Saturday saw the yearly EU HF Championship and unlike other years when I normally miss it, as I’m normally on holiday, I was able to take part! Conditions overall wasn’t too bad and I spent 3hrs 40mins search and pounce using the Yaesu FT-950 and the 80m CW special Windom for logging I used Win-Test which preformed brilliant like always!
The first hour search and pounce was hard going probably due to everyone running more power and bigger antennas then me, but I still had fun in the process! Two hours in and it was getting a lot easier to work stations.
Even better was being able to pick up 15 QSOs (14 years) on 15m! I didn’t find that 10m opened that great so only managed to work 4 QSOs all being new year’s which wasn’t so bad! Like normal though the main band was 20m with 69 QSOs (36 years) and on 40m 5 QSOs all being new years.
As I didn’t operate during the evening never managed to pickup anymore on 40m or 80m but there’s always next year to do a better effort!
BAND QSO DUP YRS POINTS AVG ---------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 5 0 5 5 1.00 20 69 0 36 69 1.00 15 15 0 14 15 1.00 10 4 0 4 4 1.00 ---------------------------------- TOTAL 93 0 59 93 1.00 ================================== TOTAL SCORE : 5 487
