Here is the first cut score for the M6T multi-multi entry for CQWW SSB this
year. We ve all been very busy with work since the contest, so not had time
to assimilate the differences between what the different computers were
telling us for score, so, as usual, this is subject to checking.
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996
Call: M6T Country: England
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Multi
BAND QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 969 9 66
80 1751 26 108
40 1839 31 131
20 2651 40 175
15 1658 35 172
10 324 22 80
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Totals 9192 163 732 => approx. 14M points
160m
FT1000D + PA. 40m vertical + Inverted V dipole @ 30m + Beverages
Ops : G4IFB + G4BWP
80m
FT1000D + PA. 4 square + Delta Loop @ 27m.
Ops : K1XX + G0WCW
40m
FT1000D + PA. 3 element full size @ 30m + 402CD @ 25m + Beverages
Ops : G4VMM + G4WFR
20m
IC775 + PA. 205BA @ 30m + stacked 204CDs @ 18m / 30m
Ops : G4BUO, G3VHB, G4BWP
15m
FT1000D + PA. Extended 155BA @ 25m + stacked extended 155BAs @ 18m / 30m
Op : G4PIQ
10m
FT1000MP + PA. 105BA @ 25m + stacked 105BAs @ 22m / 30m
Ops : G0AEV + G0KRL
Multipliers & Support by G4BAH, G0WCW, G0AFH, G0HSS, G4SWX, G4AXX and G4KNO.
As usual we had an interesting contest and as usual we have found areas
where we could do better! The new call was good (used to be G0KPW), but
conditions weren t!
We do the whole contest field-day style, and a couple of weeks before the
contest it became clear that two of the fields which we normally use to set
out antennas were planted with corn, or were not clear of maize. This meant
that we had to compress all the antennas into quite a small space, and meant
that we had some worse inter-station problems than we have had in previous
years.
Some very high winds were forecast for the Sunday of the contest, and when
these arrived they turned the big 40m yagi into a very interesting shape -
it uses 6m fibreglass fishing rods as the element ends and these really do
bend! This also meant that we couldn t turn that antenna - even a Create
RC5B won t hack that! Both the 40m antennas ended up pointing in completely
different directions to where the rotators said! Throughout the Sunday
morning, you could look out of the trailer from which we operate, see the
bushes bending over, pray that all the guy stakes were firmly knocked into
the ground, and feel very glad that we had spent some time putting new guy
ropes on many of the towers! Luckily, we had advance warning of the 75mph+
winds forecast for the Monday night, and we were able to lower the towers at
the end of the contest, and get all but the 10m stack completely
disassembled before the big storm struck that night. It survived OK - the
only damage we sustained was to an element on the big 40m yagi on the Monday
morning.
>From this far north, conditions stank - certainly on Saturday. On the first
night, the low bands had a really tough time, typified by almost no sign of
the US on 160. Breaking pile-ups against the guys further east and south on
15 and 20 on Saturday morning was tremendously difficult, and I knew we were
in trouble when the USA opening on 15m on Saturday turned up skewed path
(255 degrees or so). One of the guys posted a WWV spot showing the A index
at 8 - it sounded more like it was 48. At least 20 was able to manage a
reasonable stateside run.
Sunday was much better - on 15 there were a few more JAs about, but no run,
but the US opening was much better, though only 2 stations worked from zone
3, but 20 was still able to bash away at the US.
10m had a real hard time. This is the first time in 4 - maybe 5 years that
we have not achieved 5BDXCC - many openings were extremely short, but I
guess we will just have to accept that we caught all we could hope for.
We should have a WWW page up very soon (if not now) - it s at
http://www.btwebworld.com/olsen/m6t
We d also be very interested in reports of how the signal stacked up against
the other guys in the contest so we know what to improve.
73,
Andy Cook, G4PIQ
g4piq@blacksheep.org
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