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

[Ian Fugler G4IIY]

Following a similar format to previous years in CQWW Phone, we set the 
station up for Multi-2.  Colin, G6LSO, now a regular attendee was working on 
Saturday, so did not arrive until Saturday pm.  Unfortunately, no-one else 
from the club visited at all during the weekend.  A couple had run in the 
local half marathon the weekend previously and were reluctant to leave the 
family for another weekend..  Others did the sensible thing and avoided 
travelling in the appalling weather conditions here Cumbria.  I live on top 
of a hill, but there was bad flooding all around and the winds were gale 
force until about 11pm on Saturday, when they dropped to a gusty 25/30mph.

Both Butternuts developed a fault on 40m.  So we found ourselves building a 
40m quarter wave vertical in my garage at 11pm on Saturday and then lashing 
it to a post in the torrential rain.  It resonated on 7.3Mhz, so a quick 
trip to the end of the field, an extra foot of wire and all was well.  It 
was on the same feeder as the 80m vertical, so we were somewhat compromised. 
Our operations were also curtailed over night as the mast was not wound up 
(because of the gales) and the Inverted L for 160m was only 25 feet high.

Lots of good laughs and the Yeehaas for each mult (double Yeeahas for 
double-mults) just seemed to get funnier as the sleep deprivation set in.  A 
highlight for me was persuading Colin to run in the final hour of the 
contest on 80m - his first go at running in CQWW.  He worked 60 stations in 
that last hour and was spotted three (I think) times.

The score is modest by comparison with others already posted on here - well 
done everyone.  We did work over 100 countries on 20m.  That was pleasing, 
given that we had set ourselves a target to achieve DXCC on at least one 
band.  The country count will go up slightly, because the YU8s were not 
recognised as separate mults.

The target for next year is to get more of the recently licensed amateurs in 
Carlisle to "come and have a go".

Ian


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

 Class: M/2 HP
Operating Time (hrs): 30

 Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   50     4       24
   80:  558    15       74
   40:  348    19       79
   20:  507    29      102
   15:  139    18       53
   10:    7     4        5
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 Total: 1609    89      337  Total Score = 1,107,174


 Comments:

 Single op for first 14 hours, then a few hours off for other tasks/sleep, 
etc.

 Rigs - 2 x FT1000MPs

 Amps - Explorer 1200, Yaesu FL2100Z

 Aerials:

 A3S at 25 feet

 Butternuts HF9V, HF2V

 80m vertical 65 feet (22m)

 40m vertical 35 feet

 Inverted L (low)