[SCCC] FW: IARU NT6Q(N5ZO) SOAB(A)CW HP

[marko.n5zo at gmail.com]

                    IARU HF World Championship - 2021

Call: NT6Q
Operator(s): N5ZO
Station: N5ZO

Class: SOAB(A)CW HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    13            5        1
   80:   136           12        7
   40:   665           36       37
   20:   856           39       47
   15:   277           17       16
   10:    89            8        4
-------------------------------------
Total:  2036    0     117      112  Total Score = 1,435,830

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

It was 5th year in a row I operated this contest in same assisted CW HP
category, and this bests my highest score from 2018 just a little.  It is
interesting contest and multiplier scheme and great to operate with spotting
from my modest station for DX contests out here in far West.  Just before I
did many station changes including new amplifier on one radio with all
associated cable manipulations in small shack room with ton of cables
crisscrossing everywhere behind equipment, 2 new monobanders aimed at main
US direction for 10 and 15 lower on towers and I'm testing new MOAS antenna
switching system it being temporarily spread inside shack with associated
learning curves on configuring it.  I was quite sure that something would
not work perfectly and of course ended up doing some troubleshooting
especially during 1st 12 hrs.  Main problem seemed to be that MOAS board got
some RF into it and locked up several times and had to reboot it by
disconnecting power cable and restarting it. 
Eventually I tried donut toroid on USB cable between it and computer and
that seemed to completely cure the problem.  Something to be aware as I hope
to move that thing into its final location sometime in the future.  I also
tried UDP frequency feed from N1MM+ to new RF Kit-S and it lost that feed
couple times. 
Will probably do hardwired USB connection for it in the future like with
other amp.  There was also lots of new interstation interference especially
between 40 and 20 and it helped to have few antennas for both bands on both
of my towers to choose from trying to minimize it.  But there were always
spots and multipliers to work and it was often more productive than trying
to run on 2 bands with interference issues.  

160 and 80 and even 40 were very noisy this weekend, except 40 at the very
end when signals from JA/BY/YB really peaked up here and there were many
loud stations.  Like in previous years, I'm always surprised how well I get
through to European HQ stations way before sunset on 40 m and can quite fast
work most of them when I barely can hear them.  Nice to see better high band
conditions and I could have probably done better on optimizing times on each
band.  It has been so many years of poor 15 and 10 from CA and I will have
to figure it out
when to be on what band when more spots are coming hopefully soon.   

Scoreboard was great again to keep things more interesting. 
Tnx for QSOs, 73 de Marko N5ZO


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