strength, not even 1 Hz
> difference it seemed. All it did was sound like a continuous tone. It was
> frustrating, but I worked through it although it cost me some time.
>
>
>
> ZN
>
>
>
> *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Dennis Schaefer
> *Sent:* Monday, November 25, 2024 4:21 PM
> *To:* ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [ADXA] CQ WW CW - W5RZ
>
>
>
> We have a gathering here for Thanksgiving, so there is a lot to do.  I
> intended to just cruise 80M to try to get up to 100 on that band.  Then
> people started talking about the club aggregate score, and I decided I
> could probably crank out a couple hundred Q's.   Here's how I ended up;
>
>
>
> 321 Q's
>
> 220,836 points
>
> 400 watts
>
> 6-7 hours.
>
> Force-12 C-3 tribander up 56 feet, 40M dipole, 80M guy wire
> verticals/slopers
>
>
>
> 40M was in good shape, and I got 36 countries.  Signals were loud!
>
> 10 was the highlight, as expected - 62 countries and 26 zones.
>
> 80 wasn't much for me but I got 15 countries including one new band
> counter (CT).  I've worked CT before, so I just need to squeeze a
> verification out of one of them.  The guy wire verticals played well.  SA,
> CA, and Carib were about 2 S-units better on the S vertical, and EU was
> about 2 S-units better on the NE vertical.  However, neither of them
> reduced noise so that was the problem.  I spent about a third of my time
> fighting it out on 80 with little payoff.  I guess this stuff ain't
> supposed to be easy, though.
>
>
>
> I got Kevin at  ZF5T on 6 bands in 24 hours, and he was generally very
> loud.  I wanted to have a second rig set up to listen to both sides of his
> 2BSIQ operation but didn't have things hooked up that way.  It was
> interesting to watch RBN and see four or more Q's on two different bands
> within one minute.  SO2R is challenging enough, but this is not something I
> would want to try.
>
>
>
> The big surprise was that I got two new band counters on 20M (FS and J8),
> two on 40M (HC and IS0), and one on 10M (V7).
>
>
>
> I did see one troubling trend.  I've seen this in POTA and Field Day,
> where many operators are inexperienced, but it now has worked its way into
> DXing.  I tried to run a little on 10M, and often I could hear just a
> single tone.  I never use Auto Zero Beat when working DX.  If everyone
> calling is exactly zero beat, it's almost impossible to pick out one.
> Apparently more ops have discovered Auto Zero Beat and think it's a good
> thing.  It's not.  50 Hz or less separation from the pack will let your
> signal be copied.
>
>
>
> I had fun and got everything done that had to be done, so it was a good
> weekend!
>
> 73,
>
> Dennis/RZ
>
>
>
>
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