CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: IR7G
Operator(s): N6AA
Station: I7RIZ
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Foggia, Italy
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 212 10 51
80: 509 20 67
40: 1237 31 100
20: 655 30 91
15: 764 34 104
10: 349 24 59
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Total: 3726 149 472 Total Score = 4,596,021
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
Since too many Italians have been going on expeditions, it was felt necessary to
start sending Americans to Italy to fill the resulting void.
DX contests are tough from California, but middle Europe is brutal. I don't
think I've ever had as many fights over frequencies in a contest as this. A 3
element 40 meter beam at 190 feet and a 250 Hz CW filter with additional
processing helped, but people would still move in closer than 100 Hz away at
times. There actually isn't enough spectrum on 40 for the contest activity!
No doubt I'll receive sympathy for having to suffer using only a vertical on 80.
Couldn't get the 3 element 80 meter beam (at only 150 feet) to match well enough
on CW in the time I allocated for set up.
Used only a single radio as the station is set for for DXing, and antennas are
essentially hard wired into a single radio (at a time) antenna switching system
box that is ouside. Was not set up to change bands rapidly, so never moved any
stations at all. Italy isn't all that rare, so didn't get asked to move once
either. Just like being in California!
Spent 2 hours S&Ping on 80 around 1900 the first night. 3500 to 3600 was full,
and had 87 in the first hour doing just that. Could have called CQ and probably
duplicated the QSO rate, but missed many of the multipliers.
Conditions seemed OK, but not great. Only one zone 3 on 15, and none on 80. No
USA ever even heard on 160. Heard one JA on 160, but he answered another's CQ.
As the years have taken their toll on me, I actually had to sleep for 12
minutes. It really made a difference.
Overall, had a great time. Many thanks to Gianni, I7RIZ and his XYL, Mariza, for
their outstanding hospitality.
>From K5KA's fine CBS.EXE log analysis program:
(It works in DOS on Cabrillo logs, and is free! Search for K5KA and CBS.EXE.)
Callsign: IR7G
Contest: CQ-WW-CW
Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
Operators: N6AA
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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0000 0 0 117 0 0 0 117 3.1
0100 0 0 130 0 0 0 130 3.4
0200 0 0 118 0 0 0 118 3.1
0300 0 0 127 0 0 0 127 3.4
0400 0 0 100 0 0 0 100 2.6
0500 35 0 54 0 0 0 89 2.4
0600 6 33 0 32 0 0 71 1.9
0700 0 0 0 52 0 0 52 1.4
0800 0 0 1 0 93 0 94 2.5
0900 0 0 0 0 11 27 38 1.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 50 50 1.3
1100 0 0 0 0 54 7 61 1.6
1200 0 0 0 0 73 0 73 1.9
1300 0 0 0 0 64 1 65 1.7
1400 0 0 0 0 0 114 114 3.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 124 124 3.3
1600 0 0 0 140 0 0 140 3.7
1700 0 0 52 12 6 0 70 1.9
1800 0 0 103 0 0 0 103 2.7
1900 0 70 7 0 0 0 77 2.0
2000 0 87 0 0 0 0 87 2.3
2100 53 16 0 0 0 0 69 1.8
2200 86 17 0 0 0 0 103 2.7
2300 0 81 2 0 0 0 83 2.2
0000 0 0 82 0 0 0 82 2.2
0100 0 0 91 0 0 0 91 2.4
0200 15 42 0 0 0 0 57 1.5
0300 8 61 0 0 0 0 69 1.8
0400 4 0 61 0 0 0 65 1.7
0500 3 13 19 0 0 0 35 0.9
0600 0 39 0 13 0 0 52 1.4
0700 0 0 25 37 0 0 62 1.6
0800 0 0 0 25 11 0 36 1.0
0900 0 0 0 0 77 0 77 2.0
1000 0 0 0 11 16 10 37 1.0
1100 0 0 0 0 45 0 45 1.2
1200 0 0 0 0 100 0 100 2.6
1300 0 0 0 0 139 0 139 3.7
1400 0 0 0 22 2 16 40 1.1
1500 0 0 0 103 17 0 120 3.2
1600 0 0 0 20 56 0 76 2.0
1700 0 0 0 144 0 0 144 3.8
1800 1 0 3 21 0 0 25 0.7
1900 0 0 31 1 0 0 32 0.8
2000 0 26 0 15 0 0 41 1.1
2100 0 20 0 7 0 0 27 0.7
2200 1 4 21 0 0 0 26 0.7
2300 0 0 93 0 0 0 93 2.5
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Total 212 509 1237 655 764 349 3726
Gross QSO's=3783 Dupes=57 Net QSO's=3726
Unique callsigns worked = 2659
The best 60 minute rate was 168/hour from 1439 to 1538
The best 30 minute rate was 194/hour from 1446 to 1515
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 1448 to 1457
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 14 times.
4 QSO's/minute 78 times.
3 QSO's/minute 348 times.
2 QSO's/minute 679 times.
1 QSO's/minute 942 times.
There were 40 bandchanges and 0 probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 15
4 1372
5 1462
6 818
7 21
8 15
9 18
10 5
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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05 0 46 312 112 139 156 765 20.2
14 64 123 206 153 143 13 702 18.6
15 84 179 157 115 88 21 644 17.0
16 37 81 127 57 140 29 471 12.5
04 0 15 231 73 84 58 461 12.2
25 0 2 29 20 51 4 106 2.8
17 6 25 28 9 24 13 105 2.8
03 0 0 51 35 1 0 87 2.3
20 10 14 17 18 9 3 71 1.9
08 0 1 16 12 10 8 47 1.2
33 7 8 5 6 7 7 40 1.1
18 1 3 9 2 8 8 31 0.8
09 0 3 5 7 8 2 25 0.7
11 0 0 3 3 4 5 15 0.4
35 1 2 2 3 3 3 14 0.4
13 0 0 0 4 4 5 13 0.3
07 0 1 3 2 5 1 12 0.3
21 1 1 5 2 3 0 12 0.3
30 0 0 1 6 3 1 11 0.3
22 0 1 2 0 4 3 10 0.3
26 0 1 4 0 3 2 10 0.3
24 0 1 3 1 4 0 9 0.2
32 0 0 4 3 1 0 8 0.2
28 0 0 4 0 4 0 8 0.2
29 0 1 0 1 2 2 6 0.2
34 1 0 1 3 1 0 6 0.2
40 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0.1
10 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 0.1
38 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 0.1
02 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
23 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.1
37 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
06 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1
27 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1
36 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
19 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
31 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
39 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
12 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 212 509 1237 655 764 349 3726
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 1973
2 bands 421
3 bands 177
4 bands 66
5 bands 16
6 bands 6
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
DJ1YFK CT9L DF0HQ 5U5Z 3V8BB RT9W
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 110 245 726 336 415 141
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