Amateur radio contest expedition to Gran Canaria, May 2005 CQ-WW-WPX-CW-2005 contest call: EG8FAS by YL2KL, YL2LY, YL1ZF, YL3DW, ES1AJ May 24 - 31, 2005 IOTA: AF-004, CQ-zone: 33, ITU-zone: 36

Expedition photos

Contest Results
(from "Radiolubitel" magazine)

From May 24 to 31, 2005 five HAMs - Girts (YL2KL), Arvis (YL2LY), Kaspars (YL1ZF), Oleg (YL3DW) and Vjacheslav (ES1AJ) were in Gran Canaria (Canary islands) to take part in CQ WW WPX 2005 CW contest "Multi Operator - 2 Transmitter" class.

The team kept previous year success (1st place in the world "Multi-Op 2 TX" class from Bonaire island, PJ4U).

During the contest EG8FAS call was used.

Results:

Band	QSOs	QSO Points	Prefixes	Score
160m	0	0	0
80m	462	2742	130
40m	1388	8287	384
20m	1980	5920	287
15m	2169	6481	271
10m	879	2627	69
Total	6878	26057	1141	29 731 037

EG8FAS QSL manager is EA4FAS. All QSLs will be sent automatically via the bureau.

EG8FAS call was issued to celebrate 50th anniversary of Spain Military Aviation. There was one EG?FAS call in each area (EG1FAS, EG2FAS.... EG9FAS). The contest team accepted EA8ZS offer and used this special event call during the contest.

Before and after the contest the team was active on all HF bands using EA8/home_call (EA8/YL2KL, EA8/YL2LY, EA8/YL1ZF, EA8/YL3DW, EA8/ES1AJ).
QSLs via home calls.

EA8AH (OH1RY) QTH was used for this operation.
From this QTH OH2U team made world #1 claimed score in CQ WW 2004 SSB contest as EA8ZS in Multi/Multi class (pictures).

Antennas:
8 masts
4 beams (4 element) for 10m
4 beams (4 element) for 15m
4 beams (3 element) for 20m
2 beams (2 & 3 element) for 40m
2 elements and dipole for 80m
GP for 160m
2 beverages

Equipment:
Mark V
ACOM2000

Other:
2 notebooks and GPRS Internet connection