[3830] IARU K6KM(K2KW) SO Mixed HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: K6KM
Operator(s): K2KW
Station: K6KM

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:   15      0      7
   80:   28      0      8
   40:   68      0     17
   20:  276    128     51
   15:  236     30     29
   10:    3      0      3
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Total:  626    158    115  Total Score = 352,130

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

Many thanks to K6KM and N6RER for allowing me to use their fine station!!

Entry class was really SOA, so this log will be submitted as a check log.

This was a casual effort to work a few OJ's, and get the station prepped for
NAQP.  Last weekend we put up a new 160m dipole @ 40' (on a hill top), so in
the IARU I killed some time around 2AM local calling CQ on 160m on a
seemingly dead band (using only 100w to simulate NAQP conditions).  I got a
flurry of callers, and NL7Z called in and was 20 over S9, so the new dipole
looks promising for NAQP and other contests too.  

Looking at how well things went overall, I should have been serious
about this contest.  I only ran stations for about 6 hours (in short bursts)
until some new OJ spots came in...  mostly this was S&P for OJ's, and lots
of messing around.

For the West Coast, I think I did OK with the OJ's:

Clean sweep (multi-mode)
Clean sweep - 20m CW
132 OJ QSOs

I first thought that working 130 OJ's from the west coast was impossible.
Propagation charts indicated that the 15m opening to OH (with big antenna 
and QRO) was not likely.  That meant to work 130 OJ QSOs, I'd likely have
to work every station on both 20m CW AND 20m SSB, and then make 30 QSOs on
40m.  Working every OJ on 20m didn't seem likely, nor did it seem probable
to work any OJ's on 40m, even though propagation predictions looked
promising.  Summer 40m QRN and the likelihood of WRTC stations not being on
40m when I needed to work them, didn't look good for working many, if any,
OJ's on that band.

The big surprise was that 15m was actually very good into EU well into the
early evening, with a solid number of hours to work OJ's earlier in the day
(40+ OJ's worked on 15m).  Actually, my very first QSO in the contest at 1201z
was with
OI2HQ on 15m! 

K6KM Hill Top Station:
160m: dipole @ 40'
80m:  dipole @ 70'
40/15m tower:  3 ele Yagi @ 80', and 4/4/4 on 15m
20m tower:  5 + 5
10m tower: 4/4/4/4
"Short Stack" tower: 10/12 long boom Yagi, 15/17 long boom Yagi & 40m dipole
10m JA tower:  8 ele yagi on JA

All Yagis are Force 12

1000 MP, 1000 Mark V, 2 x ICE bandpass filters, 2 x Alpha 87A, WX0B Six-Pack, NA
Software

Thanks again to Bill and Ginny for having me up for the contest. CU in the
NAQP CW from Bill's place.

73, Kenny K2KW


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