[ADXA] CQWW 160 CW Report

[rcurt at centurytel.net]

Congratulations! I was honored to give you my 2 points, and if you finish in the money, don't forget your friends!  I walked out to the shack, slid down the band and you were the first station I worked. The second was in Canada and that was it for me, other than being a SWL. I did hear ND on just below you, and he was anchored in place and working a pile up. 


Again, having a one track mind, I used your QSO's to see how the pennant was doing. Shortly after I worked you, I wondered back up and camped on your frequency just to copy and do a little counting. I had a bit of "QRM" from the shack dog, who was wanting to be let out, but this info will be pretty close. I listened for about a 10 minute period, and you worked about 28 stations. I was only able to clearly copy 18. The others were either down in the muck, or non-existent to me. In my opinion, this was the supreme test for the pennant.


Your score and amount of Q's is astounding. I did run 6 hours in the ARRL cw contest and managed 102 Q's, a score just north of 8k, and a headache. It was the longest I had continuously run CW since the 90's, and it wore me plumb out. During these contests, I have found that my number one weakness is not the limitations of the station, but is clerical. I just don't have any idea how how the contact can be made and logged, then on to the next station...especially with a little "howdy" in between to the people you know. My plan is to try to find a youtube video of people running a contest station on CW and see how they do it. 


To say the least, I am both impressed and astounded at your success, and I know those numbers do not come easy, but take a lot of pre-planning and physical effort. 


All the best!
Randy/W5ZJ














On Sun, 26 Jan, 2025 at 4:13 PM, w5znjoel at gmail.com <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:
 

To: 'adxa'


Greetings ADXA Folks,
 
Really great time in the CQWW 160 CW contest this weekend. I talk a lot about goals and I do set some of my own, especially for a contest. For this one, my goal is:
 
1000 Q’s, 50 states, 45 DX countries, and a score of 350,000.
 
This year I missed my Q goal by 16 with 984, my states by 3 (I always miss ND, but also this year WY and AK), but I exceeded my DX country goal with 50 this year (50 DXCC on 160 in one weekend isn’t bad!) and I beat my point goal with 380,835 thanks to a nice run of 10 point Q’s from JA, EU, and Russia.
 
The first night condx were very poor here in Arkansas. Only a very few 10 point Q’s. The band was noisy and good DX prop just did not exist. I worked a good group of NA stations but activity seemed to be down based on the number of available Q’s. I worked everyone that called or I could find. I only had a handful of EU stations and a few JA’s during my SR. The best grab was TF3D.
 
The second night started slow with very few non-dupes on the band, but it was a lot quieter than the previous night. Beginning around 0000z until about 0300z condx to EU and Russia were excellent, with several stations sounding like local USA stations. I was able to work every station that I heard calling, even some very weak stations. I believe I worked every station possible. Condx flopped after around 0330z and there were only a handful of EU worked during their SR. After that things were very flat so I decided to take a 2-hour nap and was back at it around 1000z but only a handful of Q’s were available. I was about to think my score goal would be deficient. Then, around 1230z I had a weak JA call that I was able to work, then another one a few minutes later. At 1255z, 15 mins before my SR, the band popped wide open to JA and I picked up about 20 stations then, right at my SR at 1310z the JA door closed and went dead !! It was a brief, intense few minutes that I enjoyed and beefed up the score nicely with some 10 pointers.
 
Thanks to ADXA folks KM5G, W5ZJ, K5UR, WB5BHS, N5QS, W5KI, and K5GO (masquerading as ZF5T) for the Q’s, and ZF5T for the mult !!!!!
 
Full report will be on the 3830 scores page within the hour.
 
Now for some football……………………..
 
73 Joel W5ZN
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