IARU HF World Championship
Call: N5DO
Operator(s): N5DO
Station: K5FD
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 15 5 2
80: 99 13 7 6
40: 321 27 23 20
20: 379 140 28 31
15: 54 44 10 8
10: 0 0 0 0
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Total: 868 224 73 68 Total Score = 422,520
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Thanks to K5FD for the use of his shack and antennas. I had spent considerable
time and expense fixing my 40M beam, only to find during the Thursday night
NCCC Sprint that it was not working after all. So I went back to K5FD's shack,
which worked well.
Friday night I thought I would go to sleep early to get a good night's sleep.
That backfired, and I had difficulty falling asleep and spent the rest of the
short night tossing and turning. The contest went well, except it seemed for
the early hours to be a domestic contest, with little DX. As a one radio
operation I missed the 10M openings others mentioned -- every time I listed on
10M I heard no activity at all.
I was planning to operate the full 24 hours, but about 2 AM on Sunday a
thunderstorm with a little rain rolled in. One particularly loud lightening
strike / thunder clap sounded like it was awfully close, so I shut down for 30
minutes. Around 3:00 AM it sounded like the lightening was back again, so I
shut down a second time. This time I thought I would take a quick 15 minute
nap, so I laid down in the back of my SUV and told myself to wake up in 15
minutes. Amazingly enough, I did. However I think the only thing that little
nap accomplished was to tell my body how nice it would be to sleep longer, so
the rest of the contest was a struggle to stay awake.
As always, lots of fun!
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