CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW   2024   Nov 23   Claimed Score

Call: TKØC
Operator(s): S53CC S53F S53MM S53RM S53WW S55OO S57AL S57C S57K S57L S57NAW
Station: TKØC

Class: M/S HP
QTH: JN42jo
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Location: Southern Europe

Band	QSOs	Zones	Countries
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160:	445	22	81
80:	1290	30	104
40:	2123	36	133
20:	2088	38	139
15:	2491	38	148
10:	2696	38	147
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Total:	11133	202	752	Total Score	21,646,260

Club: Belokranjec Contest Club

Comments:   2024-11-26 10:56:24

We just had to return to TK after D4C experience. As always, our main goal was to make maximum number 
of QSOs in the world. This year we set the bar to 12k QSOs and we almost made it (looks like 12k is at 
the very limit). Still, the primary quest was to break a decade old EU MS HP record - no unknowns there. 
The "best hour rate challenge" learning of the year - going beyond 400 QSOs in an hour is not trivial.

The weather was the main "unknown" - in the 7 years we were there we never experinced that kind of wind 
and sea. Wind was blowing with 50km/h with gusts of 100km/h the whole week and only calmed down on 
Friday evening. We kept all antennas low above the ground (Spider beam really on the ground), made 
several repairs of 40m verticals and were not able to operate much before the contest. Sea went in 
"bonanzza" state only on Saturday morning so we could finally raise the last 3 antennas (10m/15m/20m VDA), 
while we fixed our 40m TX phased verticals just an hour before the contest start. Note, you have to keep 
vertical antennas close to the sea shore to benefit from low angles (less than half wavelength) and also 
low above the sea level (less than quarter wavelength) which is always a challlenge in our location (waves 
were breaking some 15m high on the shore rocks the whole week).

Conditions were very good with a lot of echoes and multipath distortions. It was the first time in this 
solar maximum that the 10m was wide open for us - two inband operators had a hard time clearing the bandmap. 
We made over 3k QSOs on inband (30% is expected number for M/S category).

CU from Corsica in 2025 as MM.