12/12/2006 | EA3DXU According to the 2006 ARRL rules, I have participated in "Multiband assisted class". I declared my CQ QRG before the contest and made passive use of loggers and clusters during the contest, making 112 QSOs (3 more than in the ARRL 2005 contest, when I spotted my CQ QRG on the JT65B logger). I rapidly discovered that calling CQ under these conditions reported very few number of QSOs, so I started to answer other stations calling CQ and this produced a greater number of QSOs.



This is the breakdown of my 112 QSOs ( 93 x 144 + 19 x 432 ) + 56 Multipliers:

26 QSOs on CW on 144 and 432 MHz, all of them absolutely random (old CW style)

144 MHz
IK1FJI, SV1BTR, YO2AMU, RN6BN, OK1MS, SP7DSC, F3VS, IK2DDR, LZ2US, F1FLA.

432 MHz
VK3UM, DL9KR, KL6M, DL7APV, OK1DFC, UA3PTW, OE5JFL, OH2PO, K2UYH, NC1I, DF3RU, RW1AW, G3LTF, SP6JLW, SV1BTR.


86 QSOs on JT65B on 144 and 432 MHz, 31 QSOs without assistance and 55 assisted QRG picked up from Logger or Cluster.

144 MHz
YO9FRJ, EA5CJ, A61Q, DK0VHF, JH0MHE, LX/PA3FPQ, YU1CF, OK1YK, PA3CMC, N0AKC, UA9FAD, OZ1LPR, DF2ZC, DK5EW, EB5EEO, DL8EBW, W5UN, KA1VHF, K1JT, CT1HZE, RA4HCN, SM5CUI, OK1UGA, RA0FCA, JH5FOQ, S54T, F9HS, IW4ARD , I2RV , PA5KM , EA5ZF , GW3XYW ,
DH4FAJ, F8DO, PA3DZL, WB9PNU.

432 MHz
HB9Q, G4RGK, LX/PE1LWT, 7M2PDT.


6 new initials were worked on 144 MHz: RN4AT #712, AA1YN #713, DM2BHG #714, DK0VHF #723, KA1VHF #724, WB8PNU #725.

1 new initial was worked on 432 MHz: LX/PE1LWT #180.

I observed better conditions during the second leg of the contest. For long periods of time, conditions were FB, allowing easy and fast rate QSOs with small stations. There was only a short period of local QRN on Sunday morning on 144 MHz..

Equipment:

144: 2 x 17 el M2 + MGF2430 + 4CX1500B

432: 2 x 38 el M2 + CAV 432 EME + GS23B

73 de Josep -- EA3DXU