[UK-CONTEST] GM7R CQWW CW SOAB A HP

[Jim Fisher]

A pretty uneventfull contest in the North of Scotland.
WX very still and cold but no ice build up as per previous posts.
Luckily no snow or rain like the SSB leg. This heavy precipitation has been causing serious static noise on 20m. 
The X7 seems especially prone to this. Not sure if it related to the log cell feed arrangement or not.
Hope the new gamma match monobander will be better.
Gradually building the station at the new QTH but never made my goal of having all 6 bands ready for this contest.
Running a bit late due to work schedule and weather delays but hope to have all 6 bands for ARRL DX. 
Below is a copy of the 3830 posting. Thanks for all the Q's and patience with my poor CW reading.


Equipment:
TS950SDX plus Alpha amp.
Writelog software.
Cushcraft X7 at 80feet
Titanex V80s
   

 CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: GM7R
Operator(s): GM0NAI
Station: GM0NAI

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Culbokie IO77
Operating Time (hrs): 28.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:                    
   80: 1080    27       88
   40:                    
   20: 1038    30      110
   15:   62    18       45
   10:                    
------------------------------
Total: 2180    75      243  Total Score = 1,272,000

Club: 

Comments:

Antennas Cushcraft 10,15,20m tribander and 1/4wave vert on 80m
 
160m No antenna yet.
 
80m Struggled severely with the lack of RX antennas. Otherwise went Ok seemed
to be loud enough on TX to hold a run freq.
        
40m No antenna yet
 
20m Good fun and QRM not as bad as the SSB leg!   Got into a nice freq 14.0255
just above the general and advanced US band edge. Good run to W on Saturday
afternoon. Looking forward to ARRL DX already.
        
15m Just multing via point and click from cluster.
 
10m Didn't venture on this one
 
In general good fun and got me some more CW practice which I sorely need!
Need to install 40m and 160m before ARRL DX in Feburary.
Had a really funny incident with the num lock on my new small footprint
keyboard
Was running and must have accidentally hit the numlock key.
The small footprint keyborad doesn't have a seperate number pad on the RHS so
it turned UIOJK and L into 45612 and 3!
This was really confusing and caused some stress trying to get the callsigns in
the log.
The numlock key has already been removed to stop any re-occurence.
 
Equipment operated without any issues. Amp tripping problem not evident on the
CW leg.
Need some more investigation as to trips on SSB. Fault code indicated high
VSWR.
Have re-made all Balun, log cell and feeder connections since.
 
Thanks for the QSOs.
 
73
 
Jim GM0NAI