03/12/2025
CQWW CW M/M 2025
Call: CN3A
Operator(s): OK1DIX OK1DO OK1FCJ OK1FFU OK1GI OK1HGM OK1NY OK1RI OK2ZAW OK5MM OM6NM
Station: CN3A
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Safi
Operating Time (hrs): 47,8
Location: Africa
Summary: Compare Scores
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 795 18 86
80: 2305 34 124
40: 3839 39 150
20: 3589 39 152
15: 3610 40 160
10: 3759 38 157
Total: 17897 208 829 Total Score 55,422,465
We met this year relatively soon – already in Saturday arrived 9 people, last two OM6NM and OK1FCJ just in Thursday. We managed to put up two high (47,5m) 6 el. Yagis for 10 + 15m with the idea those might help a bit during the opening and closing of the propagation. We had a dream to not have a single rotor in the station, until now we had only one on 20m 4Y – so to fulfill this dream we have added 2 more rotors.
Our work on the antennas this summer worked out and I do believe we did better on 80 and 40m and also 10m towards EU is better..
We still do have 6 vanilla stations with 1xFT10 per band. As always we prefer to operate in a way that “almost everyone was almost everywhere” to give the operators most fun and experience. We have no space and room for inbands to be set up permanently and we are not sure we really want to go that way and to set them up field day style …??... there is always more important work on maintenance and other in the station. The party coming to CN3A did operate the inbands for 3 years with Late Jim W7EJ at CN2R so we do know how it is – what comes out of it both socially (!!) and in the real score…. To sum it up I do believe it would give us maybe 1000 QSOs and maybe 2 multipliers when the dust settles down – so in our case ?
I have to admit it was fun observing the “going” on the livescore. Kudos to the “SUPER INBANDERS” at TK0C – unbelievable job with a “fielday” style of operation. In one moment they were incredible 2200 QSO before us – we were happy to finish with only 750 behind. We tend to start late on actively pursuing the multipliers and it seems we did not lose much and finished reasonably well – first time ever over 1000 mults - on the end. There were a couple of “magical” QSOs – the #1 in this one is T88AR on dead 80m band – coming in at 59+ on the meter – WOW !
Greetings to N6RO – we have spent 3 times over 5 minutes calling them on 160m – they came through nicely but were listening poorly. We heard a couple of stations calling them with the same success we did – i.e. none. We even heard very weak KH0J but again no success.
Congratulation to the guys at PJ2T for their 25 years of their persistence – we do know what it is to maintain a station by the ocean 4 or 5 hours of flight time from your home.
Only one 1 minute electrical dropout – GREAT!
One more remark – the few – how many ? about 5 unbelievable 2BSIQ “MUTANTS” - doing what they do is not achievable by a regular person !!! but it has also a dark side. It is quite selfish way of operation concerning the time spent on them by the others on the bands. For instance my personal observation – 15m was slowing down in Sunday and I have seen we do not have CQ9A to finish another 6-bander so I thought OK I will be nice and give him a call jumping from my – not too fast at the moment over 100QSO/min – pileup and called him expecting it is going to be 20 second thing – he was well over 59+ so I do believe we were the same there – and nothing … I think 2 other weak stations calling him with me – so I called him once more and … nothing – silence only, so I did call him the third time and after maybe 20 seconds delay suddenly at 40WPM CN3A 59933. This one point QSO cost me about 2 minutes not speaking about the others waiting and operator of his caliber would have work us in 30 seconds at most. Waiting while he did fight something on the other band – ignoring 3 people here…. How many times such a thing happens during the contest? Maybe worth consideration for the CQ committee. Just my “2cents”.
365 6-banders this year – the biggest number ever and the same as previous 2 years – about half of the QSOs on 160m.
