[CCF] Fw: CQWW CW OH6XX M/2 HP

[Juha Rantanen]

No tulipahan taas workittua. Ja taisi tulla uusi OH rekordi jos kukaan muu 
ei workkinut M/2 luokassa.

t. Juha

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To: <3830 at contesting.com>; <oh6xx at sral.fi>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: CQWW CW OH6XX M/2 HP


>                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: OH6XX
> Operator(s): OH6GLE, OH6XX
> Station: OH6XX
>
> Class: M/2 HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>  160:  274    11       59
>   80:  994    28      116
>   40:  665    34      119
>   20: 1123    34      122
>   15:  217    31      114
>   10:   36     5       12
> ------------------------------
> Total: 3309   143      542  Total Score = 3,785,995
>
> Club: Contest Club Finland
>
> Comments:
>
> Yet another field day style two man multi op operation by us. Decided to 
> run M/2
> so we didn't have to mind about the ten minute rule in M/S. Running M/2 
> left us
> both FT1000MP's with amps, one tribander each and shared low band 
> antennas.
>
> On 160m we did quite satisfying result. The antenna was a sloper with 
> lower end
> about 3-4 meters from ground. Still the high end was at about 55 meters 
> hung
> from ski jumping hill we have been using for years now. 160m dipole is a 
> big
> antenna hung this way.
>
> On 80m we used the same inv-v we have been used to in past few years. The
> feedpoint is at about 60 meters above ground and it shows in the result. 
> We have
> been very satisfied with this antenna and never felt weak on the band. The 
> only
> problem is that one end of wire is pointed directly to 310 degrees which 
> is W/VE
> from us. Well that is the only way we can erect the whole thing.
>
> On 40m we used another sloper which more or less looks like vertical with 
> one
> radial. It pretty much works like crap. We were surprised to get as many
> multipliers as we got. The runs were marginal. The antenna is maybe the 
> best we
> can put up now as we have to put the whole station up in Friday using 
> daylight
> which isn't too long time at this time of year in OH.
>
> 20m was our best band yet again. Sometimes it feels like we are spending 
> too
> much time on 20m but then again many times that is the only band we are 
> getting
> at least some decent runs. This time more than half of 20m QSOs were DX's 
> which
> is great.
>
> 15m was open but not good enough for our small setup to get any runs 
> going. The
> mult total is rather good eventhough no zones 3 and 4 were even heard.
>
> 10m was open to Germany and Chech Republic. Out of 36 QSOs about 25 were 
> made
> there. The rest of them are the other 10 mults.
>
> The tribanders used were Force12 C3 and WRTC tribander by Finnish Antenna. 
> We
> used quite a few stubs in eliminating the interstation interference and
> succeeded very well thanks to W2VJN's book. N1MM logger crashed a couple 
> of
> times but nothing too serious. Had to restart laptops couple of times 
> because of
> lost mouse control and lost internet connection through mobile network.
> Everything went well and we'll be back. We are too hard headed to quit.
>
>
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