IARU HF World Championship
Call: N2MM
Operator(s): N2MM
Station: N2MM
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 18 2 2
80: 143 16 20
40: 387 23 23
20: 414 24 33
15: 622 28 28
10: 41 10 6
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Total: 1625 0 103 112 Total Score = 1,204,645
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
Thursday and Friday nights, 20m stayed wide open all night. That was going to
be my strategy - run 15m hard on Saturday (band opened 1100z), check 10m
occasionally, and hit 20m around 2000z through the night. Big mistake !!! 20m
had a very short opening Saturday afternoon. By 2230z, I went to 40m. The band
was noisy, but very loud signals from EU. 80m was open at 0000z. I kept moving
between 80m and 40m. Twenty meters had lots of US signals, but very few EU.
Bottom line, my strategy fell apart big time. On a positive note, 80m was very
quiet and lots of west coast easily went into the log.
I must have been in a black hole or in a daze throughout the contest. My zones
and HQ stations were significantly lower than everyone else. I just never heard
them.
One final comment is in order. What is with the EU stations and their
amplifiers. One station spent almost 10 minutes trying to tune up their amp on
my quiet run frequency, totally oblivious to repeated requests to qsy. I kept
praying for the amp to blow up so he would be gone. My prayers were never
answered! This seems to becoming a real problem, or perhaps I am just getting
too sensitive.
Thanks for all the qsos. My log should be on LOTW shortly.
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