IARU HF World Championship
Call: W9RE
Operator(s): W9RE
Station: W9RE
Class: SOABMixed HP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 23.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 29 1 4 2
80: 160 19 12 17
40: 308 219 25 31
20: 608 373 36 45
15: 189 89 17 23
10: 23 9 7 4
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Total: 1317 703 101 122 Total Score = 1,183,907
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
Thanks to all for enduring the dismal conditions. I kept thinking is this what
we have to look forward to for the next few years? It got a little better as
the day progressed.
Mr. Murphy was sitting beside me in this one and came up with minor issues for
me. I had only changed my headset to a new one with an electret element and
you wouldn't think that would cause too much of a problem but for me it did.
All last week I tried to get my voice keyer to sound normal and I almost was
100% successful with that. One of the problems was not being able to get a
clean stop on the voice message. So the end of my CQs took out the prefix of
stations calling. I finally used a memory in my K3s (just not as convenient).
Next I realized that when changing radios the vox would trip every time, no
matter how low I had the vox gain set-again just minor.
I started the contest and realized my headphone audio switching would not work
correctly. I switch it from the keyboard as my SO2R box is not easy to reach.
I could not hear my run radio in both ears only one. I rebooted the program,
rebooted the computer, rebooted SO2R box with no luck weird how the night
before it all worked and now not. Finally at noon time I redid the F keys and
then had it working again. These things were very minor but I get thrown off
the track easily and kept worrying about how to fix them.
The final Murphy visit was my antenna controller (Stack Master) just died so I
didn't have access to my normal 15 meter antennas. It was late in the day and
I had my backup 15 meter antennas on another tower so again minor.
I've been preparing to dismantle my radio table for a window replacement and
thought that something I did in the prep would cause the problems but no.
Continent List W9RE 2016 Mixed IARU
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
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USA calls = 26 117 339 525 160 11 0 0 0 1178
VE calls = 4 15 37 65 13 1 0 0 0 135
N.A. calls = 0 1 19 30 14 2 0 0 0 66
S.A. calls = 0 1 18 40 29 18 0 0 0 106
Euro calls = 0 44 76 282 51 0 0 0 0 453
Afrc calls = 0 1 2 10 1 0 0 0 0 14
Asia calls = 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 21
JA calls = 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 12
Ocen calls = 0 0 26 6 3 0 0 0 0 35
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 30 179 527 981 271 32 0 0 0 2020
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