All Asian DX Contest, SSB
Call: VE6CNU
Operator(s): VE6CNU
Station: VE6CNU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80:
40: 1 1
20: 152 57
15:
10:
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Total: 153 58 Total Score = 8,874
Club: ALBERTA CLIPPERS
Comments:
This was a very busy weekend with tons of contests going on simultaneously. I
was really looking forward to the All Asian SSB contest with the hopes that
propagation would be better than last year. I guess I have to wait until next
year, hi! The new thing for me was that I was using an amp in this contest and
also using a spotting cluster. Up until now I have resisted spotting but this
was part of the contest so I decided to give it a try. At the beginning of the
contest I was picking them off very easily but it soon became apparent that
there were very few new spots as time went by. And since we have a pretty good
pipeline to Japan from Alberta, about 95% of all my QSOs were with JAs.
Both mornings of the contest I got up early (4AM today) to see if I could work
Asia on 40m. Yesterday morning I heard absolutely nothing, but this morning I
managed to work one JA at around 4:30AM local time (1030Z). There was a
constant S7 noise across the band, which seemed part of the Alberta RF black
hole. After 2 more hours of hearing nothing (except west coast stations
working Japan) I went back to bed!
Sunday afternoon I managed to work more JA stations but not much else (a total
of 5 countries in all throughout the contest). Its a good thing the mults are
by WPX prefix rather than by country prefix.
73,
Jerry VE6CNU
Rig: FT-1000MP
Amp: FL-7000 (about 400W)
Ant: TH6DXX @ 13m, Inverted Vee for 40/80
Software: N1MM
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