Tuesday, August 15, 2017

2017 July - IARU HF World Championship

Call: HA7GN
Operator(s): HA7GN
Station: HA7GN
Class: SOAB(A)Mixed HP
QTH: Matraszentimre
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Location: Eastern Europe
Radios: SO2R   Remote operation
Summary:   Compare Scores
BandCW QsPh QsZonesHQ Mults
160:
80:
40:2071112
20:424252019
15:14487
10:
Total:775253938Total Score218,680

Club: [none]
Comments:     [email]     2017-07-11 06:52:13
Casual remote operation while babysitting.. Needless to mention ITU zone exchange is much easier to copy when dual CQing on two bands compared to serial numbers in a WPX contest.

2017 May - CQ WW WPX CW

Call: HA7GN
Operator(s): HA7GN
Station: HA7GN
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Matraszentimre
Operating Time (hrs): 21
Location: Eastern Europe
Radios: SO2R   Remote operation
Summary:   Compare Scores
BandQSOs
160:0
80:225
40:528
20:570
15:104
10:0
Total:1427Prefixes656Total Score2,170,704

Club: [none]
Comments:     [email]     2017-06-01 01:30:16
It became a part time effort due to a painful dental surgery a few days before the contest. I have not even completed the station setup on the hill and the operation was limited to 4 bands with fixed antennas to North America. I operated during the evenings only to utilize NA propagation. It was the first time I tested K3 SO2R remote setup for alternate CQ-ing on two bands. The station was working OK. Compared to an ARRL DX and a low power category contest it was much different, all those serial numbers made me crazy when got out of pace. I have a long way to master this.. was considering to send in the log as a checklog only, but I need the LCR to see the real performance. 73, Gabor HA7GN

2017 February - ARRL CW

Call: HA7GN
Operator(s): HA7GN
Station: HA7GN
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Matraszentimre
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Location: Eastern Europe
Summary:   Compare Scores
BandQSOsMults
160:
80:
40:
20:108261
15:
10:
Total:108261Total Score198,006

This was a real good one. Bands were closing quite late both days; last QSO on Sunday was K2VV (MO) at local midnight!!! Each multiplayer answered to CQs, almost no need to S&P.

2016 November - CQ WW DX CW

Call: HA7GN
Operator(s): HA7GN
Station: HA7GN
Class: SOAB Classic HP
QTH: MATRA
Operating Time (hrs): 24:00
Location: Eastern Europe

Summary:   Compare Scores
BandQSOsZonesCountries
160:84530
80:2951151
40:5432578
20:7622172
15:3522871
10:17714
Total:205397316Total Score1,660,260

Work constraints limited the participation in the contest. It was fun to try Classic 24h with single radio, but the second radio was really missing sometimes when rates were slow and mults were needed. I have downloaded a freeware audio recording application which stopped recording time-to time.

2016 July - IARU HF World Championship

Call: HA7GN
Operator(s): HA7GN
Station: HA7GN
Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: Matraszentimre
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Location: Eastern Europe
Radios: SO2R  
Summary:   Compare Scores
BandCW QsPh QsZonesHQ Mults
160:140212
80:1180721
40:24801621
20:63602427
15:30101725
10:1480914
Total:1465075120Total Score813,150

Club: [none]
Comments:     [email]     2016-07-13 08:58:59
Second radio boiled its pa module after about 10 hours of operation. lost time with figuring out the rootcause and trying to fix it. no backup plan this time. decent rates even with so1r, but no mults answering to CQs..:-((( needed to stop for s&p; further time wasted, ended below expectations. valuable learnings from dueling cq while both radios were operational. succeed to synchronize the length of a cq (number of characters at a readable speed) harmonized to an average length of answer from the other radio. setup: ftdx5000mp + k3 (rip) ea4tx interlock, 4o3a combiner & bpfilters 2 x microham station master, u2r for so2r audio, 2x10 ant switch networked dell pc (2) kt36xa, 2L40m Yagi, inverted L 80/160m 73, Gabor ha7gn