RSGB IOTA Contest Participation

I participated the RSGB IOTA Contest between July 24 and 25 at Inami Town, Hyogo, Japan as the call sign JO3PSJ/3.

My individual result was 77QSOs, I acquired 22 entities: JA, HL, BY, BV, VR2, JT, UA0, DU, 9M6, KH2, KH7, YB, VK, ZL, UA, UR, SP, DL, GJ6, F, W, KL7, of them Gj6(Jerjey) and F(France) were my first QSO entities.
I got 25 IOTA codes in the world in this contest: AS007, AS012, AS018, AS020, AS031, AS078, AS117, AS131, AS137, AS138, AS151, AS155, EU057, NA235, OC006, OC019, OC021, OC026, OC036, OC042, OC088, OC117, OC130, OC142, OC146. I expected I would get more rare codes but it was so difficult.

I used ICOM IC-7000m 50w output, and I used these HF antennas for this contest: inverted V dipole 40m band, Rotary V dipole for 20m and 15m bands, 2-Elements Yagis for 15m and 10m bands.

Condition was comparably good during my operation. But I had no choice but stop operation for about six hours because car battery was dead and I couldn't start an engine of my car. It was a serious failure because I connected AC-DC converter with car battery directly, not with sigar sokect. In addition I used two lap-top computers. Maybe electric load was enourmous for battery.

I will participate TARA Grid Dip Contest and European HF Championship between August 7 and 8 for the next time. At the same days one of the biggest domestic contest "Field Day Contest" organized by JARL is held. Mainly I will join domestic contest.

TNX FR FB QSO!