Dominic Smith ⇓

CQ WW DX SSB 2009

M4A's entry in the Multi-Single category of CQ WW DX SSB in October 2009

Fourteen operators from the Cambridge University Wireless Society operated as M4A in the multi-single category in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest on 24-25 October 2009.

Score Table

Contest         : CQ World Wide DX Contest
Callsign        : M4A
Mode            : PHONE
Category        : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS)
Overlay         : ---
Band(s)         : All bands (AB)
Class           : High Power (HP)
Zone/State/...  : 14
Locator         : JO02AF
Operating time  : 47h46

 BAND   QSO  CQ DXC DUP  POINTS   AVG 
--------------------------------------
  160    70  11  50   0      86  1.23 
   80   738  18  89   4    1020  1.38 
   40   822  34 117  13    1446  1.76 
   20  1486  34 120  17    3057  2.06 
   15   387  34 121   5     778  2.01 
   10    63  16  61   0     118  1.87 
--------------------------------------
TOTAL  3566 147 558  39    6505  1.82 
======================================
       TOTAL SCORE : 4 586 025

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations

Operators       : 2E0WNT, G3ZAY, G4EAG, G4AXX, G7VJR, M0BLF, M0DEG,
                  M0HSW, M0MLG, M0SCH, M0SKI, M0VFC, M0ZES, M3TBK


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Objectives

  • To maintain our 1st place position from last year's results.
  • To reach a score over 3.5M points. Yes!
  • To introduce some newly-licensed amateurs to contesting Yes!

Equipment

Run station: FT-1000MP, DVK, Quadra linear, Dunestar band-pass filter
Mult station: FT-1000MP, DVK, Tokyo Hi-Power linear, Dunestar band-pass filter
Antennas: For 160m: Dipole; For 80m: 2x phased verticals; For 40m: 4-square array; For 20m: 4 element monoband yagi; For 15 & 10m: Stepp-IR 3 element yagi*
Computers: Win-Test for logging, networked, with telnet cluster link.
* - Note that the shared antenna between 15m and 10m meant that it was not possible for the run and mult stations to use these bands simultaneously this year.

Write-Up

A write-up of our operation, with a number of photographs, is now available on the Granta Contest Group website (thanks to G4AXX).

QSL Information

QSL via M0BLF: Full QSL Information

DX Spots

A list of DX Spots people made for us is available. Thanks to everyone who spotted us - it really does help to increase rates!

Document changes:

2009-10-27: Added score table
2009-10-26: Added equipment section
2009-11-08: Added link to G4AXX's writeup

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