[3830] IARU VA7ST SO CW HP

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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: SO CW HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 18.5

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    2             1       0
   80:   26             4       1
   40:  193            16       8
   20:  331            28      25
   15:  242            20      24
   10:   42             9       4
-------------------------------------
Total:  836     0      78      62  Total Score = 370,160

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Comments:

This was going to be a great contest from out West, until 1800z (11 a.m.
Saturday local) when a massive CME arrived and killed the fun. It was all
downhill from there, getting progressively worse. 

I intended to stay at the radio to the very end, but there just wasn't much to
work after 1000z so I skipped the final two hours with the A-index above 30 and
still soaring (it was 54 when I got up Sunday morning, so I probably didn't miss
anything).

Still, the first part of the contest produced enough on 15M to vault me well
beyond last year's score, which was my only real goal. Far more mults than ever
before, thanks to European HQ stations on 15M. 

Biggest disappointment was 80M, which was very noisy and didn't open to Asia or
the Pacific as I had hoped. It sure was good last year. Also no Europe on 40M
from here, with the Aurora so strong (maxed out at Au=10). Talk about a brick
wall. 

Mults weren't nearly as plentiful on 40M this year without Europe workable (but
thanks to the ZL and VK lads for the zones -- conditions were pretty good to the
South Pacific).

Didn't find much on 10M -- open to the southeast and South America, but no rate
and few mults worked.

Thanks to everyone for all the fun while it lasted. 

Now on to NAQP RTTY next Saturday, with the cross-Canada Aurora Busters team
ready to go. We have three ops in BC (VE7BC, VA7KO, VA7ST), plus VE4EAR in MB
and VY2SS in PEI. Should be a hoot.

-- Bud VA7ST


 Band     QSOs     Pts  ITU   HQ
   1.8       2       6    1    0
   3.5      26      74    4    1
     7     193     583   16    8
    14     331    1057   28   25
    21     242     792   20   24
    28      42     132    9    4
 Total     836    2644   78   62
Score: 370,160

Year  Qs   Pts.  Mult  Score (claimed)
---------------------------------------
2012  836  2644  140   370,160 -- 62 HQ SOCW    (HP)
2011  932  2936  121   355,014 -- 46 HQ SOCW    (HP)
2010  842  3062  126   385,812 -- 51 HQ SOCW    (HP)
2009  847  2641  114   301,074 -- 56 HQ SOCW    (HP)
2008  717  2239   80   179,120 -- 21 HQ SOmixed (HP)
2007  703  2091  114   238,374 -- 40 HQ SOCW    (HP)
2006  630  2012   96   193,152 -- 44 HQ SOCW    (LP)
2005  267   843   42    35,406 -- 10 HQ SOCW    (LP)
2004  462  1446   88   127,248          SOCW    (LP) 
2003  181         31    17,019          SOCW    (LP)
2002  235   799   77    61,523 -- 27 HQ SOCW    (LP)


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