Contest & section

Position

Score

Notes

2009 contests

CQ WW DX CW
Multi-two

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c. 3.5 million

Raw log uploaded to LoTW.  3250 QSOs.  371 mults.

CQ WW DX SSB
Multi-two

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c. 3.5 million

Raw log uploaded to LoTW.

Oceania DX CW

1^st Oceania, 1^st ZL (certificate below)

2,305,064

Our contest write-up is here.  Raw log uploaded to LoTW.

2008 contests

CQ WW DX CW
Multi-single

1^st ZL,
2^nd Oceania

1,273,767

HF conditions hard going but LF was hot.

CQ WW DX SSB
Multi-two

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania (certificate below)

2,374,515 points
 

Read our write-up here.  WH2DX and an AH0 scored a few hundred thousand more points but we did very well on multipliers, which was our strategy.  Better runs with maybe another 5-600 hundred QSOs would have given us #1 in Oceania.  If we brought in a crack team of ops it could be done but what's the point?  We prefer having fun, making incremental improvements, learning as we go and teaching each other new tricks.

CQ WPX SSB
Multi-two

1^st  ZL
2^nd Oceania
20^th World
(certificate below)

4,376,460 points
2112 QSOs
660 mults

Despite a significant increase on our previous year’s score with nearly twice as many QSOs, this “1^st  ZL, 2^nd Oceania” bit is getting boooring!  We’ll be gunning for 1^st  Oceania from now on!

2007 contests

CQ WW DX SSB
Multi-two

1^st  ZL
2^nd Oceania again (certificate below)

2,402,166 points

Pipped to the post in Oceania once again.  We’ll just have to try harder in 2008 ...

CQ WPX SSB
Multi-two

1^st  ZL
2^nd Oceania

1,686,830 points
1106 QSOs
470 mults

What a great weekend!  Lots of hard work but immense satisfaction abandoning the real world for adrenaline rushes between the stupefying periods of boredom.  Being at the bottom of the sunspot cycle with an SFI of just 69, it was hard to top last year’s effort but we equalled the position if not the score, achieving 2 of our 3 aims to have fun, improve the antenna and radio systems, and beat last year's score.  An SB220 amp let out the smoke from the main HT transformer this year but still we doubled last year’s topband score (!). 

2006 contests

CQ WW DX SSB
Multi-two

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania (certificate below)

2,291,883 points
2546 QSOs
115 zones
234 mults

 This was the club’s inaugural event using wire dipoles and two beams.  Our aims were to have fun, prove the site and radio systems and achieve a respectable score.  3 out of 3!  We only made one topband QSO this year so there is definitely room for improvement there.  Watch this space ...