[3830] TBDC PI4TUE(PC5A) Single Op LP

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                    Stew Perry Topband Challenge

Call: PI4TUE
Operator(s): PC5A
Station: PI4TUE

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 9.5

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 221  Total Score = 1,009

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

Like during the previous edition there was snow this weekend. Luckily not that
bad so I made it to the club station without problems. From last years
experience I concluded that the TX signal was above average and decided to do
an experiment by entering in the low power category. The newly installed remote
RX vertical (5mtrs tall, in a rural area about 35km south-east from Eindhoven)
should hopefully even out the lesser TX power...

There was just one VK I was able to hear but not work (VK4IK) in the first
hours of the contest. Then I was really very much surprised to hear VE1ZJ
calling me, although it was 1 hour before his sunset. That gave me a lot of
confidence for the rest of contest. Hmm... No VK6 like last year, JT1 was not
hearing me, not one JA heard, first US that made it into the log was K8PO
around 22:30Z. W1KM had been audible much earlier, but as many others could not
hear me. 
When the QSO rate dropped to below 7 I had 201 QSO's in the log and decided to
go and catch some sleep; 100Watts on topband is simply not enough to work any
decent number of DX even if you have to get behind in the line every time you
try. From 07:30 till 08:21Z 20 more stations were worked with a highlight of
K9NW calling me followed by (what must have been probably my longest QSO) NO3M.
Where you QRP??? 

The 5mtr tall vertical made it possible to hear things that would be really not
audible on the TX antenna.

Station setup
TRX: TenTec Orion I, 100W
Ant_TX: sloping vertical, fed at top and sloping down from 65mtrs
Ant_RX: 5mtr vertical, connected to Elecraft K2, remotely controlled by HRD

73
-- Aurelio, PC5A


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