[3830] IOTA VA7ST SO12CW HP

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                    IOTA Contest

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

Class: SO12CW HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 10.5

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
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   80:                              
   40:   41      10                 
   20:  193      33                 
   15:    4       1                 
   10:                              
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Total:  238      44       0        0  Total Score = 56,408

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Comments:

N1MM says 10.5 hours on, but that included at least three "nearly
hour-long" breaks, so I operated about 7 actual hours.

Bands were in poor shape anywhere near the polar path, but DX contacts were
available with some hard work to pull them through. 20M was open to Europe
through Saturday until after midnight 0700z. 

Once again, with the notable exception of a few who pointed their antennas
westward occasionally, Japan was not present in this one. Just 4 JAs but 6 ZLs
-- tells the story. What a wealth of 15-pointers not participating.

Had a great time and despite conditions being in the terlet, ended up with a
second-best-ever outing. Looks like 2007 was quite a year, compared to every
year since.

One more week of vacation -- once the new deck is finished (80 percent done
now), it's on to some major improvements to the wire antenna far in the woods.
Plans include yet another attempt to put up something useful for 160M, and
expanding the twin-vertical 80M array into a triangle of wire verticals. If
either one of these projects actually gets done in this heat, I'll be most
happy and surprised.

See many of you in NAQP CW.

-- Bud VA7ST

Year  Category  QSOs  IOTA    Score
====  ========  ====  ====    ======
2013  SO12CWHP   238    44    56,408
2012  SO12CWHP   149    26    18,564
2011  SO12CWHP   158    34    32,844
2010  SO12CWHP   138    24    18,288
2009  SO12CWHP   108    19    11,400
2008  SO12CWHP   190    30    30,780
2007  SO12CWHP   292    47    75,576
2006  SO24CWLP   254    37    49,950
2004  SO24CWLP    39    10     2,370


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