[3830] CQWW CW M6T(@G0KPW) M/S HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: M6T
Operator(s): G0OPB, G3WGN/WJ6O, G4BUO, G4PIQ, G4TSH
Station: G0KPW

Class: M/S HP
QTH: JO02RF
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  347    18       84
   80: 1472    31      127
   40: 1299    38      143
   20: 1292    38      135
   15: 1328    37      152
   10:  169    28      104
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Total: 5907   190      745  Total Score = 11,647,295

Club: 

Comments:

Basically a lot of maintenance effort in the days before the contest to get the
station back to more or less where it was 2 years ago. We had a long list of
items which required dealing with in a priority order and just worked through
as many of the as we could until we got to the contest. Every tower / antenna
on the site needed something doing to it â€" ranging from a simple lifting rope
replacement on the 15m tower to a full 6 man-day debug and repair of the 80m 4
square. 

The contest went pretty seamlessly and other than a few dozes of RF in the
keyer / switching due to a hastily lashed together and complex station, none of
the equipment missed a beat. We thought that conditions were somewhat better on
the high bands than in 2008, but we didn’t have the super low band conditions
of that year â€" we found 160 pretty average. There were some remarkable moments
like passing a ZS to 80m, having the mult station call him, getting no joy, but
having 5H3EE call us for a double mult while we were calling the ZS! We had
quite a lot of snow static on the Saturday, but the tri-bander was largely
unaffected â€" presumably because the elements are insulated. Many of the
packet pile ups were evil â€" lots of incessant calling when the caller really
couldn’t hear the station. The folks who went split made life much easier,
but these pile-ups are an element of packet assisted contesting that I really
dislike. 

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and the competition, and to Bob, G4BAH for use
of the station. See you all in the next one.

Rig : 2 x FT1000MP + Alpha 87A

Ant : 
160m â€" 33m tall T + Inv-V @ 28m + 580ft NW Beverage
80m â€" 4 square + Inv-V @ 20m + 580ft NW Beverage
40m â€" 402CD @ 30m + Delta Loop @ 28m
20m â€" 204CD @ 30m + 204CD @ 30m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m
15m â€" Extended 155BA @ 30m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m
10m â€" 105CA @ 24m + Bencher Skyhawk @ 28m

73,

Andy, G4PIQ


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