European HF Championship 2002
Call: OH6NIO
Class: CW Only LP
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 24 0 18
80: 46 0 28
40: 123 0 47
20: 255 0 51
15: 171 0 44
10: 124 0 41
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Total: 743 0 229 Total Score = 169,231
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
My first try ever on EUHFC. Actually I did not plan to participate until two
hours before the start of the contest. I worked with low power because I did
not have enough time to put the amplifier on the line and build the PTT-cord
between my new rig and the amplifier. I thought that using low power would
be good enough into Europe anyway.
I am just in the middle of big changes for the coming contest season at my
station so my setup was very inconvenient and unfriendly to use. I had to
change antennas by unscrewing the coax connectors. On 80m and 160m I
had to run outside the shack to switch between the antennas because I had to
share one feedline on those bands. My multiplier station antenna setup was
not quite finished yet so there was no second radio available. On 80m I had
some problems because the SWR was higher than 3 and the antenna did not
work very well during the contest. I believe that the propagation on the
lower bands was very poor.
40m was as I could have expected but on 20m I really missed some more QSOs.
15 and 10m were quite marginal. Especially 10m was very diffcult. Finally I
was a bit amazed that I could get 41 mults with 100W on 10m. I jumped quite
often between the higher bands and I think therefore I did not miss those
difficult propagation bursts on 10m. A lot of jumping and unscrewing of the
feedlines though decreased my rate. The software that I used was by UA1AAF
which I downloaded from the web just 1 hour before the start. The logging
programme was very easy to use even for the first time. Hats off to UA1AAF
and thank you for the QSOs. I enjoyed the contest and really liked the 12
hour format. I might join also the next year. I just hope that the
propagation
will be slightly better then than what it was this year.
I hope to see you all in the SAC next month and CQWW CW&SSB later in
the coming contest season. I have now my multplier setup almost finished so
there will be a lot of fun in the coming contests.
Rig: FT-1000MP 100W
Antennas:
160m Inv Vee @ 33m
80m Half square (SWR > 3)
40m 2el yagi
20m 4/4el yagis
15m 5/5el yagis @33m & 42m (too high for EU)
10m 5el yagi
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