IARU HF World Championship
Call: W3UA
Operator(s): W3UA
Station: W3UA
Class: SOAB(A)Mixed HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 21 0 6 7
80: 138 9 15 24
40: 395 33 30 43
20: 419 154 30 43
15: 97 19 17 28
10: 17 8 4 10
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Total: 1087 223 102 153 Total Score = 1,198,755
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I decided to work just with WRTC participants, keeping tradition of clean sweeps
of two previous WRTC. However, in the past both times I was in the near zone --
in Moscow I fired up my old station RA3AA, and from top of my antennas in
Bedford NH I could probably see most of WRTC-2014 positions. So back then it was
kinda "shooting fish in a barrel" type of a contest. This time I could
not make close to the participants, so was forced to shoot over the pond. I
don't know how WRTC organizers arranged this kind of propagation at the bottom
of the Sunspot cycle (Was it HARP or German 300 Terawtt transmitter?) -- but in
general, working Y8 guys has been easier from the distance. I made clean sweep
on 20 and 40 CW, with only one missing station on 80 (guess who? Y87B of course
-- our Phone Champions) -- despite my all attempts using Skimmers and RBN, I
could not catch them on 80.
So, about half way into the contest, casually S&P-ing, I got about 300 Qs
(Y8 and HQ stations mostly, plus a handful of friends). Clean sweeps were
completed, bandmap was all dark blue, I was bored and almost decided to go to
bed... but I discovered that 10 meter was wide oped direct to Eurpoe. I could
not believe it. It was a sign from above (literally), that this contest is worth
playing, despite all time spent on handpicking the Y8s. So I switched gears, and
played the second half of the contest... like a contest. Obviously, I could not
make a meaningful score, but I had a lot of fun.
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