Rhein Ruhr DX Association

For the CQWW CW Contest 2007 I went to Madeira to operate from CT9L. Walter, DJ6QT, allowed me to use his station and he gave me a list of possible operators for the contest. I thought that I will be part of a team but now I was the head of the CT9L CW team 2007.

Unfortunately nearly all listed operators could not join CT9L and so I had to start to search for operators on my own. DJ2YE was the first operator who joined the team followed by DJ0IF. One month before the contest we were still only three operators. I asked Stewart GM4AFF if he would like to join us on CT9L and he said: YES. In the first week of November I got a phone call from Falk DK7YY who joined our team too.

Now the team for CT9L CQWW CW 2007 was complete:
- DF1LON, Lars + Support Unit Sabine (YL)
- DJ0IF, Adam
- DJ2YE, Diethelm
- DK7YY, Falk
- GM4AFF, Stewart

Sabine and I arrived on Madeira one week before the contest and stayed for a couple of days in Funchal, the capital of Madeira. We had a lovely hotel about 500m asl in Monte with a good view over Funchal to the south. (http://www.quintadomontemadeira.com)

Unfortunately the weather was not perfect so that our hotel was most of the time covered by clouds. On the right hand picture you can see the Funchal coast line. The pictures has been taken in the harbour where at least one of those big cruising ships took a rest each day. Sometimes we had up to three ships at the same time so Funchal got a bit crowdy. You can find our hotel on the left side just inside the clouds.

On thursday before the contest the rest of the CT9L team arrived on Madeira and we moved from Funchal to Santana to the CT9L contest location. The antenna were already setup by the SSB team one month ago so nearly no outside work had to be done by us. We just had to assemble the radio stations and get QRV.

Station 1: FT990 & Acom 2000 TH5 (20m/15m/10m) 40m: 2ele 80m: vertical   DJ2YE at work
Station 2: TS850 & Acom 1010 DJ2UT (20m/15m/10m) 80m: Dipol 160m: L-Ant   DJ0IF at work
Multi Station: IC735 100w GPA40 (40m-10m)

Unfortunately we had very strong winds during the whole weekend. The 40m reflector broke on Friday and we had no chance to repair it. As the SWR was still ok it did not had a big effect. On saturday evening the whole Madeira north coast had a power failure of about 20min. And finaly the rotor for the 2ele 40m / TH5 stopped working on sunday. The beam was turning in the wind and we had no chance to change the direction by ourselfs.

The running stations did a good job for the whole 48h. Only the mult station was not so effective because we just had 100w and the GPA40 (40m-10) vertical so the mults were a bit low.

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: CT9L
Operator(s): DF1LON, DJ0IF, DJ2YE, DK7YY, GM4AFF
Station: CT9L

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: CT9L
Operating Time (hrs): 47.4

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  548    14       67
   80: 1579    28      104
   40: 2183    34      127
   20: 2385    33      132
   15: 2219    28       96
   10:  159    11       38
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Total: 9073   148      564  Total Score = 19,224,000

Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association