Call: W7VV
Operator(s):  
Station: W7VV

Added: 02/Dec/2009
Contest: CQ WORLDWIDE DX CONTEST, CW
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Seattle, WA
Operating time: 48

Summary: 
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   29    16       22
   80:   69    25       55
   40:  645    37      108
   20:  402    33      108
   15:  144    26       63
   10:   29    11       17
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Total: 1318   148      367  
Total Score = 1,758,725
Club: 

Soapbox: 

This year the VP5W crew N9ADG,
K7bTW, K7LAZ, VE7XF and W7VV, decided
to stay home and do the contest as a
M/S operation from N9ADG’s quiet
mountain top QTH just east of Seattle.
 

A special call sign K7W was
obtained to celebrate the occasion but
unfortunately, while it sounded like a
wonderful idea at the time, it was a
big mistake.  The stateside stations
kept calling us thinking we were a DX
station,
probably somewhere out in the
Pacific, and the DX stations kept
wanting to add a letter to our prefix
or suffix.  After two hours of
frustration we decided to start all
over again with the call of W7VV.  The
K7W log will however be submitted as a
check log.  

Conditions seemed to
vary quite a bit with a slow start on
Friday evening to a very enjoyable day
on Sunday with some nice runs into
Europe and the ever running JA QSO's. 
Brian’s big SteppIR really played
nicely on 40 which made a difference. 
Antenna problems on another tower and
an Alpha failing did have an impact
but a good time was had by all.  

On
a personal note one thing I notice
however was that this really brought
me back to the “Real PNW world”
after doing the contest from VP5 for
the past 6 years.  There is no
comparison between the propagation and
pile-ups down there compared to  here,
and for some reason, the Pina
Colada’s seem to taste much better
there….

Our entire team wants to
thank Brian and his family for
allowing us take over their home and
also thanks to all the stations that
stuck in there trying to figure out
the K7W call.