Last weekend I participated in the CQ WW CW for the first time as Single Operator. I have been working the last few months to prepare my station for this contest. Most time was spent on automatic switching of the correct antenna for the correct band. In previous contests I had some problems in blowing my lowpass filters due to errors in selecting the correct antenna. No such issues this year.
Setup for this contest:
- 2x Elecraft K3
- 2x Drake L7
- hexbeam for 10/15/20m with separate feedlines
- 40: sloper
- 80/160m vertical.
just before the start of the contest I (or better my neighbors) had some issues with the ground fault circuit. Making more than 200w made their ground fault interrupter to activate. I also had some RFI problems from 40m sloper.
During the Saturday evening I had to partly lower the hexbeam and to shorten the 80/160m vertical as a storm was announced with gusts of Force 10.
In the end I am pretty satisfied with the result!
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty 1.8 171 192 10 46 3.5 441 596 18 70 7 321 574 17 70 14 504 1019 32 98 21 427 999 35 114 28 276 697 25 75 Total 2140 4077 137 473 Score : 2,486,970
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