[UK-CONTEST] G6PZ CQWW CW

[Paul Beecham]

Sri, the category is Multisingle
73 Paul
G6PZ

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Paul Beecham <paul at attenuate.org> wrote:
> Ops: G6PZ, 2E0CVN, G3TJE, G4MJS, G7VJR, GI0RTN, KU5B, M0CLW
>
>  BAND   QSO  CQ DXC DUP  POINTS   AVG
> --------------------------------------
>  160   550  18  71  17     902   1.64
>   80  1163  29 103  16    1888  1.62
>   40  1278  40 144  28    2724  2.13
>   20  1515  37 135  27    3104  2.05
>   15   763  33 117  10     2064  2.71
>   10    14   2  14      0      13    0.93
> --------------------------------------
> TOTAL  5283 159 584  98   10695  2.02
> ======================================
>
>       TOTAL SCORE : 7 946 385
>
> G6PZ has spent most of this year concentrating on our LF antennas and
> new to the field is an 80m 4-square and a new topband antenna. We are
> very pleased with the results and we feel our transmit performance has
> greatly improved. Conditions seemed quite reasonable on the two bands
> but it seems some of that may actually be due to the antennas; we had
> some excellent runs into North America on 160m.
>
> It was good to see some nice runs to NA on 15m, but not half as a good
> as in CQWW SSB. That said, we did work a number of zone 3s and some
> nice mults picked up there.
>
> The first night’s weather forecast didn’t look good and we experienced
> a freak squall with very high winds and heavy rain experienced for
> about 30-45 minutes. It was essential for G6PZ to lower the towers
> therefore this did slightly impact our 40m capability toward the
> latter part of the night. Furthermore, a relay died in the 80m
> 4-square phasing unit and that meant we had no direction switching.
> This was fixed for Saturday night, however, and we were able to fully
> utilise the antenna.
>
> Just to round things off, the 160m vertical’s SWR increased in the
> lower part of the band and using a antenna analyzer revealed the
> resonant frequency had moved to 1910 kHz; this was rectified by adding
> 1-1.5ft of wire to the top loading and the resonant frequency was 1840
> kHz - perfect.
>
> 20m closed very early on both evenings and that meant going to LF
> earlier than expected with some slower  rate hours experienced,
> however 40m was good for the last two hours with high rate runs into
> NA with a lot of Z3 in the mix. We are just thankful that 160m was as
> good as it was! 40 zones on 40m is also an achievement as we have
> never worked all 40 zones on any band in previous years!
> Thanks to all that called.
>
> 73 Simon
> M0CLW
>