[SCCC] Fw: IARU W6UE(W4EF) SO Mixed HP

[Michael Tope]

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>                     IARU HF World Championship
>
> Call: W6UE
> Operator(s): W4EF
> Station: W6UE
>
> Class: SO Mixed HP
> QTH: CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
>  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
> ---------------------------
>   160:   13      2      9
>    80:   59     12     19
>    40:  387     32     36
>    20:  354    618     64
>    15:   68     34     29
>    10:   11      2      6
> ---------------------------
> Total:  892    700    163  Total Score = 821,357
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Decided to give this one a serious try at the last minute despite feeling
> absolutely aweful before the contest. Almost quit at the 12 hour mark
thinking
> that there was no way in hell I could make it the full 24 hours and
extract any
> enjoyment from it, but I wanted to get to the 1000 QSO mark before
throwing in
> the towel. Mysteriously, I started to feel better after the 12 hours mark,
so I
> just kept going and was actually in pretty good shape when I reached the
24 hour
> mark. I was too tired to drive home safely, however, so I had to nap on
the
> linoleum with nothing but a pillow for a few hours (it got real chilly
with no
> blanket). My nutritional planning was equally lacking. When I left the
house on
> Saturday morning (3:00 AM), I grabbed a 12 pack of diet coke and a bag of
Lay's
> salt and vinegar potato chips. I got the quantity okay (I finished the bag
just
> before the contest ended), but I could have done better on the quality and
> variety of my nourishment. In fact, I just got done telling my wife a few
days
> ago never to buy those kind of chips again because they tasted so bad
(they
> don't taste that bad when you are really hungry) :):)
>
> Score wise, it looks like I need to be reclassified as SOLM (single-op low
> multiplier). I never heard much on 15 meters, but from the looks of other
> scores, I should have spent more time there looking for mults. I saw some
3830
> reports of a longpath opening to Europe on 15 (N9RV) and a very late JA
opening
> on 15 meters (K7RL). Don't know whether we didn't get the openings here in
> Southern California, or whether I just missed them (most likely the
latter). I
> also made the mistake of pulling up last years results during a short
break on
> Saturday afternoon and then using them as a benchmark. I thought I was
doing
> pretty good by last year's standards, but I failed to read the part of the
> article where it described how bad conditions were last year, so I failed
to set
> proper expectations for my multipliers :)
>
> The station worked fine for the most part. I still need to fix a problem
with
> interstation QRM between 40 and 20 meters. It's probably a bad splice in
the 40
> meter coax, but I didn't have time to troubleshoot it. I also need to get
a
> better scheme together for working 160 meters. Everytime I wanted to QSY,
I had
> to move a piece of coax from receive antenna port for the TS-950 over to
the
> main antenna switch (uggh). A voice keyer tied in with TRlog would be nice
too.
>
>
> Thanks for all the QSOs!
>
> 73 de Mike, W4EF............................
>
>
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