9Y4ZC(op DL6FBL)
CQ WW SSB 2003 · October 25-26, 2003
New World Record (Single OP Assisted)
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB Call: 9Y4ZC Operator(s): DL6FBL Station: 9Y4ZC Class: SOAB(A) HP QTH: Tobago Island SA-009 Operating Time (hrs): 47 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 52 5 17 80: 257 17 52 40: 1042 25 101 20: 2017 30 111 15: 1732 31 110 10: 3059 29 113 ------------------------------ Total: 8159 137 504 Total Score = 15,389,769 Club: Bavarian Contest Club View the UBN Report View the Not-in-log Report View the Log in Cabrillo Format (660 kB) Comments: Hi all, thanks for the all the QSOs. These were two very different days. I got a good start on Day 1, and was almost in accordance with my secret plan (5,630 QSOs planned, 5,623 QSOs made ;-), but I couldn't get anything going on Day 2. As you see on the rate sheet below, there is only one hour with 200+ QSOs, but many with under 100... I could hear European and Stateside stations running each other, but both of them were quite weak here. It almost sounded as if the bands were not really open, while there was a good "skip" between EU and W/VE... Sunday afternoon I had to take a one-hour break, because I was very tired due to the low rates. I took a great shower, and found some relief from all the mosquito bites. I must have been a very attractive target to them, there are itches all over the body, but the (world?) record are two areas on my belly about the size of a palm - one with 80, and one with 110 itches (!) respectively... The Radio Blackout on Sunday evening wiped out 20m and 15m completely (only some local Caribbean stations [PJ2T, V26DX] heard). 10 meters was very noisy at that time, but produced at least a slow, but constant flow of very weak US stations - mostly W9's and VE3's interestingly, later spread out to W4 and W2's, before other weak stations from W6 through W1 came through again. At that time I checked 20m and 15m again, and found both bands crowded with stations again... The strange propagation on Day 2 also interfered with my multiplier strategy. I missed a good number of "easy" European multipliers, because the bands seemed not open. Plus on Day 1 the low bands 160m and 80m were almost useless. You can see from the table below, that I just worked 20 EU's on 80 meters, which should normally have been about the number on 160... I tried 80/160m again in the last half hour of the contest, and found at least a few more multipliers. Low point was that I called a number of very strong stations on 80m, but was not even noticed once. Callsigns that I can remember are HG6N, YU7AV and IH9P, who I each called for at least 2-3 minutes without being heard... But the bottom line is: It was worth it! The pileups on Day 1 make it easier to overcome the strange and exhausting Day 2... It's just a pity that my secret plan (a total of 10,100 QSOs) just worked on Day 1... ;-) 73 Ben DL6FBL 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 45 208 457 1370 1284 1533 4897 60.0 AS 0 0 18 53 134 18 223 2.7 SA 7 19 30 46 42 87 231 2.8 OC 0 1 5 15 5 10 36 0.4 EU 0 20 521 511 245 1383 2680 32.8 AF 0 9 11 22 22 28 92 1.1 QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 378/20 --+-- 378/20 378/20 D1-0100Z - - - 338/37 9/0 - 347/37 725/57 D1-0200Z - - - 351/18 - - 351/18 1076/75 D1-0300Z - - - 313/21 - - 313/21 1389/96 D1-0400Z 2/4 8/12 69/33 114/2 - - 193/51 1582/147 D1-0500Z - - 253/23 - - - 253/23 1835/170 D1-0600Z 5/6 60/21 108/15 - - - 173/42 2008/212 D1-0700Z 7/5 72/10 37/3 - - - 116/18 2124/230 D1-0800Z 4/3 1/1 111/16 --+-- --+-- --+-- 116/20 2240/250 D1-0900Z - 48/3 11/1 17/7 5/8 - 81/19 2321/269 D1-1000Z - - - 1/1 92/39 89/32 182/72 2503/341 D1-1100Z - - - - - 259/35 259/35 2762/376 D1-1200Z - - - - 16/2 170/4 186/6 2948/382 D1-1300Z - - - 1/1 3/3 223/12 227/16 3175/398 D1-1400Z - 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 207/9 211/13 3386/411 D1-1500Z - - - - - 232/4 232/4 3618/415 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/2 26/6 242/3 269/11 3887/426 D1-1700Z - - - 2/1 3/1 276/4 281/6 4168/432 D1-1800Z - - - - 1/0 324/7 325/7 4493/439 D1-1900Z - - - - 220/8 53/0 273/8 4766/447 D1-2000Z - - - 32/8 25/2 153/3 210/13 4976/460 D1-2100Z - - - 160/6 82/0 - 242/6 5218/466 D1-2200Z - - - 56/6 126/0 - 182/6 5400/472 D1-2300Z - - - 3/0 220/5 - 223/5 5623/477 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 205/8 --+-- 205/8 5828/485 D2-0100Z - - 85/12 2/2 52/2 - 139/16 5967/501 D2-0200Z 18/2 - 34/2 50/1 - - 102/5 6069/506 D2-0300Z - 4/0 - 140/6 - - 144/6 6213/512 D2-0400Z - 6/6 92/4 - - - 98/10 6311/522 D2-0500Z - 2/1 134/8 - - - 136/9 6447/531 D2-0600Z 7/2 12/8 5/1 12/0 - - 36/11 6483/542 D2-0700Z - 1/0 75/3 8/3 - - 84/6 6567/548 D2-0800Z --+-- 37/2 7/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/5 6611/553 D2-0900Z - - 20/1 4/2 6/4 3/3 33/10 6644/563 D2-1000Z - - - - 16/13 32/4 48/17 6692/580 D2-1100Z - - - 1/1 2/4 88/5 91/10 6783/590 D2-1200Z - - - 1/1 3/1 99/1 103/3 6886/593 D2-1300Z - - - - 7/2 73/2 80/4 6966/597 D2-1400Z - - - - - 96/1 96/1 7062/598 3 D2-1500Z - - - 1/0 - - 1/0 7063/598 60 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/2 18/6 77/6 97/14 7160/612 D2-1700Z - - - - 1/1 135/0 136/1 7296/613 D2-1800Z - - - 1/1 2/0 93/1 96/2 7392/615 D2-1900Z - - - - 79/2 117/0 196/2 7588/617 D2-2000Z - - - 137/3 7/0 1/1 145/4 7733/621 D2-2100Z - - - 17/2 82/2 11/5 110/9 7843/630 D2-2200Z - - - 146/3 45/0 6/1 197/4 8040/634 D2-2300Z 9/0 5/4 - 105/2 - - 119/6 8159/640 Total: 52/22 257/69 1042/1262017/1401732/1403059/143 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3V 1 1 1 1 4 3X 1 1 2 4 4L 1 1 4U1I 1 1 4X 4 1 4 9 5B 3 2 2 2 9 5N 1 1 2 5U 1 1 5Z 1 1 6Y 1 1 2 1 2 7 8P 1 1 2 1 1 1 7 8R 1 1 1 3 9A 8 11 6 11 36 9H 1 1 1 3 6 9J 2 2 9L 1 1 1 3 9M2 1 1 9V 2 1 1 4 9Y 1 1 1 2 1 6 A4 1 1 2 A6 1 1 1 1 4 C5 1 1 1 1 1 5 C6 1 1 CE 2 1 2 3 8 CM 2 4 1 3 6 16 CN 1 1 2 CT 2 12 3 13 30 CT3 3 2 3 2 2 12 CX 1 2 3 2 8 D2 1 1 2 D4 2 1 2 2 1 8 DL 2 80 94 54 375 605 EA 1 16 41 16 68 142 EA6 1 2 3 EA8 2 4 7 7 5 25 EA9 1 1 EI 1 2 4 2 9 18 ER 1 2 3 ES 3 2 1 5 11 EU 3 1 1 8 13 EX 2 1 2 1 6 F 2 29 29 12 42 114 FM 1 1 1 1 4 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 G 3 18 47 19 155 242 GD 1 1 1 1 2 6 GI 4 1 2 7 GJ 1 1 GM 10 8 5 14 37 GU 1 1 2 GW 1 4 5 2 8 20 HA 11 7 6 19 43 HB 6 4 1 7 18 HB0 1 1 1 1 4 HC 1 2 3 HC8 1 1 1 1 4 HI 1 1 1 3 HK 1 1 2 2 6 HK0/a 1 1 HL 1 4 5 HP 1 1 1 3 2 3 11 HR 1 2 3 I 50 52 21 100 223 IG9 1 1 1 1 1 5 IS 1 2 1 1 5 IT9 4 7 4 11 26 JA 4 16 116 1 137 JW 1 1 2 JW/b 1 1 K 28 163 381 1231 1146 1395 4344 KH0 1 1 KH2 1 1 1 3 KH6 3 4 2 5 14 KL 1 1 1 3 KP2 3 2 1 2 1 1 10 KP4 3 5 1 5 1 2 17 LA 4 8 2 9 23 LU 1 2 11 14 25 53 LX 2 1 1 4 LY 7 5 2 17 31 LZ 6 4 2 8 20 OA 1 1 1 1 1 5 OE 1 10 9 3 13 36 OH 11 10 6 29 56 OH0 1 2 1 4 OK 35 17 8 48 108 OM 2 6 5 2 2 17 ON 1 12 16 11 40 80 OZ 1 5 1 13 20 P4 1 1 1 1 1 5 PA 9 8 10 48 75 PJ2 1 2 1 2 2 1 9 PJ7 1 1 1 1 1 5 PY 2 10 19 9 39 79 PY0F 1 1 1 1 4 PZ 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 S5 1 10 12 6 23 52 SM 3 9 2 23 37 SP 33 19 7 88 147 SU 1 1 2 SV 4 3 2 9 18 SV5 1 1 SV9 1 1 1 3 T9 1 1 1 2 5 TA 2 1 1 4 TA1 1 1 TF 1 1 2 TI 1 3 1 2 3 2 12 TU 1 1 1 3 UA 47 19 4 92 162 UA2 1 1 1 1 1 5 UA9 2 20 4 5 31 UN 4 3 2 1 10 UR 1 38 3 5 30 77 V2 2 2 2 2 1 1 10 V3 1 1 1 1 2 6 V4 2 2 2 1 7 VE 16 46 102 106 100 370 VK 1 6 7 VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 VP5 1 3 4 3 3 1 15 VP9 1 1 2 1 2 7 VQ9 1 1 XE 2 4 8 7 7 28 YB 2 1 5 8 YL 5 3 3 12 23 YO 7 2 6 15 YS 1 1 YU 1 7 14 2 7 31 YV 3 4 5 5 2 4 23 Z3 1 1 1 3 ZA 1 1 1 1 4 ZB 1 1 ZF 1 1 1 3 ZK1/s 1 1 ZL 1 1 2 ZP 2 2 ZS 2 2 5 9
2003 was my first real try from the Americas. I once
operated as VP9/DL6FBL in CQ WW SSB 1986. I was 19 years old then and had won
the Bermuda Contest earlier that year. I was invited by the Radio Society of Bermuda
and had this chance for a wonderful trip. Station setup was a TS-830S at 100 watts,
no second VFO (difficult for 40m USA...), and a 3-ele Tribander plus a few
wires at 12 meters height - inside the island, no direct view to the water.
The contest yielded some 3,000 QSOs, and the awareness that a location
directly on the coastline is worth any additional burden, since N4SV/VP9
had over 5,000 QSOs sitting on a sharp cliff on the North coast... ;-)
This QTH on the island of Tobago (SA-009) is owned by Andy, 9Y4ZC (DL4MEH).
You can rent the house and station for holidays and/or contests.
You can see a list of the equipment and antennas on site, when you click
on the following link, eventually change to the English pages and click on
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Bernd "Ben" Och, DL6FBL, 20/09/03
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