[OZ-CONTEST] IOTA 5Q2T(OZ0J) SO(A)24Mixed HP

[Joergen OZ0J / 5Q2T]

Hermed min beretning fra weekendens strabadser.

Forsøgte at lave sked med OZ1JTE via Skype, men det lykkedes ikke.

Forsøgte at kalde OZ4CG op, men det var ikke løsningen på 15 eller 20 M.

Tak til OZ6OM og EDR HQ for lån af feltseng og QTH. Bjørn skal så lige lave et nyt mellemkabel, da det ikke lige kunne klare 1 kW på 20 M SSB.

Masten er nu næsten sat op og Mosley beam er næsten samlet. Jeg satser på at være QRV i lørdagens contest. Min multiplier er 83 - godt nok længe siden jeg fik licens.

Tillykke til OZ1JTE med SOAB HP Mixed mode. Jeg tvivler på, at der har været så mange andre med i den klasse.


Vy 73 de OZ0J / 5Q2T

Jørgen


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Sendt: 1. august 2012 08:59
Til: 3830 at contesting.com; Joergen OZ0J / 5Q2T
Emne: IOTA 5Q2T(OZ0J) SO(A)24Mixed HP

                    IOTA Contest

Call: 5Q2T
Operator(s): OZ0J
Station: 5Q2T

Class: SO(A)24Mixed HP
QTH: OZ7EDR
Operating Time (hrs): 17

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
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   80:   25      11       49       19
   40:   40       4       33        9
   20:  195      22      147       26
   15:  151      20      108       34
   10:   39      10       63       16
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Total:  450      67      400      104  Total Score = 840,294

Club: Danish DX Group

Comments:

Here I should have written that I had working the IOTA contest from my new tower. Cause to work the concrete was not ready for the tower 1 week before the contest. I got lucky to work from the HQ of EDR in the town Odense (where the writer Hans Christian Andersen is born) and all antennas to the IOTA contest was already set up. 

My Mark-V decided to break during the IARU Championship contest and was not available for the contest. I borrowed a Mark-V Field but it was unable to be opened so I could add some CW filters. Therefore, the station for the contest was my brand new IC-9100 packed out form the box at the QTH. I have no voice keyer and no frequency / band connection to the laptop but the station could work some QSO's.

I managed to get to the QTH before the rain and thunderstorms where coming.
They decided to go away before the contest and then I only have some noice on the low bands from the business buildings in the neighbourhood.

It was fun to work from a rare IOTA No. There are some stations on EU-172 but not many active from the IOTA No during the contest.

Highlights: To work CY9M, TO2D, TO2U, JX9JKA, OJ0R where some of them are new DXCCs for me. Also to be called by PP5XX on 80 M early Sunday morning. I was sure that I still was dreaming.

Lowlights: That I have to change the band and mode manually. I did find some errors just when I have worked a few QSOs on the wrong mode. The local Internet connection also decided not to work when I was working on 20 M. And the Win-Test version 4.10.0 that decided to freeze my laptop completed in the middle of my QSO with AA4V.

I also managed to damage a coax cable during my QSO with VK7ZX. Just when VK7ZX got my call correct I had FULL SWR on 20 M. My first thought was that the beam was broken but after some tests to find the error, it was only the coax from the power amplifier to the plug in the wall (to the antenna) that was broken.

After 5 minutes I was back in the air.

It was very fun to run 20 M CW Sunday morning. I manage to have a running pile-up on 1 hour and 40 minutes almost without calling CQ. It was fun but hard work.

This week I hope to complete my tower project and should be active in the European HF Championship on Saturday.

Rig: Icom IC-9100 and Acom 1000 (output 900 - 1.000 watt)
3 element beam to 10, 15 ad 20 M
Vertical dipoles to 40 and 80 M

73 Joergen "Joe" 5Q2T


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