North American QSO Party, SSB
Call: NK7U
Operator(s): NK7U, K7ZO, KL2A, N7WR
Station: NK7U
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 142 36
80: 433 59
40: 414 56
20: 634 59
15: 516 43
10: 0 0
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Total: 2139 253 Total Score = 541,167
Club:
Team:
Comments:
First off congrats to the K9NS crew for what looks like the winning M/2 score --
narrow that it might be. Our current scores are separated by about 1 mult or 11
QSO's! This is a case where an Internet real time scoring system would have been
really fun as I imagine we exchanged leads several times in the contest. And,
who knows what happened at the end? Did K9NS have a sudden burst at the ends and
pass us in the "last lap" or were they out in front and despite our valiant last
minute effort we could not catch them! Whatever being this close sure leads to
cases of "woulda, coulda, shoulda".
Overall though we had more fun than expected. NAQP is one of our all time
favorites at NK7U. High rates, only 12 hours, low power is easy on the station,
ends at 10PM on the west coast for us so a beer and some chatting after the
contest is easy, ends on a Saturday so we all don't have to run back home to be
ready for work on Monday, etc.
We suspected 10M was going to be a total bust and we were not disappointed
there. We couldn?t even round up a local for quick 10M QSO right at the end of
the contest for that single mult -- which ended up being a bigger difference
than we thought. The rest of the bands were in pretty good shape. We had a good
solid opening at the start on 15M and got a pretty good number of QSO's in the
log before the band died around 22:15. We had hoped for a few more mults and
have some real noticeable misses in the log, for instance the only province we
worked was VE3. We also missed RI and NM. Like other M/2s we went to 40M when
15M closed, which is way earlier than a single op would do, but we didn't have
anywhere else to go. And, things were pretty slow until 20M started closing for
everyone else and they moved to 40. We only had 30 QSO's in the first 45 minutes
on 40M. Then things picked up and we had a back-to-back hours of over 110 during
the 2300 and 0000 hours. We worked 20M hard from the start until it closed about
30 minutes after sunset. We were pretty happy with our 634 X 58 on that band.
Usually our hardest decision is when to go to 80M because most years 20M is
still open. If we go to soon we have a rate lower than 20 and waste some time.
If we go too late we miss some of the stations in the east that don't stay up to
the very end of the contest. However, no such problem this year as 20M closed
pretty early. 80M was pretty hot right from the start and held up very well all
the way to the end of the contest. We were very happy with our 59 mults, which
included HI calling in during the last few minutes. Also unexpected was VE8NSD
who said he was using a short mobile whip mounted on his car!
One of our major strategy changes this year was to work 160M harder. On the west
coast 160M is always tough for NAQP and we concede a great deal to our more
eastern competition. The population and mults are so much more spread out in the
west than the east. In some years K9NS has had more mults than we have QSO's on
160M. This year we spent parts of 4 hours on 160M and very aggressively passed
from 80M to 160M. Our 142 X 36 was well ahead of our 54 X 20 effort in the Jan
2004 contest and close to the 137 X 38 turned in by KL9A @ NK7U during last
week's CW version. This strategy seemed to work though all along we had the
nagging doubt "should we go back to 40 for a while -- the rate is probably
better, but we already have a pretty good number of 40M mults and there are not
that many left, whereas on 160M we still have plenty of mults." Such are the
contest strategy tradeoffs. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
It is interesting how passing from 80M to 160M worked. As you can imagine most
of the time it doesn't. NK7U has a pretty good transmit antenna but the usual
high receive noise level. So we knew we were getting out. What we were worried
about was hearing those calling. (Joe does have a E-W beveridge, but K7ZO and
KL2S forgot to use it -- our biggest mistake of the contest.) If the station
passed also had a good transmit antenna no problem. The best example was WX3B
with whom we easily had a QSO and said we had a booming signal into MD. VE3WIB
was also easily passed. This then got us thinking -- "How many others called and
we could not hear? What if K7ZO and KL2A had remembered to use the beveridge?"
Again, the usual second place, woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Thanks everyone for the QSO's. And a special thank to those that QSY?d for us.
We had a total of ~150 passes during the contest and this really helps our QSO
and mult totals. I always try to say thanks on the air, but if I happened to
miss one of you, thanks again.
And Joe and Sharon thanks for the hospitality.
Look for NK7U in this upcoming weekend's 160M contest.
Scott/K7ZO
-------------- 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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1800 0 0 0 118 183 0 301 13.9
1900 0 0 0 107 109 0 216 9.9
2000 0 0 0 97 103 0 200 9.2
2100 0 0 0 113 84 0 197 9.1
2200 0 0 30 122 37 0 189 8.7
2300 0 0 111 53 0 0 164 7.6
0000 0 7 118 24 0 0 149 6.9
0100 0 101 95 0 0 0 196 9.0
0200 37 97 23 0 0 0 157 7.2
0300 34 70 0 0 0 0 104 4.8
0400 43 91 12 0 0 0 146 6.7
0500 28 67 25 0 0 0 120 5.5
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Total 142 433 414 634 516 0 2139
Gross QSO's=2171 Dupes=32 Net QSO's=2139
Unique callsigns worked = 1294
The best 60 minute rate was 301/hour from 1800 to 1859
The best 30 minute rate was 336/hour from 1800 to 1829
The best 10 minute rate was 396/hour from 1800 to 1809
The best 1 minute rates were:
9 QSO's/minute 3 times.
8 QSO's/minute 3 times.
7 QSO's/minute 13 times.
6 QSO's/minute 31 times.
5 QSO's/minute 56 times.
4 QSO's/minute 82 times.
3 QSO's/minute 111 times.
2 QSO's/minute 81 times.
1 QSO's/minute 51 times.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 1
4 872
5 765
6 477
7 9
8 8
9 7
------------ 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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CA 39 53 44 24 3 0 163 7.5
TN 2 22 21 39 43 0 127 5.8
OH 1 15 16 25 46 0 103 4.7
TX 3 13 20 31 35 0 102 4.7
FL 0 10 12 44 26 0 92 4.2
IN 4 14 19 24 26 0 87 4.0
MI 0 19 16 24 24 0 83 3.8
PA 1 10 10 20 39 0 80 3.7
IL 1 14 16 29 18 0 78 3.6
NC 0 11 11 21 29 0 72 3.3
VA 2 11 11 19 26 0 69 3.2
CO 8 23 19 17 0 0 67 3.1
ON 1 13 9 15 25 0 63 2.9
GA 1 8 9 22 18 0 58 2.7
MN 4 15 13 23 1 0 56 2.6
WI 2 11 6 22 12 0 53 2.4
MD 1 11 8 9 17 0 46 2.1
MO 1 10 11 15 7 0 44 2.0
NY 0 9 6 19 7 0 41 1.9
AL 1 2 7 13 15 0 38 1.8
AZ 5 12 5 15 1 0 38 1.8
KY 0 5 4 12 16 0 37 1.7
SC 0 6 6 12 13 0 37 1.7
AR 1 8 6 13 7 0 35 1.6
WA 14 10 10 0 1 0 35 1.6
LA 1 7 7 9 10 0 34 1.6
OK 0 6 6 14 2 0 28 1.3
KS 3 6 4 13 1 0 27 1.2
OR 10 4 8 1 1 0 24 1.1
IA 2 5 4 8 3 0 22 1.0
WV 1 2 2 8 7 0 20 0.9
NJ 0 4 4 6 5 0 19 0.9
MS 1 3 2 5 6 0 17 0.8
BC 6 3 8 0 0 0 17 0.8
CT 0 6 3 4 3 0 16 0.7
NE 1 3 4 8 0 0 16 0.7
UT 4 5 7 0 0 0 16 0.7
MA 0 3 5 4 2 0 14 0.6
NV 4 4 3 1 1 0 13 0.6
VT 0 1 3 4 4 0 12 0.6
NM 2 1 4 4 0 0 11 0.5
DE 0 1 2 2 5 0 10 0.5
SD 1 4 2 3 0 0 10 0.5
AK 0 1 2 3 4 0 10 0.5
ID 5 2 3 0 0 0 10 0.5
ND 2 2 2 3 0 0 9 0.4
NH 0 1 3 3 2 0 9 0.4
MT 4 3 2 0 0 0 9 0.4
SK 2 3 1 1 0 0 7 0.3
MB 0 3 1 3 0 0 7 0.3
WY 0 4 2 0 0 0 6 0.3
ME 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2
VP 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.2
RI 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 0.2
AB 1 3 0 0 0 0 4 0.2
2 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0.1
XE 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
PQ 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
NB 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1
C6 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
NS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
QC 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
V2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PE 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ZS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ARU 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PJ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PEI 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
NT 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
HI 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 142 433 414 634 516 0 2139
Callareas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
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0 259 12.1
1 104 4.9
2 104 4.9
3 218 10.2
4 426 19.9
5 230 10.8
6 176 8.2
7 173 8.1
8 213 10.0
9 236 11.0
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 785
2 bands 285
3 bands 128
4 bands 80
5 bands 16
6 bands 0
----- 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 45 118 129 274 219 0
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