CQ WW DX CW 2014

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)

LZ2HR

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I received an other beautiful QSL card from Hristo LZ2HR via the mail. This time the card had 3 QSO's on it. The QSO with the lowest power was made in the UBA contest 2010 in CW on 14 MHz. I used a power of 98 mW and a Inverted Vee, over a distance of 1180 miles resulting in 12041 Miles/Watt. Thanks, Hristo for the beautiful card.

LZ2HR with 360 mW

I received a beautiful QSL card from Hristo LZ2HR. I receive the card not via the bureau, but via the mail. The QSO was made in the UBA contest 2012 in CW on 14 MHz. I used a power of 360 mW and a Inverted Vee, over a distance of 1180 miles resulting in 3278 Miles/Watt.

Did you know that in Bulgaria the Cyrillic alphabet is used.  So Hristo makes an additional translation to the Latin alphabet, when he is using  English words in CW. Wow.


Many years ago, when I was on holiday in Bulgaria, the first word that I could read, was РЕСТОРАНТ. This means restaurant.
Click on the stamps to see the word Bulgaria also in Cyrillic.