IARU HF World Championship
Call: K5KG
Operator(s): K5KG
Station: K5KG
Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: WCF
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 0 14 4 2
80: 12 173 18 16
40: 99 580 27 22
20: 529 516 25 34
15: 105 167 15 16
10: 4 21 6 1
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Total: 749 1471 95 91 Total Score = 1,093,308
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
I Managed to put in a full 24 hours this year. Found condx to be reasonably
good, although I thought that condx were better in the second half of the
contest rather than in the first half. Unfortunately, 10m never did really
materialize. 15m did open briefly to Europe. I was impressed with the
quantity of HQ stations this year. It seemed like there were lots of
them...tnx guys for the effort.
Our newly purchased used Icom 756 ProIII failed at 4am. It just turned itself
off, and then came back on. But it went off again 5 minutes later, so off the
bench she came! Fortunately, I still had my ProII, so I finished the contest
with that radio.
The final 5 hours of the contest were grueling. 20m was dead, which left 40,
80 and 160 as the only choices. Eventually, 40 and 80 were worked out, and 160
was of little use to me due to only having a poor antenna. I was using the 80m
inv. vee barefoot on 160, so it was only good for near-in QSOs. So these last
5 hours were a matter of scanning 40 and 80 looking for anything workable. I
did manage to work a KH6 and KL7RA on 80, and I believe that is a first for me
from my FL QTH. In the last hour of the contest, 20m came alive with Euros,
but propagation was such that they were difficult to work and impossible to get
a run going.
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