[3830] IOTA VE1RGB SO(A)24CW LP

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                    IOTA Contest

Call: VE1RGB
Operator(s): VE1RGB
Station: VE1RGB

Class: SO(A)24CW LP
QTH: Halifax, NS
Operating Time (hrs): 15

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
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   80:   58      19                 
   40:  173      32                 
   20:   99      24                 
   15:   44      10                 
   10:                              
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Total:  375      85       0        0  Total Score = 219,045

Club: Maritime Contest Club

Comments:

I lost all opportunity to improve on last year's score when local electrical
noise started at 1840Z and removed 20M and up from play for me.  I did very
well on 40M but not enough to compensate for the losses on 20M.  Or maybe I was
subjected to something from the sun focused over my antennas.  I dunno.

Best Q:  VK9IR on 20M at 1215Z, 15 minutes into the contest, 9:15 AM on a rainy
Saturday morning here.  HamCAP says that such a path is barely possible with my
antennas but there was no question in my mind.  And I needed Lord Howe on 20M.
Gotta like it.

I regret that I did not check my total number of IOTAs before the contest
because it most certainly will have increased but I don't know by how much. 
Worse, I have since over-written the back-up log and cannot reverse-engineer
the answer.  One local IOTA collector with 400 Islands to his credit picked up
an incredible 13 new islands yesterday, so I likely did well.

Thanks for the Qs, and thumbs-up to the guys who will take the extra five
seconds and acknowledge the other operator by name.  My favourite part of
contesting is that quick personal touch.

Equipment:
K3 #095 + P3 #007 + remotely-tuned 40M vertical + 80M dipole + 160M delta loop
(wires used multi-band with ladderline).

73,
Gary VE1RGB


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