Oceania DX Contest, CW
Call: ZM2IO
Operator(s): ZL3IO
Station: ZM2IO
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Waimarama Heights
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 1 1
80: 131 91
40: 483 286
20: 268 190
15: 174 107
10: 21 19
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Total: 1078 694 Total Score = 3,014,402
Club:
Comments:
The station is still partly dismantled but hopefully back up for the CQWWDX
contests. The two main towers are currently down. Therefore no 10/15/40 m beams
available except for two small hexbeams (20-10m) @ 9m.
10m opened only for a short time and I left that slot to my daughter ZL4YL (14
yrs). She made her license 2 months ago and local regulation limit her to
160/80/10m on HF for the first 3 months.
10/15m conditions were very disappointing from down here or may be it was due
to the low gain antennas. I also think the local Japanese CW contest was
distractive, especially on the low bands.
This contest needs more Oceania activity! While I worked quite a lot of VK/ZL's
I doubt that stations overseas had the same impressions. It probably came down
to 6-7 stations each from VK & ZL. Not a single YB station was worked here
and only 1 x DU.
My strategy was to focus on 80m whenever conditions would allow and than 40m or
high bands due to the different points per band. There was some good competition
with VK2DX & VK2IM. They had much higher QSO numbers and we will see how it
worked out with higher points on low bands and multipliers worked. Despite my
negative feeling during long slow periods (15/10) I ended up with an unexpected
good score.
Thank you all for your calls.
73 Holger
Rig: K3 + KPA500
Ant.
80m: dipole & 1/4 wave vertical
40m: dipole & 1/4 wave vertical
20-10m: 2 x hexbeam @ 9 m
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