CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: NA8V
Operator(s): NA8V
Station: NA8V
Class: SOSB/80 LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 175 20 60
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 175 20 60 Total Score = 34,640
Club:
Comments:
Equipment Description:
TS850
2xInv El ne/sw
2xInv El se/nw - bidirectional
Bev: 440' ne
New antennas hear better than anything I've ever used on 80, which was both a
blessing and a curse. Very difficult to work anyone. EU became workable at 05z
as the band went 'long' here, but that was too late for most of Eastern EU.
Heard 7 zones with good signals I couldn't work and probably 15 countries.
Unable to CQ into EU, probably didn't try hard enough. The EU antenna worked
great before the contest, i guess just too much QRM in EU. It was incredibly
frustrating to be unable to work stations that were s9+20.
Beverage was an improvement over the tx antenna but no real benefit as I
couldn't work anyone that was marginal copy anyway.
Ran Friday night with a single El to SA/etc, hooked up the second one Saturday
afternoon and was rewarded with JA, VK6 and some SA i didn't hear Friday night.
Only had 1 hour i didn't make a qso in (11z Friday).
Still, was quite enjoyable and cw should be much better, especially for low
power. Time to re-tune the antennas.........
greg/na8v
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