10-30-2022, 03:31 PM
10-30-2022, 08:43 PM
Well I did not have any solid plans on what I was going to do this weekend in the contest.
I knew that I would get on some and make a "few" contacts ... and then 10 meters happened!
This is "just a sample" of what the bands are like in the high sunspot years. We still have
not reached the peak yet and I expect that when we do do we will see these kind of
openings every day and also late into the evening. KL7RA was almost 10 over 9 on 10
meters, the strongest I've ever hear Alaska. All the band were hot and if you did not
check them out you missed a great chance to work on your DXCC. The one station I was
happy to work was Z68, Republic of Kosovo on 10 meters that was the last band that I
needed him on and I was waiting to them to work 10 meters, finally. I did DXCC in a day
and DXCC Plus on 10 meters, it was the money band. Obliviously my best SSB contest
in many years. I don't expect to be the winner, but I'm overjoyed with the results.
Here they are.
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 571472
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al Kaiser
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OM
EMAIL:
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9700.0
Contest CQWWSSB
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty
7 11 29 5 10
14 166 462 25 85
21 131 357 25 90
28 240 680 27 107 (!)
Total 548 1528 82 292
Score: 571,472
1 Mult - 1.5 Q's
If you worked the contest please credit Meriden ARC with your score on the log.
We need 3 logs to show in the results.
I knew that I would get on some and make a "few" contacts ... and then 10 meters happened!
This is "just a sample" of what the bands are like in the high sunspot years. We still have
not reached the peak yet and I expect that when we do do we will see these kind of
openings every day and also late into the evening. KL7RA was almost 10 over 9 on 10
meters, the strongest I've ever hear Alaska. All the band were hot and if you did not
check them out you missed a great chance to work on your DXCC. The one station I was
happy to work was Z68, Republic of Kosovo on 10 meters that was the last band that I
needed him on and I was waiting to them to work 10 meters, finally. I did DXCC in a day
and DXCC Plus on 10 meters, it was the money band. Obliviously my best SSB contest
in many years. I don't expect to be the winner, but I'm overjoyed with the results.
Here they are.
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 571472
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al Kaiser
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OM
EMAIL:
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9700.0
Contest CQWWSSB
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty
7 11 29 5 10
14 166 462 25 85
21 131 357 25 90
28 240 680 27 107 (!)
Total 548 1528 82 292
Score: 571,472
1 Mult - 1.5 Q's
If you worked the contest please credit Meriden ARC with your score on the log.
We need 3 logs to show in the results.