RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW
Call: ZL2IFB
Operator(s): ZL2IFB
Station: ZL2IFB
Class: Open HP
QTH: Hawkes Bay
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 83
40: 146
20: 93
15: 3
10: 1
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Total: 326 Total Score = 4,630
Club: ZL BERU team KiwiDX
Comments:
As the electrons settle on another BERU, I'm in a good mood so must have done OK
this year! There were the usual ups and downs though ...
Ups:
- Finally got the tribander up on Saturday, just in time
- FB Hawke's Bay QTH - so nice not to live in a valley!
- Worked lots of old pals on 80-40-20 and can still remember most of your
names!
- Worked VE7RAC, VK4WIA, ZL6A, plus GB5CC on 20m, for HQ bonuses
- Was called by ZS2DL on 20m at 11:02z, for my very first CQ Zone 38 QSO here
in ZL
- Had a "spare" (4th/non-bonus) VU QSO on 20m for once, though no 4S
- Being lent a spare rig and not needing to use it (thanks for the insurance
ZL2AL!)
- Not too much QRM, just enough to remind me why I bought those IRC filters and
where the Reverse-CW button is
- Polite callers, willing to persist until we completed
- Hand-logged QSOs with around 70 Johnny Foreigners who evidently hanker to
join the Empire and refused to copy repeated hints that I was working "BERU
RSGB TEST VE VK G ZL ONLY"! Managed to faze some by sending their call once
with ENN in the hope they would buzz off.
- Filled some more band-spots (thanks J88DR, H40FN, 6Y8XF, 9H3JT and VQ9JC)
Downs:
- Only had time to rig up the 80m inv-Vee at 11m off the tower, running N-S
- Had to hand-rotate the beam with a rope as I'm 10m short of rotator cable
(doh!), necessitating a dozen dashes up the little hill and causing a few
missed Qs
- Missed 9J2BO completely (DXcluster would have helped I'm sure)
- Tired from climbing the tower and hill, needed 3 hours kip on Sunday morning
and lost the will to contest for the last half hour of BERU
- Had to hand-score in Excel since N1MM hasn't a clue
Equipment: TS850, Amp Supply Co LK550, Cushcraft A3S at 14m, 40m roach-pole
vertical, 80m inv-V at 11m and my trusty Morse Machine
73 and thanks for all the QSOs and friendly comments,
Gary ZL2iFB
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