New country in amateur radio: Tanzania. But not in morse (yet..)
28 September 2024 at 14:59
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 QSO 0 0 8 65 7 0Results after entry. I had to dig into the rules to see why some contacts gave no score but that is because contacts with non-Scandinavian stations don't count for European stations. For next time: read the rules better before a contest.
PE4KH - NON-SCANDINAVIA EU PA Band QSO Points Multipliers ------------------------------------ 80m 0 0 0 40m 8 8 6 20m 63 63 26 15m 6 6 4 10m 0 0 0 ------------------------------------ Total 77 77 36 Dupes: 0 Invalid: 3 QSO Total: 80 Score: 2.772 (Diff: -1.148) CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP BAND: ALL POWER: LOW OVERLAY: NONE STATION: FIXEDThere is also a big difference in 'claimed score' versus 'calculated score' which means I need to write a TLF scoring plugin for this contest.
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 QSO 0 0 0 63 46 3 Mult 0 0 0 28 17 2 Pts: 362 Mul: 47 Score: 17014According to the log submission site: Raw Score: 302 Qpts x 47 Mults = 14,194 (112 QSOs). I checked the difference in scoring between tlf and the scoring site: this has to do with the counting of QSO points: contacts with one of the special stations such as HQ stations or an IARU official counts as one QSO point, even on a different continent. I have several HQ stations in the log and one IARU official. Looking at other contest plugins for tlf it should be possible to write a plugin that does the scoring for the IARU-HF contest right by dealing with all the one point cases. For my own DX score I scored Alaska as a new entity (and US state). I hope that one gets confirmed! I also have another station in Kosovo in morse in the log, so maybe I will finally get that country confirmed in morse on LoTW.
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 QSO 0 0 0 166 53 31 Pts: 334 Mul: 194 Score: 64796In earlier contests I thought using the 15 meter band could add results, this seems to be true.
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 QSO 0 0 23 65 0 9 Mult 0 0 16 36 0 6 Pts: 133 Mul: 58 Score: 7714And the multiplier score is even better: at this moment TLF cannot deal with the fact that the first contact in one of the Spanish DXCC entities (Spain has EA: main land spain, EA6: Balearic Islands, EA8: Canary Islands and EA9: Ceuta and Melilla) counts as two multipliers: one for the country and one for the Spanish province.
Ezequiel Welcomme LU9MWE (Argentina) brought to my attention that some models only work with the original cable (Chinese). Using an aftermarket or homemade cable may result in the radio cycling or pulsing when trying to communicate with the software. (Pulsing VIDEO). The solution is to place a reference to GND in the communication lines. This is done by adding two 10K ohm resistors. One between GND - RX, and the other between GND - TX.I asked whether the person selling me the radio still had the cable and I will receive it soon and test with that cable. That cable I made back then was later modified to have both 3.5mm jack plug for the QYT radio and the connector for baofeng / wouxun radio's, so I'm not keen on modifying it even further at the moment.