[CCF] SAC SSB 2002 SOAB/LP OH6NIO
Teijo Murtovaara
teijo.murtovaara@pp.inet.fi
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:26:14 -0000
2002 SCANDINAVIAN ACTIVITY CONTEST
Call used: OH6NIO Location:
Mieto
Category: Single Op All Band Mode: PHONE Power: Low
Callsign of Operator(s): OH6NIO
Exchanged Information: OH6NIO RST nr
band QSOs points mults
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80 78 161 20
40 176 395 34
20 351 808 54
15 450 1162 56
10 162 374 41
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TOTAL 1217 2900 205 SCORE: 594,500
Club or Team Name: Contest Club Finland
Comments: I took part in this contest once again running low power as on CW
just to test my new mult tower (12m high) to make sure, that everything
works fine. If something has to be changed I still have plenty of time to do
that before CQWW. I could not run HP because I got bad RF-feedback when I
connected my DVK in the line. I even had problems with just 100W and I just
hope that my audio was not too crappy to copy. I had to lean over the table
in a very awkward position to minimize the RF-feedback, which did not do
very good to my back or my score. Furthermore I had to reduce my microphone
gain and compression level quite a bit from the normal settings, which made
my voice a lot thinner. I had to struggle through the contest with my aching
back and at one moment I thought, that I am not going to make it this time.
Luckily I only needed to get a brief break and I was back in the game. Now I
know, that I should avoid hard physical excercise before the contest :-)
Maybe I should also find a better voice-keyer than my old DVK, which has
already been very troublesome in many other contests before.
The start of the contest was quite different from CW-weekend. I had to call
CQ for very long time and finally I had to jump quickly from one band to
another to maintain some rate. The bands did not feel very good. I knew,
that breaking the OH-record would be very difficult if the propagation won't
improve to some extent. Later when the higher bands went down I tried 40m
band but it was very difficult to find a frequency and even more difficult
to get any replies to CQs. I missed many multipliers from Asia. On 80m I had
only a poor inverted vee. The feedpoint of the dipole was just 10m high and
the ends almost touched the ground. No woder, that my multiplier count on
80m is so low although I spent quite a bit of time there. So the night was
very difficult time for me but before 03Z I managed to work a few stations
from USA on 40m listening up but my rate really sucked. Finally at 04Z I
could get some replies from Japan on 15m band and I stayed there almost 3
hours. Before 06Z I hurried to 20m band to try if the West coast would be
coming through. Once in a while I tried to get a pile-up into Japan on 15m
or 10m bands but the conditions were a way down compared to the propagation
during the CW-weekend. I also tried to dance some Mieto mazurka (a northerly
variation of the famous Paksalo polka performed by OH2U) and from time to
time it was awarded with 3 new multipliers. During the last hour there were
some signs of improving propagation when 15m opened into USA. At 1200Z I
carefully disengaged myself from my operating chair. I would feel the
contest during the next couple of days in my back.
Thanks again for the QSOs! It was great to meet so many WRTC- and other
operators, that I have had pleasure to work many times in the contests over
the years.
Congratulations to Marko, OH4JFN for the magnificent score. You really
kicked my ...
Congratulations to Pasi, OH6UM. You probably won the combined trophy.
73 and work you in CQWW SSB de Teijo OH6NIO
QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS
station: OH6NIO
contest: Scandinavian Activity Contest
UTC 80 40 20 15 10 rate total
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12Z 0 0 17 33 21 71 71
13Z 0 0 14 57 15 86 157
14Z 0 0 24 32 16 72 229
15Z 0 0 26 30 8 64 293
16Z 0 0 41 42 3 86 379
17Z 0 11 15 20 7 53 432
18Z 17 30 3 1 1 52 484
19Z 3 29 9 1 0 42 526
20Z 16 12 0 11 0 39 565
21Z 0 30 20 8 0 58 623
22Z 18 21 2 1 0 42 665
23Z 15 7 24 0 0 46 711
00Z 5 2 14 0 0 21 732
01Z 0 0 17 0 0 17 749
02Z 4 20 5 0 0 29 778
03Z 0 8 6 0 0 14 792
04Z 0 6 0 48 0 54 846
05Z 0 0 4 44 1 49 895
06Z 0 0 16 36 0 52 947
07Z 0 0 45 0 13 58 1005
08Z 0 0 35 2 9 46 1051
09Z 0 0 12 2 28 42 1093
10Z 0 0 1 21 36 58 1151
11Z 0 0 1 61 4 66 1217
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tot 78 176 351 450 162 ---- 1217
QSO POINTS BREAKDOWN
2 point QSOs: 751
3 point QSOs: 466
MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN
station: OH6NIO
contest: Scandinavian Activity Contest
UTC 80 40 20 15 10 rate total
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12Z 0 0 13 19 14 46 46
13Z 0 0 9 12 5 26 72
14Z 0 0 6 4 2 12 84
15Z 0 0 7 5 3 15 99
16Z 0 0 4 2 1 7 106
17Z 0 6 1 3 1 11 117
18Z 11 10 1 1 1 24 141
19Z 0 7 0 0 0 7 148
20Z 2 2 0 0 0 4 152
21Z 0 3 3 0 0 6 158
22Z 2 2 1 0 0 5 163
23Z 2 2 1 0 0 5 168
00Z 3 1 1 0 0 5 173
01Z 0 0 1 0 0 1 174
02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 174
03Z 0 1 0 0 0 1 175
04Z 0 0 0 2 0 2 177
05Z 0 0 1 3 1 5 182
06Z 0 0 1 0 0 1 183
07Z 0 0 0 0 2 2 185
08Z 0 0 1 1 2 4 189
09Z 0 0 1 1 2 4 193
10Z 0 0 1 1 3 5 198
11Z 0 0 1 2 4 7 205
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tot 20 34 54 56 41 ---- 205