{"id":13,"date":"2006-07-09T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-04-13T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T02:48:21","slug":"2006-iaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"2006 IARU"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.contesting.com\/archives\/\/html\/3830\/2006-07\/msg00323.html\">Summary<\/a>:\r\n\r\n Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults\r\n---------------------------\r\n  160:    1      1      1\r\n   80:   23     10     13\r\n   40:   74     22     28\r\n   20:  106    100     46\r\n   15:   28     18     18\r\n   10:    4      2      3\r\n---------------------------\r\nTotal:  236    153    109  Total Score = 108,455<\/pre>\n<p>I got my 20 meter antenna deficiency somewhat corrected for this contest by  finally getting the dipole up in a good tall tree at about 50 feet.  Given the lack of towers sprouting in the backyard, this will probably be the best I  get for a 20 meter antenna for the near future.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIronically, just when I get a decent antenna, 20 meters didn&#8217;t really act like 20 meters&#8211;but lots of strong short propagation.  Didn&#8217;t work much DX until late.  But 20 was fun for a change, and I made the bulk of my QSO&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>For a mixed mode contest, I unexpectedly worked more CW than phone.  I saw some incremental improvement in my CW skills, but compared to the op&#8217;s at the run stations, I&#8217;m still a lid.<\/p>\n<p>de W4KAZ\/LID<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 160: 1 1 1 80: 23 10 13 40: 74 22 28 20: 106 100 46 15: 28 18 18 10: 4 2 3 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Total: 236 153 109 Total Score = 108,455 <\/p>\n<p>I got my 20 meter antenna deficiency somewhat corrected for this contest by finally getting the dipole up in a good tall tree at about 50 feet. Given the lack of towers sprouting in the backyard, this will probably be the best I get for a 20 meter antenna for the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}