[3830] SAC CW - OH6M - SOAB LP
Pasi Luoma-aho
pasi.luoma-aho at sysopen.fi
Tue Sep 24 16:23:39 EDT 2002
OH6M - SAC 2002 CW - SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 21-Sep-2002, 22-Sep-2002
Callsign Used : OH6M
Operator : OH6UM
Category : Single op / All band / Low power
Default Exchange : 599 #
Name : Pasi Luoma-aho
Address : Nuotiotie 4 F
City/State/Zip : 02600 Espoo
Country : Finland
Team/Club : Seinäjoen seudun radioamatöörit - OH6AH/OH6AM/OH6M
Contest Club Finland - CCF
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries
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80CW 138 135 282 26
40CW 305 299 655 42
20CW 417 414 1028 52
15CW 460 447 1029 50
10CW 212 211 510 42
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Totals 1532 1506 3504 212
Final Score = 742848 points.
Equipment: FT-1000MP with Heil headphones and RA1AOM key
Old Compaq Contura 400C laptop with TRLog software
80m: Dipole @ 18m
40m: 3 el. Yagi @ 18m
20m: 4 el. Yagi @ 30m
15m: 4 el. Yagi @ 24m
10m: 5 el. Yagi @ 12m
Extra: G5RV @ 12m
QTH: OH6AH/OH6AM/OH6M in Seinäjoki, about 350 km North from Helsinki
* Soab box * :
It was intended to be a cozy relaxed weekend of two young contest enthusiasts from the early 70's getting together after some 25+ years with all the nice SAC memories from the "old days", but as the gettogether finally had to be postponed at the last moment, a quick plan B was invented and put into practice.
One radio, one tower, no packet, low power - just like it used to be!
Well, almost - may paper logging rest in peace. ;-)
Everything at my home club station up in (ex) OH6 area worked just perfectly - except 80m. In this city qth the whole 80m band is unfortunately ruined by heavy (S9) noise. I knew of this 80m noise problem, but still wanted to give it a try. I'm happy to say that the extra G5RV antenna put up on Saturday saved me from a complete disaster on 80m. I'm pretty certain that 70-80% of the 80m qsos would not have been made without the G5RV as a backup rx antenna.
The propagation on Saturday was great, but unfortunately things cooled down for me during the night. On Sunday a lot of imagination was needed while trying to find the ways to keep the qso rate at least reasonable. Gee - maybe it's all this needed extra activity that finally kept this mid-aged indoor type operator in amazingly good shape for all the 24 contest hours! Some good "Paksalo polka" modified for a solo-artist with more traditional type instruments was also performed to keep the steam up - and with most enjoyable results I might add. In the end I'm very happy to report a score, which exceeds the old SAC CW scandinavian low power record by 22%. ;-)
It was really nice to hear the bands full of WRTC2002 team members, referees, judges and officials! Many of them promised to be there - and indeed there they were too! Hearing and working all these happy people was great. I enjoyed myself with staying more or less "incognito" and saying hello to quite a few guys by name. ;-) Each and every qso reminded me of some nice memories from last summer - related directly to the guy I just worked or something else. Thank you guys! I hope that the SAC will become a tradition also for you from now on! ;-)
For me the SAC 2002 CW was getting "back to the basics" as a visitor to my old home club - and having SUPER GREAT FUN! ;-)
I owe a BIG THANK YOU to the club officials and activists, who checked and repaired everything to be in such a good shape! The club spirit is still well and alive!
How about you and your own club? Any unused and for whatever reasons forgotten reserve at your club, just waiting and longing for someone to come and use it?
Contesting IS! And I still *LOOOVE* CW! ;-)
73 es CU in the pileups - in SAC 2002 SSB to start with. OH6M & low power it is again!
Pasi OH6UM (a.k.a. OH2IW)
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I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established
for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best
of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Awards Committee.
23.9.2002 Pasi Luoma-aho OH6UM
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