IARU 2011 - 2011/06/22 22:35Du 6 au 11 Juillet, 2011 Je serai actif depuis l’Islande comme TF/VE2XAA, y compris pour contest IARU HF comme TF4X. QSL TF/VE2XAA via HC. QSL TF4X via G3SWH J`espere contacter vous mes amis de CGQ.73! Alexey VE2XAA
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/06/22 23:20Alexei,
Bonne chance )))
CU in contest. I'm planning to work as FP/VA2WA.
73!
Victor
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/06/23 23:04Most interesting for both of you guys!! Have fun!
73, Fabi
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/06/27 14:04Bonne chance Alexey et Victor. Will be looking for you. 73 Claude VE2FK
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Operator Category : SINGLE-OP (12 Hours) Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : MIXED Overlay Category : TB-WIRES Default Exchange : 4 Gridsquare : FN46PC
Name : Luc Fontaine ARRL Section : QC Club/Team : Contest group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V11.7.1
Band Mode QSOs Pts Mlt 7 CW 45 137 7 6 7 LSB 21 53 6 12 14 CW 137 483 10 23 14 USB 44 142 9 9 21 CW 36 106 6 5 21 USB 13 33 4 5 28 CW 7 21 2 2 28 USB 2 6 1 1 Total Both 305 981 45 63
Score : 105 948
Total Time On 11:27 (687 mins)
The best conditions on my side were on 40m saturday night (at least when I was operating: between 0100 and 0300). All high bands opened but with not so great signals and lot of faint ones with a lot of QSB. I was surprised the 10m opened to Europe when the solar flux was only at 85. Maybe a multi-hop E-sporadic opening to EU. In the morning, 20m was noisy and the signals were not too good. When I came back to 20m at 1800, it was really better but not astounding. I didn't have time to check on 80m but I don't think it was of any interest at this moment of the year with the time I had. The second half of my participation was really a better experience than the first half.
Thanks to Victor as FP/VA2WA on 10 and 15m CW and Alexei as TF4X on 20m CW. I've seen or worked no VE2 this time.
73 to all Have a nice week Luc VE2FXL
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Rig: Kenwood TS-590S + a small one transistor PA to get my LP up to ARRL LP - 150 watts. Ant: Stepp-IR vertical 40-10, 12.5 m T- vertical with 4 x 12 meters rods sloping down from the top. ( Was doing a great job on 160 and 80 meters ). The big vertical was matched by a 300 Om balanced line and 4:1 baloon to a short patch coaxial cable (50 Om) connected to a manual tuner in a shack.
Ufff.. It's over! The most difficult contest in a very extreme conditions for past years. The very rough propagation during morning hours swapped to a an excellent one right after noon. Huge pileups on 20-40-80 with hourly rate around 150-200 q/h then someone switched off at 3 AM. To work someone by S/P that was a pain. The call FP/VA2WA so complicated especially when my LP can't get through a noise. The weather did its own trick. A huge storm with a heavy rain started at Sunday afternoon. Thousands gallons of water were falling down. My two verticals were dancing a crazy dance. Honestly that was a miracle how they could work quite well that time.
Unforgettable ))
Thank you guys for all the QSO's: VE2EZD, VE2FXL, VA2EW (TZT), VE2DC and others. Sure I got one QSO with Alexei TX4F.
73!
Victor
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/07/11 18:21IARU Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-07-09 CallSign Used : VE2FK Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : 9 Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V11.7.1 Total Time On 01:03 (63 mins)
Band QSOs Pts Mlt 14 45 141 5 6 Total 45 141 5 6
Score : 1 551 Rig : K3 @ 100w Antennas : Hustler 20m mobile antenna Soapbox : Mobile/RV from Carleton sur mer. Too bad had not more time.
73 de VE2FK
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/07/13 09:10Alexey, Victor, any pictures of your last DXpedition for our site?
Thanks, 73 Claude VE2FK
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/07/13 22:30Unfortunately I have a trouble to convert the adf file from Writelog to N1MM and cannot present here full result. Here is only short info from TF4M website http://tf4m.com/page/2:
"Alexey, VE2XAA visited my station and operated the IARU HF contest with the call TF4X. He made 1876 QSOs for a total score of 770,400 points in the contest. Alexey became interested in visiting my station after we worked on 160 meters when he was QRV from Zone 2 in last years CQ World Wide Contest. Propagation was poor due to Aurora and as a result most of the contacts (about 1700) were made on 20m. Despite 24 hour daylight, Alexey made 14 QSOs on 160 Meters during the contest. Before the contest Alexey operated my station as TF/VE2XAA and made another 2,300 QSOs for a total of more than 4,000 QSOs during his stay."
Thanks to VE2FXL, VE2AWR and Victor FP/VA2WA for QSOs! It was a pleasure to hear loud stations QC in TF! I will sent to Victor the pictures shortly. Pictures about TF adventure from Thor can be found on his website.73! Alexey VE2XAA
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Score : 165,152 Total Time On 14:34 (874 mins) [b]
This is my first IARU contest and my first time doing a multi-op. I found it was great especially since I lost my voice during the week! We started late, after 5PM Saturday so we missed the 10m propagation. Also some equipment problems slowed us down. Propagation was strange but this is summertime conditions. 40m was fantastic but 80m was disappointing. I was expecting a lot of activity on 80m during the night but there was not much and the band was noisy at my location. I finally got my zone 2 with VE2CSI!
Bravo Victor for your Dxpedition and a fantastic score! Too bad we could not catch you and Alexi for QSO.
73, de George VE2NGH
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First of all I would like to thanks Thor TF4M for a great opportunity to see and use his Super Station with unique Antenna Farm on the surface of 1500 hectares! Before the contest I decided to participate in phone category but during first 6 minutes of the contest was no phone QSO at all! So the mode was switched for CW and run started on 20 m band â?" the only opened band at the moment. Time to time I did check 15m and 10m but it was no whisper on the bands. Finally I did a few QSO on 15m with big troubles but 10 m was close during the contest completely. 20m was surprising: I did expect that run on 20m will stop after a few hours as usually for my home location; that will be already no new stations on the band and I can start hunting for multipliers; but pile-up had no stop! The flat rate of 120-140 QSO was continued after 5, 6, 7â?¦hours of the run! The stations with High Power, Low Power and QRP had almost the same signal level! The Otradalur Antenna Farm did a work perfectly and stack-match box let me separate EU-USA-JA directions just with push on one button! Amazing! In 10 hours I had already more than 1200 QSO only on 20m and did expect to have a run on other bands to make same number of QSO for other 14 hours. But after 12 hours of run somebody on the sky decided to switch off the light, put night Aurora cover on Iceland and told: OK guys, now you can relax and go to sleep, it will be no propagation for you for next few hours! It becomes nightmare: all bands closed, only big-guns were on the bands, QSO rate drops for 10-20 per hourâ?¦ Nice moment was on 160m:"Arctic King" antenna was doing the work very well: on each 1 kHz distance I heard HQ or other powerful stations with S7â?¦S9, but they did not hear my 1 kW signal! Probably they had other receiving directions except Arctic. With big difficulties spending 2-3 minutes for each contact I was able to make a dozen QSO on 160m despite 24 hour day-light at Iceland! Thor TF4M did not very good antenna, but exceptionally perfect! Thanks to every one for the contacts and hope to see you in the other contests.73! Alexey VE2XAA
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Re:IARU 2011 - 2011/07/16 14:00Did only about 100 qso's during this contest just to give points and pick some new DX.
On 15m/phone , I had the opportunity to say goodbye to my friend Phil FO8RZ who was doing his last contest in Tahiti. Phil removes his antennas this week before moving back to France after his two years professional mission in Tahiti. It happens that George VE2NGH was running just 1.5 khz below him and the qso was not easy on my side. I guess it was the same thing for George when I was speaking. Sorry George for qrm....
By the way, I am very happy to see George giving us a report of a serious participation in a contest. After his successful Fieldday, it seems that George have got the virus. Welcome and congrats George.
A second nice surprise is to see Alex and Victor going ‘’oversee’’ to reach favorable contest positions and doing very well. Congrats to both of you and thank to put VE2 amateurs on the map.
This is a very important thing to put VE2 on the map, I am always very disappointed when I fight to turn the mind of a DX or contest station who cannot imagine that my call is not VE3TZT but VE2TZT. It looks like people on other side do not expect at all that a VE2 station can be on the air and reach them…
73
Gilles VE2TZT
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