(Araucaria) WPX SSB ZY7C(@PT7CB) M/2 HP

[Luciano]

>                     CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: ZY7C
> Operator(s): PT7CB, PT7WA, PT7YV, PT7ZAP, PY1NX, PY7RP, PY8AZT
> Station: PT7CB
>
> Class: M/2 HP
> QTH: 
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs
> ------------
>   160:    1
>    80:  328
>    40: 1287
>    20: 2264
>    15: 3114
>    10:  796
> ------------
> Total: 7790  Prefixes = 1599  Total Score = 43,838,184
>
> Club: Fortaleza DX Group
>
> Comments:
>
> Hi everybody, WHAT A CONTEST! 
>
> Nope a Single Problem! Just a power failure for 3 seconds (hi hi) sunday
> morning and all got back again.
>
> We figured out very soon that our target (30M pts) gonna be vanished soon.
> First night was productive on 40m, while the log had been feeded by  20/15m
> surprised good after local midnight. At sunrise, we were 600Qs ahead target!
>
> Day 1 morning, 10m band was wide open, but not to populated area (EU/NA). Many
> 9M, 9K, A71, YB, and some EA8/CT9 etc got into the log, but not signs from
> Europe.
>
> Day 1 Afternoon, we got big signals from Europe and North America and the
> crowded bands affected rate a lot and it was hard finding a clear spot to run.
>
> After 24h, We start to rethink the numbers when 10m opened to a large area - we
> started to work EU/NA on same basis. BIG, I mean, very BIG signs coming from
> everywhere and the 10m band got crowded (I love say that!). In south Brazil,
> 10m isn't that bad, but here (-3 degrees South) 10m was dead and stinking. We
> spend almost 5h with great rates on 28MHz, until a late QSY to 20m.
>
> Few hours to finnish, we set a new target: 45 millions. We worked very hard to
> get it, but 2359z came very fast and there was not time to get HC8N record.
>
> Good conditions and more fish into the barrel delivered a amazing time on CQ
> WPX Contest for everybody. Congrats friends from LP1H and PJ2T for very nice
> score, but this time we got it!
>   
> Thank everybody for all QSOs. See you again on next Contest!!
>
> 73, ZY7C Team
> PT7CB, PT7WA, PT7YV, PT7ZAP, PY1NX, PY7RP, PY8AZT
>