CQ WW DX Contest CW 2008
November 29 – November 30
Saturday 0000 – Sunday 2400
Callsign: LN8W
Station: LA8W
Ops: LA8AJA LA9VDA LB1GB LB8IB
LB8IB will take part in the CQ WW SSB 2008 on the last weekend of October signing LN8W.
Call sign: LN8W
Category: SOAB HP
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: LN8W
Operator(s): LB1GB
Station: LA8W
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Rakkestad
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 403 881 24 60 15
40: 437 924 7 70 20
20: 838 2155 53 79 26
15: 48 119 0 36 13
10: 1 2 0 1 1
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Total: 1727 4081 84 246 77 Total Score = 1,660,967
Club: LA Contest Club
Call: LN8W
Operator(s): LB8IB
Station: LA8W
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: RAKKESTAD
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
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160: 249 71 42 44
80: 323 207 52 56
40: 364 142 58 59
20: 358 267 70 60
15: 68 7 29 12
10: 2 2
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Total: 1364 694 253 231 Total Score = 6,226,660
Club: LA Contest Club
Comments:
Great contest with very good activity !
Back to SO2R again and it took me about 10 hours before i got used to it.
Also very strange to run CW on the run radio and listening SSB on the 2nd
radio. I wonder how many contests it will take to get comfortable with SO2R
???. Propagation was not the best but that`s just the way it goes in LA land.
Last time we didnt have any solar disturbance in a whole contest was back in
1999 if i remember it correctly … 
)
73 and see you in WRTC (maybe)
Olaf
LB8IB
la8w.com
Olaf LB8IB will participate in the Russian DX Contest on 15.-16. of March 2008.
Call: LN8W
Op: LB8IB
Class: SOAB Mix HP
By: Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX and José Nunes, CT1BOH
“In the spring of 2007 José, CT1BOH, a world-class contester and a member of the CQWW contest committee, contacted Sylvan, VE5ZX, a contester and complex systems scientist. He had read an article Sylvan had written on amateur radio contesting. He wanted to know if Sylvan would be interested in working with him on a research problem.
José wanted to know if the CQWW cw logs could be used to find unique signatures for world class stations using two radios in the SOAB unassisted, SOAB assisted (SOAB A) and multi-operator one transmitter (MS) entry classes. Both SOAB classes and MS can use two radios. The single operator class can only have one signal on the air at a time (SO2R) while the MS stations can have two signals on the air, provided the second signal is used to work new multipliers. If unique signatures can be found then they might be useful for verifying the entry class of a log. This seemed like an exciting research project that would improve our understanding of radio sports and perhaps provide adjudicators with insights for techniques to aid decision making activities. So began an exchange of emails, telephone calls, spreadsheets, graphs and tables in search of two radio event signatures. The research reported in this article was completed in December of 2007.”
This is a very interesting article, which also shows why C4M was disqualified in CQ WW CW 2006.
Read the complete article at: http://www.radiosport.ca/rsrp/CQWW log analysis.php
The 160M inverted L is up again and Lech LA7MFA will be active as LN8W in this years CQ WW 160M CW entering the SOHP not assisted category.
