{"id":1904,"date":"2020-11-03T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:32:28","slug":"ww-ssb-soasb20-hp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1904","title":{"rendered":"WW SSB \u2013 SO(A)SB20 HP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2020’s motto:
\n“There’s nothing better than cutting rotator’s axle latch with angle grinder
\n@2AM.”<\/p>\n

Most probably I missed during the maintenance to check the rotator motor’s
\nlatch. 2 hours into the contest realized that the antenna is not moving.
\nAs the band was not very active went out to check what’s going on.
\nThe motor itself was up&running but the latch was broken with no motion between
\nthem. Could pick between to quit the contest or fix it. All the available
\nmaterials were in bigger sheets I needed to cut a piece to amend it.
\nTopping it up no other tool was prepared, only an old angle grinder… \ud83d\ude42
\nIt was loud… guess the neighbors thought there is a burglary in ongoing.<\/p>\n

On Sat @0900 the antenna stuck (luckily) at north and did not move anywhere.
\nHad to climb the tower and check what the hack could that be as the rotator
\nthis time was not guilty. A small piece of metal scrap got between the mast
\nand the support making the rotator unable to begin the rotation. I cannot
\nguess but I think there is no other 1000 occasions when this angle and
\npositioning could happen again… Managed to pick that small metal part out
\nand could get it back to life.<\/p>\n

Propagation
\n– Rarely happens but Sun was better and overall better than last year
\n– Sat night when 20m usually closes there was a pretty good re-opening to USA
\n– Sun was great with great LP opening to OC
\n– VK6 never heard however tried to allure with regular CQs to W-VK
\n– after the umpteen KH7M cluster spot on Sun well into the night I heard some
\nwhisper. Spent at least half an hour sitting on the freq to see what happens
\nbut after 9A5Y I managed to get through. I don’t know how as in according to
\nthe big propagation book this path was not open but hope I will not see this
\ncall in the UBN report.
\n– was an interesting experience that similar “no propagation” path’s was open
\nie to DU. After several iterations of my callsign one of the operator even
\nsaid that “I didn’t expected EU…” \ud83d\ude42
\n– NH2L was rather loud after KH7M qso but the op (of course) did not beam to
\nEU and the USA pile was too big to get through<\/p>\n

Activity
\n– Limited cty contest expeditions due to covid, no new mult on Sat only after
\n19UT
\n– usual QRM, sorry for the many repeat requests, thanks for the perseverance
\n– tried to maximize the efficiency of the prop windows, great operators at
\nthe other end with quick reports and actions making the game great
\n– unbelievable\u00a0 number of stns from DL, G(x), PA and EA<\/p>\n

CQcontest.net
\n– Again good competition which made the fun even better
\n– 3h to the end the page said “Account is blocked” and stopped working
\n– I thought this is my account and started to troubleshoot on the recommended
\nprofile page… \ud83d\ude42
\n– Unfortunately therefore I don’t know where Miki YT3X ended up.<\/p>\n

Funny
\nI don’t know why a big chunk of operators (including myself) shouts during
\nSSB operation. Most probably the enthusiasm brings this up…
\nTried to focus on this as the chords might suffer less but when a mult was
\ncalled it appeared I could not resist… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This was again a great fun. If the SSN: 11 had this impact on propagation
\nI’m looking forward to have mooooooree…<\/p>\n

Thanks a lot for the calls!<\/p>\n

CU in the CW leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}