[UK-CONTEST] WPX GW9T First Time Out

[Steve Jones]

Hi Adrian,
Congratulations on the effort in getting a field day style station up
and running this time of year! And nice to see a new multi op station in
north Wales.  Sounds like you had some fun and gained some good
experience.

It is hard to motivate club members to take part in contests, but they
are a great way to learn a lot about operating and antennas /station
design. The Contest Cymru Group (GW6J) here on Anglesey has been fairly
inactive over the last three years due to member's family and work
commitments, but we hope to start operating as multi single in the next
contest season (probably starting with WAE SSB contest in September). I
am currently trying to get the new contest shack building work completed
here ready for kitting out this summer, and we are lucky that I have 5.5
acres to play with here on the island. We are planning on building some
larger LF antennas this summer, as 10 and 15m are going to be poor over
the next few years - not sure about large quads here due to the gale
force winds but vertical phased arrays are on the cards. 

Once we have got things set up here perhaps you'd like to make a visit
further up the A55 to see the new station and talk antennas - we may be
able to discuss the possibility of doing some joint events too - the new
permanent contest shack is being developed to be expandable (!) in case
we want to try multi multi entries in some contests if we get really
ambitious!  

73

Steve GW0GEI  
Contest Cymru Group GW6J


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Rees
(M1LCR)
Sent: 31 March 2005 20:59
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] WPX GW9T First Time Out

Hi all
we aired our new contest call for the first time last weekend, as GW9T
(Wrexham ARS aka Barking Mad Contest Group the Barking Mad bit came from
a
club member who suggested that we are Barking Mad to go out and play in
contests in the middle of winter ! But hey, why not !).


Summary:
              GW9T
      CQWPXSSB Score Summary Sheet

      Band  Contacts     Mults     Score
       1.8        65        21      2856
       3.5       224        80     39680
         7       354       148    117216
        14       725       322    404110
        21       206        86     26746
        28         4         2        16
     Total      1578       659   1975682

It was our first time out in WPX, although we did operate in CQWW SSB,
and
SSB Field day last year. The station was operated by Steve (MW1STE) and
myself (M1LCR). We operated for a total of 41 Hours. We ended up
changing
our 160,80 and 40M aerials as we had considerable difficulty loading
them (I
flashed a Palstar 1500CV ATU at 2am !).

Anyway, we had a lot of fun, and learnt a lot about aerials and
contesting.
(Incidentally we operate Field Day style, as none of us have sufficient
garden space for anything decent below 14MHz. So last Thursday and
Friday
Steve (MW1STE) and myself, ably assisted by James (M3JRP) erected two 72
Foot masts, two 35 Foot masts and a mobile tower. We ended up as
follows:

10-15-20 Cushcraft A3S on Mobile Tower
40 Delta Loop at 72 Foot (Apex) / Quarter Wave Vertical
80 Quarter wave Vertical
160m Dipole at 72 foot dropping to 35 Foot.

Icom 756PROII + Dentron ML2500 Linear +Daiwa Auto ATU / Palstar 1500,
all
powered from a Honda 6.5KVa Diesel Generator.

The whole lot coming down on Monday morning. I am now barred from using
the
family caravan for contesting, due to the significant amount of mud
trooped
into the thing, during the contest. So we're off to buy an old caravan
to
convert to our contest shack. We operate from a disused airfield, 10
Miles
South East of Wrexham, with a reasonable 360 Degree take off.

As you can gather we are beginners at this sort of thing, so any advice
would be welcome ! As would any volunteers to join us !

Adrian (M1LCR)

PS, Don (G3XTT) if you read this it was me who was the cheeky sod who
said
"Evening Don" when we worked you on 7MHz ! Steve worked you earlier on
3.5,
but is a bit quieter than me !

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