IARU HF World Championship - 2020
Call: K1XM
Operator(s): K1XM
Station: K1XM
Class: SOAB(A)CW LP
QTH: USA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 3 1 2
80: 137 15 22
40: 534 31 40
20: 419 29 37
15: 217 19 27
10: 101 10 17
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Total: 1411 0 105 145 Total Score = 1,171,750
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I'm tired!
I don't usually operate the IARU because I'm out of town that weekend but the
conference was canceled due to COVID-19 so I was home.
I was surprised at how good 10 meters was. I spent too much time there but I
was having fun. On the other hand 80 and 160 were pretty noisy, probably a
combination of summer static and the nearby tropical storm.
Not usually operating IARU I didn't have much of a strategy. I found myself
ahead of W1UE in QSOs but well behind in multipliers which told me I needed to
push them more. I have SO2R capability but I don't use it much. I have a
triplexer but it is not connected at the moment. And the FT-1000mp radio #2 is
not nearly as good a CW radio as the K3 radio #1. I made fewer than five second
radio QSOs in the contest but I used it to check for band openings and to put up
a bandmap for a second band.
With good conditions I can work most of the US, Canada, and some Caribbean on
160 using 30 watts into my 80 meter dipole. Not this time - I could barely work
NU1AW and a Zone 8 station. The big VE3 stations could not hear me at all and
neither could W1AW/4. I figured the only other multiplier I could work would be
K1ZZ. So I set up an RBN window to watch him and when he went to 160 I made my
QSO. It only took him three times to get my callsign. I really should put up a
160 antenna.
Thanks to everyone who worked me and especially to my wife Charlotte, KQ1F, who
puts up with me.
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