[3830] CQWW SSB SV9CVY (op DL6FBL + Murphy) SOAB HP

Bernd Och bernd.och at boc.de
Tue Oct 30 12:53:42 EST 2001


Hi all,

what a pity. Days of preparation, endless stress, and finally
OM Murphy shows up and wants to be an operator, too...

1. Mr. Murphy felt like the island of Crete had had a long enough
    hot and dry summer, and it was time for some good rain now.
    Just in time for the start of the contest he sent a fine storm.
2. The rain was very heavy, the winds were very high, so some
    masts in the electricity backbone gave up, and on Saturday,
    0446z the lights went off in the whole area. I had just started
    a first 40m run only a few minutes ago.
3. Every one hour or so the power came back for one or two
    seconds...
4. After more than seven hours (!) the power was coming back at
    exactly 1200z - and went away after only 31 minutes and 137
    QSOs on 15 meters...
5. At 1334z it seemed to go on again, but only for one minute and
    two QSOs on 10m...
6. At 1514z there was another minute and two QSOs...
7. At 1536z Saturday (exactly at sunset) the power came back
    and stayed for the rest of the contest.
8. This was exactly 10 hours and 16 minutes with no activity :-(

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Imagine your psychology, when you just sit there, not able to do
anything, but anxiously waiting for that damn electricity coming
back... And the clock is ticking every second... These ten hours
would have been good enough for some 2,000 QSOs and a good
number of multipliers...

But Mr. Murphy was not yet happy with his work. He had also
decided that he wanted to play with the Cubical Quad (2-ele 40
+ 4-ele each 20/15/10) on the 30 meters high tower. He made
the rotator brackets break, and had the antenna turn some times
around itself until the coax cable cut off... And nobody
wanted to climb up the tower to fix it under the high winds...

The other antenna was a Force12 C31XR mounted at 15 meters
height, pointing fixed to the USA. And I had a Cushcraft R7
vertical, which was connected to the second radio first. These
two antennas now came over the Stackmatch. Thus there are
way "too many" Europeans in the log, and way too few DX.
The average points-per-QSO is too low, and ... grumble, mumble,
*&#%"=$/&*    !!!!!

I did not have a 40m antenna for the second night at all, because
(Hello Mr. Murphy...) the shack was accessible by an elevator
only, no stairs. No electricity, no elevator... I was "caught" in
the shack and couldn't do anything but walking around, staring
out of the window and lying on the bed.
My plan was to operate most of the second night on 40m, and
therefore I had not operated the first night on 40m seriously.
Having a 2-ele Quad on 40m had certainly given great fun...
But when the power had come back it was sunset (see above),
and I did not have a solution ready.
On Sunday morning I made a 50 minute break to make a 40m dipole
and hang it from the balcony (10 meters high) to the garden
(2 meters high), at least to work the most important European
multipliers during the last hours. I was surprised that later stations
like E30NA, YB0AI, A50A, 9M8R, ZS4TX, EK6CC, 4L4MM, VP2E,
V47KP, D44TC, 9K9X and some Japanese found their way through
that wire into my log... I better don't even think how things could
have been, when the Quad had been still available...

By the way ZS4TX: Bernie had called in on 10 meters, and within
five minutes we could work on every other band but 160 meters.
All were double-mult QSOs, no other ZS in the log. TNX Bernie!

Of course, I am very disappointed. The investment and all efforts
were way too high for that score. If there had been no storm,
no power failures, and the Quad available, I was sure to having
over 12 million points (actual EU record 10.4M). Then it had only
been a question of the other "competition".

If, when, why, what, %($§&§/#* again.     :-(

Anyway, thanks for all QSOs and see you in the CW leg as part of
the OE2S M/S team.

73 Ben
DL6FBL


                     CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2001


       Call:      SV9CVY (op DL6FBL)
       Category:  SOAB HP (Murphy assisted)

       BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES

       160       89      108     1.21      7      41
        80      133      192     1.44     11      57
        40      139      258     1.86     17      61
        20     1961     4720     2.41     33     113
        15     1200     2607     2.17     32     113
        10     2367     4718     1.99     33     115
      ---------------------------------------------------

      Totals   5889    12603     2.14    133     500  =>  7,977,699


Operating time: 37 operating hours

Equipment Description:

Station 1: Kenwood TS-450S + Ameritron AL-1500
Station 2: Kenwood TS-850S + TenTec Titan

160m: Inverted Vee @ 25m
80m: Inverted Vee @ 25m
40m: 2-ele Quad for 15 minutes, afterwards sloping dipole @ 10m
20m: 4-ele Quad for 4 hours + Force12 C31XR (fixed to USA)
    afterwards Force12 C31XR (fixed to USA) + Cushcraft R7 :-(
15m: C31XR (fixed to USA) + Cushcraft R7 :-(
10m: C31XR (fixed to USA) + Cushcraft R7 :-(

Club Affiliation: Bavarian Contest Club (BCC)


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                  160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America   SSB    0    6   32 1310  573 1016 2937    49.0
South America   SSB    0    0    0   26   29   60  115     1.9
Europe          SSB   79  103   80  588  502 1207 2559    42.7
Asia            SSB    8   17   19   69   90   91  294     4.9
Africa          SSB    2    7    8   13   16   13   59     1.0
Oceania         SSB    0    0    2   14    4    6   26     0.4
------------------------------------------------------------------

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  SV9CVY  CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT

    0    12/17     1/2     .....    97/36    .....    .....   110/55  110/55
    1     2/2       .        .     215/26      .        .     217/28  327/83
    2     5/4       .        .     187/4       .        .     192/8   519/91
    3     2/1     19/20      .     150/3       .        .     171/24  690/115
    4      .       5/3     54/28    90/4       .        .     149/35  839/150
    5      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    839/150
    6      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    839/150
    7      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    839/150
    8    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....  839/150
    9      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    839/150
   10      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    839/150
   11      .        .        .        .       1/2       .       1/2   840/152
   12      .        .        .        .     136/50     1/2    137/52  977/204
   13      .        .        .        .        .       2/4      2/4   979/208
   14      .        .        .        .        .        .        .    979/208
   15      .        .        .        .        .     135/26   135/26 1114/234
   16    .....    .....    .....    .....    .....   312/25   312/25 1426/259
   17      .        .        .        .        .     292/7    292/7  1718/266
   18      .        .        .        .        .     249/9    249/9  1967/275
   19      .        .        .        .     163/20    30/13   193/33 2160/308
   20      .        .        .        .     195/10      .     195/10 2355/318
   21      .        .        .       7/5    104/16      .     111/21 2466/339
   22    31/13    18/19      .       3/4     28/0       .      80/36 2546/375
   23     8/1       .        .     209/10      .        .     217/11 2763/386
    0    15/3     39/8     .....     5/5     .....    .....    59/16 2822/402
    1      .      29/0       .     163/6       .        .     192/6  3014/408
    2     2/2       .        .     150/2       .        .     152/4  3166/412
    3    11/4     14/9       .      17/0       .        .      42/13 3208/425
    4     1/1      2/3       .      33/2      8/6      4/5     48/17 3256/442
    5      .        .        .     146/7      6/3      9/5    161/15 3417/457
    6      .        .        .      10/4     13/5     70/9     93/18 3510/475
    7      .        .        .       1/1    129/5     25/6    155/12 3665/487
    8    .....    .....    .....     3/1     59/3    229/3    291/7  3956/494
    9      .        .        .        .        .      57/0     57/0  4013/494
   10      .        .        .       1/1     40/3     13/11    54/15 4067/509
   11      .        .        .       1/1     10/4    209/6    220/11 4287/520
   12      .        .        .        .      34/0    115/1    149/1  4436/521
   13      .        .       5/2      1/1    114/1       .     120/4  4556/525
   14      .        .       7/8     24/4      3/3     62/4     96/19 4652/544
   15      .        .       8/11     1/1      3/1    151/3    163/16 4815/560
   16    .....     1/1      4/3     .....    .....   204/0    209/4  5024/564
   17      .       1/0      5/4      2/2      1/1    151/3    160/10 5184/574
   18      .       2/2     13/6      3/3      1/2     45/4     64/17 5248/591
   19      .        .      32/6      1/1     88/0      1/1    122/8  5370/599
   20      .       2/1      1/1      1/2     63/9      1/1     68/14 5438/613
   21      .        .       4/3    159/5      1/1       .     164/9  5602/622
   22      .        .       5/5    117/2       .        .     122/7  5724/629
   23      .        .       1/1    164/3       .        .     165/4  5889/633
DAY1    60/38    43/44    54/28   958/92   627/98  1021/86    ..... 2763/386
DAY2    29/10    90/24    85/50  1003/54   573/47  1346/62      .   3126/247
TOT     89/48   133/68   139/78 1961/146 1200/145 2367/148      .   5889/633


Bernd Och

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