[3830] IARU TF4X(VE2XAA) SO CW HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: TF4X
Operator(s): VE2XAA
Station: TF4X

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: HP85FP
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    14            3        
   80:    10            4        
   40:   121           12        
   20:  1727           37        
   15:     4            1        
   10:     0            0        
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Total:  1876    0      57       0  Total Score = 769,440

Club: 

Comments:

First of all I would like to thanks Thor TF4M for a great opportunity to see and
use his
Super Station with unique Antenna Farm on the surface of 1500 hectares!
Before the contest I decided to participate in phone category but during first
6 minutes
of the contest was no phone QSO at all! So the mode was switched for CW and
run
started on 20 m band â€" the only opened band at the moment. Time to time I did
check
15m and 10m but it was no whisper on the bands. Finally I did a few QSO on 15m
with
big troubles but 10 m was close during the contest completely. 20m was
surprising: I did
expect that run on 20m will stop after a few hours as usually for my home
location; that
will be already no new stations on the band and I can start hunting for
multipliers; but
pile-up had no stop! The flat rate of 120-140 QSO was continued after 5, 6,
7…hours
of the run! The stations with High Power, Low Power and QRP had almost the
same
signal level! The Otradalur Antenna Farm did a work perfectly and stack-match
box
let me separate EU-USA-JA directions just with push on one button! Amazing! In
10
hours I had already more than 1200 QSO only on 20m and did expect to have a
good
run on other bands to make same number of QSO for other 14 hours. But after 12
hours
of run somebody on the sky decided to switch off the light, put night Aurora
cover on
Iceland and told: OK guys, now you can relax and go to sleep, it will be no
propagation
for you for next few hours! It becomes nightmare: all bands closed, only
big-guns were
on the bands, QSO rate drops for 10-20 per hour… Nice moment was on 160m:
“Arctic
King” antenna was doing the work very well: on each 1 kHz distance I heard HQ
or other
powerful stations with S7…S9, but they did not hear my 1 kW signal! Probably
they
had other receiving directions except Arctic. With big difficulties spending
2-3 minutes
for each contact I was able to make a dozen QSO on 160m despite 24 hour
day-light at
Island! Thor TF4M did not very good antenna, but exceptionally perfect!
Thanks to every one for the contacts and hope to see you in the other
contests.
73! de Alexey VE2XAA


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