[RRDXA] WPX CW DH8BQA SO(A)SB10 LP

Oliver Dröse droese at necg.de
Mon May 28 07:43:26 EDT 2012


                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: DH8BQA
Operator(s): DH8BQA
Station: DH8BQA

Class: SO(A)SB10 LP
QTH: JO73ce
Operating Time (hrs): 33.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:
   15:
   10:  573 (incl. dupes)
------------
Total:  564  Prefixes = 405  Total Score = 362,880

Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Comments:

Elecraft K3, 100 W + Cushcraft X7 @ 40 ft. & 6 ele OWA Yagi @ 60 ft. & 
homebrew stackmatch

Condx were "so lala". Have seen better ES conditions during past WPX-CW's on 
10 m already. Difficult to keep the butt in the chair with rates of 10-15 Qs 
per hour at times, hi.

No direct F2 propagation so relying on Sporadic E. Interesting to have 
either 3x ES hops into the U.S. or maybe some link between ES + F2 
afterwards. So glad to have worked 40 W/VE (Saturday afternoon 5, Sunday 
evening/night 35) plus a few Caribeans, most of them late in the night on 
Sunday (another sign for ES rather than F2 propagation). All very localized, 
never more than 1 or 2 states (= stations, hi) at once for a few minutes (17 
states in total). After they faded new ones popped out of the noise to 
vanish after a few minutes again, too. Had a hard time working K2SSS who 
were copyable several times but only 519/529 and couldn't raise them with my 
low power signal. Later on they were 559 when I finally caught them and 
during the last 2 hours of the contest they were 599+ for long times. Well 
...

Found W5GAI during the last 2 minutes of the contest. He was CQing being a 
real good 559 signal. As per his 3830 report he was running QRP but couldn't 
hear me with 100 W + 6 ele Yagi? Well, he was even calling CQ TEST still 5 
minutes after the contest was over so I suppose he simply fell asleep, hihi.

Despite no rates it was still fun and again an interesting exercise 
propagation-wise. That's what I like about 10 m. Maybe next time on a higher 
rate band like 20 or 15 m (or even AB again). Just didn't choose so this 
time as I don't feel competitive with just the X7 there, hi.

CU in the next one (IARU in July). 73, Olli - DH8BQA


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