CQ WW CW

The past weekend was again the CQ WW in CW.A very big contest with alot of stations that are joining it.This isn't only a nice contest for itself,but also a possibility to work some very nice DXCC's.Many op's are going to other places to get different DXCC and Zones on the air.

It's a 48 hours contest,starting at 0:00 UTC.

My goal is to try to get more QSO's and Points then the year before.Last year i had little more then 175.000 points with 560 QSO's.....so for me it wouldn't be that easy to get better.I just have a small station with 25 watts and my antenne's are 3elm Fritzel (FB33) and the PKW MHF1e40.And also for me as a Novice,only 3 band are allowed....10 , 20 and 40M.

I started at 0:00 UTC on 40M.In the start it's an easy job...all stations are new in the log.The best in this contest is to work DX outside your own continent,so for me outside Europe.Propagation wasn't very well this time,but still i managed to work a few stations from NA and also P40L.At 2:30 i decited to sleep a little...

6:00 UTC back at the radio,first again on 40M and from 6:24 UTC on the 20M.Propagation on 20M seemed to be ok...and i managed to work 3 stations from Japan.Also Asiatic Russia and Europe was very strong.After one hour on 20M i went back to the 40M band again to see how the propagation was.Propagation to NA was better as before,worked 28 stations in one hour,8 from NA and also KP2.After that back to 20M.

I also looked so now and then on the 10M and at 9:45 i did hear some good signals.Was able to work 21 Stations on 10M,mostly EU and 9J3A.Total i worked 58 stations on 10M during the contest from 11 different Zones.

This was the way i did work the whole contest.Checking so now and then other bands for propagation and new Multipliers.

Sometimes i also managed to work a station during a pile up.I just went up or down a few and this did work very well.I like to work contest.Also in CW but thats also difficult for me,as i work CW with my computer and MixW.This means that sometimes i got not everything ok or the other has mistakes.Sometimes i get back from the others GD7BZ instead of PD7BZ.Then it's always the question if it's my software that makes the mistakes or do they really send it wrong back.I can understand my own call in CW now,so the callmistakes are getting less.

Click here for the Contest results in SH5: http://www.pd7bz.nl/cqww/index.htm

Some nice DXCC's worked:

10M: 9J3A , VK6AA , 4K9W , OD5NJ , 9L5VT , D4C and C5A

20M: J28AA , VE2XAA/2 (Zone 2) , HK1X , 7Z1SJ , 5X1XA , TO5T , P40W , PZ5T ,

8P5A , HI3A , PJ2T , BY8AC , A73A , 8N5A and ZA3HA.

40M: ZA3HA , A73A , T70A , V47NT , OY6A , KP2M , OH0V , 8P5A , 8N5A and JA6GCE.

The results from N1MM:

Band --QSOs -- Pts -- Cty -- ZN

7 --221 -- 363 -- 60 -- 13

14 --298 -- 642 -- 66 -- 20

28 -- 58 -- 110 -- 26 -- 11

Total 577 -- 1115 -- 152 -- 44

Score: 218.540

CQ WW Contest

In the past weekend,28-29 Nov,was again the CQ WW CW contest.

I also was active during this contest with MixW as my CW decoder.

I started at 0:00 UTC saterday and worked on 40M untill 4:00 UTC.

In this time i got 97 QSO's logged.After this i went to bed for a few hours.

At 9:00 UTC i was present at the radio again,starting on 40M.At 10:23 i did switch to 20M and made multies from zones 14,15,16,17,18 and 20.

Around 11:00 UTC i did check the 10M and i did hear some low signals.Little later o could work zones 15,33,35 and 38.As new DXCC on 10M i worked A25NW.

The 10M wasn't open for more at my end,so i jumped into the 20M again.Did work VK6AA for zone 29.Worked my first station from NA around 11:45 UTC...after this more followed.

After 18:00 the 20M went death,so again to 40M.Last QSO made was as 0:33 UTC.....Bedtime.

Sundays i started again at 9:00 UTC on 40M.After a while i found out that 10M was also some activity and went there.Made 6 QSO's,all new multies.

After this again to the 20M and later checking 40M as well.Because we can have differend propagation on 40M in daytime,i got some more new multies again working ON,LX,TF,OZ and G stations.Back to 20M after this till 18:00 UTC again...while the band went death again.

Was active till 0:00 UTC...till the end of the contest.

I wasn't active all the time...had some breaks to do something else.Also have three Husky dogs that wanted to enjoy a walk outside as well,hi.At some time,mostly between 19:00-22:00 Utc,i went for a break as well.Had also some extra QRM on the 40M this periode and as was too early to get NA stations for me on 40M.So i was QRX for that time and started again around 22:00 UTC.

Worked some very nice DXCC's again in the contest and also some New ones on the bands.

Got new B7P China on 40M.Also HC8GR as new one on 40M.

Other nice calls worked:

6Y1V,A73A,P49Y,KP2M,V26K,D44AC,8P5A,NP4Z,PJ4A.

My goal was again to get more point/QSO's as in the year before.

Total QSO's now are 554,but got some dupes as well.

Total points are 165.958

Last year i got around 90.000 points,so my goal was made more then that.