4th in CQ WW DX SSB 2023
Over the weekend of 28th & 29th of October five members of FRARS formed a team to operate the CQ WW SSB contest from our HF shack at the club.
This was a Mutli Op All Band QRO effort and we used a beam antenna for the upper bands as well as a top band windom and a vertical for the lower bands.
The callsign used was G4R, this is a short contest call issued to us by the RSGB which allows for shorter exchanges and less chance of mistakes.
Quite a bit of preparation went into the event with team members wiring up footswitches, checking headsets, checking over our computer rig control & logging and generally checking out the rig, amp and antennas.
Several of us were new to SSB contesting but we soon got into it with good runs on all bands. Conditions on Saturday were particularly good and the bands were still open on Sunday with big US pile ups especially on 15 m.
We ended up with a raw score of over 850,000 which gave us 4th in our category in the UK which we were pleased with.
We’ll be back next year with lots of lessons learned and improved antennas.
Team members: 2E0NEP G0MFR G4CVX M0ODE M0RHS
The CQ DX WW web page can be found here.
Article by Gareth G0MFR, 6/11/2023.