[UK-CONTEST] WPX SSB G4IIY M/2 HP

[Ian Fugler G4IIY]

Congratulations to Andy on a great score.  It rather puts the part-time 
entry from here in to perspective.


CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

 Call: G4IIY
Operator(s): G4IIY G6LSO
Station: G4IIY

 Class: M/2 HP
Operating Time (hrs): 29 (with both operators present for about 20 of those 
hours)

 Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    9
   80:  160
   40:  268
   20:  561
   15:   65
   10:    1
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 Total: 1064  Prefixes = 553  Total Score = 1,243,000

 Comments:

Part-time entry, with just two operators.  Did not start until a few hours 
in to the contest.  Had ten hours off over the Saturday night and then had 
to go to a Christening on Sunday.  All in all a very casual effort.

Hard work, with the anticipated good run to North America (and the endless 
multipliers) on the LF bands not materialising until late on Sunday evening. 
The single QSO on 10m was an Italian who was 20 over nine and the only 
signal on the entire band.  We did not attempt 160m, because of the noise 
and the aerial was too low.  The tower was not wound up because of the gale 
force winds.  The nine contacts on the band took out the wireless router, 
which refused to re-boot for 30 minutes.  Not experienced that before, but 
400W from a piece of wire about 10 feet from the router was tempting fate. 
Will need to re-engineer the 160m aerial for future operations.

This contest always brings out some weird and wonderful calls.  But I would 
hesitate to do a 48 hour contest with some of the tongue twisters that were 
around this weekend.  LZ130LO springs to mind together with YO22NATO.

 Ian G4IIY
Colin G6LSO


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