IARU HF World Championship
Call: 4O3A
Operator(s): UT5UDX
Station: 4O3A
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: Obosnik hill
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 30 6 21
80: 276 12 29
40: 705 29 39
20: 1090 39 38
15: 679 24 36
10: 66 6 21
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Total: 2846 0 116 184 Total Score = 2,563,800
Club: SKY Contest Club
Comments:
What a messy weekend.
I have well known contester Sergei Rebrov, UT5UDX as guest for IARU. Monday
before the contest we completed service on 2L80, after direct lightning hit on
main tower and I tough that will be the last broken item. But unfortunately,
prior the contest I discovered that I still has many things inside the shack
burned:
- SO2R box
- Second amplifier option
- Six-pack
Whole Friday I spend in try to make station functional. At the end, Sergei get
very simple SO2R audio switching and looks like he will be able to make a good
score.
But, Saturday morning, at 03:00 local time we had a thunderstorm...!?! In the
middle of July? We lost electricity, and Sergei started contest with
generator, and it stopped every 20-30 minutes because of unknown reason. Very
frustrating.
6 hours after contest start, I asked military (our neighborhoods on the top of
the hill) to borrow us one 16kW generator and they did it very kindly. Sergei
did a break of 2 hours and got electricity again, stable to the end of the
contest.
He is serious and obstinate contester. He did a maximum and we both understand
that score he did should be much higher - more than 3000 Qs and more than 3M
points. But, that's a sport we like - a lot of mistakes, problems and
surprises.
I hope that next year for IARU all will be ready for Sergei to make what he
really can from this place.
Thanks' to YU1JW and 4O2D on their help in solving all the problems we had.
73
Ranko, 4O3A
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