CQWW CW Contest - November 28th / 29th 2015

Call: G2F
Operator(s): EI5IX G4MKP MØCKE MØVKY

Class: M/S HP

QTH: Wisbech
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Location: Northern Europe

Summary: 

Band      QSOs     Zones    Countries

160:          190       18               66

80:          1125       28             107

40:          1296       40             138

20:          1646       39             131

15:          1049       38             141

10:            113       28               89

Total:      5419     191             672 

Total Score: 9,496,452

After Storm Barney caused considerable damage to one of the towers and the LF verticals only 12 days before the CW contest, we weren't sure if we would be able to recover, but we did, although one tower was not fully raised due to the forecast high winds for the weekend we managed to get on the air for the CW contest. 

 Damage from Storm Barney

More damage from Storm Barney

Antennas Back up for the Contest 

Verticals and SteppIR back up and Running

The 10m band never opened for us over the weekend with most of the QSO's on 10m being made on Saturday, There was some positives from the weekend the new 40m and 80m antennas performed as well as to be expected from our 70m x 70m plot which has all our antennas crammed in, we still have some issues to resolve which we know will improve our score and more improvements on LF RX antennas are required but in all we had a great time. 

This year we were short on operators due to not really being able to commit to having a station ready in time for the contest, also one op couldn't make it until Sunday so the first 32 hours was ran by 3 operators (M0CKE, M0VKY & EI5IX ). We are pleased to report that there was no more storm damage over the weekend even though we had some really strong winds and gusts during Sunday between 2pm and 8pm. 

Nice to see the usual UK activity in this contest and Thanks again to everyone for the QSO's We hope to see you all in 2016. 

From all @ G2F