Being an Explorer — The RWØA Contest Story

The successful performance of UCØB in the Multi-Distributed category in last year’s CQWW WPX CW contest stimulated our Siberian team (Krasnoyarsk, RWØA; Novosibirsk, RC9O; Tomsk, R8IZ; Kemerovo, RT8U; and Prokopievsk, UA9UR) for another experiment. This time, we decided to try the new CQWW category for Multi-Multi stations — M/M Explorer. The new category promised new possibilities. Why not try it? All the distributed team positions had improved their antenna setups during the summer. A simple analysis of spring contests showed that the number of participants from YB on 21 MHz become larger than the traditionally active group of JAs! At RWØA, we built a new 2x5-element Yagi stacked beam antenna fixed at 135°, to take advantage of all the YB signals coming into our QTH. We also installed another 2x5-element…

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