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[3830] ARRLDX CW N6BV(@N6RO) SOAB HP

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Subject: [3830] ARRLDX CW N6BV(@N6RO) SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: n6bv@arrl.org
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:48:05 -0800
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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N6BV
Operator(s): N6BV
Station: N6RO

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   22    18
   80:   97    43
   40:  659    84
   20:  524    91
   15:  655    91
   10:   73    38
-------------------
Total: 2030   365  Total Score = 2,222,850

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

This was my first single-operator all-band ARRL DX CW contest since returning
from New Hampshire to California in 1998. Needless to say, working lots and lots
of Europeans from W6 is not quite as easy as from New Hampshire as N6BV/1 --
even from a superstation like N6RO's! But it was fun to get back into the action
again.

Ken, N6RO, graciously allowed me to use the station, since he had a music gig to
do. For this SOAB effort, I used my well-worn SO2R setup on the same bench where
I normally do 15 meters when N6RO is doing a multi-multi operation. 

Just before going out to 'RO Acres, I was very pleasantly surprised to have UPS
deliver a large white box containing a new ORION transceiver that Scott, W4PA,
had managed to spring loose from the factory before the promised March 1
delivery date. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to redo the switch box and
other wiring at N6RO, and I didn't want to risk the overall reliability of the
system by hurriedly cobbling together something. So I fell back to using my two
tried-and-true IC-765s. But thanks, Scott, for that heroic effort (and
congratulations also on your fantastic effort at K5ZD this weekend!) I promise
that I'll get that ORION integrated into the system for the next contest.

Anyhow, the propagation conditions were a little better than I expected, but we
are definitely on the down side of Solar Cycle 23. Perhaps as a tradeoff for 10
meters being mediocre compared to the last few years, 80 and 160 were very good.
I've never heard 80 meters so quiet, with a number of readable signals from
Europe. And about a dozen of them heard me too! Pretty amazing from California,
at least for me. 

Here's my rate sheet. Certainly not up to East-Coast standards, but not too bad,
I hope...

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  N6BV  ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST  Single Operator
HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT  
   0    .....    .....    .....     1/1    100/12     8/4    109/17  109/17 
   1      .        .        .      26/19    62/2       .      88/21  197/38 
   2      .        .        .      63/10    32/3       .      95/13  292/51 
   3      .        .      42/34    12/0       .        .      54/34  346/85 
   4      .        .      39/15      .        .        .      39/15  385/100
   5     2/2     15/15     4/0       .        .        .      21/17  406/117
   6     2/2     12/9     17/1       .        .        .      31/12  437/129
   7     5/5      2/2     56/5       .        .        .      63/12  500/141
   8    .....     2/2     83/1     .....    .....    .....    85/3   585/144
   9      .       1/1     77/3       .        .        .      78/4   663/148
  10      .       5/1     65/5       .        .        .      70/6   733/154
  11     2/2     20/0     19/1       .        .        .      41/3   774/157
  12      .       1/0     54/1       .        .        .      55/1   829/158
  13      .        .      51/1      2/2       .        .      53/3   882/161
  14      .       4/2     14/0     13/10     6/6       .      37/18  919/179
  15      .        .        .      27/9     18/16      .      45/25  964/204
  16    .....    .....    .....     7/1      8/6     29/20    44/27 1008/231
  17      .        .        .        .      53/12     1/0     54/12 1062/243
  18      .        .        .       9/4     49/6      2/1     60/11 1122/254
  19      .        .        .      60/9      6/2       .      66/11 1188/265
  20      .        .        .       8/0     10/2     14/5     32/7  1220/272
  21      .        .        .        .      25/6      1/0     26/6  1246/278
  22      .        .        .       3/0     50/1       .      53/1  1299/279
  23      .        .        .       4/3     57/3       .      61/6  1360/285
   0    .....    .....    .....     4/2     30/1     .....    34/3  1394/288
   1      .        .        .        .        .        .        .   1394/288
   2      .        .        .        .      38/2       .      38/2  1432/290
   3      .        .       2/0     39/3      3/0       .      44/3  1476/293
   4     3/2       .       9/2     25/1       .        .      37/5  1513/298
   5      .       4/3     18/8       .        .        .      22/11 1535/309
   6     5/4     12/8       .        .        .        .      17/12 1552/321
   7      .        .      30/6       .        .        .      30/6  1582/327
   8    .....     7/0     15/0     .....    .....    .....    22/0  1604/327
   9      .        .      16/0       .        .        .      16/0  1620/327
  10      .        .        .        .        .        .        .   1620/327
  11      .       1/0     27/0       .        .        .      28/0  1648/327
  12     3/1       .      15/1       .        .        .      18/2  1666/329
  13      .      11/0      6/0      1/0       .        .      18/0  1684/329
  14      .        .        .      15/4       .        .      15/4  1699/333
  15      .        .        .      25/1      9/2       .      34/3  1733/336
  16    .....    .....    .....    86/4     .....    .....    86/4  1819/340
  17      .        .        .       7/1     48/2      3/3     58/6  1877/346
  18      .        .        .      56/3      5/1      1/0     62/4  1939/350
  19      .        .        .      10/0      4/1     10/4     24/5  1963/355
  20      .        .        .      10/1      6/3       .      16/4  1979/359
  21      .        .        .       6/1      4/1      1/0     11/2  1990/361
  22      .        .        .       4/1     18/0       .      22/1  2012/362
  23      .        .        .       1/1     14/1      3/1     18/3  2030/365
DAY1    11/11    62/32   521/67   235/68   476/77    55/30    ..... 1360/285
DAY2    11/7     35/11   138/17   289/23   179/14    18/8       .    670/80 
TOT     22/18    97/43   659/84   524/91   655/91    73/38      .   2030/365


73, Dean, N6BV


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