[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] IARU HF Championship

[Tom Kirby]

On 7/15/2012 9:18 AM, Edward Bradshaw wrote:
> I was only able to get on the radio a few hours here and there but managed to log 20 phone contacts with my ft817 and inverted V dipole with scratch built center. Despite having difficulties in the big pileups on 5 watts, I still managed to get over to Europe and South America a few times. My last and longest was to Croatia.
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> I would not have done as well without the experience of Field Day and the help of KF7IJZ with the initial setup and test of my antenna.
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> 73,
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> Ed KK4JQR
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> On Jul 15, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Ian wrote:
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>> Looks like propagation cooperated this weekend despite the solar flare and
>> CME!  Worked 130 stations yesterday on 15m and 20m.  Mostly CW but some
>> phone.  Heard KJ4FUU working some.  Lots of good DX - US and EU were easy.
>> Heard two Saudi stations on phone but couldn't get through the pileups.  CW
>> is so much easier.
>>
>> 73, Ian N8IK

I heard Ian work the Lithuanian station, but they faded on me too soon, 
and there was a big pile-up that I couldn't fight through, so I went 
looking for other contacts. I didn't get a lot, but I did add 2 new DX 
entities: St. Pierre & M-something (FP prefix), and Argentina. I was 
hoping for better things out of 10 meters, but it didn't seem to happen. 
My best contacts were on 15 meters, late in the day.

73,

-- Tom Kirby KJ4FUU