Conditions were very good on most bands with some nice DX worked. This time I entered the Open QRO section as I decided to run the amplifier. I was averaging about 200W output depending on band. The antennas were the usual Cobwebb, dipole and Inverted-L. The station worked flawlessly and other than CQ calls I spent the contest keying by hand. 18 hours in the chair according to the log.
Decided to use DXlog.net and had made my own contest definition file based on the BW QSO Party one that ships with the software. Functionally everything was fine, but scoring is quite complex and that was left to Marabella by G3WGV.
Callsign: M0PCB FOC number: 2024 Section: QRO Open
QSO totals: 1.8 3.5 7.0 14.0 21.0 28.0 35 115 134 149 155 28
Bonuses: 5-banders: 22 x10 = 220 6-banders: 4 x5 = 20 Continents: 6 x5 = 30 Entities: 52 x2 = 104
Summary: Total QSOs: 616 Total bonuses: 374 FINAL SCORE: 990
Continents: Africa Asia Europe Oceania N America S America
Entities: 4X 5B 6Y 7Q 9A 9J DL EA EA6 EA8 EI EU F G GD GJ GM GU GW HB HS HZ I K LA LX LY LZ OE OH OK ON OX OY OZ P4 PA PY S5 SM SP SV TF UA UR VE VK VU YO ZB2 ZL ZS