CQWW Scores - C31LD M/S

[Peter Jennings]

This is a repost. If you get two I apologize. The first copy posted 2 days
ago never arrived here, so I assume it went to the bit bucket.


                       C31LD  (QSL via VE3HO)


                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996


      Call: C31LD                    Country:  Andorra
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Multi Single

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


      160      158      175     1.11      5      42
       80      945     1471     1.56     18      94
       40      655     1345     2.05     26     102
       20     1381     3390     2.45     26     103
       15      382     1001     2.62     22      68
       10       10       27     2.70      7      10
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   3531     7409     2.10    104     419  =>  3,874,907

Operators: Xavier C31LD, Peter C31LJ, Eddie EA3NY        

Station 1: FT-1000 Ameritron AL-85  Ventriloquist Voice Keyer  Timewave DSP
Station 2: FT-1000 Kenwood TL-922

160 : 2 selectable dipoles
80  : dipole and Force 12 2 el 
40  : KLM 4 el monoband 
20  : KLM 6 el monoband
15  : KLM 6 el monoband
10  : KLM 6 el monoband
10/15/20 : R-5 Vertical

Antennas are on 3 towers about 20 meters high at 1400 meters altitude on the
side of the mountain. The top of the mountain is 1858 meters to the north.
The valley is at 1000 meters to the south. The slope is about 45 degrees.


Highlights:

The warm hospitality of Xavier (C31LD) in welcoming us to his house and shack
and feeding us for 48 hours.

Getting to operate from C31 with more aluminum in the air. All my C31LJ
operations are with wires and verticals surrounded by mountains on all sides.

Nothing broke in 48 hours. This may be the first time that has ever happened.


Lowlights:

Having a mountain block all signals from 330 degrees to 45 degrees. Seeing
packet spots and hearing nothing. Beams don't help when there is a mountain
in the way!

10 meters was great to LU. And nowhere else.

General comments:

The 80 meter inverted V always outperformed the Force 12 2 element beam.
I don't know if this was an interaction with the 45 degree sloping
ground or other antennas. I'd like to hear from anyone who has this
beam working to compare notes. Force 12 suspects an assembly problem. I
will be checking this out.

Being more used to operating from V31DX I was surprised that
there were never any pileups just a steady flow of calls. The skill required
was digging calls from the noise, not picking calls out of the buzzing pack.

Thanks to AD1C and F5OZF for the network pinouts.

Thanks to W2VJN for the coax filter lengths. They worked like magic.

Thanks to everyone who worked us.

Peter
C31LJ


                 http://www.turnpike.net/~jc





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