IARU SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : K4MA
Operator : K4MA
Station Used : K4HA
Category : Single Op - Mixed Mode
Default Exchange : 59(9) 8
Team/Club : PVRC
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Zones
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160CW 16 16 24 2 4
80CW 50 50 98 1 0
80SSB 121 121 263 5 14
40CW 200 200 620 8 11
40SSB 75 75 179 8 6
20CW 300 300 1154 7 6
20SSB 503 503 1745 16 21
15CW 10 10 30 0 2
15SSB 27 27 59 3 6
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Totals 1302 1302 4172 50 70
Final Score = 500640 points
Operated at K4HA, thanks Bob. Equipment was a FT1000MP
and L7 amp into a Pro 57 at 70 feet, inv Vs for 40 & 80,
and inv L for 160.
Started about 5 minutes late. Was messing with my new,
fancy ThinkPad trying to get it to talk to the 1000MP
via its serial port. Finally gave up and used Bob's
old ThinkPad. One of these days I will finally learn
to test everything before the start of the contest.
Conditions were both disappointing compared to last
year and surprising at times. 20M was real good to
Europe late which I guess is kinda normal summer
propogation. I thought the low bands were in fairly
good shape given the time of year. The noise level
here was low and signals in general were strong. I
had several Europeans and far south South Americans
call me on 75M SSB when I was CQing. Even 160M wasn't
bad except there were not many stations to work. I
sure hope 160 is as good for the NAQPs next month.
W1AW/7 was very loud on TopBand.
Speaking of W1AW/7, I thought they did a great job.
I worked them on all bands except 10M and on both
modes on most bands. But I did have one interesting
encounter with them. During the 1900Z hour, I found
a clear freq at about 14.245 and starting calling CQ.
I had a guy on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico call
me. He was testing a new antenna. We chatted for a
minute, and I went back to CQing. He stayed on freq
and started a sked with some other oil rig. I got a
good run of EU going, so they weren't bothering me.
Later I heard W1AW/7 in the background obviously
pretty weak off the back of the beam. He was CQing
too. Well I just kept going and the Europeans kept
calling. I never heard any loud stations answering
W1AW/7, but they kept CQing for 15 mins or more,
so I guess they were getting some callers that I
couldn't hear. As it turns out the 1900Z hour was
my 2nd best rate hour in the contest despite all of
the background QRM.
Until the NAQPs ...
73, Jim Stevens, K4MA & 8P9JA
email -- k4ma@mindspring.com
WWW -- http://www.mindspring.com/~k4ma -> see for vanity call info
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