[RRDXA] DL3YM (@DF2PY) WPX-CW SOAB HP

[RRDXA-Claimed Score Database]

                                   WPX-CW 2007

Call: DL3YM (@DF2PY)
Operator(s): DL3YM
Mode: CW
Category: SOAB
Active hours: 36.0
Power: HP
Assisted: no
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Summary: 

 Band	   QSOs	    Prefix

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  10m:	     12       0 
  15m:	    390       0 
  20m:	   1088       0 
  40m:	    663       0 
  80m:	    169       0 
 160m:	     13       0 
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 Total:	  2.335     804 
 
 Claimed Score:  4.565.112 


Comments: 
 This was a pretty demanding weekend. Designed as my first serious WPX-SO2R attempt I found myself struggling with a number of challenges over the weekend.
Went off to a real bad start this year. QRN was horrible during the first night and I realized I was falling behind my fellow DL competitors the longer this night lasted. Couldn’t get anything going on 40 so tried 80. Funny thing is that most DX signals there made it easily over the QRN – yet no volume.
20 opened up late on Saturday and it took lots of repeats often to get calls and serials across when working weak DX signals. Was happy to have a limited JA run there and basically stayed on the band all day long with the run radio. Picked up a few stations on 10/15 with the second radio but didn’t even try to run there.
As I was aware of my poor 40m performance I started to hit the band real hard around 1800. A pretty bad storm-front passed through directly over our QTH some 20 minutes later, forcing me to go QRT for another 3.5 hours – not a particularly fortunate situation to help improve figures on 40 …
During the night I had big problems with the SO2R-setup switching radios randomly – probably RF getting into my keyboard. Besides the power supply of the L7 amp connected to the second radio started humming and arcing – not a good thing to improve my success rate on the second radio…
Sunday finally things came into place. Conditions were much better and I enjoyed nice runs on 15 and the good opening on 20 to the US that others have mentioned also. Didn’t have any energy left to give 40 another try, so finished off my OP time on 20 and enjoyed a good red wine with DF2PY while starting to make plans on how to do better next time.
Thanks to Wolf & family for being super hosts again and to my XYL & kids for tolerating (yet not understanding) why I need to do this to myself, hi.
Thanks to DJ5MW, DJ1YFK and DL3TD for the good competition and mni congrats for great scores.



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