CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: P40L
Operator(s): W6LD, KX7M, N7MH, N6XI
Station: P40L
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 48.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 354 17 67
80: 672 25 104
40: 2391 36 133
20: 1828 37 142
15: 1701 33 123
10: 642 19 48
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Total: 7588 167 617 Total Score = 17,592,176
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was our second CQ WW cw effort from outside the U.S. Fortunately, we were
able to assemble the same team as last year and add Mike, N7MH. Denny, Mike and
I arrived on the island mid-day Wednesday. Rick arrived on the red-eye Friday
afternoon only 5 hours before the contest. Of course, this made him the natural
choice to be our lead-off run station operator.
We approached this year with targets that represented a substantial decline in
both Qs and mults relative to last year (e.g., targets that were 90-95% of last
year's results) given where we are in the sun spot cycle. We are very pleased
to have exceeded even our "stretch goals" for just about every band.
The results are probably due to four principal factors:
(1) Very good low band conditions.
(2) Reduced interstation interference attributable to the addition of coaxial
stubs (fixed problems on 160, 80 and 40, but still need more work on high bands)
and a switchable band filter on the beverages.
(3) The addition of a 500 foot beverage pointed at Europe in addition to a the
existing beverages pointed at Western and Eastern U.S.(made possible by the
heroic (and painful) efforts of Denny, KX7M, who tunneled through about 70 feet
of brambles and cacti in the cunucu).
(4) Sufficient operators to afford a second set of ears on the run radio,
especially the very talented ears of N7MH.
Low band conditions were excellent. John Crovelli, P40W, with whom we had the
pleasure of sharing several meals (including Thanksgiving dinner) and from who
we continue to learn something every time we get together, commented that these
were among the best conditions he has experience in his 20+ years of contesting
from Aruba. Ten meter was a challenge, but we succeeded in working 22 European
stations, most of which were just above the band noise.
Our biggest challenge was the discovery that all three of the usual rigs for the
station (2 FT1000Ds and a FT990) had problems. We ended using the recently
added IC756ProII as the run radio, a radio that none of us had any prior
experience operating, plus a borrowed FT1000MP. Many thanks to Jean-Pierre,
P43A, for the loan of his rig.
The pile-ups were huge, but generally well behaved.
We all had lots of fun. I was particularly pleased by how well the team worked
together.
Thanks for all the contacts!
73,
John, W6LD/P40L
Continent List P40L CQWW CW 2005
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 176 334 1047 840 856 524 3777
VE calls = 18 35 70 70 50 38 281
N.A. calls = 19 27 36 35 33 18 168
S.A. calls = 9 18 28 31 36 27 149
Euro calls = 128 230 963 711 683 22 2737
Afrc calls = 3 11 18 19 19 12 82
Asia calls = 0 12 68 51 13 0 144
JA calls = 0 1 149 58 1 0 209
Ocen calls = 1 4 12 13 10 1 41
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 354 672 2391 1828 1701 642 7588
P40L CQWW CW 2005 Rate
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 27 198 0 0 0 225 225
1 0 11 204 10 0 0 225 450
2 6 23 172 0 0 0 201 651
3 0 158 26 0 0 0 184 835
4 55 100 9 0 0 0 164 999
5 93 3 0 4 0 0 100 1099
6 6 82 7 3 0 0 98 1197
7 4 3 128 0 0 0 135 1332
8 0 57 62 1 0 0 120 1452
9 0 28 81 2 0 0 111 1563
10 0 0 97 32 0 0 129 1692
11 0 0 18 175 31 0 224 1916
12 0 0 0 79 126 0 205 2121
13 0 0 0 4 169 12 185 2306
14 0 0 0 2 40 159 201 2507
15 0 0 0 8 198 3 209 2716
16 0 0 0 4 224 9 237 2953
17 0 0 0 169 6 16 191 3144
18 0 0 0 33 7 160 200 3344
19 0 0 0 6 226 0 232 3576
20 0 0 3 167 44 0 214 3790
21 0 0 3 196 1 0 200 3990
22 0 0 37 83 17 0 137 4127
23 0 1 144 8 0 0 153 4280
0 0 1 152 2 0 0 155 4435
1 0 1 171 0 0 0 172 4607
2 98 4 3 0 0 0 105 4712
3 1 54 64 0 0 0 119 4831
4 7 1 175 0 0 0 183 5014
5 1 1 148 0 0 0 150 5164
6 79 0 24 1 0 0 104 5268
7 2 79 36 0 0 0 117 5385
8 1 26 67 0 0 0 94 5479
9 0 10 87 0 0 0 97 5576
10 0 0 81 6 0 0 87 5663
11 0 0 0 173 2 0 175 5838
12 0 0 0 70 84 1 155 5993
13 0 0 0 3 86 14 103 6096
14 0 0 0 106 20 4 130 6226
15 0 0 0 1 127 18 146 6372
16 0 0 0 64 70 0 134 6506
17 0 0 0 38 0 111 149 6655
18 0 0 0 0 21 133 154 6809
19 0 0 0 83 100 1 184 6993
20 0 0 0 55 101 0 156 7149
21 0 0 17 145 0 1 163 7312
22 0 2 26 94 1 0 123 7435
23 1 0 151 1 0 0 153 7588
TOTAL 354 672 2391 1828 1701 642
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