[3830] IARU NU1AW/8(@K8CC) Headquarters HP
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Tue Jul 11 20:55:36 EDT 2006
IARU HF World Championship
Call: NU1AW/8
Operator(s): AC8E, AC8W, K8AQM, K8AZ, K8BB, K8BL, K8CC, K8DD, K8GL, K8MR, K8SIA, K9TM, KK8D, KT8X, KW8N, N8AA, N8CC, N8CQA, N8TR, ND8L, NU8Z, W1NN, W8CAR, W8IQ, W8KIC, W8MJ, WD8S, WT8C, WZ8P
Station: K8CC
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: Mi (Z08)
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 256 155 19
80: 562 551 53
40: 1034 909 64
20: 1629 1520 103
15: 526 636 58
10: 269 343 19
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Total: 4282 4114 316 Total Score = 7,439,272
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Although the web app only allows me to pick one contest club name, NU1AW/8 was a
joint operation by members of the Mad River Radio Club (MRRC) and North Coast
Contesters (NCC). The team is very appreciative to K1ZZ and the ARRL in
allowing us to represent the IARU HQ Club Station for this event.
The operation was hosted at club member's stations. Details of each host
station are as follows:
Host Station: K8AZ, Chesterland, OH
Bands: 160PH, 40PH, 20CW, 15PH, 10PH
Operators: K8AZ, K8BL, K8MR, KK8D, N8AA, N8TR, ND8L, W1NN, W8CAR, W8KIC and
WT8C
Antennas:
160PH - Vertical, rcve 4-square
40PH - 4L full size yagi, two separate 40-2CDs
20CW - 5/5
15PH - 6/6
10PH - 5/5/5/5, plus 5L on separate tower
Host Station: K8CC, Ypsilanti, MI
Bands: 80CW. 40CW, 20PH, 15CW
Operators: K8BB, K8CC, K8GL, K8SIA, K9TM, KT8X, W8MJ and WD8S
Antennas:
80CW - Four-square, dipole
40CW - 3L full size yagi, dipoles
20PH - 5/5 plus 4L south
15CW - 5/5/5 plus 4L south
Host Station: KW8N, N RIdgeville, OH
Bands: 75PH
Operators: AC8E, KW8N and WZ8P
Antennas:
80PH - 3L quad switchable NE/SW, dipoles, beverages
Host Station: N8CC, Nashville, MI
Bands: 160CW, 10CW
Operators: AC8W, K8AQM, K8DD, N8CC, N8CQA, NU8Z and W8IQ
Antennas:
160CW - Full size vertical, 1200' reversible beverages
10CW - 5/5
All logging was done using CT 10.03.002 (DOS and Windows variants). Each host
station used K1TTT's WinTelnetX software to connect to a central server at K8CC
which was running custom multi-connect Telnet software written by Tim, K9TM.
QSO data, gab messages, schedules and passes flowed between the host stations
and into their logging computers in real time. It was almost like all the
ops/stations were in the same room.
The NU1AW/8 team would like to thank Dave Zeph, W9ZRX for sharing his
experiences with setting up the logging network for the W1AW/3 (2003) and
NU1AW/3 (2005) operations. Dave's guidance and recommendations were invaluable
in helping us to get the network up and running in a couple of weeks. Our
thanks also to Dave Robbins, K1TTT for useful advice and for making the nifty
WinTelnetX program freely available.
Tim, K9TM deserves the kudos for the Telnet multi-connect server software that
was the key to our network. It worked absolutely perfect.
No contest writeup for this weekend would be complete without mentioning the
WRTC stations. While we did not focus on working WRTCers, NU1AW/8 did make 285
QSOs with the WRTC competitors. From our perspective, PW5D was the champ; the
only station to work us on all ten of their available band modes. 35 WRTC
participants managed to work us six or more times each. 27 WRTCers managed to
get all five IARU mults available to them, and another 12 got us four times.
We used the NU1AW/3 score from 2005 (just under 7000 QSOs) as our objective,
but going in we didn't really expect to meet it. They had a great crew at a
great set of stations last year. However, having twelve stations available and
both modes on a band simultaneously (last year's /3 team had to share modes on
160/80/40/10) made a big difference. In the end, we made a lot more QSOs but
our score is only slightly above theirs (it appears that less DX kept the
points/QSO down). Here is the NU1AW/8 QSO/hr breakdown (note that these
numbers represent CW and phone combined):
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults NU1AW/8 IARU HF Championship Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
12 2/2 28/4 105/10 268/30 197/10 65/5 665/61 665/61
13 . 3/0 59/0 193/7 178/4 122/5 555/16 1220/77
14 . 5/0 46/1 201/6 137/2 103/2 492/11 1712/88
15 . 5/0 67/0 138/3 65/4 74/0 349/7 2061/95
16 1/0 2/0 52/0 143/7 61/7 68/2 327/16 2388/111
17 . 6/0 52/0 118/0 61/7 68/1 305/8 2693/119
18 . 4/0 55/0 134/7 54/4 26/2 273/13 2966/132
19 . 3/0 65/0 147/6 74/6 13/2 302/14 3268/146
20 ..... 13/0 52/0 166/6 48/2 9/0 288/8 3556/154
21 1/0 9/0 52/2 238/3 48/2 6/0 354/7 3910/161
22 1/0 6/0 71/7 166/5 41/3 7/0 292/15 4202/176
23 2/0 15/1 110/14 112/4 63/2 23/0 325/21 4527/197
0 17/4 50/13 147/6 151/2 45/1 22/0 432/26 4959/223
1 61/2 149/11 175/5 154/4 17/0 3/0 559/22 5518/245
2 81/5 160/5 155/4 133/2 44/1 1/0 574/17 6092/262
3 74/2 144/6 153/0 161/4 10/1 . 542/13 6634/275
4 49/1 120/3 128/4 122/1 3/0 ..... 422/9 7056/284
5 30/1 104/2 106/2 60/1 . . 300/6 7356/290
6 36/0 109/3 101/3 27/0 . . 273/6 7629/296
7 25/1 61/1 74/2 31/1 1/0 1/0 193/5 7822/301
8 10/1 42/2 37/1 8/1 . . 97/5 7919/306
9 10/0 37/2 22/1 17/0 . . 86/3 8005/309
10 9/0 31/0 38/2 98/1 . . 176/3 8181/312
11 2/0 7/0 21/0 163/2 15/1 1/0 209/3 8390/315
TOT 411/19 1113/53 1943/64 3149/103 1162/57 612/19 . 8390/315
Band conditions did not seem to be extraordinary here, but certainly weren't
bad for being near the sunspot minimum. Thankfully the K-incdx stayed low and
the nice wx in the area meant there weren't any thunderstorms nearby to make
the low-band ops ears bleed. A few EU were worked on 10M, but 15M never really
opened very well. 20M was a bottomless pit of QSOs - note that the rate for the
CW and SSB stations combined did not drop below 100/hr until the 05Z hour. A lot
of DX was worked on 40M, on both modes. 80M was relatively quiet, and our CW
op, K8BB, seemed to get a kick out of working thru the quivering mass of
PT5/PW5 stations calling him (32 WRTCs on that band). 160M did (comparatively)
well on QSOs, but came up short on multipliers vs. the NU1AW/3 2005 score.
All in all, it was a real blast. In the contesting world, there aren't many
opportunities to field a multi-multi-multi operation from multiple sites and
with stations on both modes simultaneously. We're confident we made the IARU
multiplier widely available to the contest participants.
We had approximately seven weeks from the time the ARRL informed us of our
selection to host NU1AW to the contest. In that time, a lot of preparation
work got done. I'd like to thank my fellow station hosts Tom/K8AZ (my
co-conspirator in pursuing the chance to do this), Bob/KW8N and Jeff/N8CC for
the hard work they put in to get their stations ready and their enthusiastic
support for the operation. Here at Radio Free Ypsilanti, I'd like to recognize
Don/K8BB, Tim/K9TM, Ken/W8MJ and my brother Tom/WB8VMN for the antenna work
completed the week before the contest (a TIC RingRotator, a 5L 20M yagi and a
new rotator under the 3L 40). Also thanks to Alpha Radio, who managed to ship
said rotator from Calgary to my QTH in three days via regular DHL (amazing!).
K1ZZ says QSL NU1AW via the ARRL or the CBA.
73,
Dave/K8CC
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