CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW 2021 Nov 27 Claimed Score Call: TKØC Operator(s): S53BB S53CC S53F S53MM S53RM S53WW S53ZO S55OO S57AL S57K S57L Station: TKØC Class: M/M HP QTH: JN42JO Operating Time (hrs): 48 Location: Southern Europe Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty Pt/Q ----------------------------------------------------------- 1.8 1998 2941 20 84 1.5 3.5 3503 5949 34 109 1.7 7 4829 8810 37 133 1.8 14 3752 7003 36 121 1.9 21 2816 5818 37 129 2.1 28 906 1517 28 90 1.7 ----------------------------------------------------------- Total 17804 32038 192 666 1.8 Score: 27,488,604 Club: Belokranjec Contest Club Comments: 30.11.2021 11:18:56 It's already our sixth time of a field day style operation from TK. Setup and operational details were optimized on our M2 efforts. We believe we set very high bar on the number of the QSOs world wide. In 2019 we tried MS and again were able to prove that the combination of the prefix (call sign gain), location (sea shore), antennas (matched to the sea) and operation style (run + multiple inbands) are instrumental in logging highest number of QSO's accross all categories. This year we decided to go MM for even more team fun. The goal was set to 18k QSOs and we knew we could not beat EU record as 10m is not ready yet. We also acknowledged that beating best hour rate would depend on the 20m propagation in the first hour of the contest. We managed to cross 800 QSOs/h with only 25 QSOs on 20m (record mark is set to 862 by CN2AA in 2014). The main MM challenge for the location is electricity - so we brought four 2kW generators with us. The challenge we were not counting on was the weather - although we knew how bad it can be, we really struggled on Saturday to keep all the antennas up and running. The rain, wind and hail kept half of the team away from the shack for few hours. Static noise could beat us down if we wouldn't have so many different antennas per band (using 160m/80m BVGs on 40m was not planned at all). Conditions were good on 160m/80m/40m, 10m was not as good as we hoped for and 20m/15m closed just too early. The count of inband QSOs stays at 16% for us, regardless of the category. It was always so satisfying when only 0C got through for the inband call and you could feel how the operator on the other side needed only a second or so to decode it is TK0C calling. Setup with twelve working positions: RIG: 160m TS590SG, FTDX10, RedPitaya CWS, OM2500A 80m FTDX10, TS590SG, Perseus CWS, OM2500A 40m TS590S, FTdx-101D, TS590S, Afedri CWS, HM3MM 20m FTDX10, TS590SG, Perseus CWS, OM2500 15m FTDX10, TS590SG, Perseus CWS, Expert 2K-FA 10m FTDX10, TS590SG, Afedri CWS, OM2000+ Antennas: 160m: InvL, Hi-Z 4SQ, USA, North and JA beverage 80m: Vertical, Hi-Z 4SQ, USA, North and JA beverage 40m: 3x two phased verticals, 4SQ, USA and JA beverage 20m: Spiderbeam, VDA 15m: 4elY, VDA 10m: 5elY, VDA Thanks to everybody for giving us a call. :) 73 de TK0C/Team Charlie