IARU HF World Championship - 2019
Call: K6DAJ
Operator(s): K6DAJ
Station: N6RO
Class: SOAB(A)CW HP
QTH: Oakley, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 23.75
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 20 0 8 2
80: 116 0 16 8
40: 503 0 36 26
20: 527 0 36 33
15: 102 0 11 8
10: 3 0 1 0
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Total: 1271 0 110 77 Total Score = 733,788
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Nothing like a contest to learn to adapt strategy on the fly based on conditions
and what does/doesn't work, make some DX Qs and have some good runs (best
1-minute rate was 300.) It doesn't hurt to do it from a great station and a
gracious host. And it makes you appreciate getting to sleep finally.
Daytime 20 meter propagation to Europe was very light for the first half of the
contest, and I never heard a European on 15 meters. Concerned that I would miss
the HQs, I spent quite a bit of time trying to work them. In retrospect, this
was a mistake and hurt my Q total, as 40m ended up opening early to Europe and
staying open, and 20m had a great late night opening with many of these same
stations booming in. That was a thrilling few hours with both bands
simultaneously wide open to both Europe and Asia.
This was my first full time IARU effort. I used two keyboards and found SO2R
techniques to be easier than with a single keyboard. I also used N1MM+ function
key messages to have OTRSP move the non-transmitting radio's audio to mono, then
back to stereo at the end of each transmission. Need to work on tweaking the
message lengths to make this more seamless. Not withstanding a few QLF moments
fueled by exhaustion, it worked well. This was also the first extended use of
the newly-arrived PGXL amplifier, which worked flawlessly.
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