[RRDXA] CQWW SSB DH8BQA SOSB/15 HP

[Oliver Dröse]

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: SOSB/15 HP
QTH: JO73ce
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:
   15:  993    35      110
   10:
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Total:  993    35      110  Total Score = 321,480

Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Comments:

Just a few QSOs. My father passed away unexpectedly just 2 weeks ago so lots 
of things to do and not a single thought about the contest the days before. 
We burried him on Friday just before the contest. R.I.P. dad, you will be 
strongly missed! :-(

Thought the contest would be a good opportunity to get some distraction from 
real life facts but it did not really work out. So concentration was rather 
bad and motivation not very high. Besides a lot of QRM and not much Ham 
Spirit with stations starting CQing just a couple hundred Hertz next me. 
UA5B was the worst with just 200 Hz away from me. He clearly wanted to rudly 
take over my frequency and tried to ignore me. Sorry guy, you lost this one! 
Please go re-read what Amateur Radio and Ham Spirit is all about! :-(

A big thank you to Heiko, DG1BHA, who helped to finish our new 6 ele OWA 
Yagi on a 15 m boom just in time and put it up on our small VHF tower for 
testing in the contest (10 m high). The beam performed extremely well! Will 
probably be even better on the new tower we wanted to errect but could not 
due to the circumstances described above. So that project will have to wait 
until next year now.

Spent about 10 hours on Saturday (800 QSOs) and another 6 hours on Sunday 
(200 QSOs). Sunday only S&P as I disturbed Uwe, DL3BQA, who was going for a 
serious 10 m entry. Using band pass filters we had no problems at all 
HF-wise but as soon as I turned the 15 m Yagi towards USA it's dipole was 
just 10 m away from his shack and occassionally when transmitting on 15 m 
his radio switched from SSB to CW in the middle of a QSO. Seems some RFI 
into his CAT line. It even happened with 100 W. That will probably be solved 
when the 15 m beam is on it's new mast then.

See you all in WWDX CW in 4 weeks. Quite sure I will be able to put in a 
better performance then although my CW is not the best.

73, Olli - DH8BQA


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