Normally I put in a serious effort for the IARU contest, but this year it all went a wrong from Friday morning. When I noticed I was having issues with my newly grafted left eye, the hospital gave me eye drops and sent me on my way with a follow up appointment for Saturday morning. That day they decided to remove a stitch from my eye which was causing me problems after this I knew the contest was going to be a near on impossible task the pain was unbelievable!
After little bit of rest I decided that I wanted to have at least a couple of qsos in the contest so I set aside an hour 5-6pm, it started off rather slow but soon started to pick up working stations on 15m which is normally dead contests always seem to make their own propagation, then picked up a few stations on 10m then it was onto 20m where I worked the most after this it was a matter of working the odd qso on 40m and 80m.
All in all I was pleased I got something in the log but nothing like previous years!
Contest : IARU HF World Championships
Callsign : M3PHP
Mode : PHONE
Category : Single Operator (SO)
Band(s) : All bands (AB)
Class : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/... : 27
Operating time : 1h15
BAND QSO DUP ITU HQ POINTS AVG
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160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
80 1 0 0 1 1 1.00
40 6 0 0 6 6 1.00
20 24 0 5 12 50 2.08
15 9 0 3 4 21 2.33
10 4 0 2 1 8 2.00
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TOTAL 44 0 10 24 86 1.95
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TOTAL SCORE : 2 924
