[3830] CQWW SSB LP1H(@LU5HM) M/S HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: LP1H
Operator(s): LU1NDC, LU2NI, LU3HY, LU5HM, LU9HS, LU5DX
Station: LU5HM

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Córdoba
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    5     4        5
   80:   77    19       31
   40:  634    32       96
   20: 1435    33      118
   15: 2528    33      129
   10:  730    22       88
------------------------------
Total: 5409   143      467  Total Score = 9,619,090

Club: LU Contest Group

Comments:

This contest showed a bit of improvement in 10 m propagation, but the lower
bands were though, at least from here. We believe the A index reaching sky
rocket numbers did not help on 40/80/160.

The station has been improved over the past year and now the two stations can
operate comfortably without any RFI. A new 160 m antenna has been installed and
we heard many stations but only could work a just a few.

On Friday afternoon a tropical storm with (strong winds) broke the 80 meter
tower.
It's a huge crank-up Tri-Ex, so we had to take it down and operate with the
yagi at 18 ft for the rest of the weekend.

Nevertheless, no power outages occured throughout the weekend.

Five minutes before the contest the main amp (QRO-Tech) went off. So we
switched to one of the spare amps a home made (3-1000 Z) by LU7HE.

The two nights were slow, signals showed high attenuation on the low bands,
plus the thunder storm over our antennas did not help either.

But anyway we all were enjoying the contest, we apologize to CR2X for not
QSYing to 80 upon request, but we really could not hear anything at that time.
The 30-40 db over S9 QRN only started to decrease during Saturday afternoon and
it remained between S9  and 10 db over S9 till the end.

The strategy outlined by the team seemed to work quite good in spite of
Murphy's activities.

On Friday our Team leader LU2NI discussed the different possibilities on how
and where to start the contest, depending precisely on the QRN levels and the
shape in which 15 m could be at the very begining.

The ops want to thank Ramón LU5HM, Ramuco LU7HE and Monica for their
hospitality throughout the weekend.

BBQs Officers were: LU9HS (Sat noon), LU5HM (Sat night) and Santiago (Sun
noon). That's 3 BBQs in a row!! :-)


Thank you all for giving us a call, we really appreciate it. Thanks to those
who kindly moved to other bands and accepted our skeds specially on Sunday
aft'noon.


Vy 73!

The ops at LP1H: LU1NDC, LU2NI, LU3HY, LU5HM, LU9HS, LU5DX


Rigs. 2 x IC 775 DSP + FT 1000 MP (Back up)
Amps: Single 8877 and Single 3-1000 Z (Both made by LU7HE)
Antennas:
10: M2 6L yagi
15: M2 6L yagi
20: M2 6L yagi
40: JVP 3L yagi
80: M2 2L yagi
160: Vert.


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