IARU HF World Championship
Call: VE9RAC
Operator(s): VE9EX
Station: VE9RAC
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: Hanwell, NB, Canada
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 0 0 0 0
80: 0 13 4 5
40: 0 100 10 20
20: 0 379 18 37
15: 0 5 1 3
10: 0 0 0 0
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Total: 0 497 33 65 Total Score = 146,902
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Comments:
I thank Dave, VE9CB, for organizing this operation with the other Atlantic
stations in ITU Zone 9. It was a pleasure operating as VE9RAC, my first time
operating as a headquarters station for the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC). I
was given the operation for SSB on 10 m, 15 m, 20 m, 40 m and 80 m. It was
great getting thank yous for giving out multipliers. My best previous contest
had a total of 312 QSOs and this contest had total of 497, about a 50 percent
personal improvement. At my home, the best band was 20 m where I could use my
elevated vertical, that had four sloping radials, whose base was 9 m above
ground; I put my Ameritron AL-80BX linear on this antenna. Until this contest
at my station, I had never put together a string of 206 QSOs on 20 m. On the
other bands I was equipment limited to 100 Watts with my G5RV, 12 m above
ground, and a 160 m dipole, only 12 m above ground. The radio was a Yaesu
ft-857D. I discovered that my 160 m dipole was very quiet for receiving 40 m
signals and the G5RV was better at transmitting. Thus, for my string of 72 QSOs
on 40 m, I had to lean over my station and switch the antennas between transmit
and receive. This was tiring, but the QSOs kept rolling in, 73, Brent VE9EX.
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