{"id":1433,"date":"2018-05-29T00:45:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:32:10","slug":"wpx-cw-soaab-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"WPX CW \u2013 SO(A)AB HP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Took 2 days off for preparing\/restoring the station. Managed to finish everything but when I sat down to the desk I felt wrecked physically. Did not feel really in shape either but looked forward this one so long was very exited, of course could not take any sleep.<\/p>\n

Painfully SO1R operation with huge and continuous temptation for picking between CQ and mult S&P.<\/p>\n

Still no real antenna for 15m as I counted almost fully closed band for this event but when the sunspots will appear again?<\/p>\n

It’s never been needed to switch off due to storm yet so this was my turn. Please guess where is my QTH<\/a>? Yes, in the middle of the “storm-eye”.<\/p>\n

Had to disconnect everything after visible meteoric thunders simply could not risk the direct hit any longer. Took for 2 hours. Luckily enough with a minor off-time reshuffling I could save an hour to the contest end. No need to say before\/after the storm 80\/40m was simply horrible due to the QRN apologies for the loooads of repetition requests.<\/p>\n

@SP9R, sorry man, I heard in traces the rest was the statics with trying to guess what’s going on the band. UBN will be interesting to see how my “signal extrapolation” worked.<\/p>\n

However hands on heart this turned out great as this made me QSY to 20m for the last 2 hours where I ended up with a great NA opening.<\/p>\n

It was interesting experience that a significant number of RBN hops appear with typical frequency offsets. Using 250Hz filter unfortunately depending where I’m sitting in the KHz the caller will fall out of the passband. Took a while until I figured this out guess I lost a bunch of stns as I assumed they called someone else… or have to try to find a rounded CQ frequencies.<\/p>\n

It could be a lesson learnt that in similar situations repeating the number ONLY might increase the likelihood of the successful reception. It happened 9 out of 10 times that the counter stn sent “HA3LN, TU\/UR 599” … and lastly the number. It would be more effective only re-sending the serial without the rest cutting back the overall lead time of the period. No need to say 2\/3 of times\u00a0 the QSB was up for the “HA3LN, TU\/UR 599” part and blank for the serial figures.<\/p>\n

YW4D was a nice surprise on 10m with very weak signal but managed to copy the serial out on the dead band. Thanks for the perseverance.<\/p>\n

All in all this was a great fun with great rates and good condx with several take-aways.<\/p>\n

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