IARU HF Championship – SOAB SSB LP

This weekend I decided to have a play in the IARU HF Championship contest, its actually been a while since I took part guess other things got in the way like work! Non the less this weekend as free so over 6 hours I decided to have a play doing some search and pounce.

I was pleased to see 10m open for a while and although produced no DX for me was great working stations around Europe. 15m provided a large amount of stations and even managed to work into W & VE however I only managed 1 QSO into NA on 20m and that was a struggle Saturday evening. I have to admit I didn’t really try too hard on the low bands picking up 35 QSOs on 40m which was 100% Europe and a miserable three on 80m which isn’t a surprise considering the antenna isn’t that great!

Sunday I only worked 5 stations conditions hard going, so retreated to watch some TV and cook some brunch. Ending the contest with 205 QSOs and a estimated score of 46,851.

Equipment

• Yaesu FT-950 (50w)
• 1/2 G5RV with 80m loading coils
• Win-Test

Summary

Contest : IARU HF World Championships
Callsign : 2E0SQL
Mode : PHONE
Category : Single Operator (SO)
Overlay : ---
Band(s) : All bands (AB)
Class : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/... : 27
Locator : IO91JS
Operating time : 5h53

BAND QSO DUP ITU HQ POINTS AVG
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160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
80 3 0 1 2 3 1.00
40 35 0 3 20 57 1.63
20 81 0 10 25 203 2.51
15 57 0 8 14 153 2.68
10 29 0 4 10 67 2.31
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TOTAL 205 0 26 71 483 2.36
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TOTAL SCORE : 46 851