[KCDXC] CQWW

[Tom Baugh]

  CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: AE9B
Operator(s): AE9B
Station: AE9B

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: MO
Operating Time (hrs): 32

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   62    11       21
   80:   19     8        9
   40:  316    30       90
   20:  213    30       91
   15:  330    29      100
   10:  171    27       85
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Total: 1111   135      396  Total Score = 151,943

Club: Kansas City DX Club

Comments:

Wellllllll... I thought about going for a single band run on 40M or 160M and
may
still enter the final competition as a single band but obviously I did not
allocate any significant portion of time to any ONE band. I must say that
this
CW stuff is getting to grow on me. My voice is much clearer afterwards and,
except for every noise I hear sounding like code, I have very few ill
effects. I
rested well the first day and turned in for bed about 2PM I think. After a
pretty good first day I enjoyed 7 hours of peaceful rest starting at 10PM
local
time the second night. I never really ran a frequency for any prolonged
time, so
I was surprise to see I was spotted 3 times with one undiplomatic spotter
probably transmitting into a dummy load (I sent him an EMail questioning his
diplomacy skills perhaps a fellow countryman could counsel him). This was my
highest score thus far and apparently I've done something right to improve
my
net score by over 600,000 points. There were a lot of highlights... and
almost
no lowlights.

1. Plenty of rest prior to the test allowed me to stay up longer the first
night.
2. The 40M 4 square was a blast into Europe with over a third of the total
Q's
3. So many good signals everywhere... I just scrapped my single band plan to
join in the Huge Party
4. Started sending by hand and forgot I wasn't even using the computer.
5. Local club president (K0LW) came by to see how I was doing and then Marty
(NW0L) showed up... It took me a while but I finally realized that they were
here for something.. My wife had thrown me a birthday party and didn't even
invite me.
6. I picked a nice round number 1,111 QSO's to end it all an hour early and
say
hi to the guests.
7.I've actually got a ton of new band mode (I'm new to CW) contacts (over
100)
and a couple of all time new ones.
8.During a late run a pointed the beam about 330 Deg (looking for JA) and
worked
a bunch of EU.. including YL,LY,RA, many OH (really active).
9. Most surprising calls were from KL7 and 4K1C (twice).
10. I hope we can endure this diplomatic adventure and have some peace
throughout our amateur radio community and spread the joy that we have in
exercising our equipment with others. HAPPY HOLIDAYS