[CCF] Fwd: [3830] CQWW CW OG6N(OH6NIO) SOAB(A) HP

Wed Dec 8 04:24:55 PST 2010

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Aihe: [3830] CQWW CW OG6N(OH6NIO) SOAB(A) HP
Päiväys: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 04:10:28 -0800
Lähettäjä: webform at b41h.net
Vastausosoite: oh6nio at netikka.fi
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                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: OG6N
Operator(s): OH6NIO
Station: OG6N

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Mieto
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
   160:   69     8       47
    80:  242    17       77
    40:  373    34      116
    20:  712    37      121
    15:  265    33      124
    10:   37    10       27
------------------------------
Total: 1698   139      512  Total Score = 2,222,514

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

I did a big cleanup in the shack and repaired many broken control lines, 
checked and rerouted many feed lines in time for the SSB leg, repaired a 
damaged MP that used to be the second radio in my so2r-system. Although 
there were still some tasks unfinished, my station was performing better 
than in many years.

Unfortunately I caught a virus during the preceding week just before the 
SSB weekend and I could only run with half lights. Just before the CW 
weekend the same virus haunted me again eliminating a more serious effort.

I started the contest after a good nap at 0545 UTC. After one hour one 
of my rigs refused to transmit anymore ruining any so2r operation. At 
that moment I almost quit the contest but after a while I thought that I 
would concentrate more on the multipliers at the expense of running. So 
I limped with an MP + AL80 (800W) for the rest of the contest. Without 
the second radio it was difficult to keep the rate up because some 
pileups were just horrendous. I had to give up many times after wasting 
valuable time.

After the noontime I noticed that the direction indicator of my tower 
was starting to fail. The potentiometer axle was slipping and it showed 
a wrong reading and I couldn't trust it anymore. The daylight time in 
Finland is not very long in the CW weekend so soon after the sunset I 
couldn't see the antennas anymore and I had to turn the antennas by 
watching the signal strength on the S-meter for the rest of the contest.

The switching relay of the 10m fixed beam to the south failed on 
Saturday so whenever I wanted to take a look on 10m I had to turn the 
main tower to the south. My multiplier total was not very good on 10m. 
Only 27 countries worked.

I S&P most of Saturday except of some runs to USA on 20m and 15m. I 
noticed that S&Ping is very tiring compared to running. I was so 
exhausted that I had to take a long nap on the second night. My active 
time on the radio during the weekend was only about 36 hours.

On Sunday I woke up and started around 0540 UTC so I had already lost 
many valuable hours of the contest. The low bands were not very good and 
I had to struggle a lot to log in the normally easy multipliers. Around 
0900 UTC I finally started to run and tried to run a bit more than on 
Saturday. I still got stuck many times while S&Ping for new multipliers. 
I really needed a second rig for hunting multipliers while running with 
the other. Unfortunately the other rig still refused to transmit. On 
Sunday 15m closed earlier than on Saturday. Although the openings on 15m 
were shorter than I expected, I was satisfied with 124 countries and 33 
zones there. I missed quite a number of mults from Asia.

During the last hours of the contest the biggest thrill was to break 500
countries which I managed to do. I could have done much better on 160m 
and 80m because I really need some improvement on the antennas there. I 
hope that 10m will show some more light in the coming contests as it was 
very poor this time.

As usually despite of all the problems it was a fun to chase some exotic 
DX, meet old friends and have a few pileups during the weekend.

73 Teijo OH6NIO

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