M0BEW -- M4T --

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.

Monday, 24 February 2003

UBA DX CW 2003 M0BEW SO20

UBA DX Contest, CW

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

Class: SO20
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   0       0
   40:   0       0
   20:   561     26
   15:   0       0
   10:   0       0
-------------------
Total:   561     26  Total Score = 24,284

Comments.
Band seemed good at all distances. Although still a little light on ON's,
worked 22. Missed all UK mults except M.
First few hours were good and as always turned into a real slog towards the
end.
Some of the ON's were great, most were a whisper here and they stuck with me
to the end to complete the qso.

Thanks everyone who called,
Tim-M0BEW.

Tuesday, 18 February 2003

ARRL DX CW 2003 M0BEW SOSB20

ARRL DX Contest, CW

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:  583   44
   15:
   10:
-------------------
Total:  583   44  Total Score = 76,956

Call: M0BEW
Operating Time (hrs): 10hrs

Comments:
Another 'part time effort' to add to the pile.
I wouldn't mind a serious pop at this contest some time, but not from
home.
Did about 10 hours on Sunday, started at 1200 when I got up and finished at
2200ish. Made a few q's on 15 but didn't have the contest log running.
I spent a lot of time on Saturday listening round and following some of the
UK op's while I relaxed in the shack.
I heard a lot POI on 20m during the day, and a lot of M5X on 15, when I was
listening around.
I think they may have been SB's also.  

Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 10 February 2003

CQ WPX RTTY 2003 M0BEW SOSB20

CQ/RJ WW RTTY WPX Contest

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

Class: SOSB20
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 29

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
-----------------
   80:
   40:
   20:  792   1602
   15:
   10:
-----------------
Total:  792  1602  Prefixes = 375  Total Score = 600,750

Comments:
Good contest.
A little bit annoyed with myself making bad choices with my time off. I took
a large chunk off Saturday night when really I should have took it Sunday.
I'm not quite used to 'having' to take breaks, I would have happily worked
through if I could.

Thanks everyone who called.
Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 27 January 2003

UBA DX SSB 2003 M0BEW SO20LP

UBA DX SSB M0BEW SO20LP

UBA DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: SO20
QTH: ENGLAND
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:     0     0
   40:     0     0
   20:    408    23
   15:     0     0
   10:     0     0
-------------------
Total:   408     23  Total Score = 16,882

Comments.
The high K index really messed things up. The openenings around EU were very
selective.
Hardly any short hop propagation to ON from here. Only got called by 1 ON
the others had to found and even then they were very weak and quite tough to
complete a qso with. Only worked/heard 4 all contest, as 50+ of the
available mults come from Belgium the chances of scoring were almost
impossible this weekend.
Called it a day at around 19:00, came back 08:00 next morning and carried
on.
Made quater of my qso total in the first hour.
Highlights were being called by SU1ER and ST2NH. Although for this contest
they counted as minimum points and no mult!

Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 20 January 2003

RSGB AFS SSB 2003 M0BEW

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

1 x 1000MP & GS35 - 400/100w
Dipole @ 55ft c/w temp reflector
Writelog.

Score - 269 qsos - 251 claimed.
Club: Lichfield ARS.

hourly rates -

1st - 80
2nd - 82
3rd - 50
4th - 39

Great scores again I see.

Managed a few hours at high power. Got a knock about 16:00 and had to drop
to a couple of hundred to keep them happy. I left the DVK calling while I
was talking at the front door, so if you called I'm sorry.
Same setup as last week except I tried a reflector this time, very simple
affiar at about shoulder hieght. Did it make any difference? Who knows,
didn't feel like it. My first hour was still appauling.
Seems like my signal still wasn't loud enough to be heard at the start. I
was working folks over on the other vfo with serials 25-35 higher just under
an hour into the contest, while I was cq'ing to fresh air on my run freq 25k
below them. Really wierd stuff.

Quite a few dupes, but thats how it goes. I work and log em all.
Thanks everyone that called.

Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 13 January 2003

RSGB AFS CW 2003 M0BEW

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

1 x 1000MP - 100w
Dipole @ 55ft with ends out @ 30ft.
Writelog.

220 q's with 11 dupes - 209 valid.

1st hour - 71
2nd hour - 70
3rd hour - 35
4th hour - 35

Good contest, lots of activity, band was rammed and a joy to hear. Heard
some superb scores during the contest, and some great scores posted so far.
Don't know what happened here, I can't explain it. Could not get anyone to
hear me it appears. Must try harder in the signal department.

Ran for 3 hours 30mins, S&Ped for 30mins.
Looking back through the log only 30% ! of the qsos came from cq'ing. The
rest were made through the 2nd vfo and during the S&P. If I appeared to not
quite inside your filter when I called I'm sorry :)
Made 1 dupe myself, BWP I think it was. The others from callers.

Thanks to all who called, I made a few neat audio clips which should make it
up on the my website in a week or two when all is finished.
See you all in SBB with a stronger signal I hope. I'll perhaps try a
reflector underneath. Any comments/experiences from doing this are welcome.

Tim-M0BEW.

Monday, 6 January 2003

ARRL RTTY ROUND UP 2003 M0BEW SOLP

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

Class: SO LP
QTH: BIRMINGHAM
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Band QSOs
------------
80: 0
40: 0
20: 401
15: 119
10: 3
------------
Total: 523 State/Prov = 43 Countries = 54 Total Score = 50,496
Comments.

First contest of 2003, and first chance I've had to try Writelog for any
length of time on a new WinXP machine. 

The latest MMTTY version seemed 200% better rx-wise, I can only think of a
few signals I had to let go because of flutter or low signal. Dunno what
he's changed but it works.

Thanks everyone who called and said Hi.

Tim-M0BEW.