[CCF] CQWWSSB 2011 OG2A

[markku.a.oksanen at nokia.com]

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Markku



                  CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: OG2A
Operator(s): OH2RA
Station: OH2RA

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: KP11PA
Operating Time (hrs): 33

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  257     8       42
   80:  285    12       61
   40:  249    24       67
   20: 1004    35      111
   15:  739    33      115
   10:  467    35      122
------------------------------
Total: 2901   147      518  Total Score = 3,970,715

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Great contest, my own personal record was broken.
And with less time in the test too!

Good rates on 10-15-20, 10 m was open just like in
the old days of cycle 22!

80 m dipole had a contact problem (relay) that did not
get fixed with 100 w, only when exposed to an accidental
KW, did it work again.

Also, noticed that now there are too many relays in general,
a relay PSU run out of amps and relays don’t pull after
the PSU heats up! Work to be done.

Second radio was a brand new IC-7410, it sure hears
and works better than an old 756PRO!

SO2R with WINTEST and DX-doubler
Home brew antenna switching and logic.
TX coax stubs + ICE band pass filters
IC 756 PRO III, IC 7410 (new in this contest)
Homebrew amplifiers

10-15-20:
4 stack of Hygain tribanders (TH6+TH7) on a 45 m tower
4 stack of 10 ele tribanders on a 50 m tower
40:
Two stacks 2-0-2 on 45 and 50 m towers
80:
Rotatable dipole at 42 m + 3 element GP array with 6 km radials
160:
3 element vertical array, the guy wires of the 45 m tower