[UK-CONTEST] MM0Q IOTA Contest from EU92

[Jim Martin - MM0BQI]

Conditions started bad then went rapidly downhill!  Almost nothing on 10/15m
and
40 was so bad. Very high noise levels and low signals meant a good five
hours in
bed during the night.  There was nothing to work so sleep was the best
option.
Seems that the further north you come the harder the auoral conditions hit
you.
High QRN levels and sudden deep QSB were our worst enemies.
Despite the conditions, there were a huge stack of plus points.  The MPs
performed flawlessly, networked WriteLog was a joy to use (perfect for the
24
hours)and after some initial repairs the HF6Vs worked great. Set-up and
dismantling were performed in perfect weather which changed on the Saturday
when
Ullapool and the Summer Isles were officially the wettest place in Britain!
This is my first attempt at multi-op for IOTA and judging by this
performance it
will not be the last. Changes next time would be at least one other
operator, a
scanning receiver on 10m and a fresh visit to the rules to examine how other
stations interpret them.  I am sure by adopting different tactics our QSO
count
could have been higher but we took the rules at face value and possibly did
ourselves no favours.
My thanks to Bill and Jean who own Tanera Mor and who jointly sponsor the
Summer
Isles IOTA Trophy. To Ron, for lending his experience and support and to
everyone we worked. It was great fun and MM0Q will be back on EU92 next
year!
Hopefully this year, once the dust has settled, we will have more
discussions on the rules.
Jim  MM0BQI

Call: MM0Q
Operator(s): GM0NTL, MM0BQI
Club: SUMMER ISLES RADIO CLUB
Class: Multi-Op LP DXpedition
QTH: EU92, SUMMER ISLES
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
----------------------------------------
   80:    5       5       97       22
   40:   21      15       69       29
   20:   50      13      302       38
   15:    5       5       23       16
   10:    0       0        2        2
----------------------------------------
Total:   81      38      483      107  Total Score = 670,770


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