VE6JY m/s CQWW CW

Don Moman ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Thu Nov 28 13:14:35 EST 1996


    Entry Class: Multi single (hi pwr)
    Callsign Used : VE6JY
    Operators: VE6BF  VE6WQ  G3OUF; support by VE6LDX VE6JY

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   Zones
  160CW       19          19         37         6         7  Delta at 145,bev
   80CW      319         309        669        31        18  2x bobtails
   40CW      671         656       1565        84        35  3 el at 145
   20CW     1122        1079       2583       107        32  5 el at 145
   15CW      611         593       1256        88        29  6 el at 120
   10CW       14          14         34        13         8  7 el at 50
 ___________________________________________________________++2xTH6,4-30lp

 Totals     2756        2670       6144       329       129

    Final Score = 2,813,952 points.

Our first CW multi-op effort went fairly well, although temps in the -30C
range earlier in the week kept away some of the ops who had a long way to
come, we did have our core group of 3 who got the job done. Could have
used one more though, at least.

Conditions started like in the SSB effort, slow with much diode
propagation on the lower bands (we're used to that, but it's still
frustrating when you can't even get a ? from a CQing signal that's S9+)
Things did pick up and were fairly good at times, but it still seemed hard
to get and keep a real good run going, especially to Europe. I kept a
close watch on 10m, it just about opened the first day here, but really
surprised us with 13 countries on Sunday. Good cdx on 15 both mornings to
Europe - well good enough to get mults anyway, and the AFrican signals
held in most of the day.  40 was open from a reception point of view all
day, both days, but one can't be heard very well in the midday.  

The cold weather posed no real problems, the rotors behaved well and the
only equipment hitch was the FT-1000mp misbehaving on 15m. I'm curious if
others have had this problem - on SSB it would sometimes hang in transmit
at about 25-50 watts out BUT this RF was at about 24.5 mhz!! It never
stayed around long enough to get a real handle on it, but in the CW test
it really messed up the CW, not to mention I didn't like htting the amp
with all that 24 mhz energy! So it got retired early and other FT-1000D's
got the job done. The 15m RF hanging problem isn't limited to contest
weekends, but also shows up on the test bench - a scope and spectrum
analyzer made it easy to see what was happening. Maybe it's as simple
as a PLL just on the "edge" but it's still under warranty so hopefully the
local dealer can find and cure the problem - meanwhile if this is more
than just a random defect with mine, please let me know.

73 Don

VE6JY is Don Moman               email: ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca 
Box 127 Lamont, Alberta
T0B 2R0  (403) 895-2925





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