[3830] ARRLDX CW GW7X(GW3NJW) SOSB/40 HP

[gw3njw@arrl.net]

                     ARRL DX Contest, CW
                    
Call: GW7X
Operator(s): GW3NJW
Station: 

Class: SOSB/40 HP
QTH: Cardiff
Operating Time (hrs): 30
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:              
   80:              
   40:    892     57
   20:              
   15:              
   10:              
----------------------
Total:    892     57  =  152,532

Club: Contest Cambria

Comments:

Station
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TS870S
Alpha 78 400 watts out
Butternut HF9Vx2

Comments
________

Initial rate worse than last year with just 100 watts and the single vertical.
The broasde array at a quarter wavwe spaccing has minimal gain, and apart from 
W7/VE7, the end fire position firing South West was as good!; moral, must try 
to engineer and end fire arrangement into the US, or increase the spacing to a 
half wave (difficult).

Some auroral disturbance noted, but not as bad as might have been exepected 
from the forecast.

The long path is difficult from G at this time of year, but got N7UA and VE7CC 
that way.Also heard VE6WQ around 1600z Sunday, but surely that can't have been 
true LP? Perhaps some polar path propagation as we often see from VE6JY on the 
HF bands, anyone know?

By the Sunday morning the band was almost worked out, and moyivation was 
difficult to maintain. Later on a fresh " population" was in evidence, but many 
of these seemed to be running QRP into a half sized G5RV, and copy in the Eu 
QRM
was quite dificult.Getting the state was relatively easy, but the full call, in 
QSB/QRM was often difficult. In these situations I found it difficult to get 
across that all I wanted was confirmation of the correctness of the call, as I 
had sent it ( preferably in the form of "r r r r") and not a repeat of the 
whole exchange, when the QSB took its toll on the vital bit!


However, thanks to everybody who perseverd in these situation,although a very 
few just walked away :-(


73

Clive


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