RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW
Call: G0HVQ
Operator(s): G0HVQ
Station: G0HVQ
Class: Restricted-12 LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 18
40: 34
20: 53
15: 17
10: 3
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Total: 125 Total Score = 2,905
Club:
Comments:
Equip: Icom IC7400, 100W, Hustler 4BTV (40/20/15/10), Cushcraft MA8040 (80)
I'm really kicking myself on this one! Was going reasonably well and on track
for a good score, but suffered an antenna failure on 15m overnight - SWR on 15m
was intermittently sky-high, resulting in me missing some African and Asian
QSOs. It was Mother's Day here in the UK so little chance of sneaking out to
repair it, so I gave up, but fortunately it made me QSY to 10m where I heard 5
x VKs and worked 2 of them, really pleased with that. Low bands were pretty
poor, a few ZLs, VEs and Caribbean on 80m but no VKs.
The antenna problem: I've converted my 4BTV to a "7BTV" with the WARC bands,
upon investigation I found the 17m parallel element wrapped around the main
vertical, we'd had no adverse weather so the problem looks like the result of
an overnight bird collision (I live in a rural location with lots of buzzards,
owls, etc.). If I'd known it would be such a simple fix I'd have done it in the
contest...oh well.
Great fun as usual, good to catch up with some regulars, see you all next
year.
73
Darrell G0HVQ
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