[3830] CQWW SSB PJ2T M/M HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: PJ2T
Operator(s): DL5RDO, DL5RDP, DK8YY, DF7ZS, DL8AKI, DL4JS, KD8DXU, WI9WI
Station: PJ2T

Class: M/M HP
QTH: Signal Point
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs   Zones  Countries
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  160:   228    11       24
   80:   639    22       72
   40:  1980    33      109
   20:  3757    38      138
   15:  3707    36      128
   10:  4139    32      125
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Total: 14445   172      596  Total Score = 32,700,168

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

This year's SSB contest was a bit different from the usual Caribbean Contesting
Consortium PJ2T operation. By May the only member of the CCC signed up to go
was Joe, W9JUV. Also signed up were 7 DLs: Bernie DL5RDP, Dieter DL5RDO, Helmut
DF7ZS, Rich DK8YY, Sigi DL8AKI, Ingolf DL4JS, and Harald KD8DXU. I volunteered
to go down early in order to set up the station and provide technical
assistance. I left Madison early on Saturday 20 Oct and arrived at the station
after a long day, 16 1/2 hours door to door. I then opened the house got
everything energized and set up Station 1. The radios and computer worked fine
but I had no internet. I made a few QSOs and went to bed. That night we had
huge thunderstorms and torrential rains from the back end of hurricane Sandy.
Sunday AM I still had no internet and by then the phone was out also. I finally
got an internet connection to my laptop directly off the DSL modem, but could
not get the internet on our 4 computer LAN. I spent the next day and a half 
screwing around with cables, IP addresses, checking connections, and rebooting
everything 1000 times. With the help of W0CG and N8ND I finally got everything
networked and the internet up on all computers. During this time I had at least
5 different computers at station 2. The original gave up and refused to boot,
and the first 2 replacements were bad. The next to arrive was Joe, W9JUV on
Monday evening, and the DL contingent arrived en-masse Tuesday evening with the
exception of DF7ZS who was already on the island on his honeymoon!! The next
problem was the TenTec amplifier at Station 4 which in spite of blowing air
through it for several hours arced when powered up and gave up the ghost.
Opening it revealed a lot of dust and crystalized salt which is a problem  when
you are literally 30 feet from the ocean. It was replaced with a spare AL-1200.
We then set up the DXE 4 square receiving antenna which refused to work
initially. Some connection cleaning solved that problem. There were a few other
issues, but by the opening bell we were ready to go. The contest went without a
glitch. All radios and computers functioned fully during the 48 hours.
Conditions were quite good with the exception of 80 and 160 on the first night.
It took a long time for them to open. The second night was better. We celebrated
with a dinner at Landhuis Daniel on Monday night. During the week a lot of
Amstel and Polar was consumed. A special thanks to Ingolf DL5JS who solved the
problem of our inoperative shack air conditioner before the contest started.
Without that it would have been over 100 degrees (38 deg C) in the shack during
the contest. Also thanks to my wife Annette KA9DOC who came down for some diving
on Thursday before the contest and also made several provisioning runs for us
and made a very nice chicken dinner for Saturday night during the contest.
Everyone made it home safely on time. Thanks to everyone for all of the QSOs.

The BCC gets 7/8 of the score and Minnesota Wireless gets 1/8 (WI9WI)

For the PJ2T team

Jim WI9WI


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