CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: PZ5K
Operator(s): G4XUM G3NKC G4BVY G4CLA GM4AFF N0VD
Station: PZ5RA
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Lelydorp, Suriname
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 191 13 47
80: 767 22 84
40: 2480 33 111
20: 2115 36 122
15: 3639 35 134
10: 1936 27 120
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Total: 11128 166 618 Total Score = 25,126,416
Club: 1/6 Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Our apologizes for a late submission. The team left Suriname at various times
on Tuesday with most arriving home on Wednesday. We're just now beginning to
catch our breath.
A very special thank you goes to Ramon, PZ5RA, for letting us invade his
station once again. This is the third visit for some of the team members,
while the first for others. "Team Parbo" (a name that seems to have
stuck with us) has operated together in various forms from various locations
over the years, however, this was the first time all of the PZ5K team members
had operated together as one team. Despite this slightly different dynamic, we
came together as if we had been doing this for years.
Discussions for this contest began a year ago after our PZ5K M/S entry in the
2016 CQWW SSB. Further discussions were had after the PZ5K entry in the 2017
ARRL SSB contest. Rog, G4BVY, put floated the idea of building a Quadplexer
that would allow optimum use of the two HF tri-band yagis that were available
at the station. The thought was that if we could feed both antennas, we would
be able to take advantage of the propagation that is often open to both NA and
EU at the same time. In addition, we wanted to take advantage of the K3's
diversity receive capability. With the use of high power bandpass filters and
the Quadplexer, we were successful in taking full advantage of all antenna
hardware available. We were also pleased with how the diversity system worked.
With the use of audio switching, we were able to have NA in one ear and EU in
the other. It was interesting that in some cases EU was stronger on the NA
antenna and NA on the EU antenna.
We also set up partner mode at one of the run stations. This allowed two ops
to queue up stations and was particularly effective when one op was listing on
the EU antenna and the other was listening on the NA antenna.
While we are beginning to learn the capabilities of Ramon's fine station, we
also continue to learn how we might improve. We know we left a lot of
multipliers on the table - particularly in band mults. We'll continue to work
on improving our effort in that department. We also feel we didn't utilize the
mult station as well as we could have. This will be another opportunity for
improvement.
Overall, we're extremely pleased with the result. We were fortunate and only
had one brief power outage that lasted for about a minute. Congrats to the
team at CN2R for a fabulous score despite their own power and other issues.
And a special thanks to everyone that gave us a call, without you the fun of
this contest would be short lived.
On behalf of "Team Parbo" (PZ5K),
Kelly - N0VD
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