[3830] IOTA M6T(G4PIQ) SO24 Phone

[g4piq at btinternet.com]

                     IOTA Contest
                    
Call: M6T
Operator(s): G4PIQ
Station: G4MRS

Class: SO24 Phone  Power: HP
QTH: JO02PB
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:   CW       CW      Phone   Phone
 Band     QSOs     Mults    QSOs    Mults
--------------------------------------------
   80:                       117       44
   40:                       274       67
   20:                       863      101
   15:                       707       98
   10:                       389       56
--------------------------------------------
Total:                      2350      366  =  5,077,152

Club: Martlesham DX & CG

Comments:

Rig  : 2 x FT1000MP + PAs
Ants : 80m - Delta Loop @ 24m
       40m - 402CD @ 24m
       HF  - TH5 @ 24m (run) + A3 @ 26m (2nd radio)

Comments
DX Conditions didn't seem too hot for this - only worked 50 JAs or so on 15 
and most were hovering around the horrible noise floor at this end. However 
- sporadic E conditions were excellent and there was lots of opportunity to 
work heaps of European stuff on the high bands. To give a view of the 
intensity of the ionisation, at one point on Sunday morning, M5ZAP/P on 
EU120 (I guess the Isle of Wight so 200km or so away) offered to go and 
work me from his mobile station on 10 & 20m and he was S9+ on 20!

Activity seemed excellent with heaps of multipliers on the table. At the 
start of the contest I was really struggling with 2 radios, working mults 
and moving people quickly, not helped by the fact that I'd over configured 
TR to be too clever so I was ending up with the two radios sending stuff 
from the DVP that I really wasn't wanting. Took me till about the middle of 
the contest to delete remove the appropriate DVP files to stop that 
happening, but in the interim there was much frantic escape key pressing 
going on! It's amazing how quickly you loose the practice with 2 radios, 
and it was only the ARRL contests back in Feb / March where I was last 
using the stuff. It always seems hard to use the 2nd radio at the start of 
the contest, but after a few hours (quite a few in this case) the brain 
unfreezes and can cope better with two different things in two ears.

Had 4 targets at the start of the event and I made two of them. Targetted 
2500 QSOs, (missed), 350 mults (hit), 500 second radio QSOs (missed - did 
290), and better than previous best score (hit - was 4.2M).

Overall - great fun - and lots of opportunity to do better - got nowhere 
near to running out of easy mults to find.

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and especially to those who moved.

Andy



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