| DX | - | - | EU | - |
| W |
233
|
- | DL |
181
|
| UA9 |
29
|
- | UA |
91
|
| VE |
21
|
- | OK |
73
|
| UN |
5
|
- | UR |
69
|
| C6 |
3
|
- | SP |
49
|
| KP2 |
3
|
- | G |
45
|
| KP4 |
3
|
- | S5 |
37
|
| 4L |
2
|
- | PA |
35
|
| CT3 |
2
|
- | HA |
32
|
| TA |
2
|
- | OM |
27
|
Points : 841,059 (1,111,240), QRV : 24 (26) hours
The QSO total, mults and score were all down compared with last year (2010 figures in brackets in blue). The number of W's worked was 233 compared with last year's 294. VE's were down from 27 to 21.
The Topband dipole at 90ft and three Beverages were put up especially for the CQWW 160m Contest.
Spent most of daytime Friday outside in the cold fixing up various receive antennas, as well as installing the transmit antenna (it's a field-day style set-up here with no permanent antennas!). Despite the best of intentions, the operator just couldn't keep awake beyond 04z the first night, and missed the sunrise period completely on Saturday morning.
However the operator was able to keep going all night Sat/Sun and the Sunday morning sunrise brought in some nice signals from the West Coast, but not as many as in 2010.
The last QSO on Sunday morning was VO1HP at 0855z. Although several W6s and two VE7s could still be heard around 0830z, most were not able to hear me by this time. The few W7s worked were all in AZ with the exception of one in NV. The number of States/Provs worked this year at 43 was well down on last year's 49. The last few hours from tea-time on Sunday afternoon through to the end at 22z were deadly dull with the hourly QSO rate dropping through the floor.
The DXCC highlight was being called by CE1/K7CA for an all-time new one on Topband.
Top-10 DX and Top-10 EU
Last year's problems with the K3 suffering from RF pick-up on the Beverages did not occur as there was greater separation between the TX and RX ants. The K3 worked very well indeed.
