Participation Report of CQ WW WPX Contest

I participated CQ WW WPX Contest March 27 and 28, 2010.

I operated as JO3PSJ/3 at Inami town, Hyogo, JAPAN at the same operation site as the last week’s two DX contests. My individual result was totally 195 from 42 entities in the world. Of them the newly acquired entities were 7,-- 9V（Singapore）,　EK（Armenia）,　XX9（Macau）,　HC8（Galapagos Is.）,　SJ（Sweden）,　5B（Cyprus）、YI（Iraq）. I had a QSO with YI2BBY station which has prefix of Iraqi stations. I cannot see his/her callsign in the QRZ.com and cannot confirm if it is true or fake Iraqi stations.

My antennas were Inverted V dipole for 20m, handmade 2 elements Yagi antenna for 15m. I didn’t make a QRV on low band and 10m band.

I finished improving handmade 2 elements Yagi antenna for 15m band and used it for the de fact first time. I checked appropriate width of elements with MMANA, antenna making software, in advance. Fortunately, the number of SWR was 1-1.5 in the whole range of band without hairpin matching.

Compared with dipole antenna, the performance of Yagi antenna is very excellent! I could have a QSO with stations in European Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in the early afternoon. On the second day I realized QSO with a station in Galapagos Islands. I enjoyed almost contest time on the 15m band.
But this antenna is very big! The width of elements is about 7m. Radius is about 5m! Place in which I build it is extremely limited. I will bring two antennas—Yagi and dipole—and choose appropriate one according to the space of site.



TNX FR FB QSO! GL Good Friends all over the world!

QSO Entities:
JA,BY,9V,VR2,9M2,BV,XU,HS,XV,UN,JT,UA0,EK,XX9,YI,TA,KH0,DU,YB,KH2,KH6,VK,9M6,T8,HC8,ZL,W,KL7,VE,LP,ZX,UA,UR,YO,OH,SP,OK,SJ,5B,HA,E7,S5