[UK-CONTEST] M6T (G4PIQ) SOABHP Mixed Unassiated 12 Hour Non expedition Island Raw Score (Still too many sections...)

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

And of course I actually meant 24 hour........

Andy

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> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] M6T (G4PIQ) SOABHP Mixed Unassiated 12 Hour Non
> expedition Island Raw Score (Still too many sections...)
>
>
> Hum - not such a good contest for me, but fun as usual. I
> decided to do
> mixed mode for a change of scene, and to see how close I
> could get to the
> multi-ops - answer - not very!
>
> Score is lower than last year’s SSB only entry (5.07M or so
> claimed in 2001
> vs. 4.79M here). In part this is due to poorer conditions -
> only 11 JAs in
> the log, and in part due to me screwing up operating rather
> badly in mixed
> mode. Found running CW in one ear and SSB in the other a bit
> more than I
> could handle and ended up often stopping the run radio when
> trying to move a
> mult on the other radio. Best move was SK2KW through 8
> bands/modes in 5
> minutes - shame too late for 80m, but I did have to stop on
> the main radio
> for this sort of stuff. More practice needed here. I never
> have liked this
> moving people from one mode to the other stuff very much -
> too disruptive.
> Would probably prefer the rules to just count mults once per
> band. Maybe I’
> ll blame it all on TR which didn’t quite do what I wanted it
> to do in mixed
> mode
.
>
> Activity seemed very good - especially from casual operators which was
> almost a problem for me since the pile / QRM on the run radio
> was often not
> small enough for me to handle 2 radios very effectively. I
> need to try some
> automated switching which lets me leave the run radio in both
> ears when in
> Rx periods on the run radio and mult radio in both ears
> during Tx periods

>
> Multiplier total is very non spectacular - I had 335 on SSB
> only last year.
> Some will be down to poor 2nd radio / passing performance,
> some will be down
> to the poorer conditions with almost no non-Eu on 10 and very
> little AS/OC
> on 15. A few got-aways - including GU8D on 20m (who couldn’t
> hear me even
> with no pile, but QRM can be like that) and PJ2Y on 80 who I
> heard and 40
> said were looking for me but no sign in the end.
>
> It was obviously a weekend for Murphy visiting rotator
> controllers. Like
> Dave, I had a rotator controller stop working - in my case a
> few hours in. I
> also had a spare to hand! An hour before the start of the
> contest I decided
> to change the fan in one of the amplifiers since it was
> getting very noisy
> and had almost seized on me in the ARRL (and I haven’t used
> it since then).
> Easy enough job - only half an hour, but when I put it back together I
> placed the HT feed only about 1cm from the HT ckoke. When I
> went on 15 I
> couldn’t figure where this burning smell was coming from till
> I looked into
> the PA and, even with just 100W or so, could see arcing
> between the choke
> and HT cable. Only took me 10 mins or so to fix that!
>
> Was a bit hot - shack temperature dropped to below 30 degrees
> at night, but
> ran at 36-37 degrees for most of the contest.
>
> Rig  : 	2 x FT1000MP + LK800 + Alpha 87A
> Ants : 	80m : Delta Loop @ 23m
> 		40m : 402CD @ 24m
> 		HF  : TH5 @ 24m + KT34A @ 15m + A3 @ 26m
>
> Raw score attached below. I'm having some trouble getting TR
> to do what it
> should do to clean the multiplers up so there's probably more
> amis here than
> usual. POST seems to decide that lots of QSOs aren't mults
> when they should
> be - looks like it's picking up the wrong type of contest.
> Time for a mail
> to the TR reflector...
>
> Maybe see you all in the HF Championship next weekend - looks like
> girlfriend will still be away for work, so I may have an
> unexpected weekend
> to do radio even after WRTC and IOTA
..
>
> Andy
>
>
>    BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults
>  __________________________________________________
>
>    80CW      154         154        906      36
>    80SSB      81          81        639      30
>    40CW      283         277       1335      41
>    40SSB     204         202       1242      49
>    20CW      373         367       1653      41
>    20SSB     500         498       2622      74
>    15CW      247         244       1212      36
>    15SSB     219         218       1410      50
>    10CW       68          68        384      14
>    10SSB      95          93        627      27
>  __________________________________________________
>
>  Totals     2224        2202      12030     398
>
> Final Score = 4787940 points.
>
>
>
>
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