I had great fun in the
CQ WW DX CW contest of 2014.
I had my inverted vee repaired just in time for the contest.
But most of all, I was very curious, how
fast the
PA1B Fast and Accurate 40 dB Power Attenuator
would be in a large contest with enormous activity.
I am very happy with the attenuator.
As I mentioned before, the fast attenuator can be switched instandly.
So I am immediately ready to answer a CQ.
I started on 10 m and went to a lower frequency each time a band closed.
At times when the signals were getting stronger, I tried to use a lower power in the next QSO's.
On 40 m the band was
too busy to use a very low power.
When I was on 40 m, the other bands were closed, so all other operators were also on this band.
So I made most QSO's on 40 m with 3.6 W. (Category less than 5 watts)
The inverted V works fine.
Since a long time I could make a few QSO's with less than 10 mW.
I used a power of about 4 watts down to
1.6 milliwatts.
The two QSO's in the column of 2.5 mW in the table were made with 1.6 mW and 1.8 mW.
(500 mW means more than 250 mW and
less than 500 mW)