[UK-CONTEST] CQWW CW G6PZ M/S HP

[Simon Pearson]

                   CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: G6PZ
Operator(s): G6PZ, G3TJE, M0CLW, M/SP3CW, M/SP4ZO, VE6WQ
Station: G6PZ

Class: M/S HP
QTH: SW England
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  244    17       72
   80: 1068    28      100
   40: 1067    33      123
   20: 1612    34      121
   15:  904    30      122
   10:   70    22       70
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Total: 4965   164      608  Total Score = 7,753,968

Club: 

Comments:

Towers were low on the first night due to forecasts of strong winds which sadly
never arrived... Must surely have affected our low band totals due to the 40m
yagi only being about 35ft AGL. In addition, we had no 80m loop until the
second night so we were using a relatively low dipole on that band which didn't
do us any favours either. 

We also had a phone line fault with the ADSL dropping out a total of 17 times
on Sunday alone, and we lost it totally from about 8pm GMT until the end of the
contest, so we were left with no DX cluster during these periods.

As usual, great competition with G5W. Congratulations to them. Kudos to 9A1P,
OM8A, OE4A etc... Even at the sunspot minimum 10 million points is still
surpassable in M/S. 

Equipment:

Ten-Tec Orion & FT-1000MP MkV
2 x Acom 2000 
Win-Test 3.6.1
160m: Full-size quad loop 
 80m: Full-size quad loop + dipole
 40m: 2el 40-2CD
 20m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7 
 15m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7
 10m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7

Thanks to all who called.

73,
-- 
Simon Pearson, M0CLW