IARU HF World Championship - 2021
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOABMixed LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 10.3
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160:
80:
40: 156 0 16 24
20: 237 151 24 29
15: 125 30 17 24
10: 73 19 9 16
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Total: 581 200 66 93 Total Score = 359,181
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I punted at the starting bell on this one, wish I had not, but I suspect there
are a couple of big LP Mixed scores yet to be reported. Trying to operate more
than about 16 hours would have been very exhausting.
After calling a couple of EU without luck on 20 SSB, I opened on 15 CW; the band
was open to EU and the Caribbean/SA. Notable contacts were EM5HQ and LY0HQ. Back
on 20 at 1246Z, I kept up a goof rate S&Ping finding R0HQ and UN1HQ (very
loud).
After watching the disappointing Wimbledon final and helping XYL, I was back at
1526Z to find 10 open well to W4//5/6/7/8/9/0 and ON via sporadic E. Some 6's
and 7's were quite loud. The opening was similar but better on 15 CW at 1546Z.
Only the loudest EU HQ stations were workable. After a lunch break AH6KO was
logged on 15 CW at 1737Z. I had a nice run to the west on 15 CW with some big
USA signals, but too soon the run dried up. 10 was open well to a big swath of
the USA on Es and south on F2 to SA at 18Z. The west coast was loud. around
1840Z, the sporadic E mostly died to the west and EU signals via Es improved
markedly. Over half of my EU Q's were HQ stations, disappointing EU activity as
most of EU was workable. At 19Z, I tried 10 to find much the same, many loud EU
HQ stations, not many other from EU and those that were found seemed markedly
weaker. Until 1951Z, I jumped back and forth between 15 and 10 with continued
good EU prop, but was running out of new Q's. 20 was open, but running proved to
be unproductive on both modes despite having very clear run frequencies in
active parts of the band. 10 was still open to EU at 2044Z, particularly Italy.
By 2120Z, I had worked about all I could hear on 15, still hearing loud EU HQ
stations. Back to 20 at 2218Z, I had better luck running and EU signals were
very loud. Some of the HQ stations on 20 phone were 30 to 40db over 9 on a
stingy S meter. I caught ZL, VK, and W1AW/KL7 on 15 CW around 0015Z. At 0020Z,
40 was open pretty well to EU as expected; I was able to run a a good rate for
about 30 minutes, then S&P was more productive. Most called EU stations were
easy to work and Israel came right back. My 156 40M Q's were worked in about 95
minutes. 40 was noisy, so I finished up on 20 which was still open to EU at 03Z,
but mostly all HQ stations already logged. I had a nice run of western USA
stations on 20 phone with calls from XE, KH6, and VK2 as well.
Thanks for the QSO's. Band conditions were quite good overall thanks to the
widespread sporadic E and better F2 at night on 20 compared to last year. A week
earlier with SFI in the 90's would have been much better compared to our low
70's. More ops chose to not play radio than last year, the call of the outdoors
and vacations more appealing.
73, Jeff
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