Coquitlam and Surrey Join Forces
for CQ WPX SSB Contest

The WPX Contest last weekend (March 28, 2010) was a fun event and well attended. The collaboration between Surrey and Coquitlam clubs enable us to put 3 high power stations on the air with Surrey contributing 2 portable towers and Coquitlam contributing the site, a TH7 beam, an X740 yagi, R8 Vertical, numerous wire antennas and radios and amps. Icom kindly donated a 7700 for the event and many enjoyed giving it a test ride. SARC was well represented by members VE7GRK, VE7SAM, VE7AEK, VE7IO and VE7XS.

The event was run EMCOMM style with many of the stations running on generated power. I've attached the event summary submitted to the contest authorities this afternoon. Many thanks to all who participated and let's plan to do this again!

Neil VA7DX

ARRL-SECTION: BC

CALLSIGN: VG7G

CLUB: Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club

CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB

CATEGORY: MULTI-MULTI ALL HIGH SSB

CLAIMED-SCORE: 5173190

OPERATORS: VA7DX, VE7IO, VE7JT, VE7XS, VE7HHS,

 VE7WEB, VE7GRK, VE7SAM,VA7AEK, VE7CYY, VE7WNK,

 VA7HYD VA7DRS, VA7RVS, VA7NSA
 
 

         Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX

         1.8      60     221   12

         3.5     539    1995  134

           7     544    2301  180

          14     827    1671  157

          21     788    1598  153

          28      43     112   19

       Total    2801    7898  655

  

            Score : 5,173,190

SOAPBOX:

Once again this contest proved to be a lot of fun with activity on all bands, surprisingly even on 10m. The Coquitlam and Surrey Amateur radio clubs collaborated to use the special events call VG7G commemorating the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The contest was primarily run EMCOMM style using generators and portable towers with 3 high power stations on the air using 2 yagis an R8 and a variety of wire antennas. The event was also used as an opportunity to introduce a number of newcomers to contesting including some teens and "not so teens". Copious quantities of steak were sacrificed to the BBQ gods on Friday and Saturday night with tons of junk food consumed in between! A good time was had by all! Many thanks to Icom Canada for the loan of a nice new IC7700 for the event.

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