CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: CT9M
Operator(s): OM3BH OM3GI OM3RM
Station: CT9M
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: Funchal
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1704 State/Prov = 59 Countries = 84 Total Score = 2,370,200
Club:
Comments:
We would like to express our thanks to all members of the Madeira team CT9M
especially to CT3EE and CT3BD for their technical support and enabling our
participation in the CQ WW 160 m contest from Madeira Island.
The CQ WW 160 m DX contest is increasingly popular every year and the activity
of the stations also increases. Unfortunately, the width of the band stays the
same so additional patience is also needed. Next to the European â??big
gunsâ?? it is very hard to achieve good results from this part of our planet.
We have been expecting to pick up North American stations at earlier hours as
in Central Europe. However, after 4 days of activity our experience was the
same as in Central Europe and American stations opened up and closed up at the
same hours.
We started the contest on the beginning of the band but after about 2 hours we
were forced to leave the frequency and look for a new place at the end the
band. In the first day we made 300 QSO in the US incl. KH6, VK and JA. In the
evening and the night of the second day the conditions worsened and there was a
very strong QRN in the band. This caused us big problems with accepting calls.
Little pistol stations from Europe were coming through only on the level of
signal noise and they had to repeat their calls several times. We would like to
additionally apologize to them for this.
We began the Sunday night in the 1810-1825 segments to give a possibility to JA
stations. After a short time we rather switched to a quieter place where were
getting European QSOs. Towards the end of the contest some multipliers appeared
but we had no chance to pass through European big guns from our position. So we
opted for making simple QSOs.
Thanks to everybody who called us and to the CT9M team from Madeira.
Rasto OM3BH
DL-197
EA-24
F-22
G-60
HA-34
I-36
USA-520
OH-27
OK-100
OM-29
PA-31
SM-26
SP-53
S5-38
UA-123
UA9-32
UR-54
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