[Elecraft] another CQWW report

[John P-G]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:18:36 -0500, you wrote:

>Delighted just to finish off DXCC with K1 within 3 months of come-alive.
>Played a game of 1 QSO per entity (due to major time conflicts) and came
>away with 54 of perhaps 60 serious opportunities, in about 10 hrs.  =
Similar
>frustrations with alligators, targets with high noise levels and =
operator
>headspace;  but overall a blast.  Another happy camper.


And my K1 got to play too! :-

2003 CQ World-Wide DX Contest         GM4SLV

    SINGLE-OP-QRP                  Zone: 14

    Band      QSOs          QSO pts.      Mults.
    --------------------------------------------
    40m        20            38            18=20
    20m        49            118           35=20
    15m        17            43            20=20
    --------------------------------------------
    TOTALS     86            199           73

                         Claimed score =3D 14,527

Tried to keep the Mult/QSO ratio as high as poss. in the short
operating times I had available.

5w to an inverted V parallel fed 40/20 dipole (that tunes okay on 15m
with small L-match) and I got among others :-

VP5X, TS7N, JA6GCE, HC8N, P40E, KP3Z, ZA1A, V26K, 4M5X, D44TD, A61AJ,
JY8YB, PJ2T

Many NA stns on 40/20/15 and most were 1st or 2nd time of
calling...unbelievable with such a simple setup.

Had my call been listed in the CTY files used in the various logging
progs (CT etc) as being in "GM/s Shetland" I might have become DX
myself. Shetland is a seperate country and AFAIK there were only 3
stations active here - GZ7V, MM0XAU and myself. There may have been
others, but I didn't notice any.

I've got myself added to the next update of the CTY.DAT file for
CT....

I also made the mistake of misunderstanding that stations count
seperately on each band - I avoided duplicating across bands and lost
MANY mults (I could have worked several good stns on all 3
bands....oops!)

All in all I had a blast and was really impressed at how good the
simple RX of the K1 performed under such crowded band conditions.

I didn't compare it to my AR7030 - was having too much fun operating!

Great fun.

John=20
GM4SLV
Shetland
K1-4 #1672
 =20