CN3A - CQWW SSB 2006 from Morocco

CQWW SSB
2006

CN3A

The CQWW SSB 2006 from Morocco
IK2QEI, IK2SGC, I2WIJ, IK8UND, IZ4DPV, IZ2FFK, CN8WW

This is how I2WIJ, IK8UND, IZ4DPV, a.k.a J49Z, became CN3A
The story of what happened in the last weeks of september and early october, is very long and it doesn't worth to tell it.
What it is true is that we already had requested the J49Z callsign, and we already had it assigned and granted from Athens.
Moreover Max, IZ4DPV, had built 3 new monoband antennas, for 10, 15 and 20M, and we planned to have a new, and higher, telescopic tower.
Then it happened that the place, which has been our beach QTH for 5 years, was not available anymore, and we had to find another one in a hurry.
Thanks to Dimitris, SV9COL, we had found another place, with an even better and wider beach, a house to be used for the shack, and most of all the other usual facilities.
The main, and not to be underestimated, drawback was that this place is located 5 km west of Heraklion, in a gulf with a very close and high promontory, which would have acted as a screen toward North America and the Caribbean.
Moreover, being at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, this would have signified, with a high degree of probability, to make a huge, worthless, effort.
Facing this situation and in the middle of a hard decision, between to try or to give up, the opportunity to join a new freshly born team in Morocco was more than welcome, and so CN3A became a reality for us.

And this is the result!
(before log-checking, of course!)

 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  154    10       55    
   80:  463    21       88    
   40: 1180    31      118    
   20: 1892    39      143    
   15: 2980    37      161    
   10:  641    26      112    
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Total: 7310   164      677    

   Total Score = 18,041,043

This is our full declared score on 3830

This is our on-line LOG check

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