CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: DH8BQA
Operator(s): DH8BQA
Station: DH8BQA
Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP
QTH: JO73ce
Operating Time (hrs): 22:30
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: (18)
80: (7)
40: (163)
20: (28)
15: 1486 37 136
10: (4)
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Total: 1452 37 136 Total Score = 582,318
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
Elecraft K3, PA + 6 ele OWA Yagi
Condx sucked, especially on Saturday. Worked just 35 JAs in the morning and
barely half a dozen zone 3 stations in the afternoon, to name results for the
two most difficult path'. A bit better on Sunday with 100 JAs and 35 zone 3
stations. Moaning now but we will certainly want these figures back in a few
years. ;-) Decline into sunspot minimum sure has started ...
Worst key-klickers this time were K5YAA and R7AB. It's "great" when
these guys start CQ'ing a kilohertz away and you can throw away your run QRG
due to their bad signals. :-(
It was nice to work C92ZO during the contest. Not so nice when Marko started
going split and putting his split RX on my run QRG about 1.2 kHz higher. :-( If
you really need to work split during a contest then please do it way up in the
band and not right in the middle of the band where stations are wall to wall!
As the DX you will be spotted a thousand times anyway so it will not hurt you
to go higher ...
Worst frequency thief this time was EF8R. While it was certainly good that he
at least asked "QRL?" before starting he waited a whopping 100
milliseconds (!) before starting CQ then. Thanks for destroying the QSO I was
just in (trying to dig out a weak WA5)! Of course he then ignored my "QRL
QRL QRL" just 3 seconds later and kept on CQing ... :-(
Otherwise no big problems this time. ;-) Nice to work some good ol' friends
again, I'm always pleased to receive an extra "hi" or "73".
;-)
Besides doing SOSB15 I handed out a few more QSOs on the other bands, too, when
15 m was closed. Some nice DX on 40 m in the log, it was kinda addictive. ;-)
Condx on 160 m seemed to be great Sunday morning, worked a few US guys with
real 599 signals, never seen such strong signals before (no special RX antennas
overhere). Unfortunately couldn't break 8Q7DV's pileup on top band although he
had a decent signal ...
Though putting a note onto the keyboard I forgot to switch on QSOrder for the
first 2 or 3 QSOs Saturday morning, damn. ;-) But recorded everything else so
if you are interested to hear how you sounded in northern central Europe just
drop me a note at callsign @darc.de and I'll be glad to share the MP3s.
Now let's see how condx will evolve until ARRL-10M and if we can still do a few
QSOs on "ten" then. Otherwise the next big ones will be CQ-WPX-RTTY
and ARRL-CW in February which we will participate in from Aruba. Already
looking forwarded going to the Caribbean ... :-)
73, Olli - DH8BQA
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