IARU HF World Championship
Call: VE7RAC
Operator(s): VA7AN, VE7FO, VE7UF
Station: VE7UF
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: Courtenay, BC
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 19 2 5 0
80: 147 21 15 8
40: 271 91 23 8
20: 328 552 29 21
15: 97 34 10 3
10: 20 0 4 2
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Total: 882 700 86 42 Total Score = 634,368
Club: British Columbia DX Club
Comments:
Well, that was fun. We were a little late getting this organized but, to our
delight and thanks to Ed Frazer, VE7EF, our RAC Director, we were able to be
the RAC HQ station.
We had hoped to muster 5 ops for this one but two couldn't make it so our
shifts were 8 hrs on and 4 off.
VE7UF isn't set up for phone contesting so I arrived on Fri to try to get
everything going, including the sending of wav files for CQing, etc. This
took quite a bit longer than I expected and it was an hour into the contest by
the time we got the ssb position functioning properly.
We were pretty excited on Fri evening to hear 20 wide open to Eu. Sadly, the
excitement didn't last. Worked very little Eu.
Had a great run on 20 ssb on Sat aft for a few hours. Pretty well all NA
though, with a sprinkling of SA. A lot of the signals were pretty much in the
mud. Had the short term rate up to 283/hr which is far and away the best I've
ever done. By the time I'd finished my shift I was pooped. Gives me an even
greater appreciation of those ops who can maintain high rates for hours and
hours.
We were fortunate that VA7AN was able to join us. Doug has been away from
contesting for many years and this was his second outing from VE7UF. He was
pretty impressed by the operating and logging automation provided by N1MM.
Welcome back, Doug.
As always, the gear at VE7UF performed flawlessly (except for a sticky key on
a keyboard which generated a certain amount of excitement). Oh, and the 80m 4
square doesn't like the phone band.
Had to explain a surprising number of times that 59 RAC means we're a HQ
station. Would have been nice to have a call with HQ in it but VE7HQ and
VA7HQ are already taken.
All in all, a really good time. We're pretty happy with our score, given the
conditions. Mults really sucked, though.
73 and thanks for all the Qs.
Jim Smith VE7FO
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