[RRDXA] OQ4B (op:ON4BHQ) (@ON4BHQ) CQWW-DX-SSB SOAB HP (A)

[RRDXA Claimed Score Submission]

Claimed score submission: CQWW-DX-SSB 2008

Call: OQ4B (@ON4BHQ)
Operator(s): ON4BHQ
Mode: SSB
Category: SOAB
Active hours: 0.0
Power: HP
Assisted: yes
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Summary: 

 Band	   QSOs	    Mults      

 -------------------------------------
  10m:	     12        7       5 
  15m:	    122       46      19 
  20m:	    261       69      23 
  40m:	    193       70      19 
  80m:	    157       53      10 
 160m:	      0        0       0 
 --------------------------------------
 Total:	    745      245      76 
 
 Claimed Score:  428.856 


Comments: 
Did only S&P. As I have a very restricted space station, it is impossible to RUN in this major contest. Or you are very soon pushed away, or you miss a lot of QSO\'s cause of the QRM and weak RX with small antennas.

First time I had no industrial QRM on 40 and 80 m from a nearby factory, because due to the economical crisis this factory stopped production. So I wanted to chase some DXCC on 40 m especially. Managed to get 70 DXCC with nice overseas DX! But this takes time and costs lots of points. One has to make a choice!

20 m was overloaded with loud and splattering signals, hardly workable. It seems a lot of stations go far over legal limit power and set mic gain and speechprocessor controls fully clockwise. 
Again also lots of \"QRZ\" stations on the band. So if you do S&P, sometimes you are stucked on one frequency to hear the stations callsign after about 10 minutes... and to realize then you worked the guy before... very frustrating!
Anyhow, I had a lot of fun and have even a better score then last year.

Gear didn\'t fail this time, last year the amp broke after 30 QSO\'s and costed me 2 hours to repair it.
I tested my new MFJ-998 autotuner... it was great (see my review @ eHAM).

Setup:
FT1000 MkV field, 1 KW amp with GS31B tube (HA1YA amp) Cushcraft MA5B, Cushcraft MA8040V and homebrew G5RV @ 7m only.
N1MM logger (simply the best)




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