CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: WX3B
Operator(s): WX3B
Station: WX3B
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Maryland
Operating Time (hrs): 10.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 0 0 0
40: 95 19 59
20: 183 25 79
15: 171 92 95
10: 242 29 89
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Total: 691 102 322 Total Score = 831,464
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was my first "Part remote"/Part on campus effort. I was
impressed by how good 40 meters sounded hours after darkness/before European
Sunrise.
Like Bruce, N1LN mentioned in his writeup, I was also stress testing a fixed
amplifier that died the Saturday night after CQWW DX SSB. With the help of N3SB
and NY3A, this was easily diagnosed and fixed, and it survived 1800+ W1AW/3
earlier this month, as well as the short runs for a few hours on 10 in the CW
contest. I remain optimistic!!
I started on the high bands at about 2:30pm Saturday and was greeted by
disturbed band conditions, but the rates were still good.
On Sunday, I got an earlier start at about 10:30am and headed straight for 10,
which sounded great!! Wall to wall signals - a few bursts of good pileups (I
was fresh meat), however there were also periods that approached a minute where
I Had no callers. Strange...
Off to 15, 20 & 40 over the day, trying to maximize my fun with rate, along
with pouncing on multipliers for score. Highlight on 40 was having a VU respond
to me early in our opening. That station had some big ears!!
Never got on 80 or 160...and missed the stellar Asian opening I heard about on
Sunday evening.
A short, fun effort, and as always, watching the scoreboard was exciting. I
heard a credible rumor that there was at least one or two SURPRISES from people
not posting to the scoreboard...
Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and is getting ready for the rest of the
holidays.
73,
Jim WX3B
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