[SCCC] CQWW CW RM3F(N5ZO) SOAB LP (Marko L Myllymaki)
k6xt
k6xt at arrl.net
Thu Nov 29 19:28:48 EST 2018
Nice work Marko and thanks for the contest Q! Reads like you had plenty
of fun. I was 20M SOHP no assist
73 Art K6XT~~
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
ARRL LM, CW OPS, GMCC, MHDXA, NAQCC, NCDXF, SDDXC, CDXC
ARRL TA
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> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:05:42 +0000
> From: Marko L Myllymaki <marko.l.myllymaki at gmail.com>
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> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: RM3F
> Operator(s): N5ZO
> Station: UA3DPX
>
> Class: SOAB LP
> QTH: Dmitrov
> Operating Time (hrs): 45+
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------
> 160: 176 9 47
> 80: 397 11 57
> 40: 633 24 79
> 20: 1007 23 84
> 15: 99 17 44
> 10: 1 1 1
> ------------------------------
> Total: 2313 87 312 Total Score = 1,370,166
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> First big thanks to Andy UA3DPX for letting me operate his station from zone
> 16.
> His QTH is in Dmitrov, about 60 km North of Moscow.
>
> Station is in middle of repairs due to past ice storm and lightning
> damages, and
> Andy has been doing less contesting in last couple years, so I did not have
> quite all the usual weapons available, but there was still plenty to work
> with.
> With Andy's workers and some other local hams we re-built and raised 5
> element
> 40 m yagi with 28 m boom during the week and it went 20 m up the tower few
> hours
> before the contest. It was important antenna as the only other 40 m
> antenna was
> fixed yagi to Europe. After antenna went up we found SWR to be 3-4 on CW
> band
> and resonace somewhere above the band, but it seemed to have pattern and I
> was
> able to feed it with tuners in radios. Don't know how many watts made it to
> antenna but it seemed to work well to direction it was aimed to. Turning
> of it
> was problematic, as at 20 m height it was only half way where it will
> eventually
> be, and guywires of the other towers got on the way. Basically we turned
> the
> beast East for the beginning of the night and West for 2nd part of the
> night by
> loosening bit the guywires of the other tower. It really needed to be few
> meters higher to be able to turn it around, but there was no time on Friday
> night to complete all of that work.
>
> There was also some problem (SWR=10+) to operate 80 m with right radio
> which I
> found just before the contest, and because of that and other built-in
> antenna
> switching at the station I then had to do 80 m on left radio. If I wanted
> to be
> on 40 same time which was usual night time situation, then it had to be
> done on
> right radio. However, right radio could only use main antenna on any band
> it
> was on, so that effectively caused me to NOT be able to use that fixed 40 m
> European yagi at all.
>
> The other missing antenna was 20 m 6-o-6 to North America, which will
> eventually
> go on same tower with that 5 el 40 m yagi. There was another single 6 el
> 20 m
> yagi that was main antenna for that band, but it also had rotator display
> blown
> up by lighting and we also turned it manually to East for the morning and
> West
> for the evening.
>
> None of the amplifiers at the station were in working condition, and as
> efforts
> to find some reasonable replacements did not work out, other than single
> 700 W
> box, I decided to enter into LP category.
>
> I could not integrate my custom designed (by K6AM) auto headphone switch I
> took
> from home to the station and ended up using old DXD with manual headphone
> switching. It wasn't quite optimal for SO2R and especially for dual CQs
> and I
> went back like 2 years in time what I used to do at my home station. But at
> least I was familiar with the situation, as that was headphone switching
> method
> I used when I started to learn SO2R few years ago. After this last weekends
> experience in going back, I firmly believe that one wants to automatically
> switch both of those ears to non-transmitting radio if doing SO2R or radios
> if
> having more radios. It will really improve flow of the operating.
>
> Contest itself was interesting. I think last time I did LP was decade or
> so ago
> from SU/zone 34. The antennas I had available worked very well and I did
> not
> have to wait around too much to get through pile-ups. Andy said that best
> amplifier is at the top of the tower, and he is right. I almost felt like
> I was
> having HP when I called stations, I only walked away from couple pile-ups.
> Looking at the result, I could have done bit more multiplier hunting and S&P
> as I was just another UA3 and nobody needed to find me for the multiplier.
> Also, 40 and 15 were bit weaker than I thought and I may have done some
> mistake
> in not turning 15 m yagi to Europe earlier, especially on 1st day. There
> was
> just one clock hour that I had more than 100 Qs, so it was rather steady
> slow
> going whole contest. I took 2 hours nap before sunrise on 2nd day, which
> I'm
> sure made huge difference for remaining part of the contest.
>
> At least skimmers keep reporting even regular UA3 stations that nobody
> needs for
> multiplier, so even LP from UA3 can be fun to operate with good station. I
> think it would be more challenging on SSB...
>
> 246 Qs to zones 3-5
> 75 Qs to zone 25 - seems like JAs are really gone from contesting, I had
> similar
> result last month from ZM4T...
> Lots of German and Ukrainian stations in the log. And LYs, how many hams
> can
> there be in that small country ?
>
> It also felt strange to hear all those Europeans, even close by like in
> Ukraine
> or anywhere bit more South work USA stations for hours when I cannot hear
> any of
> the stations they have QSOs with, even when I knew I probably had much
> bigger
> antennas. In UA3 one is really on back side of the Europe what comes to
> propagation to North America and openings were rather limited.
>
> It was interesting to work N6NC on 20 m as one of the first zone 3 stations
> with
> very good signal. He was remoting to my simple home station in CA using
> KPA500
> there. Also VY2ZM was blasting in on 160 m both nights.
>
> It is always fun to do this contest from different places around the world
> and
> meet all the regulars each year on the air. I have now operated it from
> all 4
> Russian zones and 27 zones total. Maybe I will be able to eventually work
> them
> all. Hope to see you again next year from some place interesting.
> 73 de Marko N5ZO
>
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