15 February 2003
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15 February 2003 - 23 cm SSB EME Contest
The contest ran from 1500 on Saturday till 1500 Sunday. Unfortunately, tree blockage limits the start of my Moon window to >90 deg Az... this meant starting after 1830, even then 1/2 of the dish was still in the tree and wasn't clear until 2 hours later.
Keeping awake in the early hours of Sunday morning was a problem... notice the lack of QSO's between 0100 and 0400, I fell asleep while sat in front of the rig for at least 2 hours!
Despite this I still managed to make 27 QSO's with a contest score of ((24x2)+(3x1))x11 = 561 points.
Scoring is the contact points times number of Grid Sectors (IO, JM, FN, EM ...) worked. SSB to SSB contacts count as 2 points. SSB to CW (or CW to SSB) count as 1 point. The exchange is your Grid Sector. Only the 2 sector letters need be sent.
Here's the log...
15 February
1836 IK2MMB 53/53, 1845
F6CGJ 55/55, 1848 F6KHM 55/55, 1902 HB9Q 56/57, 1916 F2TU 54/54, 1920 I0UGB
53/54, 1930 ZS6AXT 559/55, 1950 HA5SHF 529/55, 1955 HB9BBD 58/58, 2003 GW3XYW
55/55, 2016 DL1YMK 53/55, 2024 LX1DB 58/56, 2032 HB9BHU 54/55, 2034 OZ6OL 55/55,
2155 OE5EYM 55/55, 2246 IK3COJ 529/53, 2319 N2UO 32/32.
16 February
0014 OE9XXI 58/55, 0031
W2UHI 55/55, 0037 KU4F 55/56, 0039 K0YW 55/56, 0042 G3LTF 55/55, 0047 K5JL
57/57, 0100 K2UYH 55/56, 0105 W7BBM 52/55, 0017 W5LUA 55/55, 0400 N7AM 54/54 and
0410 K7XQ 539/539.
Gotaways were DJ9YW, DF4PV, K9KFR and WA6PY
08 February 2003
1601 SM2CEW 559/559, 1748 G3LTF 569/569,
1810 SM5CFS 539/559, 2023 DL8OBU 529/539, 2034 K5JL 589/579, and 2055 K7XQ
529/539.
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