[CCF] IARU OH4A M/S HP

[Kim Östman]

Kiitokset OH-kusoista! 

73
Kim
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                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: OH4A
Operator(s): OH6KZP OH6LI
Station: OH4A

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Kisko
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
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  160:    53     12     4       22
   80:   138     55    12       29
   40:   202    159    27       40
   20:   832    965    47       47
   15:   280    264    39       38
   10:    58     59    13       22
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Total:  1563   1514   142      198  Total Score = 3,751,900

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

This contest was characterized by heat: Finnish summer heat (+30C) outside
the hamshack, a hot hamshack (often > +35C), and at times hot bands. 24
hours in such an environment is not the easiest way to spend a weekend, but
it was fun again! IARU HF differs from most other contests due to
summer-time propagation and thus has "added spice", this year coupled
together with WRTC excitement. 

We set out to break the old Finnish M/S record of 2.71M and were happy to
succeed. The propagation info from DK0WCY indicated that K = 7 just a couple
of hours after the contest started; our plan appeared obliterated right away
with nothing but Aurora-misery to look forward to. It was a false alert,
however, as bands were in pretty ok shape and we kept pounding on.
Especially 20 meters produced a nice two-hour DX run around 01-02Z. The rate
was so high that we ended up neglecting the low bands and most of our
sunrise grayline time, but we considered it worth it.

Thanks to Jukka OH6LI and Merja for their hospitality at their summer
cottage once again. And thanks to everybody for the QSOs, see you in the
next one!

73
Kim OH6KZP