2014 CQ WPX Contest

[N1API]

This year it was hunt and peck all weekend for me. I took an "easy weekend" just working at leisure. It was just a nice weekend picking stations out of the pile. Some unusual prefixes out of Europe, and I ran across a few, spotted them and watched the whole world descend on them after I worked them. Bands were OK though 10 meters did not produce a lot of contacts and only 25 multipliers.

Again 15 meters was the "money band". I found that China and Indonesia was workable in the morning when the band was open to Europe and at night when the band was open to Japan. On 15 meters I worked B4L at 1325 UTC on Sunday. That's 9:25 AM our time and 9:25 PM China time. BY5CD was also worked at 1605 UTC which is 12 PM / 12 AM. This year is seemed like there were a ton of Chinese stations on 15 meters Sunday evening. The JAs were also booming.

Here are the results followed by the breakdown.

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: TB-WIRES
CLAIMED-SCORE: 559872
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY:
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE:
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: United States
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.3.1

Band ------ QSOs ------ WPX
14 -------- 229 ------- 159
21 -------- 290 ------- 200
28 --------- 35 -------- 25
Total ----- 554 ------- 384
Score 559,872

Hope you all had a chance to get some seat time in.

73

Al