Last weekend we participated the CQWW WPX 2014 M/2. The goal was to beat the current M/2 Swiss record. The only problem we got was the amount of operators. Mostly only three were present. During the whole weekend the following ones were operating:
HB9ELV, HB9EMP, DL2YL, HB9FFU, HB9BUN
Since we didn’t have a lot of time before the contest, I was on holiday and Chris was busy unmounting the 3 element for 160m, we decided to operate from the station of Chris, HB9ELV. This limited us of course in the beam direction to SA and also we just had the following antennas.
Antennas:
– Optibeam OB 11-5
– 2x 42m Dipole
– 80m Vertical
Before the contest started we realized that both VL-1000’s were broken again. So we spent four hours to fix them – just finished one hour before it started. :p
The conditions were OK but big pile-up’s were not possible. Additionally it was hard to operate 48h hours with that limited amount of operators. But in general we are pretty happy with the result.
And here the result:
----------------------------------- 160 97 1 14 197 2.03 80 505 5 267 1252 2.48 40 911 6 224 2123 2.33 20 1185 19 343 1981 1.67 15 615 8 213 1116 1.81 10 345 5 152 747 2.17 ------------------------------------ TOTAL 3658 44 1213 7416 2.03 ==================================== TOTAL SCORE : 8 995 608
Wow I had 400 and never worked any of those stations. dang my luck.
kd8hhg.
🙂 Oh bad.. We will be on air again in the next contest, try again 🙂