Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW
Call: PY2ZEA
Operator(s): PY2ZEA (OH2MM)
Station: PS2T
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Araraquara SP
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 62 26
40: 139 37
20: 140 35
15: 149 34
10: 98 26
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Total: 588 158 Total Score = 156,420
Club: Araucaria DX Group
Comments:
Others already commented here in 3830 that SAC is almost exclusively a Search
and Pounch contest for Non-Scandinavians.
I fully agree. From the Non-Scand side, SAC is an entertaining AUDIO SHOW. One
can admire the good operators' skill to handle the pileup.
And one can give them "style points", as they do in figure skating
competitions.
My initial strategy was to call CQ SAC with Rig1 and do S&P for Scandinavians
on another band with Rig2.
Very soon I realized that CQing was very unproductive:
After a few minutes of CQing SAC, someone put me into the Cluster.
As a result, I got a pileup of Non-Scandinavians wanting to work Brazil.
Many of these Non-Scand's tried to exchange serial # with me.
Some wanted me to explain what SAC means !
And others just wanted a work DX (Brazil IS a DX!)
OK, I gave up calling CQ SAC and ended up doing S&P with both radios.
I fully used the Cluster, so I'll be in the new Assisted category.
No skimmer here yet. Skimmer in SAC would help locating those Small Pistols
never reported in the Cluster.
The station worked OK, no problems.
The propagation was OK here in deep South.
80 meters is tough from here with just an inverted V and no beverages.
I hardly realized that there was an Aurora there in the North.
PY2ZEA LOG BREAKDOWN:
QSOs %
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OH 304 52
SM 195 33
LA 54 9
OZ 24 4
TF 6 1
OY 4 0,7
OX 1 0,2
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ALL 588 100
Station description:
SO2R set-up.
Win-test version 4.7.0
Rig 1: Yaesu FT-2000 + Linear
Rig 2: Elecraft K3 + Linear
80: Inverted-V, apexed at 30 m
40: 3 el yagi (SteppIR MonstIR) at 35 m
20: 5 el monobander at 25 m
15: 6 el monobander at 27 m
10: 7 el monobander at 29 m
Many thanks to Atilano, PY5EG PP5EG PT5T, for the opportunity, once again, to
use his great PS2T station.
And many thanks to Danilo, PU2RSD, for fixing with me the various technical
problems at the station.
The station is now OK for the upcoming contest season.
73, Ville PY2ZEA OH2MM
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