CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: GD6IA
Operator(s): GM3WOJ
Station: GD6IA
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Isle of Man
Operating Time (hrs): 33
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 807 20 74
40: 647 23 74
20: 948 24 85
15: 1273 27 81
10: 1342 33 96
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Total: 5018 128 411 Total Score = 5,550,622
Club: Three As CG
Comments:
Hello contesters
This visit to the Isle of Man had two aims (1) visit my old friend Alex GD6IA
who I've known since 1970 and (2) make the GD mult available as much as
possible.
The GD6IA station is well equipped, but this year we did not have the use of
the adjacent field where we had installed 160, 80 and 40m antennas in the
past. The station does not have permanent antennas for LF, so we set about
installing an antenna for 160m and 80m on Friday. Unfortunately despite
several hours of work, we could not get it to work on 160m and with darkness
falling had to very reluctantly concede that we would be on only 5 bands
during the contest - not ideal but we did our best considering the limited
time and space available. We were not expecting to set any records anyway,
just have fun working pile-ups.
Conditions were very good on both days and the GD prefix created instant
pile-ups. However it was very noticeable that if I went higher up any band
than the 'normal' Skimmer/SDR/RBN frequency ranges, then it often took a few
minutes before I was spotted and the hordes arrived.
In contrast to the SSB leg (GM2V), I spent most of WW CW working pile-ups, with
only a few short S&P sessions to work mults. I knew that although loads of
mults did call me, I could not assume that this would happen and had to go
and find them when I got a chance.
Visitors and other constraints (e.g. a sore tooth - now removed!) meant I
operated for 32 hours 54 minutes - average 154 Qs/hr = 5069 QSOs = 5.5M pts
approx.
Great fun - thanks to everyone who worked GD6IA and to Alex for his great
hospitality and to my XYL Pippa who kept bringing me food and cups of tea
every 10 minutes.
73
Chris GM3WOJ / GM2V
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