[CCF] CQWW CW CR6T(OH1NOA) SOSB/20 HP

[Timo Klimoff]

Ei mennyt ihan kuin siinä ruotsinkielisessä huvilassa ... mutta hyvässä
lykyssä score saattaa riittää perkuulautaan.

Paluumatkalla tuli Frankfurtin kentällä tavattua Maltalta palanneet Martti
ja Leena. Kotiovella olin tänä aamuna 0330 ja sitten aamulla kello soimaan
ja töihin ... Joskus kontesterin elämä on rankkaa :)

Kilpailun ulkopuolella n. 50 qsoa kutsulla CT7/OJ0M.

73 Timo OH1NOA




-----Original Message-----
From: 3830-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:3830-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of webform at b41h.net
Sent: 29. marraskuuta 2011 1:51
To: 3830 at contesting.com
Subject: [3830] CQWW CW CR6T(OH1NOA) SOSB/20 HP

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: CR6T
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: CR6T

Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Silveirinho
Operating Time (hrs): 43

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20: 3317    37      132
   15:                    
   10:                    
------------------------------
Total: 3317    37      132  Total Score = 1,117,766

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

This was my 10th CQWWCW from Portugal! Thanks again for hospitality to
Santos family CT1DVV, CT1ESV, CT1YQM and others including 3yo Ema who amused
me with her visits during the contest.

Equipment:
Kenwood TS-870
Alpha 91b running 800-900 wtts
4/4/4el yagis (middle fixed to North, used mainly only up and bottom) KLM
KT34XA

This week was same time extreme fun and extreme frustration. All started
before the trip when Lufthansa informed that they have cancelled my Thursday
flight to Porto. There happened to be a general strike in CT. There was same
strike also last year but it was a day earlier! So only chance was to book
new flight for Friday morning. Which means that I left home 0100 am by bus
to Helsinki airport and arrived finally to ham shack via Frankfurt, Oporto
and Coimbra around 1700z.
That about long good sleep before the contest ... actually the last good
night sleep was on Wed/Thu night.

I found out that TS-870 was not functioning properly and Icom which I was
planning to use, was also in repair. When driving 50 watts or more, TS-870
lost its monitor and started to make a long delay before changing from TX to
RX. Only way to operate was then to reduce the power, I was limited to less
than one kilowatt instead of normal 1,5 kW.

The first night was good. I worked some 300 qsos before worked any
one-pointers and ended to get some 400 US stations in log before the
morning. The first day I had over 2200 qsos, but the band died dramatically
after 22z. the second morning started with interesting propagation but then
something happened - couldnB't get anything going. Last year I had hour by
hour over 100 qsos on Sunday, now only 40 to 60 qsos per hour. It crashed my
hopes for over 3700 qsos and 1,4 Mio.
Maybe it was something going on in the sun that time. Things improved around
17z and until 22z the band was quite ok to West. Sunday highlights were very
weak T2V at 18z, a bit later XE for double mult and then my last qso:
HC2/KF6ZWD for zone 10. I missed zones 2, 34 and 39. But finished with my
personal single band record.

Btw, during the first night HK3TU made some kind of record: while I was
listening to him, it took 7 minutes before he sent his callsign for the
first time. On Sunday one VP9 almost got there with 5 minutes.


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