CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: 3B9HA
Operator(s): G0CKV
Station: 3B9HA
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MH10QG
Operating Time (hrs): 38
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 62 10 32
80: 95 20 57
40: 787 36 102
20: 861 32 110
15: 1331 29 94
10: 25 12 19
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Total: 3161 139 414 Total Score = 5,160,596
Club: Wey Valley Amateur Radio Group
Comments:
My third trip and second CQWWCW from 3B9. These trips are cheap extensions to an
annual holiday with the XYL in 3B8. The deal is that I talk with the XYL while
in 3B8 and play with the radio when I am alone in 3B9. Staying at a simple
guest house with half board on Rodrigues probably cost me less per day than
being at home in the UK.
A big improvement from last year was that a new fence around the property kept
the free-ranging goats and cows out of my radials and the antenna wires and guy
lines. The beasts made a real mess of it last year.
Otherwise it was tough. Three slow days under a brilliant hot sun putting up
antennas and laying out radials were very conducive to a midday nap. The
extraordinary clear nights make stargazing more attractive than dx-ing and
sleeping. The view from the shack looking out over the turquoise lagoon and Ile
aux Cocos is seriously distracting and cost me many qsos and repeats. The fridge
thermostat was stuck so the beer was a couple of degrees too cold.
The QTH is a couple of hundred meters away from the sea looking north and
perhaps 50m up with gently sloping dry poor ground down to the sea. A great
take-off from the west through north to the east.
The bottom 16m of an 18m spiderbeam pole supported a 160m vertical with four
umbrella wires doing the toploading. The same pole held an inverted L for 80
in parallel thus using the same radials (some 40 of them). Another 18m pole
held the center of parallel inverted V dipoles for 10-15-20 at about 14m. My
antenna modelling suggested that the dipoles would outperform verticals on HF
over poor ground away from the sea. Plan was to do a two-element vertical array
for 40 but after all the 160/80 radials I was not in a mood to lay radials
around two more verticals so I used a 12m pole for a single vertical with
elevated radials. No internet in shack but some blind cq-ing and later
RBN-checking confirmed that I was getting out.
The comparative statistics between almost identical setups 2015 and 2016 tells
the solar flux story very well.
2016 2015 2016 2015
QSO Mult
160 62 18 42 25
80 95 89 77 69
40 787 429 138 114
20 861 805 142 141
15 1331 1128 123 137
10 25 1154 31 127
Total 3161 3623 553 613
This is all great addictive fun. I am not sure whether doing one-man
field-day-style all-band setups on remote islands keeps you young or makes you
age prematurely though?
73 Olof G0CKV
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