[3830] IARU N7WA M/S HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: N7WA
Operator(s): N7ZG N7WA
Station: N7WA

Class: M/S HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    0      0      0       -
   80:   96     16     21       -
   40:  364     16     39       -
   20:  312    181     59       -
   15:   50     32     12       -
   10:    0      0      0       -
-------------------------------------
Total:  822    245    131       0  Total Score = 386,843

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Comments:

This contest is traditionally a Multi-op for Guy/N7ZG and myself.
It makes for a nice cap to the contest season. Unfortunately, making
it a multi-op forces you into the mixed category and phone isn't
a strong part of our skill suite. Still we slogged on through and 
I think we had our best phone performance to date. My apologies to
those who found me laughing in the middle of my phones CQ's - sometimes
my tongue just doesn't work. Note to self: get that sound card and voice
interface working (it just doesn't seem a priority the rest of the 
year <sigh>). 

As others have noted, the Pacific Northwest was essentially
locked out of Europe by the high A/K indexes. We heard a few and 
all those packet posts by our neighbors to the south made our 
mouths water but mother nature wasn't going to relent. Fortunately,
we can only go up from here (I hope). The JA's did make a re-appearance
from their no-show in the CW WPX, that was good news. However,
total points were depressed from last years levels (our best) even 
though Q's and mults were our best ever. 

Sure glad this contest starts and ends early in this time zone (0500).
You only lose 1 nice day and with another operator to swap out with, I 
can still get things done in the yard.

Still one of my favorite tests. Hope the IARU/ARRL take the concerns about
rule breakers seriously and that we can get the "boycott" crowd satisfied 
and back in the fold.

73
dink, n7wa


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