[3830] CQWW SSB LZ9W M/M HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: LZ9W
Operator(s): LZ9W
Station: LZ9W

Class: M/M HP
QTH: Breznik - nr Sofia
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  476     9       66
   80:  699    21       87
   40: 1925    32      125
   20: 2458    40      162
   15: 2573    38      153
   10: 1455    37      147
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Total: 9586   177      740  Total Score = 16,000,000

Club: 

Comments:

It was a Lord's gift - a nice weather with temps around 25- 27 deg C from
Thursday to Monday morning.
We've learned our lesson last year, so we got together on Wednesday evening at
LZ9W QTH. For next two days a hard work has been done by all the team members -
LZ3UM and LZ5VK got all antennas rotating and new antenna tracking devices
working properly (their work really paid off ). LZ2FV has made voice keyers for
each of 6 running positions. After a long discussions about how exactly a
lightweight verticals to be made for low bands we finally found the way to make
them. Verticals masters LZ1UQ,LZ2UU and LZ2CJ has made in next two days - 26m
shortened vertical for 160m and 2 el phased quarter wave verticals for 80m.
However we left phasing to be made by another team member and unfortunately he
made it wrong which costed us very low QSO number after first 12 hours on 80m.
LZ2FV and LZ2CJ changed the phasing line on the Saturday morning and antenna
started working properly, but a lot of time been lost. We'll not make this
mistake agn in CW part :-). Somehow the radials of the 160m vertical got over
the loading coil first night and we undertsood this only on Saturday morning, so
first 8 hours on top band were also lost. These problems reflect a low QSO Nos.
on 80 and 160m.
>From 40m and up everything was running smoothly and we made a much better scores
on these bands than last year.
We started contest kind of relatively low power M/M using only three full legal
power amps - Alpha 91b on 80m, ACOM 2000A on 15m and home made "Chopper" on 40m.
Rest were TL922's and LZ2UZ's ACOM 1000.
>From planned monoband PAs on two GU74b LZ1HD was able to finish on Saturday
afternoon only one of these for 20m and putting this amp on air changed things
significantly.Just imagine how it will be for 2005 WPX SSB in March 2005 with
all 3 mono band PAs running :-).
Condx were better than expected and it was a real fun for all the team members
to operate in 2004 CQWW SSB.
Differently from previous years there was also an increased JA activity and
quite a number of stations from China showed up,too. Good news for us in South
East Europe !

LZ9W M/M Operators :
160m - LZ2UZ
80m - LZ2HM,LZ1PM
40m - LZ3FN, LZ5VK
20m - LZ2PO, LZ2UU
15m - LZ2CJ,LZ1ANA,LZ1ZD
10m - LZ1UQ, LZ3UM
Mult stn - LZ2HQ,LZ4UU,LZ1RGM,LZ3RR and part time LZ2FV

LZ4UU - 21 years old ham is our new addition to LZ9W contest team and did
extremely well although he is mainly a CW op. 
Ilya will be a super operator after few years.

Antennas

160m - 26m vertical
 80m - 2 el. phased 20m high verticals
 40 m - HB9CV and slooping dipole
 20m - 6 el WA3FET mono and dipole
 15m - 6 el WA3FET mono and 1 el Delta Loop
 10m - 7 el WA3FET mono

Mult - X7, KT34A , Inv Vee 40m and 20m

Equipment
IC746 - 4 pcs, TS850S - 2pcs, FT1000MP, FT1000MP Mark V Field
ACOM 2000A , ACOM 1000 , TL922 - 2 pcs, LZ1HD 20m mono PA, Chopper mono 40m,
Aplha 91b

See you all in CW part after few weeks and DO NOT forget LZ DX Contest during
the weekend before CQWW CW to make your rehearsal and antenna testing!

73, Wally LZ2CJ
on behalf of LZ9W Contest Team
check out our web site www.qsl.net/lz9w for new photoes after few days


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