IARU HF World Championship
Call: W4KAZ
Operator(s): W4KAZ
Station: W4KAZ
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 3
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160:
80:
40: 14 22 7 9
20: 17 40 9 11
15: 8 4 3 2
10: 4 3 2 2
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Total: 43 69 21 24 Total Score = 11,610
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Only 112 QSO's spread out over several hours. I spent a lot more of my
operating time listening to various run stations and just soaking in the
propagation observations on the bands. I just couldn't get into operating the
contest on either mode.
But maybe thats because I spent the first five hours ripping apart and
re-building the station set up. All was not lost. I was able to debug a
problem with the DVK input to the radio(a bad RCA jumper). Since I had just
completed a new feed-through panel, I also needed several new jumpers to go
from the panel to the station. I had more fun soldering up jumpers than I did
operating.
I also discovered that my 20 meter dipole seems to favor the east, so it must
have some interaction with the other wires in the yard. Working the European
stations I could hear was easy, but working US stations to the west was
difficult on the 20m dipole. Interesting.
I tried in vain to work the ZL who had a really good S8 signal here on my
dipole. I was able to work KH6ZM after trying in vain earlier to work KH6 and
KH5 through the pile of sixes and sevens.
Working Europe simplex rather than split on 40 meters was fun. It seemed to
help spread things out on SSB. CW on 40 was very difficult this year.
It sounded like the US 'five landers' had a decent shot at running on 10
meters. Am eagerly awaiting more sunspots here in central NC!
73,
W4KAZ
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