CQWW CW 2008
40m (HBØ/DK4YJ)
I used a inverted vee @ 10m and a triple leg vertical antenna for 40m. Surprisingly for me, the dipole worked better for almost all stations except south america, so it was not a big issue for me that we had to take down the vertical due to a storm on sunday noon.
The first night was great, I stayed on one frequency for the first 10 hours and got 1000+ QSOs, 110 DXCCs and 30 Zones in this time. Conditions on 40m seemed fantastic, I worked lots of westcoast during the whole contest. The afternoon was pretty boring as QSOs to the east are quite difficult from that QTH. I missed a lot of mults in that direction. Only 2 JAs came in the log, a few UA9, no VU, YB, HS, BY, DU etc.
I almost gave up hope for zone 2 when ve2xaa/2 called in on sunday at around 12:30 local time. What a nice surprise! Thanks for all the QSOs and for the patience when it took me quite a while to dig out the signal between all this QRM from EU.