[UK-CONTEST] G5W - CQWW SSB

[Don Beattie]

I've already posted this to the CDXC Reflector, but for completeness here's 
the G5W story from last weekend.

It was a really last minute effort at Multi-single. I had planned to operate 
SOAB, but Marios, G0WWW,  suddenly asked if there was a seat anywhere for 
the contest, and we agreed to do MS with just the two of us. Not the best 
manning level (optimum undermanning, I've heard it called) but we had a 
great time. We each took three hours sleep over the weekend, which meant 
that the station was only manned at only one operating position for six 
hours over Saturday night, but apart from that we were running (or trying 
to) and multing all the time.

Saturday was a blast. We were about 70 mults ahead of last year at the end 
of 24 hours, and about the same Qs. Sunday seemed to fall apart (high "A" 
index) and getting sustained runs going was hard work. So we dropped back on 
Q's compared with last year, although the mults were about 50 ahead at the 
end. But the real change was in the mix - the points per Q were down 
compared with last year, which means that we did not get the 7.9M we had 
last year, by quite a big margin.

Main station: FT1000MP MkV + Acom Linear + autoswitched Dunestars
Mult station: FT1000MP + Quadra + autoswitched Dunestars

Antennas:

Two banks, which can be changed between the stations and are automatically
selected for band in use:

Bank A: Force 12 10 ele at 80 ft ( 40 - 10),  Dipoles for 80/160
Bank B: SteppIR yagi at 60ft, Titanex V160HD 87 ft vertical, Butternut HF6V
(for that quick "beam's in the wrong direction" moment)

K9AY receiving loops

Unchecked result:

 BAND   QSO DUP DXC  CQ  POINTS   AVG


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  160   266   4  57   9     352  1.32


   80   593   4  85  17     889  1.50


   40   616   6 113  31    1171  1.90


   20  1740  23 147  38    3587  2.06


   15  1099   5 135  31    1923  1.75


   10   306   0  92  20     435  1.42


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TOTAL  4620  42 629 146    8357  1.81


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       TOTAL SCORE : 6 476 675



Operators: G3BJ, G0WWW (5B4WN)
Operating time: 48 hours


73

Don, G3BJ