[3830] CQWW CW W2RE M/S HP

Mon Nov 26 13:38:21 EST 2012

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W2RE
Operator(s): W2RE WW2DX K2CYE AB3CX W2EG
Station: W2RE

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   92    19       70
   80:  570    23       99
   40: 1240    38      129
   20:  945    39      148
   15: 1020    36      140
   10:  691    33      126
------------------------------
Total: 4558   188      712  Total Score = 11,866,500

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Bittersweet weekend.

W2RE arrived in Summit on Thanksgiving and replaced a very old 5 element TET
10m Yagi with yet another very old but brand new Wilson 7 element 10m on a 40'
boom. Initial testing showed very favorable results so we were pumped to see
how it was going to play in the test. I left the house Friday morning and
picked up a repaired AL1200 from W1QJ and headed north. Arrived in Summit about
11am and immediately started switching the station from the remote
infrastructure to contest mode. All was going well until the windoze box for
the GHE Server was constantly rebooting, luckily we have redundancy! Replaced,
updated all the PC's to latest N1MM. We had two new additions to the team, Mike
K2CYE joined us for the first time and we all were very impressed with his
introduction to big pileups and Rich W2EG who sat in the chair for hours
keeping the rate up. For a first timers at Summit they did really good! We are
very fortunate to have a couple more great op with us. Shortly before the test
started our dedicated hitter Mike AB3CX arrived and we were off to the races.

It was very apparent that things were not going to go well for us on 40m during
the start of the test, we could not get anything going! The band was just shot.
The solar disturbance killed us on 40m, in the first 24 hours we had 250 q's on
40m, sad. Luckily 80 was in much better shape so we took advantage of that as
much as we could. As Saturday morning arrived we had hoped for 10m to be alive
and well and once again disappointment. Band was not in good enough shape to
run but good DX was on the band. I happen to be on the mult radio Sat morning
and made 92 mults with the new 7 element yagi in just a couple hours. The
interesting thing about 10m that morning was EU was skewed and peaked at 100
deg? I would switch between the 5/5/5 stacks fixed to EU and the 7 ele mono at
100 deg and I could barely hear EU on the stacks and S9 at 100 deg.  I have not
seen that before. I remember last year when we had to work EU pointed south
which is more common but 100 deg? Thats a new one on me.

By Saturday afternoon things were looking better and better. EU was very strong
on 40 and 80 early in the afternoon so we felt things were going to be better
for us and that would end up being true. Rates much much better Saturday night
on 40 so we had some making up to do. This year we added multiple skimmer and
cluster feeds to N1MM and that was a huge improvement for us. Even with crummy
condx the first night we still made more than 40 more mults over last year. We
had virtually no time this year to spend on the contest station, the new remote
venture has consumed every second of our time. We had hoped to have replaced
most of all the stacks with much bigger and better antennas but that will have
to wait until next year.

Speaking of remote, one of our users KL1A/W2 was over 6k miles away and made
2.5m points!

http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2012-11/msg02485.html

We had a fun time hearing Andy in the pileups and sometimes even beating us
out, the most memorable was 160m with RI1ANF, Andy ended up beating out all the
East coast guys first on topband :) Thanks to the CQWW committee for adding the
Xtreme category, this a huge plus for the community. Andy was able to enjoy the
thrill of contesting from a big station so many miles away :)

There were a lot a really good mults to be had this weekend, some of the most
memorable are a few JA's on 80m, E21, JT1, BV, BY on 40m and 9M2CNC LP on 15m
who was all alone when I found him, I don't think he expected a W2 as I did not
expect a 9M2. 

In the end we are very happy with our score even with the poor condx the first
night. Last year we did over 5k q's so the loss of 40 and 10 really shows.

We had good food, good beer, great DX and awesome friends what more could you
ask for?

Congrats to the other M/S teams, there are some big scores!

73,
WW2DX, W2RE
RemoteHamRadio.com

SH5 Breakdown:
http://www.w2re.com/Results/2012-CQ-WW-CW-W2RE/index.htm

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