CQ Worldwide DX Contest - CW
Call: KC1F
Operator(s):
Station:
Class: SOAB HP
Operating Time (hrs): 37.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 24 9 17
80: 164 17 59
40: 442 23 79
20: 834 34 97
15: 571 31 97
10: 718 31 87
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Total: 2753 145 436 = 4,636,380
Comments:
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Equipment Description: TS-850S, AL-1200.
- 160/80/40 - Alpha Delta DX-A from 56 feet
- 40 - Force 12 EF240S fixed at Europe at 41 feet
- 20/15/10 - KLM KT34A at 57 feet
- 10 - Cushcraft XM510 fixed at Europe at 48 feet
- - Tower = Rohn HBX56 - 56 feet self-supporting
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1F CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Unlimited
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 13/17 24/21 15/21 17/15 ..... 69/74 69/74
1 3/5 . 4/6 18/17 9/4 . 34/32 103/106
2 . . 74/17 . . . 74/17 177/123
3 . 8/7 27/2 3/4 . . 38/13 215/136
4 2/3 14/10 35/4 . . . 51/17 266/153
5 . 8/7 45/0 3/3 . . 56/10 322/163
6 . 5/5 17/9 . . . 22/14 344/177
7 . . . . . . . 344/177
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 344/177
9 1/1 3/3 10/7 . . . 14/11 358/188
10 3/1 3/3 9/8 1/1 . . 16/13 374/201
11 1/0 . 3/2 27/10 39/19 . 70/31 444/232
12 . . . . 13/7 106/32 119/39 563/271
13 . . . . . 110/7 110/7 673/278
14 . . . . . 85/4 85/4 758/282
15 . . . . 10/2 100/8 110/10 868/292
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 115/12 ..... 115/12 983/304
17 . . . 87/12 31/5 . 118/17 1101/321
18 . . . 147/13 . . 147/13 1248/334
19 . . . 127/8 . . 127/8 1375/342
20 . . . 122/4 . . 122/4 1497/346
21 . . . 13/0 8/9 30/29 51/38 1548/384
22 . . 85/2 . 10/10 . 95/12 1643/396
23 . . 3/1 . 36/8 33/2 72/11 1715/407
0 ..... ..... ..... 14/12 24/5 1/2 39/19 1754/426
1 . . 21/7 6/5 . . 27/12 1781/438
2 6/9 24/10 7/2 . . . 37/21 1818/459
3 1/1 14/3 8/3 . . . 23/7 1841/466
4 . . . . . . . 1841/466
5 . 20/2 8/3 1/0 . . 29/5 1870/471
6 3/3 37/3 . . . . 40/6 1910/477
7 . 11/2 9/0 2/4 . . 22/6 1932/483
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1932/483
9 . . . . . . . 1932/483
10 3/3 . . 2/1 2/2 . 7/6 1939/489
11 1/0 4/4 4/2 2/0 13/4 . 24/10 1963/499
12 . . . 13/1 7/0 60/3 80/4 2043/503
13 . . . . . 70/1 70/1 2113/504
14 . . . 7/1 37/11 9/0 53/12 2166/516
15 . . . . 52/1 24/3 76/4 2242/520
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 22/1 48/11 70/12 2312/532
17 . . . 1/1 96/5 1/2 98/8 2410/540
18 . . . 67/1 1/0 12/4 80/5 2490/545
19 . . . 93/3 4/2 . 97/5 2587/550
20 . . . 52/2 7/4 . 59/6 2646/556
21 . . 31/2 2/2 2/0 11/0 46/4 2692/560
22 . . 7/3 9/5 10/0 7/6 33/14 2725/574
23 . . 11/1 . 6/2 11/4 28/7 2753/581
DAY1 10/10 54/52 336/79 563/93 288/91 464/82 ..... 1715/407
DAY2 14/16 110/24 106/23 271/38 283/37 254/36 . 1038/174
TOT 24/26 164/76 442/102 834/131 571/128 718/118 . 2753/581
This was a single operator, one radio operation from my home station; I
have a 167x100 foot lot with a small backyard, so no room for guy wires - only
a Rohn 56 foot self-supporting tower. A second one is going up hopefully next
summer, about 30 feet from the first one !
Not much of a station, but I?ve been trying to see if I could crack the
top ten from here unassisted on cw - the last two ARRL CWs I?ve been 13th and
18th, and 23rd in the last WW CW. It?s fun each year to add an improvement and
see the difference ! I may have moved up about 5 notches this year between two
station improvements and operating four more hours.
One improvement this year was a used TS-850S - yes, my first
computer-controlled radio ! Can?t buy too many gadgets on a social worker?s
salary. I moved my stock Kenwood 500 Hz filters from the 930. The radio
seemed to overload on 40, and during peak times on the high bands. AIP seemed
to help. Do the International Radio filters work better ? I polled people on
the club reflector in the past, and got equivocal results. Obviously computer
control is great for an assisted operation, but without Top Ten boxes or
something I didn?t really use the extra features. I?d put a few guys in the
band map and come back later. It was kinda neat passing a few guys with the
tribander - put the amp in standby, type in the frequency ! HO3A beat me twice
to the new frequency, though !
The other new addition was the Cushcraft 10 meter XM510. My tribander
works poorly on 10 as it interacts with a WARC band antenna above it (I know, I
know, but I like DXing too !). For last year, a 10-4 CD at 35 feet worked
better but I still got relatively smoked compared to 20 and 15. For those who
haven?t seen one, the Big Thunder series look much more sturdy than the
Skywalkers. Much more hardware, everything?s pinned etc. The Skywalker I put
up myself in 4 hours including assembly. The XM was about 7 times that. The
XM does have a wider bandwidth and lower SWR, and does seem to perform better,
although it also is 13 feet higher. It played nicely at the end of the opening
(16z). It probably would have been good for running Jas, if I could have
turned it.
I totally cleaned my carpeted radio room before the contest, for my peace
of mind (vacuumed the floor, etc). This did mean that my kids (8 and 5) had a
great time playing down there during the contest, although the QRM was fierce
at times ! I got hit a couple of times by flying toys. My 8 year old did take
an interest in the mounting score on the ALT-S window on CT, and they
entertained themselves locating countries on the map that were identified by
F10. I know I?ll miss this in ten years ! They got mad at me at one point for
ignoring them, and wrote a nastygram to me and managed to print it out on
another computer. My five-year old daughter delivered it in my Halloween Darth
Maul mask - a little scary in my sleep-deprived state !
Interesting to see that W4AN CQed for 46 hours - I did a quick scan
(easier to do with the frequencies printed out from my 850 !) and it appears I
only CQed for about 20 hours out of 37.5 on the air, including only about 7
hours on Sunday ! Running guys is definitely less work, at least for me. Lots
of tuning on Sunday produced rates equal to what I could do CQing, plus more
mults. I found OX/N6AA by accident up at 28221 ! I could get a rate of 100/hr
or so by tuning at times.
Yup, there were a lot of guys to work, and scores get higher each year,
but I wonder if we confuse the progessively higher activity, especially in
Europe, with better conditions. The bands sounded OK to me, but the K was 2
for much of the weekend, which I think is about average. Also, better stations
and more technology may make conditions seem better.
Gotta get a better chair for the next one - used an old hard chair from
the kitchen, alternating with a director?s chair intended for the deck. This
is fine for Dxing, but not contesting.
I couldn?t figure out how to use QRate properly, but I think it showed a
peak rate of 166 on 20 Saturday afternoon. Everybody else?s peak rates are on
10, and mine have been on 20 in the early afternoon - can?t figure it out. I
think everybody else had these rates too, but was neat to see 8 out of 9 hours
on Saturday over 100 ! CT said the best 10 qsos was 259/hr, and the best 100
was 181/hr, both on 20 meters.
160 seemed OK even without my receive loops up - I wanted to concentrate
on getting the 10 meter antenna up. Some dummy ran over the wire with a lawn
mower, and I haven?t fixed it yet. I could only CQ on 80 for a bit at European
sunrise. I continue to get hammered on 40 - when I move some antennas to a
second tower (next summer ?) I can raise the 40 yagi by 10 feet, but I think
I?m going to have to experiment with some vertical arrays. 20 does nicely from
here for some reason. Being weak on the low bands does mean that I can sleep
at night without losing good running time though !
Is it me, or is the problem of DX stations not signing getting worse
each year ?
Hope everybody had fun, and see you in the next one ! Go YCCC !
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