[UK-CONTEST] WPX CW

[Jiri Culak]

                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: M6T
Operator(s): Tony G0OPB,Jiri M0ITY,Marios G0WWW,Justin G4TSH,Lada OK1ZH,Andy
G4PIQ
Station: G0KPW

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Saxmundham
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:   33
   80:  470
   40:  950
   20: 1847
   15:  364
   10:  110
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Total: 3774  Prefixes = 1151  Total Score = 10,866,591

Club: CDXC

Comments:

Quite an event. 
Still didn't know by late friday who will come up and we knew we won't be
able to put up super competitive station. Tony OPB and myself arrived on
friday mid-day and started to  build station and already came across few
issues.Tony already spent last weekend working hard on various tasks at
station with us.
One vertical of four square had to come down and be looked at and main 20m
beam stopped working while at 100ft. So when we picked up Marios at Lada
OK1ZH at station we still needed to fix 20m and lift 15m up. 
Condx were not best and Tony and Stavros kicked off on 40m and mainly ran
there. I took over with Lada about 5'ish in the morning for couple of hours
and then went out and get 20m going to full height and 15m up. Also beverage
to NA needed bit of attention and by mid day we had all bands apart from 10m
QRV. We decided we will use TH5 for 10m. Rate's were good and 40 and 20
seemed to be main go bands with some brief openings on 10 and 15. 80m didn't
yell what expected and we didn't even try running on 160m. It might have
been good idea to try M/2 for this particular contest and me in next event
we will go that way. Anyway, it was good fun and it brought us again closer
to be more competitive. Also I took it as good experience as I never did any
CW Contesting on HF seriously. 
The usual Thanks goes to Bob for lettings us have a go and for support. Also
big Thanks goes to Marios, Lada and Justin and last but no least thanks goes
to Andy G4PIQ for coming along on Sunday night to finish last 5-6 hours
showing us that fresh and skilled operator can squeeze some good rates.
I hope everybody had a good time and congrats to E7DX guys for good show.

Equippment:
FT1000MP x 2 / Alpha 87
10m - TH5
15m - 5el mono at 90ft or TH5
20m - 4el mono at 80ft or TH5
40m - 2el at 100ft
80m - 4 SQ / NA bever.
160m - 33m vertical+ T load or Inv V at 100ft + K9AY RX

Thanks a lot for all QSOs and will be back soon.
Jiri M0ITY