M0BEW -- M4T --

Sunday, 31 August 2003

YO DX CONTEST CW 2003 M0BEW SOLP

YO DX CONTEST CW 2003 M0BEW SOLP

Contest         : YO DX
Callsign        : M0BEW
Mode            : CW
Category        : Single operator
Overlay         : ---
Band(s)         : ALL BANDS
Class           : Low
Exchange        : DX
Operating time :

BAND CW SSB C D POINTS AVG
------------------------------
   80   0   0 0 0      0 0.00
   40 40 0 0 0      0 0.00
   20 178 0 0 0      0 0.00
   15   0   0 0 0    0 0.00
   10   0   0 0 0      0 0.00
------------------------------
TOTAL 218 0 0 0      0 0.00
==============================
     FINAL SCORE:

Operators       : M0BEW
Soapbox         :

Tim M0BEW.

Thursday, 31 July 2003

IARU CONTEST 2003 GB5HQ

Call: GB5HQ
Operator(s): 
Station: 

Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:   385    154    14       26
   80:   837    992    22       40
   40:  1577   1669    36       51
   20:  1686   2120    49       64
   15:  1201    843    39       52
   10:   714    706    23       32
-------------------------------------
Total:  6400   6484   183      265  Total Score = 15,705,914

Comments:

GB5HQ Operators (35) in 2003 :

G0IVZ G0MTN G3AB G3LZQ G3SJJ G3SXW G3TKF G3TXF G3WVG G3XSV

G4AXX G4BAH G4BJM G4BUO G4BWP G4BYG G4EAG G4FKA G4FRE G4JVG

G4KIU G4KNO G4OBK G4PIQ G4TSH G4VXE G5LP GM0GAV GM3WOJ GW5NF

M0AWI M0BEW M0CMK M0MAT M3TAY

G0IVZ Callington SX27 Cornwall 160m - SSB and CW
G3LZQ Brough SE82 Yorkshire 80m - CW and 10m - CW
G3TXF Woolacombe SS44 Devon 15m - CW
G4BJM Milton Keynes SP83 80m - SSB
G4BUO Penshurst TQ54 Kent GB5HQ Control Station
G4BWP Bury St Edmunds TL67 Suffolk 40m - CW
G4MRS Martlesham TM24 Suffolk 20m - SSB
GM3WOJ Invergordon NH77 Ross-shire 20m - CW
GW5NF Croespenmane ST19 Gwent 10m - SSB
G6YB Shirehampton ST57 Bristol 40m - SSB
G4AXX Melbourn TL34 Cambs 15m - SSB

Tim M0BEW.

Tuesday, 8 July 2003

WORKED ALL EUROPE RTTY 2003 M0BEW SO20LP

WORKED ALL EUROPE RTTY 2003 M0BEW SO20LP

Contest         : Worked All Europe DX-Contest
Callsign        : M0BEW
Mode            : RTTY
Category        : Single Operator (SO)
Overlay         : ---
Band(s)         : Single band (SB) 20 m
Class           : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/... : DX
Locator         : IO82XL
Operating time : 2h24

BAND   QSO DUP MLTS   QTC POINTS   AVG
-----------------------------------------
   80     0   0    0     0       0 0.00
   40     0   0    0     0       0 0.00
   20   102   2   29     0     101 0.99
   15     0   0    0     0       0 0.00
   10     0   0    0     0       0 0.00
-----------------------------------------
TOTAL   102   2   58     0     101 0.99
=========================================
           TOTAL SCORE : 5 858

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations
Operators       : M0BEW
Soapbox         :

Tim M0BEW.

Monday, 30 June 2003

ANARTS RTTY CONTEST 2003 M0BEW SO20LP

ANARTS RTTY CONTEST 2003 M0BEW SO20LP

Contest         : ANARTS RTTY CONTEST
Callsign        : M0BEW
Mode            : RTTY
Category        : Single Operator (SO)
Overlay         : ---
Class           : Low Power (LP)

       QSOs Pts   DX    Areas
80m:   0     0     0    0
40m:   0     0     0    0
20m:   267   2449 45    14
15m:   0     0     0     0
10m:   0     0     0     0
Total: 267   2449
Continents: 5
Total multipliers: 59
VK bonus points: 100
Score: 722555

Station Description:
Antenna(s):
Operators: M0BEW
Remarks:

20m Summary
Countries
4X     5B     9A     BV     CT     CX     DL     DU     EA     ER
ES     EU     F      G      GU     HA     HB     HK     HL     I
IS     LA     LU     LY     LZ     OE     OH     OK     OM     OZ
PA     PY     S5     SM     SP     SV     TA     UA     UA9    UN
UR     YL     YO     YU     YV     ZC4
Call Areas
K0   K1   K2   K3   K4   K5   K7   K8   K9
VK2
VE1 VE2 VE3
JA6

Tim M0BEW.

Thursday, 26 June 2003

RSGB NATIONAL FIELD DAY 2003 GD0EMG/P

RSGB NATIONAL FIELD DAY 2003 GD0EMG/P

Contest : RSGB NFD
Callsign : GD0EMG
Mode : CW
Overlay : ---
QSO Total = 1513.
Score = 5505.

Operators: G4MJS, G4XUM, G0HSS, M0BEW and G1GEY
Comments:

Tim M0BEW.

Monday, 9 June 2003

DL-DX RTTY CONTEST 2003 M0BEW

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SOABLP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
   80:    0     0     0 
   40:    0     0     0  
   20:  102
   15:    0     0     0 
   10:    0     0     0 
-------------------------
Total:  102         Total Score =

Club: 
Comments:

Tim M0BEW.

Monday, 26 May 2003

CQ WPX CW 2003 M4K(M0BEW) SO20LP

CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: M4K
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SOSB20 LP
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:
   80:
   40:
   20: 1801
   15:
   10:
------------
Total: 1801  Prefixes = 672  Total Score = 1,862,784

Comments:
Good contest.
This one is not at a good time for me. My birthday is on the 23rd so I seem
to spend half of the contest drunk and the other half hungover.
Station performed as I've grown to expect. Solid and competive towards the
east/south east and all round on shorter hops, and a complete dummy load
towards the west.
Only 339 qsos with NA and 35 with JA. Laughable really.
After using a decent station for wpx phone and the cqww's I can confidently
estimate I'm about 5-600 q's (and the mults that come with them) down from
dx areas. As I have no other choice, I can almost keep up the pace ratewise
making EU qsos, theres certainly enough activity,  but in the end the the
impact the 3 point difference has on the score is too much. But with the
present setup I have now I can neither hear them or they hear me. The joys
of suburban contesting.
Heard M0C and GS2MP many times while tuning, they always seemed to be
running heavily people I couldn't even detect, I had to try and put that
in the back of my mind and carry on what I was doing, but it's never nice to
hear.
I'm sure they'll have impressive scores. gl.

Got called by quite a few semi-rare calls which is always nice. Also ZS6DX,
who I gather from reading 3830 was qrp and only made a handfull of qsos on
20m. Nice to think I was one of the few he got in the log. Managed to run
across GJ2A when he had no pileup, would have never made it if he had.

Condx in my view were average, I'd say the second day was certainly better
then the first. We had a storm pass over with a tremendous amount of static
rain during Saturday evening, I checked out and took an hour break while it
passed through. Seemed to expereience a slight glitch Sunday morning,
signals here became very attenuated during 0700-1000.

Once again, niggles on trying to hold run freq's against people who were way
out outside my filter. Seems unfair when I'm struggling to work the few DX
stations I can hear calling me near my noise floor when I'm getting qrm from
someone with an overly wide signal who would clearly be getting nothing back
from me. Quite a few times I'd have say s7 of qrm (not always clicks, but
actually being able to hear their tone) and I'd tune away to check their
signal and they would be quite a distance way, and at zero beat be almost
the same signal. It's quite easy to put it down to overload during peak
times when they are 40 over 9, but during the times when EU start to drop
away and the signals start dropping below s9 you can hear the problems are
still there.

Great activity all round which allowed to me keep putting calls in the log,
pity condx didn't pick up that little bit more so I could make it into a
few extra layers of NA but I supose this is the reality now the cycle is
declining. We're getting to the times when that extra 10db makes all
the difference.

Tnx everyone who called.
Tim-M0BEW

Tuesday, 13 May 2003

CQ-M INTERNATIONAL DX 2003 M0BEW SOSB20

CQ-M DX Contest

Call: M0BEW
Class: SOSB20
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
   80:    0     0     0
   40:    0     0     0
   20:  453   979    64
   15:    0     0     0
   10:    0     0     0
-------------------------
Total: 453  979     64
Final Score: 64 x 979 = 62,656

Comments:
Did a bit of this one as well.
Condx did appear to begin to improve by Sunday evening, but still far from
normal.
Although predictions so they won't, I hope things settle down in time for
WPX weekend.

Tnx everyone who called.
Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 12 May 2003

VOLTA RTTY 2003 M0BEW SOSB20

ALLESSANDRO VOLTA RTTY DX Contest

Call: M0BEW
Class: SOSB20
Operating Time (hrs): 11

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
   80:    0     0     0
   40:    0     0     0
   20:  286  1779    58
   15:    0     0     0
   10:    0     0     0
-------------------------
Total: 286  1779    58
Total Score = 28,478,232

Comments:
Insane high scoring system.
Condx were awfull.
Nearly nothing was breaking through from NA or JA. EU signals were heavily
attenuated and incredible qsb with callers going from over s9 to the noise
floor in the time it took to send the exchange.
Score may drop a little as I couldn't cfm a serial from a possible JA
mult. I rx'ed a number but I can't say 100% that what I rx'ed was correct.
I may drop them from the log. Shame really.

Tnx everyone who called.
Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 5 May 2003

ARI International DX 2003 M0BEW SOABLP

A.R.I. International DX Contest

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW
Class: SOAB
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
  160:    0     0     0
   80:   78   220    35
   40:  345  1032    84
   20:  744  2822   129
   15:  121   284    35
   10:    0     0     0
-------------------------
Total: 1288  4358   283
Total Score = 1,233,314

Comments:
Used antennas for 80/40/20.

Nice call from KH2/JK1FNN on 20m RTTY at teatime, and suprise call from
ZK1CG on SBB Sunday morning.
A great little contest, good activity.

Thanks all that called.

Tim-M0BEW.

Sunday, 27 April 2003

SP DX RTTY 2003 M0BEW SOABLP

SPDX RTTY Contest

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SOABLP
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:
   40:  190   56
   20:  301   60
   15:  20    13
   10:
-------------------
Total:  511   129  Total Score =  1,536,648

Comments:
Bands seemed ok.
Had a problem come early Sunday morning, about 0600 on 15m. I had just
started to pick up a run, last qso was being called by ZC4DW then shortly
after the antenna appeared to go short circuit. I went outside, cranked it
over and pulled everythin to the ground to take a look to see if it was
anything obvious, I couldn't see anything. I called it a day right there and
went back to bed. :-(
Missed the important last 6-7 daylight hours, grrr

Please can I have my beams back, all this faffing around with bits of wire
is driving me nuts. I'd like to think that I'm as enthusiastic as the next
man when it comes to this aspect of the hobby, but being antenna challenged
is really starting to wear thin now...

Thanks all that called.

Tim-M0BEW.

Tuesday, 8 April 2003

EA RTTY 2003 M0BEW SOSB20

EA RTTY Contest

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SOSB20
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:           
   40:   
   20:  351    93
   15:  
   10:   
-------------------
Total:  351   93  Total Score = 41,199

Comments:
Band still appeared lousy.
Thanks all that called.

Tim-M0BEW.

Saturday, 5 April 2003

CQ WPX SSB 2003 MD4K MULTI TWO

CQ WPX SSB 2003 MD4K MULTI TWO

Contest         : CQ World Wide WPX Contest
Callsign        : MD4K
Mode            : PHONE
Category        : Multi Two (M2)
Overlay         : ---
Band(s)         : All bands (AB)
Class           : High Power (HP)
Zone/State/... : DX
Locator         :
Operating time : 48h00

BAND   QSO DUP PFX POINTS   AVG
-----------------------------------
160   475   8 122    1014 2.13
   80   737   9 204    1861 2.53
   40   912 12 107    2218 2.43
   20 1814 18 388    3476 1.92
   15   853 12 231    1546 1.81
   10    13   0    5      33 2.54
-----------------------------------
TOTAL 4804 59 1057   10148 2.11
===================================
     TOTAL SCORE : 10 726 436

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations
Operators       : G4XUM G0HSS G3NKC G4MJS M0BEW
Soapbox         :

Tim M0BEW.

Tuesday, 18 March 2003

BARTG Spring RTTY 2003 M0BEW SO20

BARTG Spring RTTY Contest

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SO20
QTH: England
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
------------------------
   80:
   40:
   20:  244      71
   15:
   10:
------------------------
Total:  244      71  Total Score = 91,210

Comments:
Did RDXC so not much time for this.
After the really naff conditions in the Sunday morning, things were still
not 100% by the afternoon.
Some nice DX around though.
Might seriously try this one sometime, although RDXC is a killer contest.
Bad clash of dates, sorry guys...

Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 17 March 2003

RUSSIAN DX 2003 M0BEW MIX SO20

Russian DX Contest

Call: M0BEW
Operator(s): M0BEW
Station: M0BEW

Class: SO20MIX
QTH: England
Operating Time (hrs): 14

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  0     0
   80:  0     0
   40:  0     0
   20:  1086  130
   15:  0     0
   10:  0     0
-------------------
Total: 1086   130  Total Score = 877,630

Comments:
Good start on Saturday, band finally went out at about 20:00.
Finished on the first day with 891 q's
Ended up with a total on Sunday of 1086. That pretty much sums up how bad
Sunday's conditions were here.

Had a run in with a UA9, who came up a few 100hz away at about 40 over 9
deciding he wanted to take the freq.
After I while when I hadn't moved he came zero beat with me, 10 mins later
he moved away a little and a 2nd station came on telling me to qsy, after
this he started cq'ing using the same call and zero beat with me while the
original was still a few hundred down. Funny thing was,  the second station
started used the same cq sound file as the original but if anyone answered
him the op had a completely different voice. This went on for a while but
the original UA was still too close to me and clearly having difficulty
making qsos through my cq's needing 9-10 shots at serials. Eventually the
original UA came back zero beat and started rag chewing with the second UA
in Russian. After chatting in Russian for a further 5 mins the original UA
moved and left the second station cq'ing. The second station was no where
near as strong and the rate recovered and worked through him easily, when he
realised this he simply resorted to jammed anyone who answered me.
I'm just glad I had the whole thing recorded, quite frankly you can't make
up stories worse than this. Incredibly bad behaviour.

On the whole a very disapointing end to a promising start. Great contest
though.

Tim-M0BEW.