Well, I worked my very first CQ WW DX SSB Contest over the past weekend. I set a goal for 500 contacts for myself. The goal was set before I realized that the stations were going to be all from other countries, nothing stateside. The stateside contacts didn't count for any points, just other countries and other zones. I had a good time overall with 20:18:33 total operating time. That includes tuning around and trying to work stations. I was originaly going to pick a frequency on each band and call CQ Contest but that didn't work out to well because there were not many stateside contacts as I mentioned. The Contest was for 160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M, and 10M. I have no 160 or 80 antenna here so I was limited to only 4 bands. Station was a 746Pro Icom running 100 Watts. Antenna was a G5RV-JR, 52 foot long 40-10 Dipole up at 15 feet high. Stats are as followed:

40 Meter = 48 Contacts, 22 Countries, and 14 Zones.
20 Meter = 65 Contacts, 31 Countries, and 15 Zones.
15 Meter = 27 Contacts, 19 Countries, and 9 Zones.
10 Meter = 13 Contacts, 10 Countries, and 7 Zones.

153 Total Contacts, 310 QSO Points, 127 Multipliers for a total score of 39370.

Not too bad for my modest setup. It was awesome to see 10 meters open into south america and the caribbean. I was hoping to work Barbados on 10 but no joy. I did however work Barbados on 40 and 20. 8P5A on 40 and 20 and 8P6SH on 40. I had a good time. Not as many contacts as field day but quality DX contacts.


Jason - W8ZZU
Total Logged Contacts = 1389
Last Contact: WA8YUZ on 10M SSB. Location: Michigan. 10/28/07 at 19:23 UTC

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Re: Contest
By: W8ZZU to All on Tue Oct 30 2007 23:00:00

8P5A on 40 and 20...

That isn't a regular callsign. It was issued to a visitor on a DXpedition
for the contest, or just down here on vacation. Or it is a "Contest Callsign", issued to a local ham as a "Special Event" callsign.

...and 8P6SH on 40.

Hey, I ain't spoken to Dean in quite a while! I wonder if he still lives
out in Ocean City?

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