Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: EI2CN
Operator(s): EI2CN
Station: EI2CN
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Ireland
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 266 Total Score = 1,338
Club: Grande County Louth DX Alliance
Comments:
Dear OMs and YLs,
Operations started post a dinner with friends for St. Stephen's day so it
was a start at around 21:10. I went to bed around 02:00 when the band had
dried up for North America and almost all EU that could be heard were in the
log. Got back on at around 05:30 and stayed on till 08:30.
Conditions were not good. The NA stations were never strong in the
night drying up at around 01:30. There was no lift with the sunrise! Only a
handful of NA stations were worked from 05:30 to 08:30 Sunday morning. The
best DX was in the early night with N0NI.
A surprise was working my friend Alain, F8FUA who uses an antenna which
is not much better than a dummy load - sorry Alain. He was strong at a 589
and really took me by surprise. The only two EI stations heard were EI4HQ and
EI6FR. Declan, I was so sleepy that I did not recognize your call for which I
apologize.
The interesting thing for me in this contest was testing my new Hi-Z
Eight Circle receive antenna. The conversion from a four square was a lot of
effort but a couple of dB have been gained so this was worthwhile.
I now look forward to the CQWW 160M for this is the contest which really
has activity on top band. I like the Stew Perry though and enjoyed the
experience once again. One Sixty is not predictable; certainly the band was
not in great shape this time as I observed from listening to others. It is
the challenge which we enjoy on top band.
K3 and P3
Acom 2000A running 1500 W allowed in EI for contesting
Inverted L at 30 meters vertical
RX antenna Hi-Z Eight Circle
WinTest and Micro Keyer II
The score means nothing until evaluated against the powers being run by
stations worked.
73 Doug EI2CN
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