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2007 CQWWDX CW Contest
TX3SAM Log Online

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25, november 2007
The radio championship contest CQWWDX CW, 2007 edition, is the international event of the year well-known and very expected by enthusiasts hamradio contesters.
Personally, this participation has no other meaning to put myself in a good condition and help me to prepare the next events in 2008.
TX3SAM is the special callsign given to me by ANF, which is the french frequencies national agency and with the special permission of the Maritime Telecommunications network director, I've put my radio station in these premises which is for sure a nice location and certainly the best place for radio activities.
The site elevation above sea level is: 117m.

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Having freed of my daily duties, and with the help of my friend Claude FK8IF, we could finally, focus on the installation of our respective radio stations. We were still in time, because we were nearly 2 hours ahead to unplug the radio equipment in our own QRA and reinstall all that at the coast station.
02:00 UTC
My radio station was finally installed in the meeting room adjacent to the operating room, and a few minutes later the various antennas, the CUSHCRAFT vertical R7 and multiband wire T2FD were erected not without difficulty. In fact, the prevailing southeasterly winds gusting to 25/30 knots gave us some cold sweat, but everything went ok and i was QRV at 02:30 UTC.
My friend Claude/FK8IF also participate in its own way to the contest, so, we made, another multiband homemade vertical antenna, and a wire dipole 40/80m from Fritzel company, erected and ready for him.
02:47 UTC
JA6SBW became the first station working TX3SAM on 15m. The quality and strength of the signal on 21 mhz made me start with this band, not very popular in normal times, but very active during radio competition periods.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
04:18 UTC
My last QSO was VR10UW after which the log was closed with 580 logged QSO's, but there is a few duplicate QSO's to remove and save the log up-to-date prior to send it to the CQWWDX CW 2007 organization.

Here are additional information
Over a period of about 26 hours, 6 hours of rest period would be remove which makes a total of 20 hours trafic time on following bands: 10m - 15m - 20m and 40m.

My rest period hours
On 24/11 from 12:30 UTC to 13:30 UTC = 1H
On 24/11 from 16:10 UTC to 19:10 UTC = 3H
On 24/11 from 19:30 UTC to 20:30 UTC = 1H
On 25/11 from 02:00 UTC to 03:00 UTC = 1H

Operation Category
Submitter's callsign:....... FK8DD
Submitter's e-mail :........fk8dd@lagoon.nc
Contest callsign:.............TX3SAM
DXCC entity:...................New Caledonia
CQ Zone :......................32
Operation Class: ............Single Operator All Band Low Power
QSL info :......................Via LZ1JZ
Operator :......................FK8DD

Radio and Computer Equipment
TX :...............................Yaesu FT-857 85-watt output
Tuner :...........................MFJ-941E
Antennas :......................Vertical Cushcraft R7 and multiband wire dipole T2FD
Computer:......................Toshiba intel Pentium 4
Software :.......................Win-Test and DXFile logbook
Assisting WEB cluster :.....None

I was very pleased to work in this championship, I have noted several gaps in my equipment installation, TX, software and antennas, which will help me complete my next contest participation.

Sam FK8DD

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