[3830] IARU N4OGW SO CW HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: N4OGW
Operator(s): N4OGW
Station: N4OGW

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: MS(zone 8)
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:    22    0       5
   80:   224    0      37
   40:   492    0      57
   20:   931    0      66
   15:   355    0      40
   10:   107    0      10
---------------------------
Total:  2131    0     215  Total Score = 1,363,315

Club: 

Comments:

This was lots of fun and my best score in this contest so far. Conditions were
relatively good, although 15m never opened well to Europe from here. The only
station failure was a capacitor in the 160m shunt feed match, which failed the
first time I tuned up on 160 (and was smoking when I went outside to check on
it!). After that I was able to make some qso's on 160 using low (<50w) power).

Before this contest I made my two Beverages into two-wire Beverages with
switchable direction, which helped a lot on the low bands. I don't think I
could have copied the wrtc stations on 80m without that. On 40-10, all the wrtc
stations were very close to the same strength here, but on 80m there were larger
variations. Some I could copy easily on 80, but others that called me were much
weaker. I think some were calling that were so weak I just couldn't pull them
out.

    Continent List  IARU 2006 N4OGW SOHP CW

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    30    17    12    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =     21   136   239   410   249    87     0     0     0   1142
  VE calls    =      1    16    28    38    15     1     0     0     0     99
  N.A. calls  =      0     5    11     6     5     1     0     0     0     28
  S.A. calls  =      0    20    50     5    38    16     0     0     0    129
  Euro calls  =      0    41    73   318    43     2     0     0     0    477
  Afrc calls  =      0     1     1     1     0     0     0     0     0      3
  Asia calls  =      0     1    10    39     1     0     0     0     0     51
  JA calls    =      0     1    70   109     2     0     0     0     0    182
  Ocen calls  =      0     3    10     5     2     0     0     0     0     20
  Unknowns    =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0
  Total calls =     22   224   492   931   355   107     0     0     0   2131


Top Ten zones worked
--------------------------
rank           zone  #
   1.           08  692
   2.           28  263
   3.           07  255
   4.           06  184
   5.           45  179
   6.           15  106
   7.           29   74
   8.           04   62
   9.           27   41
  10.           02   19

Here's the curse of living in the far corner of zone 8: I had 692 1-point zone
8 qso's, vs. 255 3-point zone 7 qsos's. If I move west (less than 2 hours
drive) to zone 7, the final score goes up to 1551225

73,
Tor


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