RBN Data Russian DX Contest 2018 40m M0BEW.

RBN Data Russian DX Contest 2018 40m M0BEW.

Always enjoy the RDXC, plenty of activity and a good warm up pre WPX.
Thought I would try and have a couple of hours. Make a few qsos. CW  only.
Jumped on 40m.  Band felt really bad. A-Index was 20ish.
I'm not fully up to what feels good or bad here at the moment, but neveless it felt awfull.
QRV during some poor hours, between 22:30 - 01:30.

Came across 3B8XF, very loud with not much of a pileup, not that I could hear this end.
Band seemed extremely selective and fast changing.

RBN reports.

Not really any serious UK activity on around the time I was on.

Unless I'm mistaken. So I grabbed whatever the highest claimed SOSB40 scores from 3830...

YT1HA, S52AW, ES2MC, HA3LN, OH2PM, HG8K.
A case of comparing an apple to an orange but still some yardstick around Europe.

DO4DXA

ET3AA

F5RRS

HA1VHF

HA6PX

LZ7AA

OE6TZA

OH6BG

OL7M

S50ARX

SV1CDN

SV8RV

UA6SWL

VU3KAZ

W1NT

Tim M0BEW.

Russian DX Contest 2018 40m M0BEW.

Russian DX Contest 2018 40m M0BEW.

Russian DX Contest

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

Class: SO40CW
QTH: England
Operating Time (hrs): 3

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  0     0
   80:  0     0
   40:  141   0
   20:  0     0
   15:  0     0
   10:  0     0
-------------------
Total: 141    0  Total Score = ?

Always enjoy the RDXC, plenty of activity and a good warm up pre WPX.
Thought I would try and have a couple of hours. Make a few qsos. CW  only.
Jumped on 40m.  Band felt really bad. A-Index was 20ish.
I'm not fully up to what feels good or bad here at the moment, but neveless it felt awfull.
QRV during some poor hours, between 22:30 - 01:30.

Came across 3B8XF, very loud with not much of a pileup, not that I could hear this end.
Band seemed extremely selective and fast changing.

Tim M0BEW.

RSGB 80m Club Champs March SSB 2018 M0BEW

RSGB 80m Club Champs March SSB 2018 M0BEW.


Contest         : RSGB 80 meter Club Competition
Callsign        : M0BEW
Mode            : SSB
Category        : Single Operator (SO)
Overlay         : ---
Band(s)         : Single band (SB) 80 m
Class           : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/...  : DX
Locator         : IO82RJ
Operating time  : 1h29

 BAND   QSO DUP  POINTS   AVG
------------------------------
   80   180   0     180  1.00
------------------------------
TOTAL   180   0     180  1.00
==============================
       TOTAL SCORE : 179

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations

Operators       : M0BEW
Soapbox         :

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Another flurry in 80m club champs. Nothing too serious.
80m Dipole at a more respectable height now.

USB interface went down around 10-15 mins in ...  No PTT so no voice keyer. 
Despite trying a reconnect, restart, reboot it failied. Next day, boot up and it connects as normal. Very fustrating.
Logged the rest straight into my logger.
Band was busy. worked a few DL, S5, LZ giving low serials.

Tim M0BEW.

RBN Data RSGB 80m Club Champs March CW 2018

RBN Data RSGB 80m Club Champs March CW 2018.

The new QTH move has happened. 'cheer'.
This is pretty much the first time had chance to radiate a signal, so just for a quicky test, erected a flat top dipole at 20 feet, just 10m or so from the shack.

The 80m CC's are a perfect opportunity to mix a signal on the band omongst the other entrants and get a feel for antenna performace. As always there's plenty of activity up and down the UK, and good mix of fairly decent systems to compare against.

Ran with 100 watts and TS480.
Data collected is below.

3V/KF5EYY

9A1CIG

RUN FREQ'S

CT1BOH

DK0TE

DK9IP

DL1RNN

DL8LAS

DL9GTB

DO4DXA

ES4O

F5RRS

F6IIT

G4DPF

GW8IZR

HA1VHF

HA6PX

HB9BXE

HB9DCO

IK3STG

LZ7AA

M0ORD

M0VSE

OH6BG

OL7M

ON5KQ

ON6ZQ

S50ARX

S50U

SE0X

SM6FMB

UD4FD

US0KW

Overall really pleased.
The system cant get any simpler really. With a height of only 20 feet the ground losses must be huge, so only improvmemnts can be expected.

Tim M0BEW.

RSGB 1st 160m Contest 2018 Analysis

RSGB 1st 160m Contest 2018 Analysis.

A little analysis from the 160m 1st Contest 2018.
This clip shows tuning through the band top to bottom around 3/4 way through.

QSO rates from the results. G4PIQ, MW5R, GM4ZUK, G3BJ.

 

UBN Data from around Europe during the contest period.

DJ9IE

EA5WU

ES5PC

G0LUJ

GW8IZR

HA6PX

HB9DCO

OH6BG

SK3W

TF3Y

UD4FD

This clip is monitoring the top two serial stations at the time. G4PIQ, MW5R.
Very quiet period right at the end of the contest where the qsos are few.

Can hear the run breaks to grab new S&P qsos etc. This would have been a much more interesting recording if caught in the first hour rather than the last. Heyho.

Tim - M0BEW.