[3830] IOTA ZC4DW SO24 CW

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                     IOTA Contest
                    
Call: ZC4DW
Operator(s): ZC4DW
Station: ZC4DW

Class: SO24 CW  Power: LP
QTH: Ay Nik
Operating Time (hrs): 20
 

Summary:   CW       CW      Phone   Phone
 Band     QSOs     Mults    QSOs    Mults
--------------------------------------------
   80:      37        8                  
   40:     233       26                  
   20:     346       38                  
   15:     523       43                  
   10:     222       14                  
--------------------------------------------
Total:    1361      129                    =  1,003,491

Club: CDXC - The UK DX Foundation

Comments:

Rig: FT-1000mp 100watts

Ant: 80m Doublet

Software: SDI by EI5DI

Station setup on morning of contest, is sure recipe for problems. These started 
to happen after 3 hours.

Ran almost all the entire contest, should have done more s & p for big score, 
but was having too much of ball to get serious.

First 3 hours had 3 x 100 QSO/hour averages, 300 Q's after 3 hours, then came 
first band change and major RF feedback problems. Had to use spare ATU.

After first 12 hours I reached 950 QSO and should have gone QRT with a decent 
12 hours 100 watt score. 

Mistakenly pushed on, took 4 hours sleep, and left early to watch German F1 GP.
Easily had another 150 qso's in the tank. Might get serious next year.


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