CQWPX SSB Contest - March 25 &26th 2017

Call: EI7M
Operator(s): EI3JE EI3JZ EI3KD EI5GSB EI5IX EI8IR GØCKV G4CLA 
Station: EI7M

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Cork
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Location: Northern Europe

Great contest, we had an intense battle with several stations throughout the weekend, including E7DX and IR4M on "live scores" which adds another exciting dimension to the contest! It was a difficult weekend with poor propagation and very crowded LF bands, but we had a good strong finish on 20m. Thanks to all for the QSO's, see you in the next one. 73 

CQWW WPX Contest CW, May 28th & 29th 2016

Call: EI5IX
Operator: EI5IX
Station: EI5IX

Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP
QTH: Westport, Co. Mayo
Operating Time (hrs): 32hr

Summary:
Band  QSOs
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160:    0
80:     102
40:     322
20:     440
15:     171
10:     25
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Total: 1060 Prefixes = 606
Total Score = 1,373,196

EI5IX Shack 

Cushcraft X7 Tri Bander

40m Vertical

20m/15m/10m Vertical

40m Dipole

80m Dipole

Comments:

I arrived in Ireland just 2 days before the contest where I had to build the station from scratch, a massive thank's goes out to my Dad EI9JA for helping me build the station for the weekend, I must say this was a difficult contest with only 100w as band conditions were hard at the best of times and unfortunately there was bad propagation on high bands too with low activity from North America. Thanks to all for the QSO's over the weekend and I hope to see you in the next contest. 

Vy 73! 

Pat EI5IX / M0XII

CQWW WPX Contest SSB, March 26th & 27th 2016

Call: G2F

Operator(s): M0CHK M0CKE G4MKP M0CLW EI5IX LZ2MAM

Station: G2F

Club: Wisbech amateur radio club

Class: M/S HP

QTH: WISBECH

Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:

Band  QSOs

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160:    44

80:      477

40:      977

20:      1471

15:      735

10:      48

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Total: 3772  Prefixes = 1320 

Total Claimed Score = 12,910,920

G2F Antenna Farm for CQWW - WPX SSB 2016

Comments:

WPX is great fun, 10m had short openings to SA both days, 15m never really got going for any length of time, 80m and 160m were very noisy.

Station improvements were mostly successful, more to complete as a few areas were troublesome or didn't work as required

Thanks to our guest op and the team

Jim M0CKE ..
Station Manager and Cook @ G2F

CQ WPX Contest, March 28th & 29th 2015

The following summary is from Jim M0CKE:

Call: G2F

Operator(s): EI5IX MØCHK MØCKE MØCLW 

Station: G2F

Class: M/S HP

QTH: Wisbech

Operating Time (hrs): 48 

Location: Northern Europe

Summary:
Band	QSOs
160:	24
80:	205
40:	589
20:	1458
15:	758
10:	430
Total:	3464	Prefixes	1311	Total Score	10,524,708

Our first attempt @ MS in WPX SSB, and the interlocking is entertaining to say the least. Friday got off to a bad start with the winch break failing on the main 26m tower when it was at about 18m @ 0730 hours, result was an injured operator and a 20m beam which was in tatters, elements and boom badly bent, after op repairs, tower repairs, winch repairs and a rebuild of the 20m beam we were in a position to start putting the radios etc together @ 1500 hrs .. I tell you this was no mean feat and required huge dedication from the engineering team (M0CKE and M0CHK, M0CHK being the injured party)!!! Our station is ad hoc and has to be set up before every large contest, this will soon change with a new shack build planned. So we were setup and ready to test @ 2100 hrs and testing commenced with no real issues so on to the start we went. LF were very poor Sat am with most of our Q's coming from 20m runs into the US during our dark hours, Saturday day conditions were reasonable but 10m never really got going with the main operations on 15 and 20m, Saturday night was better on 40m and 80m but 80m was still very poor and 160m was hardly worth the effort, Sunday morning daylight hours were hard going with no real Asia runs and conditions seemed very poor, finally Sunday afternoon the HF bands opened to NA and the runs began with good runs on 15m and 20m but 10 was still not great. We all had a great time on the contest, WX during the weekend was very windy with gusts upto 100km/h during Sunday but the antenna's all held position nicely. Good food and good company as usual make for good contests. Our aim was 10m points and 3500 Q's so we were not far off and the team was happy with the result for the first attempt .. lots to learn and some modifications to be made before next year SSB WPX :) See you all soon 

Jim M0CKE & the clan @ G2F