IARU HF World Championship 2006

Call: DL1IAO
Operator(s): DL1IAO
Station: DL0WW

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: JN49FO
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:    27     14    24
   80:    81     45    40
   40:   471     73    63
   20:   677    606    90
   15:   421    220    61
   10:   253     79    43
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Total:  1930   1037   321  Total Score = 2,910,828

Club: Bavarian Contest Club

Comments:

2x TS870, Alpha87, AL82, WX0B bandpass filters
WT v2.29.0 on 2x HP Omnibook XE3

(160) 27m shunt-fed tower
 (80) Bobtail (NW/SE), Delta Loop, DP @10m
 (40) 3el M2 Yagi @20m (linear-loaded), DP @10m
 (20) 4el M2 Yagi @27m  
 (15) 5el Yagi @25m    
 (10) 6el Yagi @24m   

2R-QSOs: 367 (one signal)

I was doing the two-radio CW thing when condx took a dive about 3 1/2 hours
into the contest and I started thinking how to get the rate back over 100/h. 
Also thought how nice it would be to put some additional phone QSOs into the
log! Well, I plugged in a MIC and the rate DID go up...

The nice sporadic opening boosted the overall QSO numbers but hurt the DX
totals. During the evening I gave up on some better NA runs to fire out a CQ
on the low bands. This produced some nice AS/OC mults I would have missed
otherwise. 

I would have LOVED to have a second antenna pointed towards PY. Everyone was
(equally) weak from the side/back, except on 10m.


73,

Stefan
DL1IAO@contesting.com
http://www.dl1iao.com