Russian DX Contest
Call: M5E
Operator(s): G0CKV
Station: G0CKV
Class: SO CW LP
QTH: Nr London
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
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160: 55 0 33 20
80: 124 0 46 49
40: 184 0 54 57
20: 429 0 58 71
15: 311 0 43 57
10: 9 0 6 0
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Total: 1112 0 240 254 Total Score = 4,329,416
Club: Chiltern DX Club
Comments:
A single K3 â?" what a great receiver it has â?" and temporary antennas at my
London suburban QTH.
A very wet Friday forced me to wait until Saturday morning to put up the simple
temporary 40 and 20/15/10m antennas here and after 4 hours of fast work I felt
more like taking the weekend off resting but when the contest started I
persevered. One of these days I ought to get organized and put up something
more permanent.
160/80: Inverted L, 46m long and bent to fit space, vertical bit abt 7m
40m: Inverted V with apex at about 8m on temporary push-up pole
20/15/10: Cushcraft D3 trap dipole at 6.5m on the same pole
Bands seemed fine but 10m never really opened. Iâ??m surprised at how much I
could work with this simple setup - it is really fun and satisfying. My
antennas are shielded all around by dense vegetation and houses. Running is
painful when using poor antennas and low power â?" big guys with sharp elbows
step on you pretty soon. Some 90% of the QSOs were S&P which I guess led to
pretty good relative multiplier total and high average QSO points. DX pile-ups
generated by the cluster are a waste of time when using this simple setup â?"
Iâ??m better off turning the knob myself to find stations to work. I like the
rather more demanding RDXC rules but I recognize that my short contest call
with a single trailing dit might lead to more missed QSO points than usual
where the other guy might have busted my call.
I hadnâ??t planned to do this contest but changed my plans when changing family
plans opened up an opportunity to improvise some activity. I set out to do 40m
single-band CW but saw in the rules that you are supposed to do mixed if
single-band and doing phone with low power and wet strings is no fun. So I
switched to all-band CW and was aiming to just chase oblasts for fun but with
plenty of stations heard I guess I ended up doing the real contest.
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