[3830] RTTY WPX MM3AWD SOAB TB-Wires QRP

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                    CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2019

Call: MM3AWD
Operator(s): MM3AWD
Station: MM3AWD

Class: SOAB QRP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires 
QTH: New Deer Contest QTH
Operating Time (hrs): 24:50

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  108
   40:  255
   20:  290
   15:    4
   10:    0
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Total:  657  Prefixes = 382  Total Score = 817,480

Club: Interest Group RTTY

Comments:

Took holidays from work to make sure i was available for a full time effort this
weekend.

In the week leading up, heavy snowfall and very hard ice made access to the QTH
very difficult, so there was absolutely no way to get anything more than the
12.5 meter Spiderpole in the field.

Set up on Wednesday, erected the spiderpole in totally flat calm but freezing
conditions.
On the Spiderpole, i had 266 foot long doublet, 40 dipole and 20m dipole.
This was a wires only affair.
So i knew it would be much tougher than previous contests with the aluminum in
the sky.

On the friday of the contest i arrived at the contest QTH having been under
Storm Erik for 24 hours.
Winds were reaching 70-80mph on the hill and the spiderpole was bending but
holding well.
Started the contest slowly but picked things off on 80 pretty well.

I had generator issues 3 hours in, lost an hour of time fixing that issue.

The winds continued to attack on Saturday.
Finally taking its toll on the top section of the Spiderpole, which decided to
break at the guying point.
So the 45 feet pole was now reduced to 39 feet.

Went home on Saturday night to rest and recover instead of battling out on
80/40.

Sunday, things were much better.
Winds had abated and it was a beautiful morning.
Was good to actually see the spiderpole Semi straight.
Propagation was much better too.
enjoyed being able to run on 20 for quite some time and seeing some excellent
openings to NA.

Overall bands were pretty poor.
Very little heard on 15m, what i heard i worked.
Zero JA heard.

In the end i finished up at 1700z on Sunday, operating just less the 25 hours.
Enough was enough.

Qso numbers/mults/score all well down on last years #2 World score.

Thanks for all the QSO's and happy to hand out a now rare MM3 Prefix.

Hopefully weather will be better for the next one from the contest QTH.

73, Scott
MM3AWD


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