CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: KH0AA
Operator(s): JF1SQC, JP1NWZ AND JE1JKL
Station: KH0AA
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Saipan, Northern Mar
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 2 1 2
80: 115 16 24
40: 493 29 65
20: 1636 38 141
15: 2468 37 128
10: 2248 37 128
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Total: 6962 158 488 Total Score = 13,201,010
Club:
Comments:
Team: Newly born in July 2002. No past experience in operating Multi-Op
station togethter, in any pairs.
Location: Mariana Resort @ Cliff 100m above sea level
Equipment: FT-1000MP MkV Field + VL-1000, FT-1000MP + ACOM and FT-920
Dunestar 600 + TopTen Band Decoder (TKS for timely delivery!)
RF Inquiry (JA) Monoband BPF for 80/40/20/15/10
with a pair of SP4T coax switch (1T short!)
Bird 72-R DP-Transfer coax swith (re-use after WRTC2002)
Antennas: 160m - Bent Dipole @ 5m (like a pair of elevated radials)
80m - Full size vertical @ 0m with 1 elevated radial
Inverted Dipole @ 5m (like a pair of elevated radials)
40/20/15/10m - Force12 C-4 @ 12m
Cushcraft R-7000 @ 1m
40m - Loaded vertical @ 2m with 4 elevated radials
15m - 3el.Yagi @ 7m
PC: 5 Note PC - 3 for CT (RUN and 2xMULT)
1 (supposed to be) for Web Cluster, and 1 spare
Software: K1EA CT version 9.81
Webcluster: None (due to RFI to MODEM)
Events in the Extended-Weekend:
Fri, October 25
3pm (05z) - Team arrived at Saipan after 3.5 hr flight from Tokyo Narita
- Custom officer told us that it was a bit too early for Ski
season there, looking at our antennas in a ski case
5pm (07z) - arrived at the shack.
- Only C-4 was up and operational
- started antenna works. Sunset within 1 hr!
7pm (09z) - MFJ-986 said SWR for 15m 3-el.Yagi was infinity. Changing
element lengths or baluns did not work.
- 1 hr investigation revealed that there was RFI from local
shortwave broadcast station FEBC
Sat. October 26
1am (15z/Fri)
- All the antenna works completed
- Team started Rig and PC setup
4am (18z) - realized that PC had problems controling rigs for 2xMULT stations
5am (19z) - gave up PC controls for MULT stations
- Rig settings had not been completed yet
- went to bed anyway
8am (22z) - woke up and restarted rig settings
9am (23z) - rig and PC settings (once) completed
9:30am (23:30z)
- pre-contest meeting (no big issues then)
9:50am (23:50z)
- accidentally erased important files in RUN/STN1 PC
- swapped the RUN/STN1 PC with the spare PC
9:55am (23:55z)
- PC for 2nd MULT station (STN3) went dead. (HDD crash)
- no more PC left for 2nd MULT station
- gave up PC for 2nd MULT station (PC for webcluster was not
usable for DOS environment)
- set the PC clocks with Japan Standard Time with Japanese version
of Atomic Clock (with TZ=JST-9) Yes, it worked even there!
10am (00z/Sat)
- The contest started
2pm (04z) - realized that PC clocks were 4 minutes behind
- PC clocks were adjusted back to JST
4pm (06z) - revealed that the clock of RUN/STN1 PC (Spare PC) was slow
1 min/hr and MULT1/STN2 PC followed the clock of RUN/STN1 PC
- swapping STN1 and STN2 PC solved the problems
Sun. October 27
11pm (13z) - highlight for the 80m bent dipole (or 2x elevated radials) came
- calling BV2B on 80m with the full size vertical for 10 minutes
gave us no success
- finally, got him with the bent dipole with just a single call!
5am (19z) - Bands were almost dead for 2 hrs
6am (20z) - Started taking down antennas
Mon. October 28
10am (00z) - The contest was over
- continued taking down antennas and started packing equipment
1pm (03z) - completed packings
2pm (04z) - left the shack for Airport
- visited WH0V and KH0AC on our way
4pm (06z) - departed for Narita Tokyo
Team learned a lot of lessons from this operation.
MNI TNX for the QSO!!
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