CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: M6T
Operator(s): G0OPB, G3WGN/WJ6O, G4BUO, G4PIQ, G4TSH
Station: G0KPW
Class: M/S HP
QTH: JO02RF
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 347 18 84
80: 1472 31 127
40: 1299 38 143
20: 1292 38 135
15: 1328 37 152
10: 169 28 104
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Total: 5907 190 745 Total Score = 11,647,295
Club:
Comments:
Basically a lot of maintenance effort in the days before the contest to get the
station back to more or less where it was 2 years ago. We had a long list of
items which required dealing with in a priority order and just worked through
as many of the as we could until we got to the contest. Every tower / antenna
on the site needed something doing to it â?" ranging from a simple lifting rope
replacement on the 15m tower to a full 6 man-day debug and repair of the 80m 4
square.
The contest went pretty seamlessly and other than a few dozes of RF in the
keyer / switching due to a hastily lashed together and complex station, none of
the equipment missed a beat. We thought that conditions were somewhat better on
the high bands than in 2008, but we didnâ??t have the super low band conditions
of that year â?" we found 160 pretty average. There were some remarkable moments
like passing a ZS to 80m, having the mult station call him, getting no joy, but
having 5H3EE call us for a double mult while we were calling the ZS! We had
quite a lot of snow static on the Saturday, but the tri-bander was largely
unaffected â?" presumably because the elements are insulated. Many of the
packet pile ups were evil â?" lots of incessant calling when the caller really
couldnâ??t hear the station. The folks who went split made life much easier,
but these pile-ups are an element of packet assisted contesting that I really
dislike.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and the competition, and to Bob, G4BAH for use
of the station. See you all in the next one.
Rig : 2 x FT1000MP + Alpha 87A
Ant :
160m â?" 33m tall T + Inv-V @ 28m + 580ft NW Beverage
80m â?" 4 square + Inv-V @ 20m + 580ft NW Beverage
40m â?" 402CD @ 30m + Delta Loop @ 28m
20m â?" 204CD @ 30m + 204CD @ 30m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m
15m â?" Extended 155BA @ 30m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m
10m â?" 105CA @ 24m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m
73,
Andy, G4PIQ
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