IARU HF World Championship
Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT
Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: Ohio EM89ps
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 3 2 0
80: 47 9 18
40: 67 17 31
20: 191 30 37
15:
10:
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Total: 308 0 58 86 Total Score = 138,240
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Getting on the IARU HF Championship forced me to finish reassembling
my station after field day. It also was an opportunity to test the
integration of the new tower-born beam and to compare the performance
of the 100-foot high X7 with the 60-foot high X7. The 100-foot
antenna is about 300 feet southeast of the 60-foot antenna.
So far, the 2 antennas seem to perform nearly identically. Perhaps
confirmation bias makes me suggest that the higher beam may provide
half a db better signal to noise ratio for very weak Asian signals.
More significantly, the 2 antennas seem to hear different local
noises, a phenomenon that needs more investigation.
I didn't plan to spend a lot of time operating and I didn't get on
until the middle of the afternoon so I missed 15 meters. Later I took
a few hours off to keep up with the mowing.
I tried the point and pounce method of working people to place an
emphasis on multipliers, but I found that I could find new stuff to
work just about as fast by tuning as by clicking. Perhaps there are
fewer casual contesters on in the summertime to provide spots.
I tried several times to work E2HQ, but the best result was K1? After
that he faded a bit and could not hear me any more. I was running low
power. I couldn't hear several other far away HQ stations like DX0HQ
and YE0HQ.
The other observation about low power is that I could work just about
everyone I could hear, but I usually had to wait longer for the
popular stations. It seemed like I could work weaker signals easier
than the strong ones, but maybe there is some bias towards expecting
strong signals to be easy.
Equipment: K3 and P3; Cushcraft X7 up 100 feet, Cushcraft X7 up 60
feet, full sized 40 meter vertical at ground level, full sized 80
meter vertical at ground level, 65-foot 160 meter "tee" vertical.
Beverages for receive on the low bands (didn't fire up the phased
arrays).
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