CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: GZ3F
Operator(s): GM4AFF
Station: GZ3F
Class: SOAB Classic HP
QTH: Shetland
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 94 9 40
80: 359 14 50
40: 567 20 69
20: 767 22 78
15: 717 22 79
10: 579 26 71
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Total: 3038 113 387 Total Score = 2,752,000
Club:
Comments:
As I was so knackered after putting up the aerials on Thursday and Friday, I
just took it easy and had a fun weekend. I was blessed with unusually wonderful
weather, apart from the horrendous ferry trip north last Wednesday. Single op,
with a 40ft mast, rotator, C3S, HF2V, and 160m dipole is hard work, and I slept
through my alarm clock on Sunday morning after what was planned as a short
sleep! K3, Eto 91b and Wintest performed faultlessly, but RF got into my new
USB to serial adapter which took a while to fix. Nearly a whole week without
mobile phone or internet was quite relaxing. I saw an otter washing itself in
the loch outside the back of the house - a rare sight even in Shetland.
Conditions were obviously very good, but as usual from Shetland this is all
relative, and bands tended to close fairly early, while I could still hear weak
UK stations working stuff I couldn't hear. Some tremendous echoes coming back
on
my own transmissions on 10 and even 15m at times, and I found that I could run
the US easier by beaming north, as the distortion on signals on 15 and 20m when
I beamed west made copying impossible, especially on Saturday.
I have to say that the pile-up discipline on 160m on Sunday night was awful. I
gave up trying to work the pile and just searched/pounced. Not a big deal for
me as I wasn't serious about trying to win, but some who were lost a mult and
need to think about how they operate.
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