2001 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST
Call used: AD5Q Location: 04
Category: Single Op Assisted Mode: CW Power: 1500
Callsign of Operator(s): AD5Q
Hours of Operation: 37:48
band QSOs points zones ctys
160 14 23 8 11
80 59 145 17 42
40 245 675 28 81
20 382 970 29 89
15 427 1180 31 85
10 485 1363 26 87
TOTAL 1612 4356 139 395 SCORE: 2,326,104
Club or Team Name: TeamCramp.Com
Comments: I almost threw in the towel on this one when the bands
failed to open on Saturday morning.
My goal for this contest was 2000 Q's, which I felt I could do
because of SO2R improvements since a year ago.
I put in a full effort the first night without a break. I couldn't
run anything on 40 to either EU or JA, but did have a good JA run
on 20. 80 was awful, with static crashes from nearby storms on top
of the weak sigs from EU. The pileups weren't much fun, due to
EXTREMELY impatient operating manners on the part of many well
knowm multi-op calls. Do these station owners know how their calls
are being trashed? One station in particular was by far the worst
offender, but I won't name it here.
Saturday morning started with some really nice signals on 40 long
path. I wanted to move a Zone 18 to 80, since the one I worked 10
years ago never QSL'ed. 10 usually opens promptly at sunrise, but
not on this day. Arrrghhh! Everything came to a screeching halt and
I began thinking of other things to do with my weekend.
So I took a long nap starting at 1600z. 6 hours later the bands were
alive! I don't know when they opened, or how much I missed - but
started running JA's on 15. It was a good run.
Second night: still no good EU runs on either 20 or 40, and 80 sucked
even without the static crashes of the first night. I didn't expect
many new mults on low bands, so took another long nap (5 hours) and
got up 2 hours before sunrise to check 40 for a JA run. At this point
I was still only half serious about finishing the contest. The JA's
didn't start running until an hour before sunrise. The antenna is
a C4XL.
So it's Sunday morning, and I still don't have 100 Q's on 10. That is
where I spent the morning, while snagging SO2R mults on 15. Still, 10
was hotter last year. Kept rates fairly decent through to the end,
and somehow finished the contest only a dozen Q's short of last year
(but also down by 40 mults and 300k points).
Considering conditions, and the amount of off time I took, am very
satisfied.
Station description (mostly tri-bander's) is at...
http://www.qth.com/ad5q/faq.htm
q...
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