[RRDXA] 3V8SS (op:KF5EYY) CQWW-DX-SSB SOAB LP

[RRDXA Claimed Score Submission]

Claimed score submission: CQWW-DX-SSB 2016

Call: 3V8SS
Operator(s): KF5EYY
Mode: SSB
Category: SOAB
Active hours: 43
Power: LP
Assisted: no
Club:Rhein Ruhr DX Association

Summary: 

 Band	   QSOs	    Mults      

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  10m:	    479       65      15 
  15m:	   1071       85      25 
  20m:	   1279       81      23 
  40m:	    447       65      15 
  80m:	    374       55      11 
 160m:	     57       25       5 
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 Total:	  3.707      376      94 
 
 Claimed Score:  5.167.650 


Comments: 
 All signs were telling me; my previous personal records won’t be broken in this year’s WW SSB despite the recent improvements on the station’s setup. A 7300 is being used as main radio. The second radio is more efficient now with the lined up LBS filters and triplexer (manual coax switching). A new antenna installed for 160m band. A second computer was used with a separate keyboard for dual CQing…
Apart from propagation indexes, the weather satellite map was showing lightning approaching Sousse city which means an awful low bands operation.
Contest start on 40 and 80 was slow and I can tell, I had to wait 20 minutes to make the second QSO!!
After sunrise, the conditions on high bands were less bad than expected. The curve against 2015 objective showed that I’m more or less following last year’s performance. Day 1 ended up with 2.2 kQSOs.

I got 3 hours of sleep at midnight dreaming of more than 2000 Qs next day but conditions were bad enough to widen the gap against 2015 numbers. This year’s score is 24% less than last year. I got a unique JA station in my log!! (vs 240 last year and 160 in 2012). The MUF plot by a close ionosonde did barely exceed 28 MHz for a short time and was below 21 MHz most of the time (Day 2).
On Day 1, only few S&P Qs were made on 10. On Sunday, I heard quiet few EUs and decided to start a run for the short skip. A pileup kicked off! Signals were extremely weak in an extremely quiet band but readable enough to log QSOs (Tnx 7300!).
My 45-hours contest operation was comfortable. I didn’t feel any ‘strong’ need to sleep. Storing sleep remains a theory but for me it is proven by experience. Getting 8.5 hours of sleep in each of the 7 nights preceding the contest helped a lot. (On Friday night I could only sleep one hour after a stressful working day and 130 km drive to Sousse).
I appreciate everyone’s band moves which worked at 90%. Thanks to CT1ILT, N6TV, 3V/F4HJD, 3V/KG5OUE for the help and support.

73 Ash 3V/KF5EYY
www.kf5eyy.info


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