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Subject: M6T CQWW Score + Story
From: cookar2@btlip16.bt.co.uk (Cook, Andy, COOKAR2)
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 96 20:33:00 UCT
Here is the first cut score for the M6T multi-multi entry for CQWW SSB this 
year. We ve all been very busy with work since the contest, so not had time 
to assimilate the differences between what the different computers were 
telling us for score, so, as usual, this is subject to checking.


                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996


      Call: M6T                      Country:  England
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Multi Multi

      BAND     QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


      160      969      9      66
       80     1751     26     108
       40     1839     31     131
       20     2651     40     175
       15     1658     35     172
       10      324     22      80
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   9192    163     732  =>  approx. 14M points


160m
FT1000D + PA. 40m vertical + Inverted V dipole @ 30m + Beverages
Ops : G4IFB + G4BWP

80m
FT1000D + PA. 4 square + Delta Loop @ 27m.
Ops : K1XX + G0WCW

40m
FT1000D + PA. 3 element full size @ 30m + 402CD @ 25m + Beverages
Ops : G4VMM + G4WFR

20m
IC775 + PA. 205BA @ 30m + stacked 204CDs @ 18m / 30m
Ops : G4BUO, G3VHB, G4BWP

15m
FT1000D + PA. Extended 155BA @ 25m + stacked extended 155BAs @ 18m / 30m
Op : G4PIQ

10m
FT1000MP + PA. 105BA @ 25m + stacked 105BAs @ 22m / 30m
Ops : G0AEV + G0KRL

Multipliers & Support by G4BAH, G0WCW, G0AFH, G0HSS, G4SWX, G4AXX and G4KNO. 


As usual we had an interesting contest and as usual we have found areas 
where we could do better! The new call was good (used to be G0KPW), but 
conditions weren t!

We do the whole contest field-day style, and a couple of weeks before the 
contest it became clear that two of the fields which we normally use to set 
out antennas were planted with corn, or were not clear of maize. This meant 
that we had to compress all the antennas into quite a small space, and meant 
that we had some worse inter-station problems than we have had in previous 
years.

Some very high winds were forecast for the Sunday of the contest, and when 
these arrived they turned the big 40m yagi into a very interesting shape - 
it uses 6m fibreglass fishing rods as the element ends and these really do 
bend! This also meant that we couldn t turn that antenna - even a Create 
RC5B won t hack that! Both the 40m antennas ended up pointing in completely 
different directions to where the rotators said! Throughout the Sunday 
morning, you could look out of the trailer from which we operate, see the 
bushes bending over, pray that all the guy stakes were firmly knocked into 
the ground, and feel very glad that we had spent some time putting new guy 
ropes on many of the towers! Luckily, we had advance warning of the 75mph+ 
winds forecast for the Monday night, and we were able to lower the towers at 
the end of the contest, and get all but the 10m stack completely 
disassembled before the big storm struck that night. It survived OK - the 
only damage we sustained was to an element on the big 40m yagi on the Monday 
morning.

>From this far north, conditions stank - certainly on Saturday. On the first 
night, the low bands had a really tough time, typified by almost no sign of 
the US on 160. Breaking pile-ups against the guys further east and south on 
15 and 20 on Saturday morning was tremendously difficult, and I knew we were 
in trouble when the USA opening on 15m on Saturday turned up skewed path 
(255 degrees or so). One of the guys posted a WWV spot showing the A index 
at 8 - it sounded more like it was 48. At least 20 was able to manage a 
reasonable stateside run.

Sunday was much better - on 15 there were a few more JAs about, but no run, 
but the US opening was much better, though only 2 stations worked from zone 
3, but 20 was still able to bash away at the US.

10m had a real hard time. This is the first time in 4 - maybe 5 years that 
we have not achieved 5BDXCC - many openings were extremely short, but I 
guess we will just have to accept that we caught all we could hope for.

We should have a WWW page up very soon (if not now) - it s at
http://www.btwebworld.com/olsen/m6t

We d also be very interested in reports of how the signal stacked up against 
the other guys in the contest so we know what to improve.

73,

Andy Cook, G4PIQ
g4piq@blacksheep.org

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