Ian G3WVG operated SOSB 80m as M5B while Nigel G3TXF did a SOSB-A entry on 10m.
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Ian G3WVG operated SOSB 80m as M5B while Nigel G3TXF did a SOSB-A entry on 10m. |
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| Ian G3WVG installed a simple but effective 80m vertical with 1.5km of radials for a SOSB 80m operation as M5B in CQWW SSB. | Ian G3WVG operating on 80m (SOSB) as M5B in CQWW SSB with a vertical (and two dipoles) and two receive antennas. | |||||||||||||
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| 80m vertical in the low evening sun. A 63ft wire on an 18m Spider-Pole. | 80m vertical (on left) and 80m dipoles at 80ft and 95ft up at the centre.... | |||||||||||||
| .... ooops! How did that happen? On Sunday morning the 80m vertical fell sideways. | ||||||||||||||
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| One of the two Beverage (this one is 480ft and runs SE/NW) used on 80m by M5B (Ian G3WVG). The other Beverage was SW/NE. | Nigel G3TXF searching for Mults (and battling with the "Cluster pile-ups") while operating SOSB-A on 10m with a 4-el yagi at 80ft. | |||||||||||||
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| M5B operated for about 30 out of the 48 hours, making 1,628 SSB QSOs, 16z and 78c on 80m. | Three Zones were missed by G3TXF operating on 10m: heard, by failed to work, a C91 in z37. No other z37 heard. And never heard anything from z19 or z34. Lucky to get just one QSO with each of z1 (KL7RA) and z31 (KH7XX). | |||||||||||||
| 4el yagi on 10m at 80ft. | ||||||||||||||
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| Secrets revealed : how to you keep going operating 80m SOSB on SSB solidly throughout the CQWW Contest? Red Bulls + Coffees. | ||||||||||||||
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