Class: Single Op HP QTH: Montreal Operating Time (hrs): 26
Summary: Total: QSOs = 1307 Sections = 81 Countries = 34 Total Score = 333,730
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
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It is now nearly two months since I have made a RFI reclamation to HydroQuebec about an arcing problem 800m away from my house in Europe direction. I have given them the exact position and even pictures of the faulty return line isolator, still nothing had been done.
Then this is the third contest that I work under 4 S-units over noise in direction of Europe 60% of the time. That's coming to get me nervous.
I was expecting low conditions in this increasing part of the solar cycle, not at all, the conditions were really great with big signals in all directions, after a few hours of contest only 5 sections were missing to finally end with 81 sections, missing PR and NT as usual. The ONN section was not as scarce as it could have been though.
Usually I have to wait until 21H00 local time to be heard by Europeans. This time, contacts with Europe were possible since my sunset at 16H00 local time.
The only concern with this contest is the lake of participants especially the DX ones. During the whole two nights we were able to hear with big signals the few European stations participating seriously.
The highlight for me was when I was called with a big signal by a VK6 station, he made my day giving me my #35 160m WAZ zone and a few minutes later KL was also in the log just to illustrate how good were the conditions.
I stopped the contest Sunday morning 45mn before the sunrise, I was bored by the 10 QSO/h for 5 hours and too much excited to work the ZL9HR opération on 40 and 30m at sunrise... I guess I was not the only one and that can explain the so few participation at the end of the contest.
A quiz for readers: CQWW CW 2012 : 4331 QSO's and 38 dupes, 160m ARRL 2012 : 1307 QSO's and 70 dupes. Find the mistake
Due to the arcing noise, I certainly had missed several multipliers and EU calls that could explains my poor DX- mult score, sorry for those who called me without success, send your reclamation to Hydro.
Thanks to VE2 callers for the points and of course mult and a special thank to Claude for the systematic spotting each time he heard me.
Gilles VE2TZT
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/02 23:34Bonsoir,
A part time effort:
ARRL160 Score Summary Sheet CallSign Used : VA2WA Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-Assisted Power : HIGH
Band QSOs Pts Sec DXCC 1.8 460 947 60 7 Total 460 947 60 7
Score : 63,449
Time on: 9H
Just tried to give few scores to others. Still not ready to be competitive enough on the TOP.
Gilles, Congratulations with a good result!
Claude, thanks for the spots ))) That really makes a rate to climb up for at least 15-20 minutes!
Thanks for the QSOs to VE2TZT, VE2FK, VE2EZD, VE2OJ, VE2AWR.
73!
Victor
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 09:38Bravo Gilles et Victor. Vos signaux étaient semblables ici, S-9 sur dipole de 80/40m. J'espère avoir une Inverted-L de 160m pour le prochain concours. J,ai quand même fait QSO avec TM6M.
73, claude VE2FK
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Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : HIGH - 500W Mode : CW Default Exchange : QC Gridsquare : FN46QC ARRL Section : QC Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V12.11.1 Total Time : On 08:17 (497 mins)
Band QSOs Pts Sec 1,8 122 244 31 Total 122 244 31
Score : 7 564
Rig : FT-950, AL-811H, AT2K, microHAM Digi Keyer II Antennas : 40m delta loop tuned for 160m
Thanks to VA2EW, VE2OJ and VA2WA for the QSO.
Congratulation to all for the scores.
Wow Gilles. a great score and your very appreciated comments. A wonderfull setup for the top band and a great operator.
Victor, your antenna is doing a great job. I just wonder what you can achieve with a bigger lot.
And Claude I'd like to read your comments when that inverted-L will be up.
Here I optimized my 80m dipole by rising it a bit. Its now more complicated to attach the extensions and to get on 160m with it. The easiest antenna to load was my 40m delta-loop. So that was my setup this week end. My AT2K is doing a great job loading that very short antenna without being too lossy.
I operated low power the first night and my results were surprising but went I on high power saturday night to be a little bit more efficient.
I was not planning to operate this much in this contest but once you begin you get hooked.
No great DX with such a compromise antenna but I had a lot of fun
73 de Louis, VE2EZD
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 17:56Allo tous,
I have just received an e-mail from VE3TA saying to me : ``I am writing to advise you that you have bad phase noise which spreads out at least 1 kHz from your carrier. You seriously interfere with anyone who is within 1 kHz of your frequency``
Following that, I have immediatly used my P3 spectrum analyser in stand alone to have a look at my transmission line. At full power transmitting dits or dots, my observed spectrum is rigurously the same as the one in Jan 2009 QST review of the K3. So at this point I consider that nothing is abnormal in my transmission and I am starting to wonder if it was not just the stength of my signal which was saturating the reveiver of VE3TA.
Please, Victor, Louis, Claude or any other, did you remark anything about the quality of my transmission during this contest ?
Many thanks for any feedback positive or negative.
Gilles VE2TZT
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 19:13Gilles, ton signal était stable à S-9 ici, tout semblait normal, j'écoutais avec un filtre de 250Hz. Faudrait peut-être refaire un test en ondes un bon soir.GL, 73 de VE2FK
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 19:20Bonsoir Gilles
S'il y avait eu quelque chose de louche, je l'aurais tout de suite remarqué.
Je n'ai souvenir que d'une tonalité parfaite. Et j'étais beaucoup plus proche de toi que VE3TA.
J'ai eu mon QSO avec toi au début du concours et à chaque fois que j'ai pu te réécouter absolument rien ne m'a frappé à part la qualité de ton signal.
73 de Louis, VE2EZD
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 21:12Merci les gars vous me rassurez,
Je sais que vous avez balayé régulièrement la bande et de ce fait en approchant d'un signal à problème vous deviez vous en apercevoir avant même d'arriver sur la fréquence centrale de transmission. Le fait que vous soyez passés plusieurs fois sur mon signal à différents moments est très précieux car vous avez pû écouter le signal alors que l'ampli et la radio étaient bien chaud ce que je ne peux reproduire hors concours...
Sauf découverte ultérieure très inatendue je pense que tout simplement la très bonne propagation aidant ajoutée au fait que je suis dans son azimut prévilégié de 45 degrès cad en direction de l'Europe, ce Monsieur n'a pas réalisé à quel point mon signal ''full legal limit'' était puissant sur sa radio, peut être S9+40 ou 50dB d'où effectivement un S4 ou S5 à 1kHz ou pire si son récepteur était saturé par l'ensemble de ces signaux puissants.
Restons tout de même vigilant
73
Gilles VE2TZT
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 21:16Bonjour Gilles
Pas de concours j'avais une sortie samedi en soirée, j'ai aussi un problème assez sérieux de bruit électrique qui augmente avec le froid 24hrs/24hrs environs 1 km max de chez moi et depuis 2 semaines. Qui couvre le de 1-75 mhz +10db sur 160m et S-9 sur 80m. Alors pas intéresser de me battre contre ce bruit. Donc j'ai focussé sur ZL9HR et la meilleur bande reste le 30m qui a besoin du soleil pour la longue distance. Avec la patience dimanche il est dans le log pour 30,20 et 12m tous cw. Ne me demander pas pourquoi le 12m sur preamp2 une ouverture de quelques minutes en après-midi sur mon 2ième appel.
Bon au sujet Hydro-Québec j'avais un excellent contact ligne direct mais il a pris sa retraite en 2011! J'obtenais du service le même jour. Il est important de choisir problème équipement hydro et de donner son adresse. Pour couper court à la ligne d'aide de donner le code ZDC6 et une fois qu'il a trouvé sur son ordinateur avec le problème ZA435, indiquer problème de réception et de transmission ondes radio. Il nous place en attente pour 5-10 minutes avec la voie qui dit de choisir les options 1,2,3,4,5 (juste attendre), il donne un numéro de dossier et la journée de visite de l'inspecteur. Dans mon c'est 5 jours ouvrable. La meilleure serait d'avoir le code du poteau défectueux mais dans mon cas le mieux de +/- 150m. Donc sans ce code de référence impossible d'avoir un suivi. De plus ils gardent longtemps nos dossiers et utile plus tard de prouver qu'on est expert en la matière et le sérieux de notre appel. J'ai utilisé Hydro sur Vidétron qui ne voulait pas remplacer un switching PS et ils ont installé un équipement supérieur d'alimentation aucun bruit sur HF à 1m de la boîte.
J'espère que cela pourra aider le groupe.
Bonne chance
Réjean
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 21:18Gilles, j'ai écouté plusieurs fois ton signal sans rien remarquer. En fait, tout ce que j'ai remarqué, c'est tu avais un signal du tonnerre.
Ca peut aussi être un brin de jalousie tu sais mais ca métonnerais.Jean-Pierre VA2SG - VE2SSS
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Re:ARRL 160 2012 - 2012/12/03 23:11VE2TZT wrote: did you remark anything about the quality of my transmission during this contest ?
Bonsoir Gilles,
The thing is that I receive your signals as moderate. Your vertical is doing a great job starting after few hundred kilometers. Thanks to vertical polarization and a low radiation angle. I'm close to you but not enough since you are under horizon.
Your signal was absolutely good as many others. Nothing to be worry about. I'm afraid there was something wrong on a receiving side. )))
73!
Victor
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