I'll be operating from Victoria Island NA-006 this weekend during the IOTA contest and as time permits. Hope to hear you!
Edit: operation was July 30 - August 1, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
RAC Day VE8RAC(VE8EV) SOSB/20 HP
Call: VE8RAC
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20: 260 566 12 12
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 260 566 12 12
Total Score = 97,200
Club:
Comments:
292 VE, 7 RAC
For me this turned into two completely different contests. The first one was Thursday. All night I had lots of callers and good rate on both modes. When things slowed down at 0630z I already had 500 QSO's in the log and had bagged all but a few multipliers. I grabbed three hours sleep and when I got back on things were still pretty slow and just went downhill from there. Lots of power line noise and very few signals to be heard. I struggled all day Friday to put 300 contacts in the log over 13 hours. I spent most of the day on CW as very little was coming through on phone. There were several zero rate hours around midday and I eventually threw in the towel an hour early, took my toys and went home. Apologies for all the mangled callsigns and CQing in the faces of callers I couldn't hear. Better luck next time!
Low points:
- What should have been an easy run of Europeans at midnight turned into a packet frenzy when someone spotted me as a rare IOTA island. I went split for a while but eventually gave up and retreated to the friendlier waters of the Pacific.
- I'm not a CW guy. I'm having lots of fun contesting in CW but my 20wpm repertoire pretty much ends after callsigns and 5NN+exchange. I felt like a deer in the headlights several times when guys felt the need to chit-chat. All FB, but I'm just not there yet. Maybe next year...
High points:
+ First contest with the new Flex, all integrated with the touchscreen and N3FJP for CAT, keying and voice. Sweet! Not a single hiccup through the whole event and when all the big signals were booming in Thursday night the sharp filter skirts almost brought a tear to my eye.
+ Almost making the dual-mode mult sweep. I had VY0HL call me on both modes Thursday night and at the end I only needed VY1 on CW and (doh!) NT on phone.
73 and Happy Canada Day!
de VE8EV
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs CW Mults Ph Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20: 260 566 12 12
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 260 566 12 12
Total Score = 97,200
Club:
Comments:
292 VE, 7 RAC
For me this turned into two completely different contests. The first one was Thursday. All night I had lots of callers and good rate on both modes. When things slowed down at 0630z I already had 500 QSO's in the log and had bagged all but a few multipliers. I grabbed three hours sleep and when I got back on things were still pretty slow and just went downhill from there. Lots of power line noise and very few signals to be heard. I struggled all day Friday to put 300 contacts in the log over 13 hours. I spent most of the day on CW as very little was coming through on phone. There were several zero rate hours around midday and I eventually threw in the towel an hour early, took my toys and went home. Apologies for all the mangled callsigns and CQing in the faces of callers I couldn't hear. Better luck next time!
Low points:
- What should have been an easy run of Europeans at midnight turned into a packet frenzy when someone spotted me as a rare IOTA island. I went split for a while but eventually gave up and retreated to the friendlier waters of the Pacific.
- I'm not a CW guy. I'm having lots of fun contesting in CW but my 20wpm repertoire pretty much ends after callsigns and 5NN+exchange. I felt like a deer in the headlights several times when guys felt the need to chit-chat. All FB, but I'm just not there yet. Maybe next year...
High points:
+ First contest with the new Flex, all integrated with the touchscreen and N3FJP for CAT, keying and voice. Sweet! Not a single hiccup through the whole event and when all the big signals were booming in Thursday night the sharp filter skirts almost brought a tear to my eye.
+ Almost making the dual-mode mult sweep. I had VY0HL call me on both modes Thursday night and at the end I only needed VY1 on CW and (doh!) NT on phone.
73 and Happy Canada Day!
de VE8EV
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