IARU HF World Championship
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: Portsmouth, RI
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 7 3 2
80: 30 6 8
40: 165 6 21 17
20: 273 26 22 29
15: 57 10 8
10: 19 4 1
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Total: 583 32 66 65 Total Score = 232,263
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Had some time to play in this one this year...never put much time in this one
before. Then last year, 2010, I had the privilege of playing a small part as
an op with the NU1AW U.S.A. HQ effort in IARU HF World Championship (from MA -
W1); so I knew the many HQ mult stations would be "running" almost
exclusively.
Therefore, I set goals to split time manually searching for HQ mults and new
ITU zones as well as doing some CQing while shooting for 200K pts in Mixed
mode, all while having fun! Seems to have worked...though fewer SSB QSOs made
due to less than ideal propagation condx and never a real lack of CW stations
to work (just changed bands and there were plenty more new contacts around!).
While the shorter 24-hour contest format in IARU may lend itself to mostly
running a frequency I enjoyed the frequent S&P turns looking for new zones,
mults and the larger 3 or 5-pt Q's. Found success in averaging just barely
over 3 pts per Q for the contest!
A highlight were the late evening 20m openings, especially mine just after
midnight local (which was 0430 - 0500Z) where all continents and a number of
new mults were worked easily with my fixed wire single ele antennas and 100W,
all within 30 mins - that was cool!!
Equipt: Icom IC-737; 88' all-band doublet up at 45' (acts as 20m EDZ on EU and
VK/ZL), 133' backup OCF dipole up at 30', Inv L on 160m; N1MM logger -- where I
remain ESM mode/keyboard-challenged at times. Thanks for your patience.
Thanks to all the committed HQ stn ops who help keep this event fun.
My IARU log will be uploaded to LoTW shortly. All previous W1WBB contest/QSO
Party logs should be fully uploaded now. Thanks all for the QSOs in this one.
73, Bill W1WBB
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