Entry Class: Multi single (hi pwr)
Callsign Used : VE6JY
Operators: VE6BF VE6WQ G3OUF; support by VE6LDX VE6JY
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
160CW 19 19 37 6 7 Delta@145,bev
80CW 319 309 669 31 18 2x bobtails
40CW 671 656 1565 84 35 3 el at 145
20CW 1122 1079 2583 107 32 5 el at 145
15CW 611 593 1256 88 29 6 el at 120
10CW 14 14 34 13 8 7 el at 50
___________________________________________________________++2xTH6,4-30lp
Totals 2756 2670 6144 329 129
Final Score = 2,813,952 points.
Our first CW multi-op effort went fairly well, although temps in the -30C
range earlier in the week kept away some of the ops who had a long way to
come, we did have our core group of 3 who got the job done. Could have
used one more though, at least.
Conditions started like in the SSB effort, slow with much diode
propagation on the lower bands (we're used to that, but it's still
frustrating when you can't even get a ? from a CQing signal that's S9+)
Things did pick up and were fairly good at times, but it still seemed hard
to get and keep a real good run going, especially to Europe. I kept a
close watch on 10m, it just about opened the first day here, but really
surprised us with 13 countries on Sunday. Good cdx on 15 both mornings to
Europe - well good enough to get mults anyway, and the AFrican signals
held in most of the day. 40 was open from a reception point of view all
day, both days, but one can't be heard very well in the midday.
The cold weather posed no real problems, the rotors behaved well and the
only equipment hitch was the FT-1000mp misbehaving on 15m. I'm curious if
others have had this problem - on SSB it would sometimes hang in transmit
at about 25-50 watts out BUT this RF was at about 24.5 mhz!! It never
stayed around long enough to get a real handle on it, but in the CW test
it really messed up the CW, not to mention I didn't like htting the amp
with all that 24 mhz energy! So it got retired early and other FT-1000D's
got the job done. The 15m RF hanging problem isn't limited to contest
weekends, but also shows up on the test bench - a scope and spectrum
analyzer made it easy to see what was happening. Maybe it's as simple
as a PLL just on the "edge" but it's still under warranty so hopefully the
local dealer can find and cure the problem - meanwhile if this is more
than just a random defect with mine, please let me know.
73 Don
VE6JY is Don Moman email: ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Box 127 Lamont, Alberta
T0B 2R0 (403) 895-2925
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