2016 IARU HF World Championship WR1TC (K5ZD)

July 11, 2016 K5ZD writeup

IARU HF World Championship

Call: WR1TC
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOABCW HP
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    25            5       4
   80:   157           10      17
   40:   207           12      24
   20:   741           25      22
   15:   216           14      20
   10:    59            8      10
-------------------------------------
Total:  1406    0      74      98  Total Score = 742,524

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Had the best of intentions to make a serious mixed mode effort. Spent a sleepless night on Thursday in the Newark airport. Tried to catch up on sleep and woke up 15 minutes before the contest.

Started out on CW. When I switched to SSB, I discovered that Writelog was not forwarding the mic audio to the radio. I could record messages and play them, but no live audio. Probably a configuration error, but my bad for not checking things out in advance. After 20 wasted mins, decided to go CW only.

Conditions were good enough to be entertaining, but certainly not great. I spent a lot of time practicing with dual CQ. It is amazing how well it can work, and how easily you can get messed up and sound like a lid.

Enjoyed watching the online scoreboard and chasing AA3B and K1MK. Especially after I started taking breaks. It was fun to see if I could make progress on catching them.

Surprised to work some EU HQ stations on 160. They were weak here, but seemed to be hearing very well.

Finally nearing midnight, decided I had enough and packed it in.

Always fun to hand out the WRTC memories by using WR1TC. People really seem to copy this call on the first try!

Rates:

QSO/ZN+HQ by hour and band

Hour 160M CW  80M CW  40M CW  20M CW  15M CW  10M CW    Total    Cumm    Off

1200Z    -       -     22/4    76/15   26/10     -      124/29   124/29 
1300Z    -       -       -     53/4    20/7      -       74/11   198/40   20
1400Z    -       -       -     69/5    24/2    15/6     108/13   306/53 
1500Z    -       -       -     65/1    42/3      -      107/4    413/57   20
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   39/2     8/3    21/2      68/7    481/64 
1700Z    -       -       -     88/5    38/2      -      126/7    607/71    2
1800Z    -       -       -       -       -       -        0/0    607/71   60
1900Z    -       -       -     30/1     8/1      -       38/2    645/73   46
2000Z    -       -       -    111/3    31/4     3/3     145/10   790/83 
2100Z    -       -       -    133/1     8/0    20/7     161/8    951/91 
2200Z    -       -     16/11   59/3    11/3      -       86/17  1037/108  20
2300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -        0/0   1037/108  60
0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--      0/0   1037/108  60
0100Z   2/2    99/19   24/10    8/5      -       -      133/36  1170/144   6
0200Z    -     47/6   126/9      -       -       -      173/15  1343/159
0300Z  23/7    11/2    19/2    10/2      -       -       63/13  1406/172  20

Total: 25/9   157/27  207/36  741/47  216/34   59/18