RSGB Commonwealth Contest, CW
Call: VE3FU
Operator(s): VE3FU
Station: VE3FU
Class: Open-24 HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 120
40: 180
20: 258
15: 173
10: 5
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Total: 736 Total Score = 8,220
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
Tower 1
160m: Inverted-L (72ft vertical)
40m: Vertical Dipole
20/15/10m: Explorer-14 at 72ft
Tower 2
80m: Wire Vertical
40m: Inverted-Vee at 72ft
20/15/10m: TH-6 at 72ft (rotatable), TH-6 at 42ft (fixed on EU)
2x TS-950SD
2x TL-922
My comments from last year were about the constant noise that I had and the
need for RX antennas. The noise, whatever it was, is gone and I
put up a 300ft reversible (NE/SE) Beverage.
The 5 10m QSOs were with 3 "local" (~50km) VE2's and 2 Caribbean stations.
J6/G3PJT moved to 10m when asked but we couldn't make the QSO.
Thanks for trying Bob! I was hearing PY's, LU's, and FM5CD off and on for a
good part of the day but never heard anyone calling "CQ BERU".
Previous to this contest, I've worked 4 VU2's, the last one in the BERU in
2003. I had 5 different VU2's call me this year for 6 QSOs, 1 on
15m and 5 on 20m. 4 of the 5 20m QSOs were within 15 minutes! I heard another
VU2 working VE3EJ on 40m but couldn't get his attention.
The VK's/ZL's were really strong on 20m between 030Z and 04Z.
VP2MCC was loud, especially on 40m and 80m.
I think I heard ZL6HQ just about every hour on some band. They were
everywhere!
Bonus Stations: VA3RAC, VE7RAC, VO1RAC, GB5CC, ZL6HQ
495 QSOS in the first 12 hours, 248 in the last 12 hours. The last hour was
brutal though! I made 2 QSOs and one was a dupe!
131 Band Call Areas
Like many others have reported, this was my best score ever in the BERU!
Here's a breakdown of some of my log:
QSOs Raw Dupes Bonus HQ
80m 120 121 1 39 4
40m 180 181 1 63 4
20m 258 262 4 60 5
15m 173 174 1 43 5
10m 5 5 0 0 0
736 743 7 210 17
G: 494 QSOs (including HQ and dupes) with 258 unique stations
VK: 25 QSOs with 15 unique stations
ZL: 26 QSOs (including HQ) with 11 unique stations
ZS: 7 QSOs with 4 unique stations
80m
G: 73
VK: 1
ZL: 4
ZS: 0
40m
G: 104
VK: 15
ZL: 10
ZS: 2
20m
G: 191
VK: 7
ZL: 6
ZS: 2
15m
G: 126
VK: 2
ZL: 6
ZS: 3
Still one of my favourite contests! Thanks for all the QSOs!
73,
Chris
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