Results in CQ WPX CW Contest 1997 from The OZ5WQ Contest Team.
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CLASS: MULTI/ MULTI.
OPERATORS: OZ1BIZ Ken, OZ3PE ARNE, OZ3ZW Torben, OZ5WQ Peter.
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO PREFIXES
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160 225 472 2.1 53
80 420 898 2.1 89
40 556 1388 2.5 170
20 605 1155 1.9 234
15 198 366 1.8 61
10 62 80 1.3 13
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TOTALS: 2066 4359 2.1 620 = 2,702,580 points
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EQUIPMENT: Icom IC-720/IC-735, Kenwood TS-870, Ten-Tec Paragon.
SB200 and 2 homebrewed 500/250W output amplifiers.
ANTENNAS: 160/ 80/ 40m toploaded verticals.
20/ 15m 3ele. yagis up 17/12m.
10m 5 ele. yagi up 10m.
CONDX : Conditions were best in the first 24 hours on all bands.
Dropped to low niveau from sunday 12z.
Surprised to hear 10m open for short time Saturday night.
BEST DX : 10m-ZD8Z
15m-6V6u/ 9V1ZB/ ZP6XR
20m-VK3AJJ/ KH7R,
40m-VK4EMM/ VK4EMM,
80m-FM5BH/ CT3BX,
160m-VE1ZZ.
Comments.
This was our first contest were the ironbolt was cool all the time!
Never
happend before. Murphy must have been engaged elsewhere.
Our start is allways critical but with 181 qso/hour, from 4 bands, the
only noise comming from the antennarelays, everybody was working hard,
we all had
this very nice feeling, that's contestning!
Well, the rate dropped to more normal niveau during the next hours, but
it was
surely surprising to start without any troubles and a nice rate.
The first 1 million points came around 17Z Saturday, the next at app.
18Z Sunday.
We have only limited space for more alu in the air, so optimizing
equipment/ operators is the keyword for the comming season.
QSL is now working via the EDR bureau
CU AGN IN CQWW 97.
Thanks for all the QSO's and best 73 from The OZ5WQ Contest Team.
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