2014 CQ WPX Contest

[K1PU]

Well, not much chair time this year.
Had a Wake and Funeral Friday night / Saturday morning.
Didn't get in the chair until 4 PM.
Didn't stay up past 10PM being shot from driving to Enfield twice and back with in 12 hours!

Didn't get to see 80 meters open since I was asleep!
Did manage a token 1 contact on 80.

Here is the damage for the 2014 event

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: K1PU
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 324795
OPERATORS: K1PU
NAME: Mark Mokoski

Band QSOs Pts WPX
3.5 1 1 0
7 44 165 19
14 219 554 171
21 139 343 94
28 15 38 11
Total 418 1101 295
Score: 324,795

K1PU

[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