THE CONTEST PAGE
Here are the story of our entry in the year 2000 CQ-WW RTTY. First of all we like to thanks all giving us points and help to make this possible.

Our special thanks goes to Gunter HP1XVH and his wife Susanne for their great hospility.

  

1. Summary
QSOs
Points
ZONE
QTH
DXCC
80m
89
219
14
23
27
40m
318
824
24
44
60
20m
614
1645
28
51
79
15m
736
1936
27
54
81
10m
1051
2816
28
54
88
TOTAL
2808
7440
121
226
335

Final Score: 5.074.080 Point

2. Statistic
The graph shows our QSO rate over the 48 hours. 2 breaks by closed thunderstorm activity put the final qso number down. To bad it was happen during a good EU opening on 20m. Also one hour of electrical rain give a slow rate, we only could hear loud european stations on our low band beverage. So at sunday we get a real visit by old murphy.

3. Some contest impressions
Picture of the Team, HP1XVH,DL6MYL,DJ7AA,DK1BT as HO1A HO1A Team after the contest.

From left to right:

Guenter HP1XVH
Tina DL6MYL
Wil DJ7AA
Manfred DK1BT
Man at work, Guenter HP1XVH,Manfred DK1BT,Wil DJ7AA
Man at work, Guenter HP1XVH and Manfred DK1BT on the multiplier rigs,
Wil DJ7AA on the running station
Manfred, DK1BT
tuning for the first multipliers. At this time the rig was working, but we lost it later in the contest.
Wil, DJ7AA is starting on the running station.

Good to have this nice 19" monitor to have all writelog windows under control, hi...
The "Contestbar", cool drinks for hot hours
The small "contest bar"
with cool drinks for the next hot hours.
First Visit from Murphy, the Dunestar filters died Murphy visited our team the first (but not last) time. Both Dunestarfilters
died on 10 and 15m. So we replaced them by homebrew bandpassfilters
build by Manfred. So the homebrew did it very well.
A closer view on the main station screen. We do logging with Writelog, combined with some additional programms like F-Keys (A really nice tool for Writelog) and DX-Telnet.
DX-Telnet works great together with Writelog and networked PC. But Murphy visited us a second time, a heavy flash hit destroyed the telefon system from Contadora and the communication notebook. So no Internet acces for the rest of the contest.
Murphy visited us a thirt time. So I believe he enjoy this beuty island Contadora as well we do.

The TS870 was getting deaf, so we could not repair it during the contest.

Manfred and Guenter repair it after the contest.

The antennas, the secret for the Score
4ele KLM Beam
the 4ele 40m KLM beam
On the second tower we have the 2ele 80m Force12 and stacked with a
C31XR also from Force12.
Mosley 6ele triband Yagi for the multiplier station on a third tower.

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