RSGB Commonwealth Contest - 2019
Call: GM3DR
Operator(s): GM3WOJ
Station: GM3WOJ
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: Invergordon
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 132
40: 139
20: 175
15: 27
10: 4
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Total: 477 Total Score = 4,105
Club: RSGB
Comments:
GM3DR HQ station 2019
The Jack Hum G5UM callbook from circa 1930 contains an entry - 'GM3DR - RSGB
Highland Region'. This callsign has now been reallocated to the RSGB Contest
Club, so it seemed appropriate to give GM3DR its first airing in possibly 89
years from here in Highland Region, in a contest which dates from the same
era.
I found the contest a bit of a struggle for differing reasons. My station is
being completely renovated, from the ground up (literally - I am digging a
big hole outside the shack window for a new improved earth system) After
about 3 hours my Alpha 91B amp died - a fault which I thought I had fixed
about two months ago, but obviously not. It's a tricky fault - standing
current = OK, but as soon as the RF drive exceeds the Electronic Bias
Switching threshold, the plate current rockets up and it trips with an
overcurrent fault. I suspect the negative bias voltage is disappearing
completely when the EBS threshold is exceeded (or a duff valve /
oscillation) but I'll find out soon.
This meant that GM3DR was then on reduced power on all but 20m, which was
especially frustrating on LF for working VK/ZL and on 15m and 10m where UK
stations are usually workable on scatter. A number of UK stations refused to
work GM3DR when I called them - they did not realise they were losing Bonus
points :-(
Finished with 484 QSOs, but no idea of the correct final score. I am a fan of
WinTest logging software, but it performs very badly for BERU - quite a few
things just don't work properly.
Thanks for all the QSOs. A special thanks to those who travel to make BERU
more interesting for everyone.
73 Chris GM3WOJ / GM3DR
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