IARU HF World Championship
Call: KA9FOX
Operator(s): KA9FOX
Station: KA9FOX
Class: M/S HP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 88 0
40: 75 55
20: 60 65
15: 54 70
10: 5 3
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Total: 282 193 49 Total Score = 93,443
Club:
Comments:
GOAL: Point the beam at 135 degrees and work as many WRTC stations as possible,
hopefully all stations, on both modes, for one of those coveted plaques and
t-shirts. Spend as much time in front of the radio as the XYL, kids and job
would allow, to accomplish the goal.
RESULTS: 270 Band/Mode QSOs with WRTC stations, which is an average of 5.87
QSOs per station (based on 46 stations). All 46 stations worked, both modes
(story below):
Most and least worked WRTC Stations:
7 QSOs with: PT5F PT5J PT5K PT5M PT5N PT5Q PT5U PT5W PW5C PW5J PW5P PW5X
4 QSOs with: PT5I PW5I PW5L PW5Y
7 QSOs with a WRTC station meant I worked them everywhere possible, which was
80 CW and 40/20/15 both modes. There was no 80 SSB activity that I could find
and I had no 10 meter propagation to PY.
95% of the time was spent S&Ping for WRTC stations (with a few calls to friends
along the way) but I did find I was able to call CQ on 80 CW and have many of
the WRTC stations call me, which was neat.
I was in panic mode in the last hour of the contest, still missing PW5E and
PW5I on SSB. PY0FF and I were both asking PW5E to QSY to SSB and thankfully
(finally) he did, at 11:24z (36 mins before end of contest), but his chosen
freq was right on top of K1AR's CQ frequency. Thanks John for allowing us to
work him!!! I gave John a QSO as a token of my appreciation.
Then I found PW5I on 20cw and did the same -- asked for QSY to SSB -- and he
did so right away, and I put the last band/mode station needed in the log at
11:28z (with 32 minutes to spare). I was pretty excited about that!!! (hey,
I'm easily amused)
Another side goal was to work the boys at W1AW/4 and NU1AW/8 as much as
possible. I worked W1AW 9 times and NU1AW 8 times.
I sent in my log to WRTC and ARRL a few minutes after the contest, then crashed
for much needed beauty sleep. When I awoke, I had two robot responses. One
from WRTC saying log was received. And another from ARRL saying
"SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH MIXED" isn't a valid category. Well, gee N1MM
allowed me to choose it, so I assumed it was correct. Whoops, guess I should
read the rules! No packet spotting allowed for single ops, which I used a lot
to find, and spot, the WRTC stations. So, I'll go multi-op! Whoops, Multi-ops
have a 10 minute band-change rule. Guess I'm a checklog. That's OK, my goal
wasn't to win IARU, but to work the boys in PY and MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
STATION DESCRIPTION:
Rig: FT-1000MP
Amp: AL-1200
10-40m: F12 C4XL (2 ele) @ 95ft
40m: F12 C4XL (2 ele) @ 95ft
75/80m: F12 EF180C (rotatable dipole) @ 100ft
Pictures at: http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/gallery
73 - Scott KA9FOX
ka9fox@qth.com
http://www.qth.com/ka9fox
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