IOTA Contest
Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT
Class: SO(A)12CW HP
QTH: Ohio EM89ps
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band CW Qs CW Mults Ph Qs Ph Mults
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80: 2 2
40: 4 3 1 1
20: 146 31 3 3
15: 141 30 6 4
10:
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Total: 293 66 10 8 Total Score = 129,204
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
The goal this weekend was to chase the 2 "as close as one can get"
DXpeditions (St. Paul's Island and St. Pierre and Miquelon) and to
finish the software for my Ethernet antenna switch controller project.
The switch software came together very quickly so I also repaired the
3 phased array verticals damaged by June's derecho.
Also, there was a contest that I had always ignored before. Since the
St. Pierre and Miquelon operation was largely dedicated to putting an
island on the air for the contest, I thought I might catch some other
new band-countries while participating in the IOTA contest.
This operating strategy had some payoff - VQ9JC on 15 and RI1ANF on 20
as well as CY9M and TO2U each on numerous bands. I even managed to
work CY9M on 6 meters. One is not going to work a DXpedition on 6
meters from here very often (not very many "new ones" in 1-hop E skip
range).
I didn't hear much activity outside of Europe so the IOTA test must be
mostly a European thing, although I did work all continents (even
Australia which counts as Oceania for IOTA).
So I had fun and I'll probably be back next year.
My version of Writelog appears to be out-of-date as it does not score
non-island contacts correctly. Writelog 10.69D also does not offer a
multiplier breakdown by band. I counted multipliers and I counted 111
island contacts so I manually compute my score as 129204.
Equipment: K3, ETO 91B (eternal thanks to Jeff, K8ND). X7 up 60 feet,
3 el 6m Yagi at 66 feet, 40 meter vertical on the ground and 80 meter
"cage" around the 160 meter vertical.
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