I participated in the IARU HF Championship 2017 / 2017-07-09

My activity in radio contesting has been in digital mode contests, with one exception in a mixed-mode contest where I also made some voice contacts: the ARI International DX Contest in 2016.

But this weekend I seriously entered the IARU HF Championship in 'phone' (speech) mode. I made 59 contacts, 50 on the 20 meter band and 9 on the 40 meter band. I managed to work a lot of the HQ stations I heard active for the various national radio clubs. I heard no serious DX, but the local noise at home is prohibitive for voice contacts anyway. My personal reason for entering this contest was reading about its role in the world radio team championship in the book Contact Sport: A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One-Day Race around the World by J.K. George.

I used yfktest for the contest logging and found the biggest fixed font I can use which makes the 80x24 xterm almost fill the entire screen. See the screenshot.

Claimed results according to yfktest:

Band    QSO    Qpts   Dupes   Mult1   Mult2
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  20     50     112       0      23       0
  40      9      13       0       8       0
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 ALL     58     124       1      31       0
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 Total Score: 3,875

Update 2018-01-18 And results have been posted! 56 contacts accepted (94.9%), 30 multipliers, 9 contacts accepted and 8 multipliers on 40, 48 and 22 on 20. Ranking is very hard to see from the overview but for 'single operator phone unassisted' I am number 10 out of 13. The ranking does not look at power level.