The yearly climax of the contest season is the CQWW cw contest on 29 and 30th of November.
Despite poor conditions on the higher bands, I cranked out 613 QSOs, mostly in S&P mode. I had a few runs on Sunday. On 20m a short run to the USA and later on 80m a good EU run.
40 and 80m were good in the morning (local sunrise peak), and Saturday evening (USA sunset and Asia/Oceania).
CQ WW CW – 2008-11-29 0000Z to 2008-12-01 0000Z – 613 QSOs
PF5X Max Rates:
2008-11-30 1605Z – 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by PF5X
2008-11-30 1605Z – 3.0 per minute (10 minute(s)), 180 per hour by PF5X
2008-11-30 1806Z – 1.5 per minute (60 minute(s)), 89 per hour by PF5X
Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN
3.5 188 269 58 14
7 139 382 64 27
14 244 690 58 23
21 41 118 31 15
Total 612 1459 211 79
Score : 423,110
Here are a few sound snippets:
29Nov, 0815z, 40m
29Nov, 0832z, 40m
30Nov, 0714z, 80m
30Nov, 1555z, 20m
30Nov, 1719z, 80m
Equipment:
K3, microKEYER II, SPE 1K-FA (running at 400W)
3 ele SteppIR @ 17m
rotary dipole 30/40m @19m
80m inv.vee apex @ 17m
N1MM logger 8.11.0
mp3DirectCut 2.09 (audio recording/editing)
