CQ WW DX CW 2008

My very first participation in this mythic contest, only 8 hours QRV because of my job, but many new bands (especially 15M & 80M) in the log ! A very modest total of 127 QSOs.

Before the contest, DXCC worked in CW (QRV 1 year ago) :

80M   40M   20M   15M   10M  

36      82    114      37     52 

After the contest :

80M   40M   20M   15M   10M

        57     85    117     54     54       

21 new DXCC on 80M !!  with my Mini-G5RV dipole (2x7.5m @ 6.00 meters and 100 Watts !). Originally, this dipole is not working on 80M... hmm... hmm...

17 new DXCC on 15M !!  with TH3MKIII @ 8.00 meters and 100 Watts.

I stayed a lot on 15M chasing new ones for this band and I was lucky with nice openings and good ears from both sides ! Thanks guys...

The station in contest configuration : (manual CW)

A view of the log :

Originally logged with Win-Test logger (1st contest too )

Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest

Callsign : F8DZY   Mode : CW

Category : Single Operator (SO)

Overlay : ---   Band(s) : All bands (AB)

Class : Low Power (LP)   Zone/State/... : 14

Locator : IN93JN   Operating time : 7h57

BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG

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160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00

80 59 8 43 0 73 1.24

40 26 7 20 0 50 1.92

20 14 7 11 0 34 2.43

15 24 13 20 0 70 2.92

10 4 3 4 0 10 2.50

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TOTAL 127 38 98 0 237 1.87

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TOTAL SCORE : 32 232

Les doubles ne sont pas inclus dans le comptage des QSO ni dans les calculs de moyennes

Operators : F8DZY

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Of course, I only chased new bands/modes during this contest (sometimes some multis) so I hope to be able to do it again seriously next year.

Chris F8DZY.