[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB 2003 M4R 40 LP

[Mark Marsden]

Hi contesters

I hadn't planned to enter CQWW this year but as the great event approached I just couldn't resist.

With no other plans, I operated from home. The boys were away from home (it's half term) so my lovely wife and daughter looked after me, what a great family !  

Highlights were JA and Gambia in the grey-line on Sunday afternoon. I was really surprised what I could work with the barefoot MP & a G5RV

Finishing off the contest working a string of W's split was a real pleasure. The W's were armchair copy in a perfectly quiet band. 
Here's to 2009 when we'll be able to work up to 7.200.

Interestingly SSB doesn't go below 7.045 during the day, but at night SSB stations go right down to 7.003 and there's very little CW. I'm sure it won't be like that in a months time.

I heard a few Eu stations calling between 7.100 & 7.300, but not for long, darn those pesky A/B switches! 

40m in Eu is not for the faint-hearted.  I used 2 x 1.8 kHz filters nearly all the time with shift and width adjusted just so.
Again I was impressed just what a superb SSB rig the MP is, a joy to operate.
 
Call M4R   (Op G4AXX)
QTH  Saffron Walden, Essex
Band 40m
Score 14,336
QSO 188
ZN  10
DX  54

Time on 13:06
Writelog 10.40J
FT1000MP, Heil ProSet with HC5
G5RV inverted V 12.5m at the apex.

See you all at the HFC next weekend.

73 Mark G4AXX
Granta CG, CDXC

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