[RRDXA] DR4A WPX-CW M/2 HP (A)

[RRDXA Claimed Score Submission]

Claimed score submission: WPX-CW 2011

Call: DR4A
Operator(s): DK5PD, DK9VZ, DJ9KM, DL6WT, DH2WQ, DC8SG, DK9PY
Mode: CW
Category: M/2
Active hours: 48
Power: HP
Assisted: yes
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Summary: 

 Band	   QSOs	    Prefix

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  10m:	     86       0 
  15m:	    480       0 
  20m:	   1512       0 
  40m:	   1059       0 
  80m:	    628       0 
 160m:	    115       0 
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 Total:	  3.880       1 
 
 Claimed Score:  8.973.738 


Comments: 
First Night: Where have the conditions gone? Almost only EU workable. Ah o.k. the sun caused the problem and all wasn´t hardly suprising with an A-Index of 36. 

2nd night: same procedure, SFI rose, sunspot numbers jumped from 40 to the 65 area and promised to bing better conditions exactly at the end of the contest.

Late afternoon Sunday: first signals from W/VE start to rise, extreme loud signals from Japan and lots of new prefixes start to fill our log. At this time we have been around 750 QSOs behind last years result and we almost gave up that this score will break any record.  

But don´t count your chicken before they hatch. We had almost 8 hours to go and conditions were rising extremely; SFI topped 100 again and sun spot numbers rose into the nineties. W/VE became not only workable. The signals have been really loud, JA also very loud on 20m but only 2-3 made it on 15 into the log. Later JA has been workable on the long path.

At the end we´re almost 600 QSOs behind last years result, but nevertheless our score topped last years result. I´m still wondering how that can happen ...


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