CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: OG6A
Operator(s): OH6KZP, OH6LI, OH6QU
Station: OH4A
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Kisko
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 66
80: 487
40: 990
20: 1863
15: 701
10: 224
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Total: 4331 Prefixes = 1196 Total Score = 11,939,668
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
Our target was set to challenge the old OH record in the M/S category which was
8.8Mpoints. We knew that we had a chance to break it even at the bottom of the
solar cycle but needed a bit of help from the propagation. Especially Lady
Aurora was the one we didn't want to show up during the contest.
The conditions were excellent: 20M was open for the full 48 hours, there were
intense ES openings on 15M and 10M and even 15M provided some real DXs. Time to
time the pile-ups were comparable to the ones at the solar cycle peak.
We also had exceptionally hot weather throughout the contest. The temperature
reached +30 C during the day, which isn't very common in Finland. Therefore the
contest was also a real temperature stress test for equipment and operators when
the temperature was peaking at least +38 C in the ham shack. The equipment
passed the test successfully with only one minor malfunction. The operators
also survived the test :) Actually the operators didn't get enough heat during
the weekend and therefore we all went to the sauna that showed about +90 C just
after the contest, which ended in the middle of the night towards Monday at 3
am.
We achieved our goal very well - the old OH record was exceeded with a
significant margin. After the contest we also realized that our claimed score
is bigger than the current European record in the M/S category. However, we
knew that there will be others with even bigger claimed scores -
congratulations to E7DX, ES9C, OL3Z, OM7M and UZ2M for your excellent results.
We hope that we finished in the EU top-10 in the very competitive M/S
category.
Improvement for next time: try to recruit more operators for the M/S team. This
time the multiplier radio wasn't manned throughout the contest and operators
were not at their best when too tired.
Equipment:
2 x Yaesu FT-1000MP + linears
10M - 3 x 4 el mono and 3 x 4 el mono
15M - 2 x 4 el mono and 2 x 4 el mono
20M - 3 x 4 el mono, 3 x 4 el mono and 2 el delta loop
40M - 2 x 2 el mono, 2 el shortened
80M - 2 el shortened + RX antennas
160M - quarter slopers + RX antennas
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