[ADXA] IARU HF Championship

Tue Jul 11 20:37:48 EDT 2023

  The IARU was a blast & the WRTC teams added some extra spice with those crazy I4 callsigns.  I ended up working 57 out of the possible 58 teams.
   Twenty meters sounded pretty puny Saturday morning, but 15 meters was GREAT.  Spent all day on 15 with quick trips to 10 looking & hoping for some European multipliers, but never heard one European.  Seems like K5UZ had the best luck on that band.  When I finally went back to 20 late afternoon I was shocked at the activity.  The band map on N1MM was absolutely packed full of stations, & the band stayed open all night long.  As mentioned by other members, the low bands are really tough this time of year unless you have receive antennas.  I never heard one of the WRTC teams on 40.
  I really like this event as you never know who will call you.  I get a real kick when I work a club member, & the ADXA was well represented.  Big kudos to W5ZN for digging me out of the pile Sunday morning for his AC multiplier.
  Finished up with just over 1300 CW qso’s.  Check out 3830 for everyone’s details.
73    KM5G

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IARU was fun!

It was good to work you guys. I was able to bag about 200 on 10m mostly on CW but surprisingly some on SSB. I worked T70HQ, 9A1HQ, several Italians, two EA’s, E7HQ - that was the mind blower- a loud F6 and a very loud LZ. Scores of state side ops and several South Americans. 10m was surprisingly good.

 160 was out of the question, I worked about 100 on 80 which was actually quieter than 40, with 15 and 20 being the main bands with the best rates and QSO production and as you know the quietest.

Something north of 1500 were put in the log with too many hours off for QRN, T-storms, a requisite 1.5 hr dinner engagement, an intermittent SWR problem on the 40m beam and a stuck rotator that had to be beat into submission. Otherwise everything else worked as advertised with some good run rates. All in all about 16 hours on.

Murphy was my copilot…

73 ES DX!!

David A. Norris, K5UZ
Director, Delta Division

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On Jul 10, 2023, at 7:04 PM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:

Good to put you in the log, Bill.

All of my RX antennas are down for the summer however I did manage to throw out a NE Beverage primarily for 40 meters. The past two years I have had too much noise toward EU on 40 so wanted to try to resolve that this year. It definitely helped.

QRN was difficult with the storms that moved through and were moving in.

73 Joel W5ZN

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Subject: Re: [ADXA] IARU HF Championship

I also enjoyed the contest, although I didn’t make a serious effort. My receive antennas are down until the thunderstorm season is over, so I couldn’t really hear on 80, 40, 160. 40 could have been really good, DX was as loud as locals, but too much static. Same for 160 and 80, where I did one quick pass on each, and worked what was there.

There was a short EU opening on 10m Saturday afternoon late, I only worked one 9A, and something else.

I primarily just hit the CQ button though, since contacts are more important that multipliers in that contest. I quit at 500.

FUV

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On Sunday, July 9, 2023, 9:57 AM, w5zn at w5zn.org<mailto:w5zn at w5zn.org> wrote:

I really did enjoy the contest and was good to see several ADXA folks in the fray. KM5G, K5FUV, K5UZ, and K5UR as well as K5GO and N5DX in more places than Santa Claus from ZF5T. I believe I worked ZF5T on every band 80 – 10, my brain’s a little fuzzy right now and I’ve closed the log.

My results have been posted on 3830scores.com along with my brief write up.

Band conditions were interesting. 10 meters was pretty much dead. 15 was the big game most of Saturday as 20 didn’t open up until late in the afternoon but then stayed open pretty much all night. I spent all night on 20 and darn near let the sun rise in EU before I moved to 40 but was able to zip over an nab some gud mults and Q’s out of EU. The SE Asia opening this morning on 40 and 20 was very gud.

WRTC results should be out tomorrow.

73 Joel W5ZN

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