11/03/2006 | VE3AP First al all I want to thanks Vlad-VE3JM and Don VE3RM, to give me the chance to operate IARU from Don's super station this year.

I wanted to operated this contest because of WRTC, as I was Argentina's team leader in WRTC 2000 (S522R) and Finland (OJ1C), I know the feeling of this event, and being in the contest, I feeling myself like being in WRTC itself.

It was my first real try to operate SO2R, for moments it was nice, but most of the times it was a mess, because the station wasn't ready to operate 2 radios at this time. My goal was try to duplicate my score from last year, but unfortunately the huge electrical noise in low bands (there are a continuous electrical noise of S9+30dB in the frequencies between 1 to 5 MHz, it just started some days before IARU), keep me short from my goal. That noise really hurts my score, because never I couldn't run in 80 neither in 160 and every QSO in that band was a 'pain in the butt", because copying the stations with 30 dB of attenuation in the front end and using the DSP at maximum processing to try to understand the calls really got me frustrated and very tired. Every QSO in 80 and 160 meter took me around one minute to completed and that is not the best way to get your maximum score, but anyway I enjoyed the contest, working 44 WRTC's station (several of them in 4 bands), working in 40 meter lot of the new VK's foundation licenses with 4 letters in the suffix, trying to move between bands some Central America's HQ multipliers, etc.
See you in next contest
73, Claudio LU7DW/VE3AP/VE2DWA -- LU7DW