I haven’t heard anything from anybody about this contest, but I sure hope that some of youse guys that prefer SSB are going to be on the air in this contest. After this one, the next contest in the CTRI Champions competition is the first weekend in May, so I will publish an updated howgozit spreadsheet after I get the results from this contest entered. Please post your results here by Replying to this posting.
73, Ken K3IU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
Another partial effort that ended up taking more time than I planned due to the weather. Conditions were pretty darn good. I worked W1XX and Bill W1WBB. Spent most my time up on 10. Twenty really didn’t yield much for me. JA’s galore on Sunday night along with some deep Asia like 4H1T and B4L. Had some fun but still bothered by QRN on 15 and 10 that was so strong I couldn’t work the third tier very well or at all. Then I couldn’t figure out why signals started going down in Sunday afternoon until I went out and looked at the beam which was exactly 90 degrees off. The wind had turned it and the truss cable broke. So I need to do a little work once the rain stops.
I plan on putting a decent effort in on the CW WPX CW in May. I figure most of the snow will be gone by then.
73
Jim KS1J
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: KS1J
Operator(s): KS1J
Station: KS1J
Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 1
80: 0
40: 26
20: 156
15: 304
10: 562
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Total: 1049 Prefixes = 3087 Total Score = 1,821,330
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Call: W1XX
Op: W1XX
Station: W1XX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: RI
Op Time (hrs): 11.0
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 15
80: 32
40: 170
20: 92
15: 191
10: 410
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Total: 910 PX = 550 Score = 1,367,850
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
Just a very leisurely approach. Took lots of breaks, missed very little sleep, and
watched all the NCAA basketball tournament games, including UConn men’s thrilling win
to the Final Four! Mostly ran and was able to check out the new 10 meter Moxon at barely
25 feet. It works well. Worked: KS1J, KI1G, K1SD, K1DM, W1WBB. Adios! — John, W1XX
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: K1SD
Operator(s): K1SD
Station: K1SD
Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 7
40: 86
20: 141
15: 59
10: 269
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Total: 562 Prefixes = 409 Total Score = 685,893
I had limited time for this one.
73 James K1SD
Was able to put in a fair amount of “B-I-C” time due to clear weekend sked and lousy outdoor weather. Expected FB condx on-the-air did *not* disappoint. Decided to do only single band 10m effort – left nights free and the W1 10m SO(A)LP record of <10k paltry pts was in need of an upgrade. Never imagined I could exceed 1M pts though! 350K pts 373Qs/336wpx thru 1st 12 hrs… then finish with 1.076M pts 694/551 thru 24 hrs total @ 2.81 pts/Q. Maybe this will survive until the next solar max!
Mostly S&P – only about 85 QSOs made 'running'. With so many W1 stns participating, both myself and W1XX were *NOT* rare mults in this one! Incredible to hear the bands suddenly die for about an hour with major sustained QRN when the X-class solar flare hit Sat. afternoon – then bounce back with very good propagation, esp. Sunday. Lost more prime air-time cleaning up minor basement flooding Sunday AM due to heavy sustained rain here. The extraordinary propagation would have made this event interesting even using QRP w/ SSB. Incredible to be working Eu, Afr (Indian Ocean-FH), S/A, VY0(@ 80deg N. Lat.), other NA, T32 (Cent. Pac.) JA & BY within about an hour or so late Sunday, all on 10m. Glad to have been around for this memorable (once-in-lifetime?) event and contribute pts to the club!
73, Bill W1WBB
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: SO(A)SB10(TS) LP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): ~24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10: 694
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Total: 694 Prefixes = 551 Total Score = 1,076,654
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Epic conditions for 10m on this contest weekend — arguably the very best of
this solar cycle. With daytime hours available, I pursued new mults as much as
possible via S&P. Fewer than 15% QSOs made 'running' – other than a nice
run of mostly Eu (55 QSOs) Sunday I couldn't generate much interest with the W1
pfx using 100w to the Hexbeam. Was great to be called by VU2, TO7 (Mayotte) and
lots of other new pfx's though.
The big solar flare that struck Sat. afternoon local time created significant
S7 level QRN for about 1 hr and degraded all sigs – only big guns being heard
so took a break. Very heavy rains here Sun. put water in basement so lost
add'l time with clean-up.
Eu opened a bit earlier and stronger Sunday with Russia/Ukraine stns worked
while nothing was heard from there Day 1. Frustrating to hear some
U.K./EI-area mults go unworked as they were CQ'n away barely audible but in the
noise just short of my skip zone. Was amazing how late and how loud Eu came in
both days allowing for many more mults/Qs.
A few JAs were worked Friday eve, none were heard Sat., but the Sunday Asia
opening was incredible. Close to 40 JAs and 1 BY worked (many 1st call!) to
close things out on a high note. In addition many SA pfxs available both days
and nice to work them so easily this weekend as big hills just south of me
normally make that more difficult.
I guess this is as good as it gets on 10m in a contest!
Thanks to all for the Q's & mults and the sponsors for a great event.
Icom 706MKIIG @ 100 watts; Broadband Hexbeam up @ 32'; Heil Proset headset mic
& footswitch; N1MM logger. All QSOs uploaded to LoTW