CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: IR2Q
Operator(s): IR2Q
Station: IR2Q
Class: SOAB HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 46
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 267 10 51
80: 735 16 61
40: 1318 29 86
20: 1018 27 82
15: 1448 33 99
10: 877 30 83
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Total: 5663 145 462 Total Score = 7,419,361
Club: Italian Contest Club
Comments:
This time it was my shift for murphy visit.
Just before the contest one radio decided to be stingy and not deliver power...
the meter didn't show anything, the power adjust didn't work, but some RF was on
the connector and looking at the PA out, I guess it was ~10W out or less, and
never got better until the end.
Naturally, after the contest, the radio was tested and worked normally...So I
will keep the doubt until Dec,9 :)
Well, the race started slow for me, but rates picked up the next hours with a
good shape of 40 and 80 meters.
The time gap between the night and day time passed so fast that I nearly did
nothing on 20m except some mult on LP, jumped from low bands to 15/10m and
staying there for a long time until the storm hit our antennas, and once again
did nothing on a dead 20m in the late evening, oing to low bands very early to
hear auroral ash.
During the storm a lot of signals were affected by echo and heavy distortion,
some of them, despite being strong, could not be decoded, sorry for that. I
think this was quite common for a lot of us on the air.
Luckily on Sunday the situation was better and signal strenght improved.
Had too much coffee on Saturday and when the nap time arrived around 23, I could
not sleep deep, so I just rested one hour in bed, and on Sunday afternoon I paid
the bill... at some point I was not able to operate 2bsiq anymore and switched
to "classic so2r" until the end trying to chase mults.
Big enjoyment overall, and happy to have heard many friends and good operators
on the air.
As most of us use to say, "this is what we like".
Thanks for the QSOs, 73s Luca
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