CQWW CW 96 - OZ5W

[Chatec Laboratories A/S]

This years effort was a more relaxed participation than in 95. With 3
operators and 2 stations we decided to run in Multi-Multi category
to have more fun.

Just 1 hour before the contest started we lost the TL-922 amplifier when
we tuned up on 80m. One of the tubes short-circuit and the glass cracked
near the base. The behavior of the 80m vertical was very strange and my
guess is that an unfavourable length of feed caused the problem.
We switch to a MLA-2500, and reduced the output power to reduce any risk
of another PA failure. As a consequence we forgot all about the TS-830S
which were in TX-position (no output), so after about 5 min. it gave up
as well !. A old Yeasu FT-902 was put back into service, however poor
sensitivity and bad tracking between TX and RX (appx. 500Hz offset) 
didn't make things easier.

Our disaster band was 40m, AGAIN !. The 2 el. KLM preformed like an
omni-directional antenna and had a intermittent problem that looked like
a bad connection and caused infinite SWR so we ended up using the 160m
linear-loaded vertical. Do anyone have an idea how to get the KLM antenna
working ?.

We worked 10 US stations on 5 bands and RW2F as the only on all 6. Our 
effort on 10 could have been better, hi.

Operator List: OZ1FTE, OZ1FTU, OZ1KRF

                   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 1996

      Call: OZ5W                     Country:  Denmark
      Mode: CW                       Category: Multi Multi

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES

      160      605      916     1.51     19      69
       80      702     1122     1.60     24      77
       40      200      412     2.06     29      99
       20     1128     2801     2.48     33     101
       15      459     1091     2.38     26      95
       10        6        8     1.33      4       5
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   3100     6350     2.05    135     446  =>  3,689,350

                              Continent Statistics

                 OZ5W       Multi Multi     25 Nov 1996  0000z

                 160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America    133  170   55  590  241    0 1189    38.2
South America      2    4   11   18   15    0   50     1.6
Europe           448  491   93  290  142    4 1468    47.2
Asia              22   30   23  209   38    0  322    10.3
Africa             4    7   14   11   18    1   55     1.8
Oceania            0    1    5   15    7    1   29     0.9

Antennas:

160	Vertical, linear loaded (26.5m)
80	Vertical, elevated 5m
40	2 el. KLM at 18m
20	2 x 4 el. at 33m/22m
15	5 el. at 15m
10	6 el. at 15m

Berverage antennas to US and Japan (2x250m).

Transceiver + PA:

FT-1000D + AL-1200 and FT-902 + MLA2500.

CU in the next contest, 73 de Soeren, OZ1FTU
E-mail: chartec at chartec.dk

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