[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB contest

[Callum M0MCX]

Graeme,

Although I'd love to be a bigger station, current house style precludes any
investment in antennas. I did have a small tower but contesting in towns is
bl**dy impossible in the UK.

I entered the unofficial category "Wires under 30 feet" with two full sized
loops and various loft wires for 547 Qs and 153,000 points (all band). Qs
>From 160 to 10:  20/128/121/148/59/70

My contest preparation was driving from half-term hols in Ireland via ferry
to Solihull on Friday night calling my contesting chums on car phone, trying
to work out whether I should do single band or multi - and what antennas
could I rustle together in time for my estate house! Got the kids in bed by
10:00pm but no time or energy to erect anything "exotic" (got a temporary 15
meter high fibreglass mast but never got around to getting it up this
weekend).

For those of you who enjoy improvising, I achieved my 20 Qs on 160 by
cutting a 2 meter section out the back end of my 80m loaded full-sized loop,
opposite the feed-point and made a 160m Halo. Mismatch handled by outboard
tuner. Band changes in this configuration between 160 and 80 were a trifle
complicated so I only did 90 minutes on 160 in total.

Callum.


-----Original Message-----
From: Graeme Caselton [mailto:gcaselton at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 31 October 2006 06:32
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB contest

Sorry to disappoint Chris, but the lowest 'G' scored entered in a
contest is usually reserved for me!

Spent about 5 hours in total S&P'ing the bands. Did not hear many W's
below 7.2MHz, but lots of new EU countries taking advantage of the
increased band width available to them. Managed to work all the GM's
heard.

Heard several exotica but usually unable to get through the constant
pileups! Also ran across several 'locals' [especially OH], who
appeared to be running DVK'ers for long periods, while not being in
the shack. When the DVK eventually stopped, they took no calls...why?

Usually find that the 20m and 40m QSO numbers roughly agree. This
time 40m was trounced by the surprising 15m activity. Only a few 10m
QSO's but all gratefully received. Set myself the target of more than
203 QSO's [a previous contest highest total] and more then 100 QSO's
on any single band. Not contest winning, but it is the way this
station likes to 'improve' each time.

              160m  80m  40m  20m  15m  10m  Total

Valid QSOs:      1   56   88  130  102   27   404
Total Mults:     2   24   43   54   43   25   191
Total Points:    0   49  113  162  120   31   475

CLAIMED-SCORE: 90725

Station: Icom IC-7400 @ 100W out, [40-10m] Hygain vertical ground
mounted, [80m] 20m long inverted L, logged with SD on a Celeron M
laptop. No beams, no spotting, no keyers, no amps.

Congrats to M8C for hearing the inverted L almost tuning up on 160m
long enough for my first QSO on the band!

Very enjoyable, and almost as much fun as an RTTY contest! Still
recovering from last weekends JARTS, with the Ukrainian DX Contest
coming this weekend...

Graeme
G6CSY
- logs on eQSL
- entry accepted by the robot

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At 14:52 30/10/2006, G3YBY wrote:
>Score 275,070 (not sure its worth sending in an entry?)

My score's lower than that and I will send it in to show 'G' activity

in contests.  It's worth an e-mail and at least you now know you 
won't be lowest scoring 'G' !!

73  Chris  G3SVL



 
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