[NCC] Fwd: IARU W1NN SOABCW LP

[Hal Offutt]

Thanks to K8AZ for six bands!  Also thanks to K8MR for five bands from a 
mobile setup in MA. Amazing!  I should have had six bands with NA8V but 
I never found him on 160.  Great score from N8AA with an all band 
vertical.  It works!



IARU HF World Championship - 2019

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: OHIO
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
160: 67 4 3
80: 208 13 12
40: 425 23 24
20: 341 19 21
15: 143 14 18
10: 62 8 9
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Total: 1246 0 81 87 Total Score = 472,752

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

This is one of my favorite contests. (The XYL says that every contest is my
favorite;I guess she's right.) It's the easiest of all the major 
contests to put
in a full-time effort given the 8 AM local start time and the 24-hour 
format.

I ended up with 171 more contacts than last year thanks to the good high 
band
conditions and more time spent on the low bands. Last year I ended up 
with 359
QSOs and 1235 points on 20. This year it was almost the same Q's (341) 
but only
867 points. Obviously I managed a lot more 5 pointers last year. I just
couldn't get any sustained EU runs going, so for me 20 was really tough. 
Maybe
that's the cost of the better 10 and 15 conditions. 20 has always been my
weakest band, but the station has not changed from last year, so 
something was
different this year. Claimed score this year just barely sneaked by last 
year's:
472,752 vs. 465,393.

I had quite a few computer problems. Several times Win-Test froze and I kept
losing computer radio control. I had to reboot about 10 times. Not sure 
what's
going on.
Thanks to the 10 meter opening, I managed 12 six-banders! Wow. Thanks WD0T,
W1KM, K1IR, NU1AW, VE3CX, K4RUM, VA2WA, W9RE, K1ZZ, VE3JM, K8AZ and 
K5GN. Many,
many five-banders too.
NU1AW was really strong throughout the contest. W1AW/7 was also easy to 
find. I heard them on 160 but couldn't get past the QRN.

The station: K3, A4 tribander at 35' fixed on Europe (thanks K8AZ for the
loan), dipoles on 20, 40, 80 and 160. It's amazing to me that I can run 
EU on 40
with a simple dipole at 50'.
Thanks for a fun weekend!

73, Hal W1NN


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