One of the ‘AWs during 2017 IARU

In early June, NN1N contact me and K5ER to offer the opportunity to organize a distributed multi-multi as NU1AW/5 for the IARU contest.  Of course we said YES!

Here is the summary!

IARU HF World Championship
Call: NU1AW/5
Operator(s): WM5H W5WZ W5LA K5ER KV8S KA5M KG5VK KN5O NO5W K2FF K5YG W5XU N5HZ KG5HVO
Station: NU1AW/5
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
————————————-
  160:    63           0       7          3
   80:   326          2     15        14
   40:   741     530    26       47
   20:  1101   1079    40       54
   15:   436     393    22         18
   10:      61        82       4             2
————————————-
Total:  2728   2086   114      138  Total Score = 3,652,488

Grand Total Qs: 4814

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:
Our first time ever distributed multi-multi operation.  We used an online scheduling tool to manages the host station band/mode time slots.  View the schedule here:  http://w5wz.com/nu1aw/

Three host stations with 14 operators

Ops at W5WZ: WM5H W5WZ W5LA K5ER KV8S
3 transmitters

My elmer Jim W5LA running CW as NU1AW/5 during 2017 IARU at W5WZ. Photo by Scott W5WZ
Mark K5ER and Bobby WM5H running SSB as NU1AW/5 during 2017 IARU at W5WZ. Photo by Scott W5WZ

Ops at KA5M: KA5M KG5VK
1 transmitter

Steve KG5VK and Marsh KA5M at KA5M in Shreveport, Louisiana. Photo by Lynn Stewart

Ops at KN5O: KN5O NO5W K2FF K5YG W5XU N5HZ KG5HVO
2 transmitters

Here’s an animation of the 24-hour contest log in just 4.5 minutes!

You can also find a complete summary of our results, compiled by SH5, stored permanently on my website at: http://w5wz.com/sh5/w5wz/2017/2017_iaru-hf_nu1aw_5/   Feel free to share this link freely or use the data as you see fit, provided you give credit to SH5 and W5WZ.com for hosting those results.

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