IARU HF Championship -- 1998
Call: N6ED Category:
Single Operator
Mixed Mode HP
BAND QSO QSO-PTS PTS/Q ZONES HQ STNS
160 2 2 1.00 1 0
80 32 70 2.19 6 2
40 149 537 3.60 17 3
20 979 3439 3.51 45 23
15 369 1289 3.49 29 14
10 35 113 3.23 9 2
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Totals 1566 5450 3.48 107 44
Score: 822,950 points
IARU is always fun no matter what!
I think the summer time contest format is unique where the bands have a
much different make-up than during the winter. This puts a real twist
on the strategy which I find to be a lot of fun. I noticed a lot of the
same propagation woes that many of the others have already stated. I
especially took note of the degraded polar coditions to EU on 20m from
earlier in the week although 15m did well to that area in the morning.
I found the JA opening on 15 to be only about 2 hours long with poor
rates. I also took note of the decreasing JA participation over past
years.
In spite of this fact, JA on 20CW gave me a real thrill from 700z till
1000z with very acceptable rates. I actually found good NA runs to fill
in the gaps which sure helped my spirits. The biggest shocker was that
South America was almost non-existant!?!?! A lot of easy SA mults were
MIA.
Overall, a very fun contest. I am going to be back for my 6th time next
year for sure!
Biggest Pile-up heard: HC8A (Congrats Rich!)
Biggest signal heard: K3ZO on 80m (Awesome 3el on 80 Fred!!)
Biggest suprise: Actually waking up at 3:30am!!!!!
Biggest mistake: Not having 3 elements on 80!
Lessons Learned: Move to the East Coast and put up 3 el on 80!
See all of you in the next one and TELL A FRIEND!!!!!
73 de Craig, N6ED
http://www.qsl.net/n6ed
http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/palms/8651/
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