[UK-CONTEST] CQWW CW G5W

[Don Beattie]

With all the issues with my main tower, I always knew that CQWW CW this year would be a bit doubtful. As it turned out, the tower was up and everything working a few days before the contest, but that was too late to pull a team together for the usual multi-single effort from G5W.
 
So I decided to just have a play, and not to burn too much candle. I also thought that this would be a good opportunity to try the SO (A) section, so dutifully left the cluster running during the contest. But it was not till the Saturday evening that I realised (mainly because of a lack of DX spots !) that I had wrongly set up a filter. What I wanted to do was to only receive spots from spotting stations located in zones 14-20. What in fact I did (through not reading the manual properly) was to set up to receive spots about stations in zones 14-20. So I had lots of data on Europe, but nothing else. I fixed this for the Sunday, but by then had lost the initiative !
 
As for conditions, I always enjoy CQWW CW. Some of the longer distance LF mults are a challenge, but it was heartening to get many of them quite easily. But my operating time was little more than 24 hours, so the score is low, by 48 hours standards.
 
Apart from a broken switching lead in the antenna change-over box (quickly fixed) everything worked, and I used SO2R little because of the overall rate. 
 
I took the whole of Saturday night off, and also time on Sunday, hence the poor mult total - including many easy ones that I simply did not find. But good fun, and next year, hopefully, back to a team entry.
 
 BAND   QSO  CQ DXC DUP  POINTS   AVG 
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  160   293  13  56   1     426  1.45 
   80   482  20  77   3     793  1.65 
   40   577  26  88   0     955  1.66 
   20   850  33 113   7    1978  2.33 
   15   319  29  94   1     799  2.50 
   10    28   3  15   0      26  0.93 
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TOTAL  2549 124 443  12    4977  1.95 
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       TOTAL SCORE : 2 821 959

Section: SO (A) HP

73

Don, G3BJ