[SCCC] Fwd: CQWW CW A44A M/M HP

[Prasad VU2PTT]

Watching Dick and Art squeeze out QSOs from the bands even when the going was slow gave us a new meaning to the phrase "Butt In Chair".

For those of us who used it the  N6RK design low band Rx loops beat the K9AY antenna. I made a kit version here with Rick's ok for the VU Contest Group and many are in play now.

We all had a blast, hope all of you had fun too :)

73 

Prasad VU2PTT

Sent from my iPhone

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> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: 27 November 2017 at 10:34:14 PM GMT+4
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, vu2ptt at gmail.com
> Subject: CQWW CW A44A M/M HP
> Reply-To: vu2ptt at gmail.com
> 
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
> 
> Call: A44A
> Operator(s): A41JZ A45TT N6AA W6XD VU2CDP VU2PTT
> Station: A44A
> 
> Class: M/M HP
> QTH: LL93eo
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>  160:  562    16       63
>   80: 1112    29       94
>   40: 2287    39      141
>   20: 2253    36      122
>   15: 2034    33      130
>   10:  265    23       38
> ------------------------------
> Total: 8513   176      588  Total Score = 17,506,296
> 
> Club: 50% SCCC, 50% VU Contest Group
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Solid long-term backing of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said A41AA and his top
> management team of ROARS including Abdi A41JT and Abdalla A41KB with their
> organization team members have made this a fantastic club and contest station.
> 
> Kudos and hats off to the terrific work done by ROARS dedicated team to keep
> this station going in top form. Special mention must be made of the team
> including Events Coordinator Essa A41NW, A41KQ Ali, A41PK Fahad, A41PG Ameen
> and A45VU Prince.
> 
> Continuing with the great start in 2016, the A44A station enabled a good team
> to better last year's effort. Couple of great efforts in this year's RTTY and
> SSB legs ensured all the small glitches were ironed out and the station worked
> perfectly at all the 5 positons.
> 
> The low bands were great from this location while the higher bands were bad -
> especially 15m which is usually our money band in this part of the band while
> 10m was practically dead. N6AA did great work at the high rate stations and
> W6XD was the 20m expert. The rest of the team all chipped in with great
> efforts, especially local op Mohib A41JZ who opened up the 160m effort that
> broke our last years score on 160 in just the first 3 hours.
> 
> This station with the contest call A44A is continuing to create many a 
> "Storm in the Desert" in the contesting world!
> 
> Station:
> 
> 5 operating positions, 4 main and 1 backup station 
> 
> Station Equipment:
> 
> 4 x Kenwood TS-990 +1 x FT-920 backup
> 2 x Acom 2000 Amp + 2 x SPE-2K Amp + 1 x Quadra VL-1000
> 8 Ant x 4 Radios Switching matrix from MicroHam
> High Power filters for all bands + stubs
> 
> Tx Antennas:
> 
> 160m - Toploaded vertical
> 80m - 2 element phased verticals
> 40m, 20m - Dual-bander 2el 40m, 4el 20m @ 20 metres up
> 20,15,10m - Tri-bander 3el 20m, 4el 15m, 5el 10m @ 20 metres up
> 
> Rx Antenna:
> 
> 160, 80m - Remote tuned loop
> 80, 40m - Remote tune loop
> 160, 80, 40m - K9AY direction switchable Rx antenna
> 
> A44A expects to make much more noise and QSOs in future contests - look out
> for them in 160m contests during this season. Thanks to all who stations who
> called in. Pileups were huge and if we did not hear some of you, we hope we
> make the QSO next time.
> 
> 73 and see you all down the contest logs.
> 
> Team A44A
> 
> 
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