IOTA Contest
Call: GU8D
Operator(s): G3SJJ, G3SVL, G4DRS, G4IIY, GU0SUP
Station: GU8D
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: Guernsey
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs CW Mults Ph Qs Ph Mults
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80: 124 36 179 40
40: 238 57 190 52
20: 331 52 809 106
15: 146 41 306 61
10: 38 19 127 20
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Total: 877 205 1611 279 Total Score = 7,490,868
Club:
Comments:
A great contest and an excellent weekend. Island activity appeared higher
but was spoilt by poor HF band conditions. 15m in particular did not
support longer distance traffic such as JA, VK and ZL. 10m was also
disappointing, providing just a few Eu QSOs on Sunday morning.
As if poor band conditions weren?t enough we also suffered problems on
15m
with both our beams. The TH6 was very prone to a local high noise level
and
really made running and multiplier searching difficult, the A4S located
50m
away was quieter but had a high SWR on the band. We subsequently found it
was resonant on 21900 with an open circuit driven element trap.
We all enjoyed the multi-mode aspect of this contest, switching from SSB
to
CW and vice-versa when the need arose. A feature of the GU8D operations
have been team-spirit. All members of the group commented on how well the
team works together. Our thanks to members of Guernsey Amateur Radio
Society who have worked so hard on station improvements. We are already
looking forward to next year?s event.
Equipment : 2 x FT1000MP, Acom 1000 and Explorer 1200 amplifiers, TH6 at
20m, A4S at 12m, 80m dipole at 18m, 40m diamond loop apex at 17m.
Logging Program: NA v10.57, 3 networked laptops, separate DX Cluster
access.
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