IOTA Contest
Call: PJ2Y
Operator(s): G0WKW, G3XSV, G4FKA, G3TKF, M0AXF, G0HFX, G7ORR, G3RFX, M0WLF
Station: PJ2Y
Class: M/S Power: HP
QTH: Island
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary: CW CW Phone Phone
Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults
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80: 11 2 15 6
40: 82 23 100 82
20: 291 31 623 91
15: 235 36 915 91
10: 21 13 35 27
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Total: 640 105 1688 248 = 6,019,356
Club: Bristol Contest Group
Comments:
Island name and/or station location: CURACAO
Permanent Station or contest DXpedition? PERMANENT
TX/RX Run Station: TS930 + AL1200 LINEAR
Mult Station: IC765 + LK800 LINEAR
Power o/p 1KW Run & Mult stations
Antennas 5 ele monoband yagis for 20m/15m/10m on 100ft tower
2 ele yagi for 40m at 105ft
CL33 triband yagi at 80ft
A3S triband yagi at 50ft
Delta loop for 80m
Beverage, Pennant & verticals for receive
Operators G0WKW, G3XSV, G4FKA, G3TKF, M0AXF, G0HFX, G7ORR, G3RFX, M0WLF
Comments
Quite a different experience to our efforts from the Isle of Wight
the last couple of years. We had an excellent station, courtesy of
W0CG and the Caribbean Contest Consortium, but it is quite a
different contest seen from the other side of the Atlantic.
This REALLY IS a European contest, and we felt just like spectators
at times. The most striking example of this was the 10m E's opening
that happened in Europe. We could hear Europe, but we couldn't get
ourselves heard despite a large monobander at 85ft.
>From the tropics 80m is just wall to wall QRN. We could see lightning
on the horizon out over the sea for a lot of the time. Even the
beverage didn't help much with the noise level. As a result, just
8 mults made on 80m, and two of those were Curacao !
Suprisingly there is very little activity from the Carribean islands
in this contest, on any of the bands.
There were some definite advantages being where we were... apart from
the obvious ones, like sunshine, warm blue sea, beautiful palm lined
beaches, cocktails by the pool !
At times 15m and 20m were just outstanding. Wall-to-wall JAs, and
Oceania helped push up our points-per-QSO average. The prefix
obviously attracted a lot of non-contest callers which helped during
low times. 40m was open all night and we were getting some amazingly
stong signals from Europe. Although the noise level was very high,
with those sort of signals we could work most stations, if a bit slower
than from the UK.
We think it unlikely that there will be a winner from the other side of
the Atlantic in the forseeable future. The activity is just not there
during quiet times for Europe. You just can't work enough of the guys
in Europe who have gone out to an island with a 100w and a wire antenna
for the 12 hour sections. There are islands we worked that wouldn't
have been available from Europe, but not enough of them to compensate.
Overall we're please with our performance, which was about what we hoped
for.
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