ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): KE5C, WM5R, KG5U, W5JEN, K5TR
Station: K5TR
Class: Limited Multi-Op HP
QTH: EM00uf
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 1128 252
2: 130 34
222: 22 12
432: 34 13
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 1314 311 Total Score = 426,070
Club:
Comments:
ARRL VHF QSO SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 14-Jun-03, 15-Jun-03, 16-Jun-03
Callsign Used : K5TR
Operators : KE5C, WM5R, KG5U, W5JEN, K5TR
Category : Limited Multiop
Default Exchange : EM00
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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6 1168 1128 1128 252
2 134 130 130 34
222 22 22 44 12
432 35 34 68 13
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Totals 1359 1314 1370 311
Final Score = 426070 points.
I was really looking forward to this contest. I worked on
improving the station some in the weeks before the contest
including building an putting up a new 8 element six meter yagi.
The contest was fun on six meters this year - well it was fun
on Saturday - Sunday was very slow tough going.
The contest started off well and the rates were good but
during the 0Z hour they took off - the band opened to a huge
area of the country and the rate went through the roof.
It peaked out with 238 qsos in one 60 minute period from
0036z - 0136z. The pileups were 10 to 20 deep many times
and it was shear fun. One of the things about Es is that you
just never know when it will open and how long it will last I am
glad it hung in there for some really good rates.
Having made it to 1000+ QSOs several times from W5KFT over the years
I have always felt that given the right conditions it
would be possible to make over 2000 contacts on six meters.
One year at W5KFT we made almost 1400 contacts and that year
we finished out the first 12 hours of the contest with 470 contacts
on six meters - by the first 12 hours of this years contest we already
had almost 1100 contacts on the band. I was in shock. When I went to
bed Saturday night I knew that 2000 qsos was in reach if the band
conditions would just let us keep a good steady rate of contacts going.
Sunday came and went and when the contest was over we would see that
we only had two hours that were higher than 10 contacts/hour - and most
of them were in the 2 to 3 contact range. As the slow hours dragged by
on Sunday it was sad watching so few contacts going into the log.
The high bands were very flat all weekend - with lower than normal
rover activity around the state. We did manage to work on Es contact on
2 meters by working DN01. Thunderstorms were the big
concern for us - in that I was afraid we would get a good Es opening
and have to shut down do to lighting - as it turns out we did have
to get off the air but not until 1 AM local time and 6M had died down
to almost nothing by then anyway. Anohter storm kept us off the air until
after 7 AM sunday morning but I do not think we missed too much. So the
storms turned out to not be a factor.
KG5U came over from Houston for his first VHF contest.
He was here both days and got a taste of the great conditions.
KE5C showed up on Sunday and got to grind out alot of unanswered CQs
on 6 meters. But I sure am glad we had help - last year it was just
WM5R and I and it was very hard to keep going when the bands are dead.
WM5R came out again and did a great job on the high bands this year.
I am always hopeful for better conditions next year or the next.
I will keep working on the station and we will be ready.
73 and Thanks for the contacts.
The station:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
50Mhz - Kenwood TS-690 - 3cx800 amp (800 watts)
8 element yagi at 75'
7 element yagi at 30'
6 element yagi at 25' fixed west
144Mhz - Kenwood TS-850S - DEM transverter - 3cx800 (700 watts)
17B2 17 element yagi at 35'
8 ele yagi at 60'
vertical at 44'
222Mhz - Kenwood TS-850S - DEM transverter - Brick (100 watts)
15 element yagi at 38'
432Mhz - Kenwood TS-850S - DEM transverter - Brick (100 watts)
31 element yagi at 42'
Alot of numbers:
0004: 6 per minute (360/hr)
0109 - 0119: 44 per 10 minutes (264/hr)
0036 - 0136: 238 per hour
HOUR 6 2 222 432 TOTAL ACCUM
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18 50 16 3 7 76 76
19 14 7 1 3 25 101
20 76 7 1 3 87 188
21 83 8 0 1 92 280
22 79 6 1 2 88 368
23 88 5 1 3 97 465
0 202 3 0 0 205 670
1 215 7 1 1 224 894
2 112 7 1 4 124 1018
3 97 4 1 1 103 1121
4 60 4 0 0 64 1185
5 12 1 0 0 13 1198
6 1 0 0 0 1 1199
7 0 0 0 0 0 1199
8 0 0 0 0 0 1199
9 0 0 0 0 0 1199
10 0 0 0 0 0 1199
11 0 0 0 0 0 1199
12 0 0 0 0 0 1199
13 5 7 1 1 14 1213
14 5 4 0 0 9 1222
15 8 7 2 3 20 1242
16 4 8 0 2 14 1256
17 5 5 0 0 10 1266
18 6 2 0 0 8 1274
19 7 2 1 0 10 1284
20 2 1 0 0 3 1287
21 2 4 2 2 10 1297
22 2 4 1 1 8 1305
23 3 2 0 1 6 1311
0 5 2 1 0 8 1319
1 12 4 1 0 17 1336
2 13 7 3 0 23 1359
TOTAL 1168 134 21 31
1. em10 73
2. em00 46
3. en91 34
4. el09 30
5. em79 25
6. en61 25
7. en52 24
8. en34 23
9. en82 22
10. em13 21
11. em69 21
12. el98 20
13. em12 19
14. em48 18
15. fm19 16
16. en80 16
17. en51 16
18. em73 15
19. en90 14
20. el29 12
21. en60 12
22. fm06 12
23. en70 12
24. em64 12
25. em86 12
26. dm79 12
27. cn87 12
28. em20 11
29. em74 11
30. em95 10
31. em84 10
32. en53 10
33. fn00 10
34. cn85 10
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