WPX contest SSB raw scores are now available.
So far, I am leading among JA in the 10m band Lo power category, but in Asia, I am completely defeated by Hong Kong stations. It is hard to win when they are active participants.
I have posted a video on Youtube showing a scene of contest that I participated from Japan.
They are audio only, but I would be happy if you could take a look at them.
See you again at the contest!
JA6WFM Hiro
I participated in the WPX contest SSB 10m band with 100W.
Last year I made 800 QSOs, so this year I aimed for 1000 QSOs and 2 million points.
As a result, I achieved 1003 QSOs just before the end of the competition except for duplicates, but my score was a little short of 2 million points.
I did not expect the conditions to be as good as for North America in the morning, but I still made almost 200 QSOs, so that is good.
As for Europe, I was able to accumulate stations efficiently because of their smart calling.
It was also interesting to note that the area where the most QSOs were made was zone 14, which is not in the near vicinity of Europe.
As for OC, Oceania, recently, many stations have been able to be found in YB, but there seem to be few stations on 28MHz, so there may be many stations on 21MHz.
As for VK,ZL, I feel that there are not many stations from the northern hemisphere that consciously point their antennas toward the south and Oceania, as I experienced in Tonga as A31MM.
So, I am taking the time to point the antenna and run it even toward Oceania, so that there are stations that will call me.
The South American direction has been heard consistently and the response rate has been good except for the times they do it with North America.
I was not concerned about communicating with the Caribbean or Africa since the prefix is multi, not DXCC, for this contest.
Instead, I put stations with new prefixes on the N1MM available list and called them in a timely manner.
As a result, I had 692 multis, about 150 more than last year.
In this contest, multis are scored only once for all bands, not per band.
Therefore, it is also interesting to note that my score in the single band contest exceeded the scores of other multi-band stations.
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IC-7700(100W) 6ele yagi, Heil iC mic element
N1MM
ARRL DX CONTEST CW Review
Aiming to beat last year's score, I participated in the limited SO28MHz Low Power category.
I had the impression that recent conditions were the same or better than last year, so I was hoping to break the record.
At the start, 100Q/H at 100W was an excellent start considering that I participated from the western end of Japan.
In the first leg of the 3-hour duration, which started at 9:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time (JST), 161 QSOs were made, an increase of 60 QSOs from last year.
The second leg, which lasted five hours from around 7:00 a.m. to noon on Sunday, also got off to a good start, recording 100 QSOs per hour. However, after an hour, I was no longer called, and although I alternated between S/P and RUN, I was unable to increase my score as much as I would have liked, finishing with 395 QSOs.
I tried to make a hope in the last two hours from 7:00 a.m. JST, but there were many duplicate QSOs, and I could not make up the score well.
The final score was 477 QSOs and 52 multis.
IC-7610 6ele Yagi N1MM
