IARU HF World Championship
Call: VA3RAC
Operator(s): VE3AAQ VE3FU VE3KI
Station: VA3RAC
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: ON
Operating Time (hrs): 22:40
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 48 1 3 4
80: 169 8 11 16
40: 454 34 23 38
20: 520 160 29 49
15: 194 29 18 30
10: 39 12 7 6
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Total: 1424 244 91 143 Total Score = 1,243,944
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
This was a bit of a last-minute effort. When it appeared that there were no
other volunteers interested in organizing an RAC HQ station this year, I
reserved the VA3RAC call sign for the contest and recruited Dave and Chris to
help out. We set up a distributed multi-multi with N1MM Logger, using a free
Hamachi VPN to network the three computers at our home stations. It was very
easy to set up; thanks to N2IC for the tip that led us to adopt this method.
Apart from the lack of face-to-face contact, we were able to operate the same
way as if we had all been at a single multi-op station, but without having to
abandon our families for the weekend. We did suffer some limitations compared
to a full-out contest setup: one of us only has antennas for 40m and up,
another has only wire antennas, and the output powers from the three stations
were not as high as some (800, 500 and 300 watts). We all prefer CW over phone,
so the bulk of our contacts were on CW.
None of us was full-time, but we managed about 36 man-hours of total operating
time. About halfway through the contest, one of the computers lost partial
contact with the other two; he could see our QSOs and messages, but we saw no
more QSOs from him, although we never lost contact with each other. As soon as
he rejoined the network a few hours after the contest, our logs all synched up
nicely, so nothing was lost. Since he could always see what bands and modes we
were on, he was able to avoid doubling up with either of us on a band-mode.
However, the other two of us were unaware of the QSOs he had made after that
point, so we ended up making a number of duplicate contacts. Our apologies to
the stations we called for dupes. We suspect the problem was caused by using
DHCP-assigned local IP addresses instead of static local addresses.
We won't win any prizes or break any records, but we had fun.
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