This is a repost. If you get two I apologize. The first copy posted 2 days
ago never arrived here, so I assume it went to the bit bucket.
C31LD (QSL via VE3HO)
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996
Call: C31LD Country: Andorra
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 158 175 1.11 5 42
80 945 1471 1.56 18 94
40 655 1345 2.05 26 102
20 1381 3390 2.45 26 103
15 382 1001 2.62 22 68
10 10 27 2.70 7 10
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Totals 3531 7409 2.10 104 419 => 3,874,907
Operators: Xavier C31LD, Peter C31LJ, Eddie EA3NY
Station 1: FT-1000 Ameritron AL-85 Ventriloquist Voice Keyer Timewave DSP
Station 2: FT-1000 Kenwood TL-922
160 : 2 selectable dipoles
80 : dipole and Force 12 2 el
40 : KLM 4 el monoband
20 : KLM 6 el monoband
15 : KLM 6 el monoband
10 : KLM 6 el monoband
10/15/20 : R-5 Vertical
Antennas are on 3 towers about 20 meters high at 1400 meters altitude on the
side of the mountain. The top of the mountain is 1858 meters to the north.
The valley is at 1000 meters to the south. The slope is about 45 degrees.
Highlights:
The warm hospitality of Xavier (C31LD) in welcoming us to his house and shack
and feeding us for 48 hours.
Getting to operate from C31 with more aluminum in the air. All my C31LJ
operations are with wires and verticals surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Nothing broke in 48 hours. This may be the first time that has ever happened.
Lowlights:
Having a mountain block all signals from 330 degrees to 45 degrees. Seeing
packet spots and hearing nothing. Beams don't help when there is a mountain
in the way!
10 meters was great to LU. And nowhere else.
General comments:
The 80 meter inverted V always outperformed the Force 12 2 element beam.
I don't know if this was an interaction with the 45 degree sloping
ground or other antennas. I'd like to hear from anyone who has this
beam working to compare notes. Force 12 suspects an assembly problem. I
will be checking this out.
Being more used to operating from V31DX I was surprised that
there were never any pileups just a steady flow of calls. The skill required
was digging calls from the noise, not picking calls out of the buzzing pack.
Thanks to AD1C and F5OZF for the network pinouts.
Thanks to W2VJN for the coax filter lengths. They worked like magic.
Thanks to everyone who worked us.
Peter
C31LJ
http://www.turnpike.net/~jc
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