[3830] IARU K1LT SOABCW LP

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IARU HF World Championship

Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT

Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: Ohio EM89ps
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
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  160:    3             2       0
   80:   47             9      18
   40:   67            17      31
   20:  191            30      37
   15:                           
   10:                           
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Total:  308     0      58      86  Total Score = 138,240

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

Getting on the IARU HF Championship forced me to finish reassembling
my station after field day.  It also was an opportunity to test the
integration of the new tower-born beam and to compare the performance
of the 100-foot high X7 with the 60-foot high X7.  The 100-foot
antenna is about 300 feet southeast of the 60-foot antenna.

So far, the 2 antennas seem to perform nearly identically.  Perhaps
confirmation bias makes me suggest that the higher beam may provide
half a db better signal to noise ratio for very weak Asian signals.
More significantly, the 2 antennas seem to hear different local
noises, a phenomenon that needs more investigation.

I didn't plan to spend a lot of time operating and I didn't get on
until the middle of the afternoon so I missed 15 meters.  Later I took
a few hours off to keep up with the mowing.

I tried the point and pounce method of working people to place an
emphasis on multipliers, but I found that I could find new stuff to
work just about as fast by tuning as by clicking.  Perhaps there are
fewer casual contesters on in the summertime to provide spots.

I tried several times to work E2HQ, but the best result was K1?  After
that he faded a bit and could not hear me any more.  I was running low
power.  I couldn't hear several other far away HQ stations like DX0HQ
and YE0HQ.

The other observation about low power is that I could work just about
everyone I could hear, but I usually had to wait longer for the
popular stations.  It seemed like I could work weaker signals easier
than the strong ones, but maybe there is some bias towards expecting
strong signals to be easy.

Equipment: K3 and P3; Cushcraft X7 up 100 feet, Cushcraft X7 up 60
feet, full sized 40 meter vertical at ground level, full sized 80
meter vertical at ground level, 65-foot 160 meter "tee" vertical.
Beverages for receive on the low bands (didn't fire up the phased
arrays).


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