02-19-2023, 07:46 PM (This post was last modified: 02-19-2023, 07:51 PM by N1API.)
If you worked the ARRL CW Contest this weekend please post your results here by replying to this message. If you are one of the MARC ARRL Contest participants, please use Meriden ARC as your club for the log.
Here are my results. A great weekend. The bands were wild. I was ecstatic over the results especially 40 meters. Best contacts on 40 were Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. I did not expect those. I heard Alaska and Japan on 40 but they were weak and the big guns were going at them. Asia was great on 10, 15 and 20. 20 meters opens to Asia in the morning then it fades and comes back in the evening. As we get toward the spring and summer 20 and 17 and maybe 15 will have an early morning opening to ASIA The Japanese stations were strong on all bands. Usually they have "Arctic Flutter" on their signals which makes them hard to read but there was not much of that, most of them were pretty solid. One thing that I noted, I especially needed the Vanuatu station on CW, it's the last mode that I need. They must have minimal antennas, (but they were using 500 watts), I kept seeing them spotted on 10 and 15 but just could not hear them. They were spotted on 20 and at the time I was working Europe and turned to their frequency and could hear them. So I swung the beam toward them at 275 degrees and lost them. Everyone else was working them and I wondered what was going on. I turned the beam back toward Europe the their signal came back up, weak but readable. Then the old brain went into gear. I moved the beam down to 96 degrees, LONG PATH! They were on the long path, 2 calls and they were in the log. I wonder how many worked them off the back of their antennas not realizing they were on the long path. That was the only time heard them all weekend long. I checked both paths for 10 and 15 and never heard them. Lesson recalled.. Check the long path and backscatter. Remember the plan of action, "Time On Target", know where and when your enemy is.
OK here are the results.
START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT CALLSIGN: N1API CLUB: Meriden ARC CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: CW CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 475200 OPERATORS: N1API NAME: Al ADDRESS: ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451 ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OM EMAIL: CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9811.0
(02-19-2023, 07:46 PM)N1API Wrote: If you worked the ARRL CW Contest this weekend please post your results here by replying to this message. If you are one of the MARC ARRL Contest participants, please use Meriden ARC as your club for the log.
Contest was great. 15M and 10M were great.
My dipoles and vertical performed great with my radio.
Worked Australia, Alaska and Borneo on 40M.
Some of the others are New Zealand, Kenya, China, Japan,
Hawaii, Ukraine, Thailand and Mongolia.
Did no call CQ Once.
Worked 16 out of the 48 hours.
Score was 173,451 submitted
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START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CALLSIGN: KC1SA
LOCATION: CT
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
OPERATORS: KC1SA
NAME: STEVE ALLEN
ADDRESS: 51 North Street
ADDRESS-CITY: Wallingford
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06492
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
EMAIL: sallen48@gmail.com
GRID-LOCATOR: FN31OL
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CLAIMED-SCORE: 149298
Worked 14 hours off an on over the weekend. 10m was the sweet band for me and a first for me spending so much time on 10. Only a couple busted call signs, but some of the folks were blazingly fast. One of my favorite contests for CW because it is so easy. Just listen for the "K". Made Hawaii, Austrailia and New Zealand on 20m early Sunday morning.
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