[3830] CQWW CW ZM4T(@ZL3IO) M/S HP

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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: ZM4T
Operator(s): ZL2IFB ZL2MY ZL2ST ZL4YL ZL3IO
Station: ZL3IO

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Kiwi-DX-Lodge
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:  309    30       77
   40: 1443    32      110
   20:  513    34      122
   15: 1367    32       93
   10:  280    13       20
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Total: 3912   141      422  Total Score = 6,437,342

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

That was our first multi op effort since a long time. A huge effort went into
rebuilding the station at the new QTH over the last 2 years. Especially the
antenna situation has improved. While we are still far away from being ready it
was time to give it try and find potential for improvement and optimization. 
And there is a long list of new tasks now...

Gary - Zl2IFB and I were the only full time op's. Stan - ZL2ST helped a lot to
get the station automation working(even so it was only temporary and improvised
for the contest). At the end he spend all his time on working tasks and didn't
make a single QSO before he had to leave us again. Thanks Stan! Mike - ZL2MY
was inactive for a while and manned the multiplier station for most of day one
to get beck into the rhythm. Day two saw him then also on the run radio. Our
chicken Xenia - ZL4YL (15 years young) did her first real multi op contest and
we were lucky to have her around. While we were still doing antenna work,
cabling etc. well into the contest she would sit on the running station and
keep up the rate. During our local Sunday morning she spend 7 hours non stop in
the chair of the run station allowing Gary and myself to have a split between
multi station and a rest after an exhausting non stop activity from Friday till
Sunday morning. Out of those seven she run three hours non stop at a rate of
>120 which is a good rate for a ZL station! 
You need to have our location and distances to the rest of the world in mind.
To VK6 from here is the same distance like East-Coast US to DL! KH6 or FO is
from us as far away as the Mid west from central Europe. And those are our next
neighbors and 1 point QSO's!

The contest was good fun and an unexpected good result for the conditions. It
was the first time that we felt reasonably loud on 80m. 77 DXCC from ZL on 80m
in a CQWW is unheard of! 40m seemed to be open around the clock. We left 20m
most of the time to the multi station and spent most time on 40/15 m. 10 m
showed short periods of life but with very deep QSB. We had no antenna up for
160m. The second beam on tower one was only installed 30 minutes before the
contest start and wind was picking up again to 70-80 km/h for the whole
contest. All further antenna work had to wait for safety reasons.

Murphy paid us a visit 6 hours into the contest and one of the KPA500's gave up
with smoke signs. Otherwise all equipment worked as expected.

Run: K3 + KPA500
Mult: K3 + (KPA500...)

Ant:
80: 4 square
40: 2L/2L
20: 3L/3L/2L
15: 3L/3L/2L
10: 4L/4L/2L

73 Holger, ZL3IO/ZM4T


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