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Great contest as usual, but the Sun played his tricks all the time. We got amazing first day and frustrating on second one.

Despite the long operators list: PT7AK (also PY3VK), PT7CB, PT7CG, PT7WA, PT7YV, PT7ZT, PY8AZT, 90% of the QSOs were made by Moreira, PT7ZT and Mr. Luke, PT7WA. Others were working on the new 40m system project.

This time, ours plan was increase by 10% the last year score. On the previous week we got started the new 40m system project. The friend Fabiano, PY3VK (also PT7AK) came for south Brazil to help us on the project and take part of PW7T Team.

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We had no idea the amount of work this project would take! Despite all effort, we could not use the 40m and 80m antennas on the WAE SSB.

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So, for the contest, we had to use a forgotten 80m loop antenna hanged up on the 15m tower for bands 80 and 40m. Due the needing of mismatch, we couldn’t use HP on low bands.

Without antennas for low bands, we played around on 20/15m, mostly with the Running Station and seldom we’ve got someone on the Multiplier station.

Our strong thanks for Moreira, PT7ZT and Mr. Luke, PT7WA, They keep the PW7T running, while all the others Ops were working on 40m antennas.

Many thanks to Fabiano, PY3VK / PT7AK, for coming from South Brazil to help us on the 40m system project and operation. We hope have here again for both CQWW.

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Setup:

80m: 80m Loop

40m: 80m Loop with external tuner

20m: 5 elements yagi @ 35m

15m: 5 elements yagi @ 24m

10m: 7 elements yagi @ 15m

Running and Hunter:

IC756Pro3 + Alpha 91b and IC756Pro3 + Alpha 99

Terrible low band conditions on second night. We could listen only the very big guns (dupes anyway) and PYs calling CQ without takers.

Day 1: QSO+QTC = 2296

Day 2: QSO+QTC = 1031

After all, we all had a good time. Learning by trial and error method, always in a friendly environment. The result was much more expressive then we expect without antennas and few operators on the seats.

We hope to get ready for upcoming CQWW. Thank you all to listen for us and gave us the opportunity of one more QSO.

Finally, on Monday, the antennas were up and running, just in time for next contest… hi hi

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