IARU HF World Championship
Call: K5WA
Operator(s): K5WA
Station: K5WA
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 37 0 7 2
80: 108 0 7 7
40: 410 0 26 16
20: 607 0 23 22
15: 263 0 16 14
10: 43 0 5 2
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Total: 1468 0 84 63 Total Score = 622,839
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
What a lot of fun! This was my first SO2R contest from my new location at
W5SJS's "Ranch". There is currently only one antenna per band, but we have BIG
plans. My 2 new K3s were extremely fun to use and I look forward to having more
sleep before I try this again. I only got 3 hours of sleep on Friday night, so
I was only able to stay awake for 17-18 hours during the contest.
Conditions for south Texas seemed poor at the beginning, but got better. Had
an OK opening on 15 and a bit of 10, so that was a pleasant surprise.
Our one beverage really helped during 3-4 hours of bad storm QRN.
Unfortunately, our 3 element 80M delta loop @ 110' is only pointed NE, so I
didn't work too much in other directions. Can't wait to get the 80M 4-Square
up and get beverages in all directions. Also, having more than one antenna per
band will be a huge benefit. Wait till next year. ;-)
Thought I was going to run N1MM software, but waited too late to config it and
fell back to my old trusty TRlog/DOS. I still love this program best for SO2R
CW and haven't found anything to replace it in the Win world, but I think N1MM
will be the choice going forward assuming TR4W doesn't end up getting its SO2R
capability running. I configured a glitch into TRlog and will have about 30
dupes in my raw number, but end score should be a bit over 600K.
Bob Evans, K5WA
P.S. What's a skimmer? ;-)
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