[UK-CONTEST] IARU - M2Z

[Richard, M5RIC]

Bit of a funny weekend propagation wise, looking at the SFI before I left on Saturday I thought it was going to be a slow weekend but far from it.

A new location to test out, new antennas and equipment to use so I was prepared for a few things to go wrong. All the pre-contest setup went fine and the station was ready by about 11:30 on the Saturday.

Worked GB5HQ on all bands SSB apart from 160M as I didn't have an antenna. Very big signal on 80M, very loud all the time, on 40M they seemed more in the noise alot of the time. I guess the QRM levels are mich higher closer to the signal due to lack of space. Role on 2009!! 


                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: M2Z
Operator(s): M5RIC,G0VHS
Station: M2Z

Class: M/S HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:   0        0     0
   80:   0      134    23
   40:   0        5     5
   20:   0      468    55
   15:   0      243    35
   10:   0      202    26
---------------------------
Total:   0     1052   144  Total Score = 477,936

Club: 

Comments:

Great fun, certainly conditions seemed better after about 12 hours into the
contest which made the second half very busy.

Equipment:

Kenwood TS-570DG
SB-200
Cushcraft A3S @ 40ft
Buternut HF9V ground mounted
40/80M dipoles.

Writelog 10.41B - performed excellent once again and not a single error all
weekend.

Thanks to all who called.

If anyone is interested I recorded all of the contest as .wav files, email me if
we had a qso and you want the audio file.

Richard, M5RIC / M2Z