CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: LZ9W
Operator(s):
LZ1ZD,LZ1ANA,LZ1RGM,LZ1UQ,LZ1PM,LZ1FG,LZ1ZF,LZ1GC,LZ1PJ,LZ2UZ,LZ2UU,LZ2PO,LZ2FV,LZ2CJ,LZ3UM,LZ3FN,LZ3FM,LZ3SM,LZ4UU,LZ4TX,LZ5VK
Station: LZ9W
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Breznik - nr Sofia
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1150 21 87
80: 2301 35 135
40: 3104 38 155
20: 2855 39 152
15: 1323 37 148
10: 266 17 70
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Total: 10998 187 747 Total Score = 17,785,233
Club: LZ Contest Team
Comments:
Building a competitive M/M station is a BIG task. Rebuilding it, is in some
aspects, even bigger one. Krassy LZ1ZD started renovation of his hotel ("by
coincidence"-Hi QTH of LZ9W,too ) in November 2006. That's why M/M operation in
CQWW CW 2006 was not possible, but this made possible for Iliya - LZ4UU to make
his greatest dream come true and he has had a rare chance to use LZ9W antennas
and equipment for serious SO2R SOAB HP effort. 23 years old boy used the
hardware to become No.1 from continental Europe ( letting only CU2A to take the
first place in EU from the best EU offshore location possible)
It took one LOONG year to rebuild LZ9W. Now we dare to say it is probably the
best M/M station in Europe as far as we speak about living conditions in
contest room, sleeping rooms and "chat and eat" room.(we have abt 240 sq meters
of rooms now plus restaurant and pool working for us,too :-) ) As soon as
possible a photo album about rebuilding story of LZ9W will be put on line to
view. Present excellent living condx at LZ9W have been made possible by GREAT
efforts of owner of the hotel and main money spender - Krassy LZ1ZD ( hotel is
still under renovation which will be finished in April-May 2008, but Krassy
took care to get LZ9W premises ready for CQWW 2007 contests FIRST !!!). BIG
THANKS also go to team members - Rossen LZ1RGM, Ivan LZ1PM, Assen LZ3UM, Andy
LZ1ANA,Danko LZ1FG, Krastyo LZ2UZ and his brother LZ2DZ who put countless hours
of work to get LZ9W premises to look so comfortable and nice.
Some of us got together for CQWW SSB 2007 and made a semi-serious M/M effort
(11 400 000 pts) to test antennas after one year of no M/M activity. Few
repairs have been done after SSB part and all looked well few hours before CQWW
CW 2007. Vesko LZ5VK has became a father of a beautifull daughter on Thursday
and was able to come to set up a PC network just two hours before the start of
a contest. Since all was wired permanently after station renovation, this time
it took him a few minutes to get all PCs working and network with few minor
problems worked very well during next 48 hrs. An hour after beggining of a
contest the rotor of 20m yagi gave up, but LZ3UM got it in order on the
morning. On Saturday morning we realised why 80m run stn made more QSOs during
the night than 40m ops - SWR of HB9CV went to 3.5 due to icing of feeding
lines. Again Assen LZ3UM was claiming up the tower and after replacing some
cables 40m main antenna was on the air again and helped LZ1UQ,LZ2FV,LZ4UU (last
few hours) and daytime ops LZ1GC and LZ4TX to make 3104 QSOs on this band.
Saturday was a poorer condx day for us here. On Sunday condx got better and
this allowed 15m ops(LZ1ANA and LZ3UM) to make total of over 1300 QSOs having
about just 300 Qs on Saturday evening.
Our THANKS to LZ2PO who has worked almost alone these 2855 QSOs on 20m helped
by LZ1ZF for few hours only.
Honours go also to Ivan LZ1PM,Iliya LZ4UU and Rossen LZ1RGM who used renovated
4SQR on 80m to make best ever 80m score from LZ9W in CQWW. Our THANKS go to Con
- DF4SA ( Spiderbeam ),too. Dear Con, be sure your fiberglass 20m high posts are
one of the BEST products a ham ever offered to contesters community !
160m was tough first night and better second night. Nice multipliers were
worked on this band, too. However, announcing stations on the cluster made my
life and this of Krastyo LZ2UZ and Danny LZ2UU a real nightmare with countless
strong Europeans calling over and over again, with some of them, without even
hearing the multiplier signal at all. DX stns should try working split to
manage this awfull chaos somehow ( as A45XR did nicely for example ).
Our THANKS go to multies hunters - Ico LZ3FN,Iliya LZ4UU, Plamen LZ3FM, Svetly
LZ3SM and "slow hours" ops Danko LZ1FG and Ivan LZ1PJ,too.
Krassy LZ1ZD this time made just about 60 QSOs and was just ENJOYING the
results of his hard work and money spending.
A lot of hard work is left for 2008 - two new towers will be installed, stacked
fixed yagies for 15 and 10m on two smaller towers will be put up plus if all
goes well a 4 el monobander for 40m,too. Sometime in next years to come a dream
of LZ1ZD may be fullfilled,too - 3 el rotary monoband yagi for 80m :-).
LZ1ZD have bought 5 new radios this month, which will stay permanently in
contest room now - two TS950SD, two FT1000MP and one FT1000MKV Field.
So, it was real FUN and we enjoyed fully the king of all contests - CQWW CW.
See you all in WPX 2008 contests.
73,
de Wally LZ2CJ on behalf of all LZ9W M/M Contest Team members
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