{"id":36,"date":"2021-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:12:39","slug":"the-2021-cqww-ssb-contest-as-multi-op-2-at-ei7m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/2021\/11\/01\/the-2021-cqww-ssb-contest-as-multi-op-2-at-ei7m\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 CQWW SSB Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation is-style-text-annotation--1\">Addendum: In the multi-op 2 category, <strong>EI7M<\/strong> placed 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the World and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in Europe after our Estonian friends <strong>ES9C<\/strong>. <strong>PJ4K<\/strong> (Bonaire) took the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place honours. We also set a new Irish record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EI7M_CQWW_2021_SSB_certificate-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EI7M_CQWW_2021_SSB_certificate-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/EI7M_CQWW_2021_SSB_certificate.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For the first time since the pandemic hit, over the weekend of 30<sup>th<\/sup> &#8211; 31<sup>st<\/sup> October <strong>EI7M<\/strong> got together to put in a multi-2 effort in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqww.com\/index.htm\">CQWW SSB contest<\/a>. It was fantastic to get the team back together again. I was a little rusty at the start but quickly got back into the stride of it. I did three 8 hour shifts over the weekend, starting with the kick-off from 00z to 08z on the Saturday, 16z to 00z on the Saturday and then 08z to 16z on the Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_1.jpg 837w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_1-768x531.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of EI7M shift 2 hard at it. L-R; Rafal EI6LA , Pete G4CLA, Dave EI4BZ and Mark EI3KD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Conditions seemed pretty OK on the whole but there was a solar flare overnight on the Saturday into Sunday, that made conditions difficult for the crew on that shift. The weather also turned both very cold and very windy on Saturday evening but that&#8217;s Ireland in November. We&#8217;re aiming for #1 in Europe and we put in an effort that appears to have us in with a shout at this stage. Let&#8217;s see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_2-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cqwwssb2021_2-768x377.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of the antenna farm at EI7M on the Saturday, before the weather deteriorated. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The crew for this contest were Ralf <strong>EI2KU<\/strong>, Neil <strong>EI3JE<\/strong> (station manager), Dan <strong>EI3JZ<\/strong>, Mark <strong>EI3KD<\/strong>, Dave <strong>EI4BZ<\/strong>, Cormac <strong>EI4HQ<\/strong>, Pete <strong>G4CLA<\/strong>, Denis <strong>EI5GSB<\/strong>, Rafal <strong>EI6LA<\/strong>, John <strong>EI7IG<\/strong>, John <strong>EI8IR<\/strong> (station owner) and Roger <strong>EI8KN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addendum: In the multi-op 2 category, EI7M placed 3rd in the World and 2nd in Europe after our Estonian friends ES9C. PJ4K (Bonaire) took the 1st place honours. We also set a new Irish record. For the first time since the pandemic hit, over the weekend of 30th &#8211; 31st October EI7M got together to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"ei4-hq-page-layout","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contesting","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}