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| ...z otrzymanej korespondencji... Raport Jimmiego, warto dokładnie przeczytać ... Thanks to all for another ARRL EME Contest! Pleasure to work you & apologies to those I missed. I stopped 4 hrs before the end on Sunday as I was too tired and troubled from low cw activity especially on 2m, because of the contest being mixed. It was hard for the 2 previous sleepless nights calling cq, especially on 2m & 70cm with no takers. Friday when competition started I lost my headphones and audio amp, so was operating through loudspeaker with intense blower noise in my ears..hi..next day modified rx audio setup not to optimum but workable and managed to hear ok again. Conditions were not good, high libration again, which caused vy deep long qsb on 2m especially, as well as 70cm, and distorted signals on 23cm. As in Oct, my echoes and most EU signals on 432 were at 45 degrees. My 2m rx is 4-5db down in last 2+ yrs, will do system maintenance in the summer and get back to normal. It is not wise to choose weekends of high libration, but seems that organizers only know how to look at declination. It is certainly important but libration must be taken seriously into account. Below is a summary of my results, all but 1 QSOs in cw random (1 sked on 70cm last leg). I post a last ten years’ table for comparative purposes (all QSOs in cw random, no loggers) as CT1DMK makes statistics so proactively sending it. I am qrv in this contest since 1994. 2013 2m: 24 70cm: 34 23cm: 75 13cm: 40 6cm: 9 (in ARI which is cw only contest, wkd 20 on 2m in 3 hrs..) 2012 2m: 29 70cm: 36 23cm: 73 13cm: 39 6cm: 19 2011 2m: 45 70cm: 52 23cm: 79 13cm: 37 6cm: 14 2010 2m: 41 70cm: 30 23cm: 88 13cm: 40 2009 2m: 60 70cm: 48 23cm: 57 13cm: 43 2008 not active 2007 2m: 100 70cm: 52 2006 2m: 81 70cm: 28 2005 2m: 97 70cm: 49 2004 2m: 95 70cm: 33 2003 2m: 72 For 2013 we have 35 stations appearing on 2m cw, and 360 on jt mode. I was told by a friend mixed 4 long yagi station & operator that he worked 170 QSOs with use of internet logger in jt mode and managed only 3 in cw random..Activity level shows the degree of QSO ease between the 2 modes, so quite obvious what stations choose on the lower bands in a mixed competition, and why. I respect freedom of will as i do understand that one can reach where he can. In this mixed contest reality especially on 2m&70cm, it looks pointless to me to be qrv again as long as rules do not change for competition to entirely separate by mode. Pity, this to be requested since 2002 but being purposely ignored. Thank you once more & 73 Jimmy SV1BTR |