LA8W – LN8W

Contest Dates : 03-Apr-99, 04-Apr-99

Contest dates: 25/26 September

LA8W SOAB SAC CW 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Mults	RAW Score
80	246	513	39
40	317	730	47
20	460	1152	63
15	418	1072	58
10	74	172	32
Totals	1515	3639	239	869,721

Operator: LA8SDA

LA8W SOAB TS CQ WPX SSB 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Prefixes	Score
160	31	65	9
80	220	503	153
40	32	105	28
20	784	1596	181
15	1488	3885	470
10	106	298	60
Totals	2661	6452	901	5,813,252
Final Score				5,701,805

Operator: LA4DCA

New European record and #1 World TS 1999

LA8W SOAB ARRL DX CW 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Mults	Final Score
160	2	6	2
80	141	423	31
40	391	1173	52
20	608	1821	56
15	576	1728	56
10	384	1152	39
Totals	2101	6303	236	1,487,508

Operator: LA4DCA

LA8W SO 15M All Asia CW 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Prefixes	Score
15	931	911	175	159,425
Final		910	175	159,250

Operator: LA4DCA

Equipment: TS850S, AL1200, KT34XA @60 feet, TRlog 6.40

Planned a SOAB effort but ended up on 15M. Non of the other bands produced any good runs, so I decided to enter SO15.
Wasted good operating time finding out though. The JA’s were really strong here. Had lots of fun!

Bjorn/LA4DCA

#1 World Record

LA8W MS IARU HF Championship 1999

Operators: LA9HW & LA4DCA

Soap: First weekend with really nice weather this summer. 25 degrees C in the shadow, and we stay indoors doing contest! We must be crazy. Think I never gonna do that from Norway ever again. Summer is too short. See you next year. Naw…. maybe…

Bjorn LA4DCA & LA9HW

Equipment used: FT1000MP, AL1200(this one broke Sunday morning) used a HL1000kgx(300W) rest of the contest), KT34XA, sloper on 40M, deltaloop on 40M, vertical on 80M.

Peak rates:

• 1638: 5 per minute (300/hr)by LA9HW
• 0610: 32 per 10 min. (192/hr)by LA9HW
• 1729: 136 per hour by LA4DCA

LA8W MS CQ WW DX SSB 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Points/QSO	Zones	Countries	Score
160	202	217	1.07	6	49
80	464	635	1.37	14	75
40	543	802	1.48	26	93
20	1089	2809	2.58	38	123
15	1515	3807	2.51	37	127
10	1093	2778	2.54	34	124
Totals	4906	11048	2.25	155	591	8,241,808
Final	4805			154	587	7,516,704

Operators: LA4DCA, LA5KO, LA8SDA, LA9EEA, LA9HW & LA9SEA

Peak rates:

• 1402: 8 per minute (480/hr)
• 1528: 48 per 10 min. (288/hr)
• 0402: 204 per hour

Equipment Description:

FT1000-MP, TS850, TS940, FT767
160m: Inv L + Beverages
80m: Vertical + Beverages
40m: 2 el beam, delta loop
20m: KT34XA, TH5
15m: 5 el beam
10m: KT34XA, TH5

Soap: Not only are the sunspots back. They are working too! Unfortunately Murphy as well – we lost two hours on Saturday by power outage. Condx were fabulous, and we are really looking forward to the CW part.

LA8W MS CQ WW DX CW 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Points/QSO	Zones	Countries	Score
160	185	220	1.19	11	62
80	712	1100	1.54	26	96
40	751	1568	2.09	32	112
20	819	2291	2.80	36	115
15	1535	3525	2.30	36	119
10	719	1732	2.41	36	123
Totals	4721	10436	2.21	117	627	8,390,544
Final						7,458,836

Operators: LA4DCA LA5KO LA8SDA LA9HW LA9VDA

Peak rates:

• 0412: 6 per minute (360/hr)
• 0342: 34 per 10 minutes (204/hr)
• 0530: 162 per hour
• Total Qs: 4799(incl.78 dupes) Average rate: 99 per hour

Equipment Description:

FT1000-MP, TS850, TS940, FT1000D
160m: Inv L + Beverages
80m: Vertical + Beverages
40m: 2 el beam, delta loop
20m: KT34XA, TH5
15m: 5 el beam, 155CAS
10m: KT34XA, TH5, 105BAS

LA8W MS CQ WW CW 160M 1999

QSO’s	QSO pts	States	Countries	Score
694	3625	10	55	235,625

Operators: LA4DCA & LA8SDA

LA8W MS CQ WPX CW 1999

Band	QSO’s	QSO pts	Prefixes	Score
160	0	0	0
80	134	292	18
40	438	1233	92
20	1103	2303	376
15	1073	2719	318
10	5	5	1
Totals	2753	6552	805	5,274,360

Operators: LA4DCA, LA8SDA & LA9HW

Equipment: TS850S, AL-1200, KT34XA, 1/4 w. vertical 80M, delta loop 40M, sloper 40M.

Only a semi-serious effort from us this time. It started off as a serious effort to break the old LA M/S record at 3,6 mill points (it is our own!).

We all met at the QTH early Friday afternoon to get rigs, computers and antennas work properly. After fixing some SWR problems with the main antenna (KT34XA) we started to erect a second beam (TH5), but soon found that the new rotor was too wide for the mast’s top section! So we gave it up. With only one beam up, we found it hard to run two rigs, and just skipped it. Used the weekend to do as much as we could with one rig, and used spare time to plan for this year’s main event: CQ WW CW in November. The contest started of quite slow, rates around 50/60 qso’s an hour. Propagation forecast wasn’t too encouraging, with three Coronal Mass Ejection’s expected to hit the Earth during Saturday.

The biggest surprise for the weekend was learning that the K-index was quite low, Boulder said 2 in average. That for sure was not the case for us here in the Auroral Zone!!! Even though the bands sounded good, with lots of DX, we realized heavy signal degrations during times. Condx into US and especially Japan was quite good, but due to the signal degrations we could hardly keep any frequency. All the time we lost it to a southern European, which obviously had better condx. During the whole weekend, the rate meter just passed 100 a few times, but on the other hand it seemed quite stable.

We ended up with an average of 57 q’s an hour, and variation was very small. In the same way as we get more K’s than JA’s in CQ WW, it is the opposite with summer condx – JA’s coming in almost around the clock on 20m, and also into late afternoon on 15m. Most enjoyable contest, and really looking forward to CQ WW!

And yes, we ended up with a new LA record.