New experience noticed this time during CQWW SSB 2012 contest working as NON-ASSISTED. It means no used DX-Cluster during competition. It was much harder to find new multipliers. But what a thrill is when Multiplier is giving you a call when doing CQ. Or when searching frequencies from time to time new Multiplier (New Country/CQ Zone appear)! This is amazing. Can you imagine how it was for me when station from Madagascar 5R8UI located in CQ zone 39 show up during my searching? Or KH7O Hawaii Islands located in CQ Zone 31 ? Or when I was calling CQ and station from New Zealand ZL4M gave me a call and New CQ Zone 32! Few times I`ve found interesting station in wanted CQ ZONE but pile-up was massive that time or it was almost the end of condition on the band and I could not reach it. I had a situation last night when station ZD8O was active on 21Mhz and it was too late for me to reach him when signals in his location from NA where much stronger. Similar thing with stations located in Zones 27 and 28. SWL` them , but not worked.
Summary for 40 CQ Zones:
32 CQ Zones worked.
Missing Zones: 1 , 23 , 27 , 28 , 34 , 36 , 37* , 38
*No activity reported from CQ Zone 37 during CQWW SSB 2012 yet.
52% of my QSOs on 28Mhz! As band in great condition. To be honest with a bit of luck all World was active on 28Mhz last weekend. A lot of stations where operating on 10m only. One day after contest I`ve spoken with EI5JQ Adam and he told me about his 1800 QSOs made on 10m ONLY during contest! New EI record ? Perhaps! One more 28Mhz beauty .... band is WIDE ... noticed activity from 28.250Mhz up to 29.100 Mhz thats a lot! Compare it to 40m where you can operate from 7.040 up to 7.200 ... huge difference!
For 160/80/40m my multiband dipole on the tree is not GREAT thing but something I must take what I have and little activity on those bands from my side. One thing to remember on 80m! Easier for me was to work C5A The Gambia than several EU countries hi hi!
And here is my breakdown by bands:
This was my activity time:
Stations with 4 QSOs:
C5A DR1A EE1W HG1S LY7A N4WW OM8A W1NA W4RM
Stations with 3 QSOs:
3V8BB A73A CR3A DF0HQ E7DX HK1NA II2S IQ2CJ K2LE K3LR K3WW K3ZO K9CT KC1XX KP2M LZ9W NQ4I OE4A OK7O OL1X OT5A OU4X R3BM RT6A S57DX SO2R TM6M UP0L V26B VE2IM VE3EJ VP5DX W0AIH W2RE WK1Q XL3A ZW5B
No QSOs with W3LPL robot as I am no supporting Skimmer active on DX Cluster!
QSOs summary by figures:
115 DXCC in total :
Great fun was to work USA - looking forward for ARRL 10m 2012 !!!
And EU!
That is all for now.
73! and CU in next Contest!
de EI9KC
Statistics made by UA4WLI - SH5 Contest Log Analyzer
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