CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: WX5S
Operator(s): WA6O K6OWL W6RK W6LD WX5S N6DE N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Stanford, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 60
40: 580
20: 1344
15: 725
10: 162
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Total: 2871 Prefixes = 889 Total Score = 6,074,537
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
CQ WPX CW 2006, WX5S(@W6YX)
Our operators included WA6O, K6OWL, W6RK, W6LD, WX5S, N6DE and N7MH. The new
addition to the operator roster and our secret weapon this year was the hired
gun Mike WA6O. He operated long hours, both nights and kept QSOs coming in with
steady high rates. We hope to see you soon again Mike! Everyone else did great
job, too, and we managed to keep both stations QRV for the whole contest. We
were able to beat our claimed score by about 1M from couple of previous years.
Propagation:
80m: we didn't have too much time for 80m because other bands kept us busy.
40m: JAs kept coming on 40m until about 15Z. Not too many Europeans worked on
40m. We heard the strong stations but it was difficult to get through the noise
and east coast wall.
20m: the main band that stayed open nearly 24h/day. Propagation to Europe was
very good. The band stayed open to Europe until about 08Z.
15m: better than expected. We worked Europeans until late afternoon and we also
noticed an interesting opening to JA/Northern and Eastern Europe around 08-10Z.
10m: also surprisingly good. We even worked couple of JAs on Saturday. On
Sunday it was in a good shape to U.S.A. (Sporadic-E all day on 6m, too).
We are dissapointed at the JA activity. It has gone down over the past years.
Signals were strong but there just weren't as many stations to work like years
ago. We even worked some JAs on 10m and their spots said we were strong. Where
has all JAs gone? Old hams getting too old, and young people playing with their
iPods and computers? Or were they busy with with other things this weekend
(storms/earthquake/final exams/some sports event?) or just pointing antennas to
other directions (EU)? This is making it harder and harder to make a good score
from west coast.
It was a lot of fun! Below are some stats and you can find graphs and even more
stats at http://www.w6rk.com/.
73!
Risto, W6RK
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Equipment:
Transmitting stations: Yaesu FT-1000MP & MkV, Alpha 78 & Alpha 87A
amplifiers
Spotting: Icom IC-756Pro, Icom IC-761
Antennas:
Multibander: Mosley Pro67 at 50 ft (for spotting station).
Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft
10m: 5-el at 31 ft, 6-el at 75 ft
15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft
20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft.
40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft.
80m: 4-square, inverted vee at 55 ft
160m: none operational this time
Software:
Writelog 10.47E
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 55/38 49/38 --+-- 104/76 104/76
D1-0100Z - - 6/2 66/35 36/25 - 108/62 212/138
D1-0200Z - - 4/2 77/26 25/17 - 106/45 318/183
D1-0300Z - - 35/22 60/42 - - 95/64 413/247
D1-0400Z - - 35/15 93/57 - - 128/72 541/319
D1-0500Z - - 31/13 81/43 - - 112/56 653/375
D1-0600Z - 3/1 14/3 50/28 - - 67/32 720/407
D1-0700Z - 2/1 12/4 20/6 - - 34/11 754/418
D1-0800Z --+-- 1/0 57/24 --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/24 812/442
D1-0900Z - 10/3 67/25 - - - 77/28 889/470
D1-1000Z - 6/1 26/9 - - - 32/10 921/480
D1-1100Z - 4/1 12/4 - - - 16/5 937/485
D1-1200Z - 3/0 11/4 18/5 - - 32/9 969/494
D1-1300Z - - 26/8 56/19 1/0 - 83/27 1052/521
D1-1400Z - - - 50/12 41/15 - 91/27 1143/548
D1-1500Z - - - 20/13 78/18 - 98/31 1241/579
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/10 41/10 --+-- 68/20 1309/599
D1-1700Z - - - 19/10 22/3 5/0 46/13 1355/612
D1-1800Z - - - 19/11 38/8 2/0 59/19 1414/631
D1-1900Z - - - 18/5 31/5 - 49/10 1463/641
D1-2000Z - - - 26/10 21/1 8/1 55/12 1518/653
D1-2100Z - - - 27/14 40/7 - 67/21 1585/674
D1-2200Z - - - 47/10 4/1 36/5 87/16 1672/690
D1-2300Z - - - 27/8 31/3 4/0 62/11 1734/701
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 54/11 36/6 --+-- 90/17 1824/718
D2-0100Z - - 5/0 24/3 16/5 - 45/8 1869/726
D2-0200Z - - 18/3 38/11 6/1 - 62/15 1931/741
D2-0300Z - 1/0 49/7 40/10 - - 90/17 2021/758
D2-0400Z - 7/3 24/1 24/1 - - 55/5 2076/763
D2-0500Z - - 26/3 15/8 - - 41/11 2117/774
D2-0600Z - - - 47/8 - - 47/8 2164/782
D2-0700Z - - 11/2 27/5 5/1 - 43/8 2207/790
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 15/1 2/0 33/5 --+-- 50/6 2257/796
D2-0900Z - - 6/2 2/1 20/3 - 28/6 2285/802
D2-1000Z - - 28/2 17/2 4/1 - 49/5 2334/807
D2-1100Z - 7/1 15/3 17/2 - - 39/6 2373/813
D2-1200Z - 16/1 3/0 16/3 - - 35/4 2408/817
D2-1300Z - - 25/5 14/4 - - 39/9 2447/826
D2-1400Z - - 19/7 14/1 - - 33/8 2480/834
D2-1500Z - - - 20/5 18/5 - 38/10 2518/844
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 16/0 32/3 --+-- 48/3 2566/847
D2-1700Z - - - 10/5 20/4 8/0 38/9 2604/856
D2-1800Z - - - 16/2 - 39/2 55/4 2659/860
D2-1900Z - - - 5/0 12/1 26/2 43/3 2702/863
D2-2000Z - - - 16/11 - 23/3 39/14 2741/877
D2-2100Z - - - 10/1 25/0 8/0 43/1 2784/878
D2-2200Z - - - 19/4 25/4 - 44/8 2828/886
D2-2300Z - - - 25/2 15/0 3/1 43/3 2871/889
Total: 0/0 60/12 580/1711344/502 725/190 162/14
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