Our TARGET score, as Multi-Single Entry
> 10.000.000 points!
Well, we missed it. Read how we did it!
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB Call: J49Z Operator(s): I2WIJ, IK8UND, IK8HCG Station: J49Z @ SV9ANJ qth Class: M/S HP QTH: Crete Island Operating Time (hrs): 45 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 114 9 51 80: 311 15 73 40: 715 23 101 20: 1370 36 147 15: 1179 34 126 10: 2095 35 143 ------------------------------ Total: 5784 152 641 Total Score = 7,317,804 Club: (1/3) Marconi Contest Club Comments: All in all a great contest, but we see room for improvements. Also this year we were forced to silence by a numbers of power outages, luckyly not due to storms, but mainly to Local Power Company maintenance (!) and to power limitation of the house itself. (but without the unpayable help of Manos, SV9ALJ, the qth-owner, this adventure wouldn't have never happened). We had to run both our TL922 and AL80 at +- 500W the whole contest, but sometimes (too many) when tuning a bit longer the power went off and we had to restart!. Moreover we had other Mr. Murphy related events: the main was that the last year 3-ele tribander wouldn't tune on 20m (SWR >2), and the use of the linear for the MULT station was out of discussion on 20, so we worked barefoot 150W with the radio-tuner. We managed some good ones, despite this: T88EA, ZK1MA are examples; yeah we are skilled!! :-)!! even if it was a real pain to hear so many mults and not being able to let them hear us. :-( !! (roughly at least 8/9 zones and 35/40 countries were lost) The second day, may be too late, we decided to run on the beach tribander on 10 and 15, so being able to search for mults with the main antenna on 20, and this surely affected (negatively) our main signal. The antenna work was heavy in just two days and we didn't have the right time to rest before the contest start (we just finished the 40 m vertical in the dark on friday night). We paid this fact later (an improvement area). We had great rates, especially on 10 meters that were wide open both days, while 20 meters suffered a bit and closed very early on saturday and we never experienced the last year loud-signals. Moreover EU was always present: it is not bad, in principle, to always have a stream to work, but those endless DK, OK, and others, lowered our point-per-qso figure, while surely covering DX signals, so we also paid too much our southern-most position. Out target was 10 Ml: missed, but we are already working for next year!. J49Z Kokkini Hani, Crete Island. IC-756 Pro, TS950SDX TL-922, AL80 10-15-20 Sommer XP507 @ 10mt 40 PKW rotary dipole @12mt and Fish-rod vertical on the beach (what a great jod this antenna did!) 80-160 Inv Vee dipoles on a 14m high mast. 10-15-20 TH3 @ 5mt on the beach More info and pictures soon at http://www.qsl.net/i2wij/j49z/j49z.html Thanks to all who called and answered us!. CU next year. Bob, I2WIJ on behalf of the 2002 J49Z (I2WIJ, IK8UND, IK8HCG) team + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + I2WIJ is the 1/3rd part of the Marconi Contest Club, the other two are free-lance contesters!! + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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