CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: MD2C
Operator(s): MD0CCE
Station: MD0CCE
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: Isle of Man
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 409 11 66
80: 763 17 76
40: 237 18 57
20: 549 27 84
15: 406 28 93
10: 531 28 83
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Total: 2895 129 577 Total Score = 3,011,940
Club: Chiltern DX Club
Comments:
This year was a year of not being home much, with an aggregate of 3/4 of the
weeks of the year away from home, and I returned home just two days before the
contest (with jet lag, but I guess that doesn't really matter in a 48-hour
contest) to find the 40m antenna on the ground with a howling gale and driving
rain on the only day there was to do a proper repair job. The solution was to
put a tuner in the antenna feed to the 80m vertical and use it on 40m - it
tuned but was not an efficient system (high SWR at the vertical on 40m tuner in
the shack at the end of lots of coax), as the results show! With the winds
expected to continue at a lower level, I cranked the tower 2/3 of the way up on
Saturday morning when the weather was more cooperative. As there was no time to
perpare a plan for the contest and the antennas were not right, it seemed like
added fun to enter the LP category as well, just to increase the pain (....er,
fun).
It was surprising how well 160m and 80m worked with low power; only the worst
pileups couldn't be broken, although some took a long time. On 40m, every
pileup was a chore, with many disappointments on lost multipliers. Conditions
on 10m were marginal on Saturday but there was a great opening to the Far East
and later to North America on Sunday, with wonderful runs.
Thanks to the organizers and to everyone for a lot of fun and a great contest!
And apologies to those who asked for repeats, sometimes many, and thanks for
your tenacity!
73
Bob
Rig: FTDX-9000D
Ant: (10m-15m-20m)4-el SteppIR at 60 feet
(160m-80m-40m) vertical
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