IARU HF World Championship
Call: OH4A
Operator(s): OH6KZP OH6LI
Station: OH4A
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Kisko
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 53 12 4 22
80: 138 55 12 29
40: 202 159 27 40
20: 832 965 47 47
15: 280 264 39 38
10: 58 59 13 22
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Total: 1563 1514 142 198 Total Score = 3,751,900
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
This contest was characterized by heat: Finnish summer heat (+30C) outside the
hamshack, a hot hamshack (often > +35C), and at times hot bands. 24 hours in
such an environment is not the easiest way to spend a weekend, but it was fun
again! IARU HF differs from most other contests due to summer-time propagation
and thus has "added spice", this year coupled together with WRTC excitement.
We set out to break the old Finnish M/S record of 2.71M and were happy to
succeed. The propagation info from DK0WCY indicated that K = 7 just a couple of
hours after the contest started; our plan appeared obliterated right away with
nothing but Aurora-misery to look forward to. It was a false alert, however, as
bands were in pretty ok shape and we kept pounding on. Especially 20 meters
produced a nice two-hour DX run around 01-02Z. The rate was so high that we
ended up neglecting the low bands and most of our sunrise grayline time, but we
considered it worth it.
Thanks to Jukka OH6LI and Merja for their hospitality at their summer cottage
once again. And thanks to everybody for the QSOs, see you in the next one!
73
Kim OH6KZP
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