IARU HF World Championship - 2019
Call: AE0EE
Operator(s): AE0EE
Station: AE0EE
Class: SOABMixed LP
QTH: MN
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160: 9 4 1
80: 33 8 2
40: 51 14 10 10
20: 112 15 15 9
15: 6 3 3 2
10: 12 1 2 1
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Total: 223 33 42 25 Total Score = 46,096
Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
Comments:
100 W, dipoles up 5-10 m, CW keyed on a Vibroplex bug.
It was great to have 10 and 15 m open. I made a fair number of contacts there,
including some DX on 15. There seemed to be a pipeline to NU1AW, and I worked
them on all six bands, many of them both modes.
At night the static wasn't too bad here, with most of the storms out of the
region. I was able to hear well enough to contact Brazil on 80 m, which will be
a new band if it confirms.
I didn't work very much DX, though there was some on 20 m and some on 40 m,
particularly to Europe. Around 0300z Europe was doing pretty well on 40 m, and
I made the mistake of going to 80 m to see if I could hear any EU there---I
couldn't, and lost time with a good opening to needed multipliers and
high-point-value contacts.
The bands seemed a little unstable, with some QSB, but mostly they just sounded
pretty closed. Much of the time all I could hear were stations in the US and
Canada.
I did have a nice run on 20 m for about an hour, making about 60 QSOs in that
time before a DX station came on the frequency and couldn't hear my 100 watts.
I seemed to have some RFI problems on 40 m SSB; on a stably <2:1 antenna, the
rig would often trip over "high SWR". The connections seemed okay,
and it worked on the other bands.
All told, it was a fun contest. I didn't hit it as hard as I might have (the
SKCC Weekend Sprintathon was running concurrently and until 2359z Sunday), but
found it enjoyable.
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