CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: MZ5B
Operator(s): G3WVG
Station: MZ5B
Class: SOSB/80 HP
QTH: Shetland
Operating Time (hrs): 25
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 1558 23 108
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1558 23 108 Total Score = 277,458
Club:
Comments:
See the pictures!.....http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/MZ5B-07/MZ5B-07.html
Hiya Guys
Thanks to all those who called me at MZ5B this weekend. I did 80M Single Band
(no dx cluster). Conditions were not too bad considering the highish k index.
Weather conditions however, were appalling (worse than last year).
Here is an extract from the shipping forecast .....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Fair Isle, issued on Sunday 25 November 2007 at 0345
Northwesterly storm force 10 decreasing severe gale force 9 imminent.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I wasn't in a ship, but I was in a lighthouse on the edge of a 150ft cliff so
it amounted to the same result, minus seasickness!
Lots of broken antenna wires and bent a Butternut, but I was able to stay on
the air and only missed an hour on the Saturday night fixing a broken dipole
end. Steve GW4BLE had kindly volunteered to come on the trip to help with
antenna rigging etc and he was uncomplaining when I woke him up at 3 am to get
him out in the storm to find the end of the 80M dipole. We did find it ..it
was flapping around at 40ft above our heads, and illuminated every 15 seconds
by the flash of the lighthouse. In an amazing stoke of luck the wind dropped
for a second and the weight of the insulator caused the end to drop at exactly
the same moment as the light shone , we grabbed the end and tied it off at
ground level. It stayed like that until daybreak when I was able to fix it a
little higher.
The antenna set up was quite simple. Just a Butternut and an inverted vee at 40
ft so I wasn't ever going to be a big signal, nevertheless it was great fun and
I was quite pleased with the result.
Raw scores ..1558 qsos, 23 zones, 108 counties...Lots of DX mults were heard
but not worked, I just didn't have the oomph.
Steve did a single band 28Mhz entry using MZ5A. The idea was that it would give
him something to do during the day when I was sleeping. In the end it wasn't
too productive. 8 qsos, 3 zones and 6 countries. And to add insult to injury,
the 10M antenna was snapped off by the wind! Even so, he now holds the record
for top 28MHz SOAB score for Shetland.
The WebMeister Nigel has already loaded some of Steve's pix on to his excellent
G3TXF website. Take a look at....
http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/MZ5B-07/MZ5B-07.html
Again thanks to Steve for his great help in the atrocious conditions and to
Nigel for the website.
73 Ian G3WVG
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