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CQWW 160m SSB Contest 2006
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25th-26th Feb 2006, Dunmow, Essex
This was the first CQWW 160m SSB contest for me, I operated with with Chris, G3SVL, and Dave, G3UEG. Our equipment was my MP loaded with some of Dave's crystal filters and Chris' Acom 2000A. We ran networked N1MM with 2 operators on the same radio, SR2O style.
Here's the 3830 summary.
Call: G3UEG Operator(s): G3UEG, G3SVL, G4AXX Station: G3UEG Class: Multi-Op HP QTH: Dunmow, Essex Operating Time (hrs): 18.5 Summary: Total: QSOs = 404 State/Prov = 16 Countries = 48 Total Score = 140,672 Club: Chiltern DX Club Comments: Spent time this year trying to improve our receive capability. We put up a temporary end-fire phased pair of 160m (520ft)beverages on north america which gave us low noise and were stunningly effective at reducing the EU QRM. We also used a Wellbrook Communications 1530 magnetic loop which also was very low noise and enabled us to hear many stations which were lost in the noise on the 33m (108ft) vertical. Knowing that conditions had been pretty good recently it was disappointing that conditions, particularly to NA, were pretty average on the Friday night and Saturday morning and were even worse with heavy static on Saturday night and Sunday morning. There were quite a few EU, AS and AF countries that we have worked in previous years that we didn't hear this year so the DX mult count is lower than usual. Summary, Overall score disappointing, but the experience of using the specialist receive antennas was very worthwhile with a lot learnt. Dave G3UEG Chris G3SVL Mark G4AXXHere's a list of early reports from other stations from
http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/3830/2006-03/msg00566.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call QSOs StPrv DX hr Score Club Non-USA Multi-Op HP 4L0G 1040 1 47 32 478,848 NARG HG8DX 875 24 62 29 400,024 BCC C6ANM 814 56 36 36 397,900 YCCC RK2FWA 917 16 61 29 378,224 UA2 CONTEST CLUB S57M 725 17 61 37,5 299,130 SCC XE1RCS 664 54 30 20:27 292,488 YZ7W(@YU7JDE) 584 5 54 177,767 banat dx group G3UEG 404 16 48 18.5 140,672 Chiltern DX Club OK7M(OK1DIG+CLUS 484 5 46 28 120,360 OL9R(@OK1OUE) 405 1 40 13 80,150 OZ3RIN 301 0 36 35 53,748 EDR Ringsted IQ7ML 232 2 37 18 44,577 EA2CLU/P 169 3 32 8 29,085 U.R.E. DK3QJ 104 1 27 3.0 13,300 BCC VA3GGF 33 17 2 1 2,703 CCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Click on a thumbnail below to see the picture.
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The phased Beverages, pointing WNW to North America. |
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The vertical at sunset. |
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Here's the certificate from CQ magazine. We came 1st in the Multi-Operator category in England. |