Russian DX Contest
Call: ZC4DW
Operator: ZC4DW (G0DEZ)
Station: ZC4DW
Class: SO CW LP
QTH: Eastern Sovereign Base Area
Operating Time (hrs): 23:15
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 67 35
80: 137 59
40: 233 95
20: 406 99
15: 264 92
10: 322 84
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Total: 1429 464 Total Score = 4,959,690
Club: Chiltern DX Club
Comments:
Really fun contest, lots of Russians to work, but not so much DX. Maybe
BARTG RTTY contest claimed
many of the DX stns.
Delighted to work all time new band/country, USA on 160m. In fact during the
short opening I managed to work 14 USA
stations on Top Band. It certainly made for an exciting weekend.
Got a phone call from my YL in England during the contest, she told me that
she had just ordered her wedding dress!
I then tripped over my head-phone lead whilst walking back to the rig, and
couldn't concentrate on my Morse for the next
couple of hours! ;-)
I made some alterations to the antenna just a few days before the contest,
(that is my style). I like to test the modified
antennas in contest situations. The antenna is a horizontal delta-loop, 30
feet above ground, so lots of high angle
radiation. Each leg of the triangle is 200 feet long, so I have 600 feet
total wire fed with a balanced system. It
tunes from 160m - 10m, although on 10m I used a simple 1/4 wave groundplane.
There were some big scores going around, so I think a few records might be
broken. Hoping that after the log checking
my score is good for a new SO CW LP record. Oh, this was with NO dx-cluster
either. Spent about 85 percent running,
15 percent search & pounce.
VP6DI had a ridiculous split on 15m Sunday morning, to take up half the cw
band was surely unnecessary. He hardly identified
himself which is probably the best way to bring out the 'band police''.
Whilst briefly cq-ing 1 KHz down from VP6DI, a 'policeman'
told me to QSY. 1000 Hz is a lot of space on CW. My rate was good until
another 'policeman' started calling cq cq cq cq cq
de zc4dw, right on top of VP6DI 21.020 I honestly can't see what
satisfaction this gives people. I thought it would be a good
move to QSY to 10m and pick up the rate again, leaving zc4dw pirate to
continue being a nuisance on 21.020.
Rig: Yaesu FT-1000mp
Pwr: 100 W
Ant: Horizontal Loop
Ant: 10m gp
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