Comment on contest NAC 432 MHz de SK6AW/P We decided to try a new portable QTH for this contest. Conditions seemed to be VERY good towards the south, but few stations active? Almost everyone we heard, or who called in on us, was loud during the entire contest, no QSB. Conditions to SM0/3/4 was either extremely lousy, or particularly bad from there. In total, we only worked 14(!) SM-Stations, and 7 of them was from the area close to Gothenburg. Equipment: IC-7000 (35w), 19el Vårgårda @10 MAGL + MVX-432 preamp At the location, we discovered that the IC-7000 only wanted to give us 50% output power using the car battery (wich was fresh), so we had to run the engine thru the entire contest to get full output power. Has someone else noticed this on these rigs? Second thing to fail, was the PTT-Button on the handmike, it's function became intermittent. We had to remove the plastic shell and push the actual micro-switch inside to get it to work. Quite impressive quality for a 1000 SEK microphone used for less than 2500 QSOs! Anyway, great conditions, fun contest, but very much dead-time CQ. Operators: SM6IQD/Rolf & SM6U/Rick _______________________________________________________________________ Contest: NAC 432 MHz Call: SK6AW/P Section: A Loc : JO57VR Date: 20071019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Band | TOTAL | QSO-POINTS | BAD | LOC-POINTS | QRB KM | | 432M | 29083 | 45 19083 | 0 | 20 10000 | OK2VSO 1014 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M----432M---- DX Date Time Call Loc Bnd Mod QRB QTE 1 20071019 1738 OK2VSO JN99AJ 432M SSB 1014 153 2 20071019 1803 OK2POI JN99AJ 432M SSB 1014 153 3 20071019 1739 OK2BFH JN99JQ 432M SSB 1005 150 4 20071019 1807 SP9SOO JN99OV 432M SSB 997 148 5 20071019 1747 SP6GWB JO80JG 432M SSB 891 156 6 20071019 1944 DH3NAN JO50NC 432M SSB 850 183 7 20071019 1716 DL6NAA JO50VF 432M SSB 835 180 8 20071019 2034 DJ2NR JO50VF 432M SSB 835 180 9 20071019 1932 DH9NBU JO40XI 432M SSB 829 189 10 20071019 1715 OK7RA JO60LJ 432M SSB 819 174 Worked Locator JN99: 4 JO40: 1 JO45: 1 JO46: 1 JO49: 1 JO50: 3 JO52: 1 JO55: 2 JO57: 3 JO58: 2 JO59: 2 JO60: 5 JO62: 1 JO65: 2 JO66: 2 JO67: 4 JO68: 4 JO73: 4 JO80: 1 JO83: 1 Worked DXCC SM :14 DL : 7 OZ : 7 OK : 7 SP : 7 LA : 3 MODE: SSB=95% CW=4% PROP: TR=100% ----------------------------------------------------------- LOGGER 1.21 (http://welcome.to/logger) by Ulf/SM0LCB 73 de SM6U/Rickard (8S4S/SM6YOU) +46 - (0)703 - 075 240