CQ WPX CW Contest – poor propagation and Aurora
I worked last weekend CQ WPX Contest in the single operator all bands class at OH1F. During the SSB leg I lost to top Finnish stations almost 1000 qsos, now I was doing better against OG8X, OG0Z and OG2B. Unfortunately propagation was the worst for years – we had several big flares from the sun during the weekends – I didn’t even manage to break my own record of this contest. I worked only a bit over 200 North American stations in the contest!
CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: OH1AF
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Devil’s Rock, Pori
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 16
80: 126
40: 644
20: 1196
15: 315
10: 247
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Total: 2544 Prefixes = 830 Total Score = 3,794,760
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
“Der Angst under aurora oval 2011 edition”
No good DX runs, but some weird openings. Coronal holes and flares made life difficult in Northern Europe. 80% EU, 9 % NA, 9% AS.
73 Timo OH1NOA
