CQ WW SSB 2007 at HG6N
last revised on 1/11/2007
Call: HG6N
Operator(s): HA3NU HA3OV HA6ND HA1AG HA6ON
Station: HG6N
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Karancs Hill (783m)
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Claimed score:
| Band | QSOs | Zones | Countries | |
| 160 | 373 | 12 | 68 | |
| 80 | 840 | 22 | 101 | |
| 40 | 1005 | 30 | 130 | |
| 20 | 2333 | 39 | 154 | |
| 15 | 1691 | 37 | 154 | |
| 10 | 248 | 19 | 93 | |
| Total | 6490 | 159 | 700 | 10,001,137 |
| Comments: |
| This contest proved that SSB can be fun, too. Although we do not like SSB contests and we rarely have enough motivation to one seriously this time we fully enjoyed the game and were glad to enter. |
| Rigs: 2x TS-950 SDX's and HM amps Antennas: 160m: dipole on the trees @18m 80m: dipoles @18m 40m: 2 el HB9CV @ 22m 20m: 5 ele Yagi at 13m 15m: 6 ele Yagi at 17m 10m: 5 ele Yagi at 27m, 4 ele Yagi @6m |
| Beverages were used for low band Rxing NA (350m) and JA (175m) and served for every 1000 QSOs (Ararat 10 yrs old) |
| Arriving to the station on Thursday night and finding several antennas
disfunctional due to storm damage and theft (!) gave us a very dark outlook
for the weekend but alcohol dissolves pessimism and goulash relaxes minds
so after a general reset on team members + HA6PN and HA6ND birthday celebration (singing included) we started to rebuild antennas, fix beverages etc on Friday morning. |
By 20 GMT everything seemed to be ready and working so we could even had a nap before the contest started. |
| The aurora killed the fun of our Nordic friends but gave us some nice EU runs on very short skip. Seeing the last10 often above 500 and once even on 600 (link) gave a mental boost. The EU rate was so high that it was not worth to bother with the weak JA's at that time. |
| Saturday produced nice NA runs on 15 and 20 but 15m condx stopped at East W0 and did not yield any zone 3. |
| 40m was in a bad shape throughout the night but 80 and 160 were OK. Sunday
morning did not greet us with repeating the Saturday Es so we stayed on
40m and enjoying 200+ hours from EU. At this moment the contest really felt
like an EUHFC where some DX were also allowed. |
| Working JA's well beyond their SS on the high bands forecasted loooong NA openings and some more pileups. 15m opened up with great rates again with even some Zone 3's dropping in. |
10m NA opening never materialized for us, it seems that the multi-hop Es favoured south G - F -Central Italy - 9A - 5B axis. |
| The 15 and 20 remained open quite late with strong but rare NA calls and frequent and weak EU calls. The last hour produced a nice simplex USA run in the newly opened 40m band segment. |
| Frequency fights were not very bad this year but splatter was all around. The freq fights to remember were S52ZW, IF9A and AA1K. As the long-haul DXs seemed to trace closer DXs (like W0s and W7s calling in after or during a steady East Coast stream) and breaking the pileup by these made it very difficult to recover it back. |
| We are quite happy with the score and it seems that all major Central EU M/S finished around 10M so let the UBN set the final order :) Congrats to 9A1P for their success again! |
Funny and not-so funny moments (flames should be directed to ha1ag only): vp5t: cq contest vp5t The best ear award goes to ZM2M - they produced a good signal around 1230 GMT on 40m. To my biggest surprise they even answered me after calling them 2-3 times. The shittiest signal award this year goes to EU1AZ for his AM-SSB/WB-FM combination. Effectively jamming and wiping out 10 kHz of 20m in prime EU-AS time is an achievement which could have offered him a career 40 years ago. The definition of LOUD is UA9CLB on 80m. Usually HA6NL can produce that kind of 80m signal from being abt 5 km away. HG6N running on 15m when the overstressed AGC shuts down receiver - the
reason is 2 kHz (!) below: 73! zoli ha1ag |
Some major M/S scores (at least of those guys who publish...)
- 9A1P - Congrats to Dave & co. !
- P33W
Comparision between 9A1P and HG6N:
10 meters rulez ! :(
