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To: 3830@contesting.com, pbarkey@bsu.edu
Subject: [3830] ARRLDX SSB N9RV SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: pbarkey@bsu.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:11:55 -0800
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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N9RV
Operator(s): N9RV
Station: N9RV

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 44
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   21    18
   80:  160    57
   40:  264    65
   20:  777   109
   15: 1234   108
   10:  405    84
-------------------
Total: 2861   441  Total Score = 3,785,103

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

This turned out to be a mostly fun contest.  Last mode's challenge
was wind and snow, this time on SSB it was line noise.  After calling
the power company twice a day all week about the s9+10 noise
to the NE they finally came out to look on Friday.  But the power
company now has a policy about sending trucks out on icy roads
so all they did was tell me was, yep, you've got noise!  Thanks.

Beaming to JA the noise was acceptable, and low bands were
unaffected.  So I told myself to ignore it and hope for luck.  Still, it
was pretty disconcerting to hear the noise all night every time I
checked for it.  By 1330z on Sat morning I was still running on
20 (where it wasn't quite as bad) and putting off a move to CQ on
15 and act like an alligator.  Was contemplating quitting when I
decided that I at least had to try.  Switched bands, and, whoa!
No noise!  It disappeared without a trace, and was noise-free for
the entire contest until the last two hours when it came back.

Rates were at times very good in this contest, but frequency ownership
was always contestable.  You learn how to "time share" frequencies
in W9.  The QRM from splatter was such that you just had to have
faith that the waters would part now and then and you'd have a
chance to pick up whatever fills you needed from a weak station.

We were very obviously moving to lower sunspots in this contest.
One side effect of this is that the Friday night pileups on the low bands
were much more intense, especially on the Carribeans.  Can't believe
how long it took me to break through to ZF2DQ on 40m.  Not
used to waiting in line that long with 1.5 KW and a Yagi.  Scott was
working 'em about 10 a minute, so the problem wasn't on his end ...
Also the bands took very long to open here in the morning.

I didn't do much CQ-ing at all to EU on 10 meters on Sat morning,
and it really shows in my multiplier on that band.  15m was very good,
and I never heard anything very loud there.  Almost all EU here was worked
(on both days) on 10m beaming over Africa.  Must have been nice to have been
a W4 this weekend!  I don't know where these loud JA's on 10m were
that everyone is talking about.  None were heard here.

Really blew it on 160m, where some EU were obviously coming through
at about 0400z on Friday night and I didn't stick around to vacuum them
up.  How can you operate a contest where your only EU QSO on top
band is with RW2F?

Also have a lot to learn about 2 radio in SSB contests.  Its much harder
for me, particularly on RX.  I can deal OK with two CW audio streams coming
at me, but with QRN/QSB on SSB I am always switching to get one
radio in both ears.

Had better luck CQ-ing on 75m than I did on 80m in the CW contest.
Perhaps it is because on SSB you're not giving up that much to do it
(since 40m doesn't produce big rates on SSB).  Was fun to pick up my
buddy N9NC (SU9NC) on that band.

Now it is back to the real world.  Thanks to all who participated.  Thanks
especially to all the South Americans for their excellent activity on 10m.
We are going to get to know each other very well in the coming years,
my friends!

  - Pat
    N9RV


      Continent List  N9RV ARRL DX SSB 2003 SOAB HP

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    30    17    12    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0
  VE calls    =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0
  N.A. calls  =     13    22    20    28    36    31     0     0     0    150
  S.A. calls  =      4    13    11    47    27    59     0     0     0    161
  Euro calls  =      1   112   167   548   865   258     0     0     0   1951
  Afrc calls  =      2     4     3    17    14    11     0     0     0     51
  Asia calls  =      0     0     4    48    35     1     0     0     0     88
  JA calls    =      0     5    49    57   238    28     0     0     0    377
  Ocen calls  =      1     4    10    32    19    17     0     0     0     83

  Unknowns    =      0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0

  Total calls =     21   160   264   777  1234   405     0     0     0   2861



                          N9RV ARRL DX SSB 2003 SOAB HP


  HOUR  160SSB   80SSB   40SSB   20SSB   15SSB   10SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
    0       0       0       0      10      87       3     100     100
    1       0       0       7      12      54       0      73     173
    2       0      15      22       3       0       0      40     213
    3       0       0       9      29       0       0      38     251
    4       7      28       4       0       0       0      39     290
    5       0      21      38       0       0       0      59     349
    6       3      39       9       0       0       0      51     400
    7       2       9      50      11       0       0      72     472
    8       2       0      11      16       0       0      29     501
    9       0       9      10       1       0       0      20     521
   10       1       1      19       5       0       0      26     547
   11       0       4       4      28       0       0      36     583
   12       0       1       0      82      30       0     113     696
   13       0       0       0      23      75       3     101     797
   14       0       0       0       0      97      21     118     915
   15       0       0       0       0     121      15     136    1051
   16       0       0       0       3      59      22      84    1135
   17       0       0       0      36      16      10      62    1197
   18       0       0       0       3      93       0      96    1293
   19       0       0       0      65      17       5      87    1380
   20       0       0       0      81      12       1      94    1474
   21       0       0       0      77       2       8      87    1561
   22       0       0       0      44      13      11      68    1629
   23       0       0      12      15       9       1      37    1666

    0       0       0       0      12      11      33      56    1722
    1       0       2       0       0      97       0      99    1821
    2       0       0       5      37       4       0      46    1867
    3       0      10      15       5       0       0      30    1897
    4       5       9       0       0       0       0      14    1911
    5       0       6      12       1       0       0      19    1930
    6       0       2       0       0       0       0       2    1932
    7       0       0       0       0       0       0       0    1932
    8       0       0       0       0       0       0       0    1932
    9       0       2       1       4       0       0       7    1939
   10       1       1      28       7       0       0      37    1976
   11       0       0       8      14       0       0      22    1998
   12       0       1       0      12      32       0      45    2043
   13       0       0       0       0     105       2     107    2150
   14       0       0       0       0      43      53      96    2246
   15       0       0       0       1       6      79      86    2332
   16       0       0       0       0       7      90      97    2429
   17       0       0       0       0      98      10     108    2537
   18       0       0       0       2      80       7      89    2626
   19       0       0       0      48      22       2      72    2698
   20       0       0       0      53       5      12      70    2768
   21       0       0       0      12      14       8      34    2802
   22       0       0       0      16      11       3      30    2832
   23       0       0       0       9      14       6      29    2861

  TOTAL    21     160     264     777    1234     405


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