And it comes MM CQ DX Contest (Manchester Mineira) CWJF organized by the Group in Brazil. This edition will be the weekend of 16 and 17 April. It is an unusual event for a number of reasons. Is of intermediate duration (36 hours) beginning Saturday at noon UTC and ending at midnight on Sunday (21:00 Hrs Arg). On the other hand allows the prefixes of South America operate as multipliers while only countries in other continents are, meaning that LU1AA LU7HZ and two multipliers in this contest and therefore both equally attractive. In this edition, the competition, previously "All America" \u200b\u200bbecomes a World Wide. Finally consolidated categories for power (HP and LP) but QRP is not taken as a separate category, however awards 10 points for contact (10x a contact in the same country and 3x the maximum score "normal") making it extremely attractive QRP stations. But there is no category QRP SOSB, SOAB QRP only so to compete at this level of power must be addressed contest "All Band".
To me this is the first issue where I will compete, or I have no experience of the behavior of the contest and its participants, on the other hand to open this year on all continents is difficult to predict the degree of acceptance and relevance that will separate the other geographies in the Americas.
As far as I'm concerned this contest will be the scope of validation and verification of many recent changes to the station, so rather modest set goals in anticipation of having to face problems, some of this competition will further test the CQ WPX in May.
In the station I've been working on improving driver SO2R is installed and deployed in network configuration N1MM because although operare OS will take the 2nd season as a backup. I have also finally Hustler antenna 4BTV (actually it only installs 3BTV segments 10-15 and 20 mts. You may have to then also new equipment for rig1 ( Yaesu FT-840) with what the FT-100D will become rig2, as did other times it is better to reduce the power of a larger team to QRP levels to try to operate a QRP as the FT-817 or even 509 Argonaut requirement under competition.
To give me an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat to expect, and only as a very rough guide, take the sheets of the previous year and then putting them in an appropriate tool could draw some conclusions. Against
I would have imagined the main player in this competition is USA (706 stations, 61%) and Brazil (227 stations, 20%). Argentina and Canada occupy the following positions with 65 stations and 6% of the total. That is over 90% of participants are concentrated in these countries. By magnitude only the first two can lead to a decent run. However
multiplier distribution is very different, due to rules 98 multipliers are provided by South America (over something more than 320 stations), ie slightly less than one in three. For its part contributes with 824 stations NA only 21 multipliers.
When analyzing the average score for this contact is 2.98, for the segment is particularly QRP 2.94 for the SOAB is 2.99 and for SO 10m 3.12; in the calculations take for QRP.
The average number of QSO per station is 75 (minimum 12 and maximum 250) while the number of multipliers worked is 52 on average (minimum 5 and maximum 182), the standard deviations are respectively 66 and 47 multipliers respectively QSO so both distributions are rather diffuse.
the average participation was not on the results, but you can get an estimate of the reports that last year made in the reflector 3830. For QRP stations were an average of 8 hrs, for stations in USA (all categories) of 6.4 pm and for those of Brazil (including all categories) of just over 13 hours. Pointing
then run in the SO AB QRP better positioned Argentina last year was Hugo Blanco (LU8EHR) with 74M63 (13,230 points) came in 5th place in this category, incidentally turns of life Hugo made me knowing with whom I had much contact in the then RCBanfield (LU1EEE) and RCLomas (LU6DK) back in the early '70s is still active and participating in contests, hope I can cruzarmelo in the air at some point.
The other factor to consider is the spread, with Brazil off to be a greater or lesser extent throughout the bands spread throughout the competition (and opportunities in various bands at the same time), but over 70% potential participants are in NA and therefore spread options are more restricted.
Using a simulation run with VOACAP (with the propagation parameters of today) gives a forecast of 1800Z to 2400Z on 10 meters from 1400Z to 1800Z on 15 meters, ie 10 hours per day. There is no good outcome in 20 and 40 meters but is likely to have good propagation on 20 meters in the evening and early morning as well as on 40 meters at night and less during the day. Ie propagation and different ranks may have spread or USA or Brazil during the 36 hours of competition (in any band).
will point to a participation of 16 hours total on Saturday and Sunday, for work commitments I can not be starting anyway. I believe there will be 3 to 4 hours of net run every day and the rest will be S & P multiplier, see if for this I can get something out to the SO2R or at least evaluate its potential (one of the objectives after all.)
try to get a plan with 23 QSO / hr average and 40 QSO / Hr in the most intense moments with perhaps a minimum of 6 QSO environment / Hr in non-prime time.
If these conditions can be my goal to be 220M99 (about 65000 points), with a maximum of 300 + M99, and try to be among the top 5 ranked category in SA, of maximum point to a 3rd place certificate thus obtained. While these are values \u200b\u200bgreater than that were found last year must also be taken into account that there will be more participants and the spread seems to be better than last year in all the bands involved. These goals seek to reconcile achieve improved performance over other competitions with some careful not to make too many assumptions about the number of participants.
One thing to note is the kindness of the organizers, having made some questions Ed (PY4WAS) received immediate response in detail and a huge encouragement to participate.
In a broader perspective I like to participate, not only because it makes sense to evaluate and adjust the station on competitive terms, but also to give little or a lot of support that my participation would represent a contest in conjunction with the WSA does not represent CQ compete with the "pitch angle" from South America.
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