IARU HF World Championship
Call: W6QU
Operator(s): W8QZA
Station: W8QZA
Class: SOABSSB QRP
QTH: San Diego, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 0 0 0 0
80: 0 2 1 1
40: 0 13 5 2
20: 0 86 12 11
15: 0 8 5 1
10: 0 0 0 0
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Total: 0 109 23 15 Total Score = 11,438
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
STATION:
Radio: Elecraft K-2, 5 Watts.
Antennas:
10-15-20 Meters: 3 el Stepp-IR up 32 feet
40 Meters: DX-LB trap dipole up 30 feet
40-80 Meters: Butternut HF-2V Vertical with 3 radials
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The band conditions were very poor. I never heard a station on 10 meters, and I
only had 8 Qs on 15 meters! After skimming off the strong "regulars"
my S&P QRP QSO rate was between 2 and 6 Qs per hour.
N1MM says my op time was 13.1 hours. However, N1MM counts any period over 30
minutes without a Q as "Off time". I had several periods over 30
minutes where I was operating with everything I had but simply could not make a
Q! When these were removed from the N1MM "Off time", my op time in
this contest was 19 hours.
For me, the story of this contest was two events:
1. Saturday evening I was so frustrated with the low Q rate that out of
desperation I decided to try CQing. 10 and 15 were dead, and that left 20
meters which has never worked for me in the past. But the stations called and I
wound up with 15 three point Qs over 50 minutes. This was very significant
considering I only had 109 Qs in the entire contest!
2. After not hearing a single European station for the entire contest, 20
opened over the pole to Europe late Saturday night. I got 5 Eastern European
stations which helped my meager score by about 40% at the time!
In the end, only 5.5% of my Qs were in Europe. In fact, 64% of my Qs were USA!
Only 15 of my Qs were off continent. My DXCC was only 22 and my CQ WAZ was 14.
....those are bad conditions!
Well, it was still a lot of fun, and I intend to keep doing this stuff until my
antennas fall down and I can't put them back up!
See you in the CQ WWDX RTTY contest in the Fall! 73, Bill Parker W8QZA -
W6QU
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