ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: W0SD
Operator(s): W0SD
Station: W0SD
Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: South Dakota
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW:
SSB: 1625 85
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Total: 1625 85 Total Score = 279,500
Club:
Comments:
Sections 53 DX 33
First thanks to everyone who tried to work us. We had a new antenna this year a
5 element beam at just under 200 feet and it was very quiet so we were better
able to hear the weak ones this year but the truth is with high power, 7/8"
heliax to get the loss very low and very quiet receiving conditions other than
QRM comes and go there are a lot of people that just don't have enough antenna
and or power to get back to us. My apologies but we have about maxed out on
what we can hear.
Here is the antenna run down
5 elem at just under 200 feet
5 elem at 100 feet can be fed in phase with lower antenna-independent rotation
5 elem at 60 feet(can be fed in phase with higher antenna-independent
rotation
TH-11 At 70 feet
Thanks goodness for the sporadic E or it would off been brutal. We had 5 hours
over 100 and one hour at 99, see below but we also had 4 hours of very, very few
qso's when the band went dead. I could hear the solar nose swishing across the
band. This was the poorest I have heard the carribean ever through a several
miniums(SA was not so bad) but yet worked more DX this year than last but I
think that is the new antenna. We worked VK3TZ near Melbourne at 11:00 pm.
That is tough to do during the sunspot maxium. It was a lot like six meters
with a signal being gone in a instant and various types of QSB. Very few
meteors, like last year to far away from the shower. Last year I worked all
the lower 48 but this year missed ND. Last year I worked a lot of back scatter
but not much this year. I would say the 10 meter casual operators are getting a
lot better. Most people used phonetics. I remember a big spordic e opening
quite a number of year back and a fictious example of wd5ved would not use
phonetics. Enough to drive you wild but very few of those this year! After
digging out a ton of weak ones that hear me fine and I come back for example to
KC1? So many insisted on continuing to say KC1 and about time they would get to
the missing part they would fade, get clobbered, etc. They need to concentrate
more on what I don't have right<grin>
Everybody had a good attitude and it was a good time. Following are the
breakdown. For being 63 this year it went well but it was petty grueling with
the QRM and splatter during the Sporadic E. Last year with the backscatter it
was a lot easier it seemed. I will have to compare the two rate sheets this
week
Here are the break downs:
QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band
Hour 10M CW 10M PHO Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- 141/26 141/26 141/26
D1-0100Z - 99/4 99/4 240/30
D1-0200Z - 39/2 39/2 279/32
D1-0300Z - 34/8 34/8 313/40
D1-0400Z - 16/1 16/1 329/41
D1-0500Z - 10/0 10/0 339/41 17
D1-0600Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-0700Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 339/41 60
D1-0900Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-1000Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-1100Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-1200Z - - 0/0 339/41 60
D1-1300Z - 3/2 3/2 342/43 41
D1-1400Z - 15/8 15/8 357/51
D1-1500Z - 26/8 26/8 383/59
D1-1600Z --+-- 154/4 154/4 537/63
D1-1700Z - 126/6 126/6 663/69
D1-1800Z - 75/6 75/6 738/75
D1-1900Z - 61/3 61/3 799/78
D1-2000Z - 30/0 30/0 829/78
D1-2100Z - 11/0 11/0 840/78
D1-2200Z - 6/0 6/0 846/78
D1-2300Z - 5/0 5/0 851/78
D2-0000Z --+-- 48/0 48/0 899/78
D2-0100Z - 78/0 78/0 977/78
D2-0200Z - 72/0 72/0 1049/78
D2-0300Z - 25/0 25/0 1074/78
D2-0400Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-0500Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-0600Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-0700Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-0900Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-1000Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-1100Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-1200Z - - 0/0 1074/78 60
D2-1300Z - 2/0 2/0 1076/78 57
D2-1400Z - 52/0 52/0 1128/78
D2-1500Z - 57/0 57/0 1185/78
D2-1600Z --+-- 79/1 79/1 1264/79
D2-1700Z - 49/0 49/0 1313/79
D2-1800Z - 41/5 41/5 1354/84
D2-1900Z - 110/2 110/2 1464/86
D2-2000Z - 113/0 113/0 1577/86
D2-2100Z - 39/0 39/0 1616/86 31
D2-2200Z - 1/0 1/0 1617/86 48
D2-2300Z - 8/0 8/0 1625/86
Total: 0/0 1625/86
10M CW 10M PHO Total
3X 1 1
6Y 1 1
8P 1 1
A3 1 1
C6 1 1
CE 1 1
CM 1 1
CP 1 1
CX 2 2
FK 1 1
FM 1 1
HC 1 1
HI 2 2
HK 3 3
HP 1 1
HR 2 2
K 1430 1430
KH6 4 4
KP2 1 1
KP4 4 4
LU 26 26
P4 1 1
PJ2 1 1
PY 34 34
TG 2 2
TI 3 3
VE 64 64
VK 10 10
VP9 1 1
XE 5 5
YN 1 1
ZF 3 3
ZL 9 9
ZP 1 1
ZS 4 4
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