IOTA Contest
Call: GM0CLN
Operator(s): GM0CLN
Station: GM0CLN
Class: SO12CW LP
QTH: EU-005
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs CW Mults Ph Qs Ph Mults
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80: 33 15 0 0
40: 80 21 0 0
20: 66 13 0 0
15: 51 13 0 0
10: 4 2 0 0
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Total: 234 64 0 0 Total Score = 93,312
Club:
Comments:
The above is my "unchecked" breakdown!
Equipment: TS850SAT, 40m Dipole, 20m 1/4 wave vertical
Club or Team Name: GMDX GROUP
For the first time in several years I wasn't taking part in a Multi-Multi
entry
for IOTA. Although I have previously enjoyed entering with GM2T (Tiree
EU-008), GM5A (Islay EU-008) and GM4V (Benbecula EU-010) other commitments
meant that I had to be home based this year. Until Thursday evening I wasn't
expecting to enter but plans changed and at the last minute I was able to
scrape together a 12hr CW Low Power entry from home for the first half of the
contest.
I was never going to set the results table alight as my antennas were a
quarter
wave 20m wire vertical and a 40m (inverted-V) dipole with the apex at 25ft
agl. When the expected auroral conditions (which obviously did materialise)
were added to that I began the contest almost half-heartedly with fairly lowly
expectations.
There were some signs of life on 10m early on and I managed to scrape a few
QSO's there in the first couple of hours but otherwise I worked from 15m
downwards as the day went on. Conditions on 15m were patchy and 20m too was
quite hard work. I had expected 40m to be a zoo, especially with low power
and
wires, but it was refreshingly easy to maintain a moderate rate there. On the
other hand, I found 80m particularly hard work,probably due to my antenna
farm.
On the whole I used the 40m dipole but the vertical was noticeably better on
10m and 20m at times. A combination of poor conditions due to the aurora and
loosing out in the pile-ups meant that there were very few non-European QSOs
in the log. Disappointingly, the only IOTA Refs I managed outside Europe
were
YV7QP SA-012 (15M), 5B4AHA AS-004 (15m), and VY2/W1MO NA-029 (20m). So, as
already expected, nothing to set the results table alight but good fun all the
same!
Many thanks for the QSO's and good luck to all those submitting an entry.
73 Colin (GM0CLN)
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