IARU HF World Championship
Call: KC5R
Operator(s): KC5R
Station: KC5R
Class: SO SSB QRP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 2 2
80: 28 9
40: 123 20
20: 148 35
15: 180 20
10: 225 4
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Total: 0 706 90 0 Total Score = 175,680
Club:
Comments:
Zone value includes HQ mults.
Managed to beat my last years score by 40K points. New voice keyer worked
superb.
Good runs on 15 and 10 - E-skip conditions on 10 (sounded more like 6 meters).
Only worked zones 4,7, and 8 on 10 mtrs plus ARRL in 225 Q's (4 mults) versus
working 9 mults with zones 4,6,7,8,10,12 plus ARRL/IARU/VRNA on 80 mtrs in 28
Q's through S9+ QRN. Just odd.
Had to watch nearby storms all weekend as QRN levels even made 15 noisy at
times. Fortunately, late evening QRN on 40 and 80 was tolerable, all else
considered.
Not as much DX around to work - even on 20 it was tough. Maybe it was just
condx. Unfortunately a committment on Saturday early evening cut into some
prime time to scrape up some more mults and 5 pt QSOs on 20. I only had 92 pure
one-pointers versus 45 off-setting 5-pointers out of 706 QSOs, not counting the
HQ stations. Usually I like it to be more balanced. Hence part of the reason
for the low mult count.
Thanks to everyone who listened up, especially my lone JA on 20. QRP has its
moments that leave you wanted to reach out for the AMP switch. Funny how half
the time folks said I had a great signal and the other half of the time they
could barely hear me. I even had a single unidentified report say I was
"splattering all over the band" and needed to "turn down my gain". You know, it
always amazes me that these "experts" never give out their call, and don't
really understand that S5 is about -60 dB (the selectivity of many receivers)
below 30 over 9, so at 2.1 Khz away in the direction of the sideband, don't be
surprised to still hear some signal there. I just went back to my run, and got
a few more honest opinions (not to mention I monitor my output) just to make
sure that something that I hadn't changed in the last few years had changed.
Such is the fun of contesting.
See you next year. -Al
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