IOTA Contest
Call: G4FAL
Operator(s): G4FAL
Station: G4FAL
Class: SO24Mixed HP
QTH: Sheffield EU005
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band CW Qs CW Mults Ph Qs Ph Mults
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80: 62 26 116 30
40: 103 32 67 30
20: 268 34 106 29
15: 63 22 25 12
10: 8 4 7 3
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Total: 504 118 321 104 Total Score = 1,255,410
Club: Sheffield ARC
Comments:
I tried to operate for 24 hours and found that I was still coherent at 11:59 UTC
on Sunday when I had expected to be too tired to think.
Aerials: 80m and 40m dipoles, 20m - 10m 2-ele tribander at 45 feet
Rig: FT2K and Quadra
Software: Wintest version 3.13 for one hour then Wintest 3.10. (Unfortunately I
had downloaded the bad version last Wednesday (unlucky 13) which had a horrid
problem with IOTA island idents which were not correctly copied to later QSOs
with a previously worked station). This was just bad timing but lost me most of
an hour. I plugged a high res monitor into my laptop and it was great to spread
all the little windows all over the screen. Not being familiar with Wintest, it
took me a while to find out how to speed up the CW (alt F9/F10) and only after
20 hours did I find where the current speed is shown!
The canine radiology was poor but there were plenty of European islands to
work. I struggled with running a frequency as I only have "domestic" aerials -
also running gets lots of 3 point contacts and few multipliers.
On 80m someone came back to me as G4FKA saying he thought I was Geoff - a
couple of minutes later Geoff called me - weird eh?
Thanks to all for the contacts and hope to see you next year.
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