IARU HF Championship -- 2001
Call: W1AW/6
Category: Multi Multi Multi
Power: High Power
Band: All Band
Mode: Mixed Mode
Country: United States
BAND QSO QSO-PTS PTS/Q ZONES HQ STNS
160 340 503 1.48 10 3
80 777 1763 2.27 27 3
40 1883 4397 2.34 35 9
20 3516 11389 3.24 54 36
15 2389 8487 3.55 48 21
10 811 2005 2.47 24 5
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Totals 9716 28544 2.94 198 77
Score: 7,849,600 points
Continent Statistics (before dupes)
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
CW
North America CW 195 370 597 769 496 376 2803 28.5
South America CW 0 3 12 13 15 3 46 0.5
Europe CW 0 1 8 453 368 0 830 8.4
Asia CW 1 37 212 260 337 15 862 8.8
Africa CW 0 0 2 8 2 1 13 0.1
Oceania CW 4 9 27 28 17 28 113 1.1
Totals 200 420 858 1531 1235 423 4667
SSB
North America SSB 146 308 976 1511 841 329 4111 41.8
South America SSB 1 9 11 31 34 8 94 1.0
Europe SSB 0 0 0 309 98 0 407 4.1
Asia SSB 0 43 30 143 177 10 403 4.1
Africa SSB 0 0 1 7 2 0 10 0.1
Oceania SSB 0 18 24 36 20 53 151 1.5
Totals 147 378 1042 2037 1172 400 5176
Stations - Six locations in Northern CA.
Band-mode Station Antennas Operators
160 CW&SSB N6RO 4 SQUARE,Bev N6RO
80 CW K6IDX 4 SQUARE WJ6O,W6EU,W6OAT,K7BV
80 SSB W6RJ 3L Yagi W6RJ
40 CW N6RO 4/4 Yagis,4SQ K6AW
40 SSB AI6V 3L Yagi,Dipole AI6V,K6XC,KI7WX
20 CW K6KM 5/5 Yagis,C3 K6KM,N6TV,N6BT,K2KW
20 SSB N6RO 5/5/5 Yagis K3EST,N6BV,AI6V
15 CW K6IDX 6L Yagi W6OAT,K7NV,W6EU,WJ6O
15 SSB N6RO 6/6 Yagis N6BV,N6RO
10 CW K6KM 4/4/4/4, 8L K6KM,N6TV,N6BT,K2KW
10 SSB W6NL 4L, 5L, W6NL,K6BL
Comments:
Our most important goal of this operation was met: We had fun! Activating
the HQ Callsign provided that enjoyment for all our operators. K6XC put it
best, "I said 'thanks' after working people in the middle of the day on 40
meters. Several said, 'No... thank you!' The call is a magnet!"
My score projections were rather optimistic, especially for July, but we
did manage to beat our own estimates on the three low bands, despite the
horrendous QRN. Propagation on the high bands, especially on 10m was
disappointing to say the least, and that hurt both QSO numbers and
mults. The QSO distribution was more what we would expect in the
California QSO Party: 70% USA, 12% EU, 12% JA. Thanks to everyone who
persisted and made it into our log.
Organizing the event was an interesting experience for me. Selecting the
best station and operator capabilities was somewhat difficult, as NCCC has
many fine stations and ops. Over 600 coordination e-mails flew back and
forth between the station hosts and organizers, in the month before IARU.
Special preparations, mostly supplemental antennas, were done in the weeks
preceding the contest. A low 40m dipole at AI6V outperformed the big yagi
during the daylight hours, and sometimes heard better through the noise at
night. The wire 40m 4 Square at N6RO outperformed the yagi-stack at times,
and was more reliable during the windy night, when broken spacers on one
old yagi caused arcing. The K6KM crew replaced the feedline on their 10m
8L JA antenna just before the test - it was frustrating to only work 15 JAs
on 10CW after all that work. There was incurable station interaction
problems at one multi-TX location, but were able to switch some band-modes
around to make everything play well.
Despite over-all poor condx, there were a few high points. Rusty reports
15m open all Saturday night to different areas in daylight, and 40 degrees
either side of the north pole. The big beam at 3500' elevation kept a
reasonable rate to parts of EU and Asia all night on 15CW. W6RJ's big yagi
raised many SA, OC and AS mults on 75SSB, despite monstrous static crashes
from storms over the Sierras. 160m produced five zone mults in the last two
hours, and more than two dozen zone 8 east coasters before their
sunrise. The 80CW station snagged YR0HQ at 0447Z for our only 80m EU QSO.
Our 10m stations reported a 15 minute opening to JA! The barbecue at AI6V
on Sunday, was the most enjoyable part of the weekend - tnx Carl and Sue.
We appreciate the support of all contesters, and especially the NCCC gang
who logged our stations on as many band-modes as possible. Our certificate
award for working W1AW/6 on many band-modes helped to increase our score,
and overall activity in the contest. To date we have about 50 applications
for the awards. If you qualify, please send your request, including name
and postal address to n6ro@arrl.net before August 4. We plan to send out
the certificates in late August. Qualifications for the award are at
www.nccc.cc, then click on the W1AW/6 button. Qualifiers for the award
will be posted on the website in early August. QSLs will be handled by
ARRL HQ in Newington.
Again, thanks to all who helped make this one-of-a-kind W1AW/6 operation an
enjoyable event for our team. K2KW, W6OAT, N6TV, N6BV and W0YK (NCCC
webmaster)provided great counsel and assistance in the organization and
promotion. Special tnx to K1ZZ and NJ1Q for the loan of the world's most
famous call sign!
73, N6RO
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