2024
Work in progress.. will show exceptional contacts and write about experience
Pretty leisurely affair. I worked for two or three hour periods at random times as allowed by family. Most work was done in the early mornings and in the afternoons. All hunting. I tried calling CQ a few times on different bands but didn't have the patience for more than five minutes - no one was calling. I have a feeling that the bulk of my DX was with big gun stations having huge and high antenna arrays.
So many islands on 40m, to include some I didn't have: Bonaire, Curacao, Turks/Caicos, Cayman, St. Kitts/Nevis, Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Jamaica, T&T, Montserrat, etc.
And then this beauty:
40m to Hawaii is amazing to me. I almost didn't call, as I thought it was impossible!
Some other interesting connections on 40m:
Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Portugal, Spain, Cape Verde
20m and 15m was awesome. Many many European countries and a few Oceana/AU.
10m was a bust for me. I couldn't get out at all on the horizontal random wire, but heard everything which made it hurt more. When I put up the vertical, the noise floor was extremely high. One morning, a few days before the contest, I checked on random WebSDRs, around the world, and I was making it pretty much every where with that vertical.. real shame. I only managed a few contacts to EU Russia, one to Latvia, Mexico, Belgium, Italy. Maybe ten total for 10m. :(
RAW
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CALLSIGN: N3DMV
LOCATION: FM18KA
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-TIME: 24-HOURS
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: CLASSIC
CLAIMED-SCORE: 74892
2023
Call Year QTH Zn Category Score QSOs Zn Cty Hours KC3NLT 2023 W3 5 SO LOW ALL (C) 5,238 46 23 31 3.9