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

[Steve]

At 05:26 PM 7/11/2021, marko.n5zo at gmail.com wrote:

Marko, great score!

73,
SteveH K0XP

>                     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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