[SECC] IARU NJ8J SOABCW LP

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

                    IARU HF World Championship

Call: NJ8J
Operator(s): NJ8J
Station: NJ8J

Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: Georgia
Operating Time (hrs): 11:15

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    4             1       1
   80:   17             4       0
   40:  117            11      17
   20:  109            12      14
   15:   23             6       0
   10:   12             5       1
-------------------------------------
Total:  282     0      39      33  Total Score = 48,672

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:
Alinco DX-77T
LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner

Antennas:
110 ft OCF doublet fed with ladder-line
10 Meter Half-Square

Logger: N1MM+

Went into this hoping to improve my 2014 effort of 641 Q's, and a score
of 63459 (which was enough snag the Georgia SOLP Mixed cert.  The
propagation, however, was not cooperating.  The bands, even 10 meters,
showed activity, but primarily NA, with some SA thrown in.  I count only
5 Q's outside of NA/SA up until I took a break at about 1930Z, and I'm
tempted to not count the 2 Canary Island Q's (EA8 et al always seems to
be an easy contact from here, for some reason).  The other three was a
KH6, and a couple of EU Q's.  I really wasn't expecting so little EU
propagation in the morning and afternoon.  When I came back at 2115Z,
propagation to EU seemed to be back, so that helped.

Had some rig trouble at one point, as I couldn't get output on 15
meters.  That turned out to be that my MFJ switching power supply had
it's output voltage set a bit high.  Tweaking it back down got
everything working again, but it meant that I was off 15 for what seemed
to me to be prime 15M activity time.

But the net result was that after putting in 2:45 hours more than in
2014, I had a Q count of less than half what I had in 2014.

Only heard (and worked) 1 WRTC station.

Ben
-- 
Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
 "I love the way Microsoft follows standards.  In much the
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
                                            Paul Tomblin
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