[WVDXA] CQ 160 CW LOG

[Dave Heil]

Clark L. Stewart wrote:
> Dave,
> 
>      All I can say is - *WOOF! * For a weekend spent "playing around" 
> and just 10.2 hours on the band, you certainly racked up the QSO's.  
> Congratulations!

Heh.  Those runs saved my bacon.

>      I was listening to a DX station and heard someone send him "ND" but 
> I do not remember the call.  I saw KL7Z spotted several times but when I 
> went to look for him, I never heard a peep.

Wish I'd have found KT0V--or that he'd have found me.

>      I missed W.A.S. by 15 states - DUH!  KS, ND, NE, SD, ME, RI, VT, 
> KY, LA, MS, OK, ID, MT, WY, and KL7.  I either saw or heard 7 of those 
> but did not work them.  

That goes to show that it is a rotating feast, Clark.  I ended up with 
three each RI and VT, four or five ME and a couple of MT and SD 
stations.  I noted a number of friends who've already submitted scores 
to the 3830 reflector, but whom I never heard.  Some of 'em had pretty 
large scores.

> But, in my defense, I only worked 113 QSO's and 
> was merely trying for new countries.  

Heck, you don't need a defense in this bunch.  Like you, I had great 
hopes of working a new one or two.  It just wasn't to be.  I worked a 
single PY5 who answered one of my CQ's.  That CX station was quite loud 
when I worked him as was CE1/K7CA.

> I think I had a total of 28 
> countries worked and SEVEN of them were New Ones for me so I was *One 
> Happy Camper!

Well, this was the time to nab 'em.  I don't fancy the SSB weekend 'cuz 
all of the W QRM wipes out a load of the DX.

> *     My New Ones were:  YU - Serbia, EI - Ireland, V3 - Belize, UA2 - 
> Kalingrad, VP9 - Bermuda, CT - Portugal and HK - Columbia.

There seemed to be a surplus of Irish stations.  I think I heard three 
and worked two.

>      At this point, you are the LEADER of the WVDXA in this contest.  
> Can anyone top Dave's score?

I'm embarrassed to be the basis of comparison.  I've already seen lots 
of logs with country counts in the fifties and sixties--maybe one or two 
in the seventies.  I have to have the beverage and the EWE's ready for 
next year.

73,

Dave K8MN

> 
> Clark, W8TN
> *CQ Log Has Been Submitted
> LoTW Log is On It's Way
> 
> 
> *At 04:46 AM 1/28/2008 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>> > The final tally was:
>> >
>> > 487 QSOs 32 Countries 52 States/province for 119,028
>>
>> BTW, there was not a new country in the mix for me.  I missed a weekend
>> WAS by Mississippi, North Dakota and Alaska.  I heard MS a number of
>> times, but always calling someone.  I didn't hear ND or AK at any time.
>> Did anyone else work 'em?
>>
>> Dave K8MN
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