ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: KC1XX
Operator(s): KC1XX,K1AR,K1DG,K1TR,N2AA,W2RQ,AD1C,W1FV,K1GQ
Station: KC1XX
Class: M/M HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 47.2
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 77 48
80: 593 86
40: 632 95
20: 1943 148
15: 2202 138
10: 963 119
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Total: 6410 634 Total Score = 12,176,604
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2003
Call: KC1XX
Category: Multi Multi
Power: High Power
Band: All Band
Mode: SSB
Section: NH
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
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160 77 231 3.0 48 K1GQ
80 593 1779 3.0 86 W1FV
40 632 1884 3.0 95 AD1C/K1TR
20 1943 5829 3.0 148 N2AA/W2RQ/K1TR
15 2202 6597 3.0 138 K1AR/K1DG/K1TR
10 963 2886 3.0 119 KC1XX
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Totals 6410 19206 3.0 634 = 12,176,604
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Operator List: KC1XX,K1AR,K1DG,K1TR,N2AA,W2RQ,AD1C,W1FV,K1GQ
Equipment Description: http://www.kc1xx.com
Soapbox:
Like everyone else, we suffered through the propagation. But in a
multi-multi, you can drive up the QSO totals by passing guys around to
almost-closed bands and a) hope they show up, and b) hope you hear
them. But the best part of a M/M is the camaraderie of (in our case)
nine guys just hanging out, playing radio, and laughing our butts off
for 48 hours (when we're not kicking the competition's).
This time we had the three top contesters from Windham, NH helping us
out -- K1s AR, DG and TR. Bill W2RQ brought along his friend Gene,
N2AA, who knows a little bit about contesting. As always, Matt's wife
Christine and the girls kept us well taken care of, and provided
pleasant distractions when the runs slowed down. I wouldn't be
surprised if some of you heard Anika while we were calling CQ.
160 Meters: Bill K1GQ is learning "the voice" slowly but surely. He
deserves a medal for sticking it on 160 meters Saturday night for a
total of 10 QSOs and 3 multipliers in 14 hours of operation. He
claimed there were only two stations he heard but did not work - the
3-element vertical really plays!
80 meters: Tough going on this band, but John managed to even work 5
JAs despite the lousy conditions. Many of the Europeans peaked from
the southeast instead of direct path, except for Saturday night. He
worked some Europeans 2 hours after their sunrise!
40 meters: Jim started off the contest feeling lousy (even skipped
the pre-contest dinner, a first). Runs were slow and he couldn't
break the pileups. Ed K1TR give him a couple hours of much-needed
rest time, and when he sat down, discovered the Heil headset he had
been using had an intermittent mike. Swapped headsets and things
returned to "normal". The rotator problems that plagued 40 meters in
the CW contest were fixed when Matt's associate Andrew ran a new
control line of heavy-gauge copper. We never thought the indicator
was working completely right, but it was because the Europeans were
peaking out of the south/east rather than the northeast! JAs were
loud Sunday morning, but there weren't enough to work.
20 meters: It's always nice to have some hired guns working this
band. Gene's voice could be heard in western Europe even with the
mike turned off. They worked a ton of guys in the pacific Saturday
night, ragchewing with many of them but some nice mults called in:
ZK1, 5W and 3D2 to name a few.
15 meters: This was our money band this year. Former WRTC champions
and brothers-in-law K1AR and K1DG cleaned out the band. When things
were slow, using the 2-radio setup they took turns calling CQ on the
same frequency to see who the DX would come back to. They even kept
score! Doug's master of several foreign languages kept things
interesting.
10 meters: The band opened late, was skew-path to Europe beaming over
Africa much of the weekend, but Matt still got up each day at 0900z to
make sure he didn't miss anything. He heard many guys south of us
running DX that we could not even hear -- not a peep. You can tell
conditions are poor when Matt is trying to run the Spanish-speaking
boys in some form of Spanish. I don't know if he was able to
successfully pass any of them to 15 meters, but it was entertaining to
listen to.
Thanks to all the multis for the competition. We would have no need
or desire to do this by ourselves.
In case you're curious, in the four DX contests this season, the KC1XX
station made 29,947 QSOs. After a couple of year hiatus, we will be
sending out QSL cards again this summer to confirm all new calls and
new band-modes. Watch your mailboxes!
73 - The KC1XX Team
http://www.kc1xx.com
Continent Statistics
KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 02 Mar 2003 2359z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
SSB
North America SSB 19 33 42 76 74 72 316 4.8
South America SSB 5 20 26 102 81 145 379 5.8
Europe SSB 48 528 527 1447 1694 620 4864 74.4
Asia SSB 0 9 28 202 332 68 639 9.8
Africa SSB 4 6 9 32 31 38 120 1.8
Oceania SSB 1 13 11 125 31 35 216 3.3
QSO Counts By Band-Country (10 or more QSOs on a band)
KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 02 Mar 2003 2359z
PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
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9A 2 8 4 18 18 14
CT 1 4 6 10 11 7
DL 4 76 76 192 267 73
EA 2 19 25 50 52 35
EI 9 2 10 8 8
F 3 25 41 91 96 39
G 5 67 60 249 239 68
GI 1 7 7 15 7 5
GM 2 8 7 33 19 9
GW 1 9 9 21 15 6
HA 1 12 12 25 40 16
HB 2 6 7 25 28 17
I 5 51 84 162 188 125
JA 5 19 105 272 55
KP4 1 1 1 6 11 9
LA 5 3 12 11 3
LU 3 7 30 25 47
LY 2 8 6 14 13 8
LZ 1 13 3 20 19 9
OE 1 9 10 18 28 6
OH 7 6 31 41 6
OK 1 25 13 34 68 13
OM 2 8 6 14 14 8
ON 8 9 37 45 9
OZ 1 8 6 15 14 6
PA 3 19 22 52 61 19
PY 3 7 32 29 57
S5 18 7 23 33 21
SM 9 8 32 36 5
SP 2 26 18 43 49 14
SV 7 7 15 18 4
UA 1 12 15 56 88 6
UA9 6 47 29 2
UR 2 17 14 34 48 5
VK 6 6 68 5 15
XE 1 4 3 13 6 5
YO 3 4 11 13 8
YU 4 6 26 30 17
ZL 2 1 30 2 5
ZS 11 10 16
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 59/26 56/29 49/31 57/27 11/5 232/118 232/118
1 2/2 46/9 26/10 25/10 20/0 . 119/31 351/149
2 2/2 31/10 28/6 26/6 5/2 . 92/26 443/175
3 12/10 22/4 19/8 19/3 . . 72/25 515/200
4 16/11 37/7 22/10 23/5 . . 98/33 613/233
5 17/11 43/5 20/5 10/4 . . 90/25 703/258
6 10/4 46/7 29/5 15/6 . . 100/22 803/280
7 2/1 19/3 36/3 21/2 . . 78/9 881/289
8 2/2 7/3 32/2 21/8 ..... ..... 62/15 943/304
9 . 8/0 7/0 13/3 . . 28/3 971/307
10 1/1 3/1 5/0 65/10 6/5 . 80/17 1051/324
11 . 3/0 6/0 123/6 60/20 29/13 221/39 1272/363
12 . . . 98/7 78/18 50/18 226/43 1498/406
13 . . . 64/3 222/10 73/24 359/37 1857/443
14 . . . 42/2 179/5 52/13 273/20 2130/463
15 . . . 68/2 181/6 46/10 295/18 2425/481
16 ..... ..... ..... 85/6 149/3 41/7 275/16 2700/497
17 . . . 97/1 101/1 39/3 237/5 2937/502
18 . . . 83/2 58/3 21/1 162/6 3099/508
19 . . . 73/0 55/3 19/1 147/4 3246/512
20 . . 1/0 73/2 30/4 13/2 117/8 3363/520
21 . . 44/1 53/2 30/4 12/0 139/7 3502/527
22 . 20/0 15/1 49/0 81/3 39/2 204/6 3706/533
23 . 16/0 49/1 31/3 107/1 34/1 237/6 3943/539
0 ..... 33/1 33/1 15/2 39/1 4/2 124/7 4067/546
1 . 21/1 17/0 11/0 1/0 . 50/1 4117/547
2 2/1 12/1 15/1 9/2 . . 38/5 4155/552
3 2/2 13/0 9/1 7/2 . . 31/5 4186/557
4 2/0 27/2 12/1 13/1 . . 54/4 4240/561
5 3/0 33/1 6/1 8/0 . . 50/2 4290/563
6 1/0 32/3 19/3 17/3 . . 69/9 4359/572
7 . 20/1 24/2 7/0 . . 51/3 4410/575
8 ..... 4/0 30/1 12/0 ..... ..... 46/1 4456/576
9 . . 15/0 5/0 . . 20/0 4476/576
10 . 3/0 3/1 55/1 . . 61/2 4537/578
11 . . 1/0 88/0 27/2 8/0 124/2 4661/580
12 . . . 63/4 105/2 11/0 179/6 4840/586
13 . . . 32/0 111/3 50/2 193/5 5033/591
14 . . . 28/1 83/1 90/4 201/6 5234/597
15 . . . 21/0 86/2 102/1 209/3 5443/600
16 ..... ..... ..... 35/1 77/1 93/2 205/4 5648/604
17 . . . 61/2 71/2 75/3 207/7 5855/611
18 . . . 68/1 66/1 14/1 148/3 6003/614
19 . . . 55/1 34/1 9/0 98/2 6101/616
20 . . 1/0 62/2 25/2 7/2 95/6 6196/622
21 . . 16/0 23/0 12/1 8/0 59/1 6255/623
22 . 15/0 9/1 13/0 25/1 10/2 72/4 6327/627
23 3/1 20/1 27/1 9/1 21/3 3/0 83/7 6410/634
DAY1 64/44 360/75 395/81 1226/124 1419/115 479/100 ..... 3943/539
DAY2 13/4 233/11 237/14 717/24 783/23 484/19 . 2467/95
TOT 77/48 593/86 632/95 1943/148 2202/138 963/119 . 6410/634
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