Oceania DX Contest, Phone
Call: T32C
Operator(s): DK1II, EI5DI, F2JD, FM5CD, G3SVL, G3USR, G3WGN, G3XTT, G3YBY,
G4AXX, G4IUF, G4LDL, GM3POI, KG4UVU, MD0CCE, N6HC AND N6OX
Station: T32C
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Kiritimati T32
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 167 74
80: 522 203
40: 991 365
20: 1364 562
15: 1794 581
10: 1537 407
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Total: 6375 2192 Total Score = 50,586,976
Club:
Comments:
The decision by T32C to enter the Oceania SSB contest was a last-minute one,
made after a DXpedition team discussion. The contest weekend was the first
weekend of the FSDXA DXpedition, and in fact the contest start time was only
two hours after T32C went QRV. While starting on SSB for 24 hours on some
bands (for example 160m and 80m) would not have been our natural decision, the
contest was viewed as a good opportunity to test the antennas and find out more
about propagation for the DXpedition. There was enough interest by the team to
field 17 operators in an average of 1.5 4-hour shifts each to give coverage on
all bands, 160M â?" 10M for the contest.
Propagation went on longer than expected on the HF bands, and shorter than
expected on the LF bands. 20M and 15M were open nearly all night; while there
were brief propagation dropouts, each band came back a short while later. 10M
closed around midnight.
The StarLog software written by John G3WGV and used for the DXpedition was
quickly configured to record the contest data and allow all the participants to
watch the contest progress as well as the overall DXpedition progress. Scoring
was done after the contest by uploading an ADIF of contest QSOs from StarLog
into N1MM.
The container of equipment shipped for the DXpedition is stuck in Tarawa, so
the rigs were all Yaesu FT-450Ds kindly supplied by Yaesu and hand-carried by
the team, along with miscellaneous portable amplifiers also hand-carried by the
team. Antennas were verticals and vertical arrays mounted just at the high-tide
mark on the beach.
Operators for the contest were DK1II, EI5DI, F2JD, FM5CD, G3SVL, G3USR, G3WGN,
G3XTT, G3YBY, G4AXX, G4IUF, G4LDL, GM3POI, KG4UVU, MD0CCE, N6HC and N6OX.
The team extends its thanks to the contest organizers and to all the stations
who called during the contest!
73
Bob MD0CCE
Contest Team Leader
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