North American QSO Party, CW
Call: N3BB
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Austin, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 60 29
80: 156 43
40: 411 54
20: 295 53
15: 96 38
10: 1 1
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Total: 1019 218 Total Score = 219,090
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: Austin Powers Burritos
Comments:
Pasted below are my Rate and Mult files.
This is a PR for me, to the best of my reecollection. I left the radio feeling
that I did my best. I tried over and over to move stations to ten, but must
have missed some ten meter possibilities looking at W5KFT and others. Never
heard a peep here on the band. My sole ten meter contact was from running the
six bands with AC5AA 15 miles away in Austin.
We got around five inches (maybe more) of rain here in the twelve hours before
the contest started. The creeks flooded big time. But the rain stopped one hour
before the contest started, and in general it was really quiet in terms of
listening. There was some lightning-type QRN on 160 and 80 later on, but I felt
that I was hearing well.
This NAQP, I took off from 2030Z-2103, and that probably was a good decision.
My other off times were 0300-0326, and 0509-0559. Around sunset, the rates on
20 and 40 really got high. I had four straight hours of over 100 an hour and
then a 99 after those four. The two hours right at sunset were 110 and 131, and
it felt like I was a DX-pedition with a constant pile up. However after reading
the reports from N5DX and N2IC, they were having the good rates plus 10%!
Still, 160 was really good when I had to QRT at 0510 and I am sure I left some
easy mults on the table there. There always is a debate; does one take off that
last hour? In the summer, no! 160 does not even open until then. But in the
winter, I don't know. My feeling is that I missed 10 or 20 mults on 80 and 160
all combined, and that would have increased my score by 5-10%. But I would have
given up some QSOs to do it. Certainly, I had to be on during the peak run rates
mentioned above. But perhaps another half hour in the 03Z hour would have been
smart. I think so, as that would have left more rich multiplier time toward the
end. Comments? Please email me separately.
I tried to move quite a few stations, and had 30 succesful band moves including
the five local band-moves with AC5AA. Of that total, probably 6 or 7 were from
stations who called me and asked me to move. Several were stations whom I had
asked previously, but we failed. There were two guys that not only moved around
with me but came back on frequency and asked me to move later when other bands
opened! These included V31YN and VE9DX. They called me later and suggested we
try again when earlier tries had not worked out. Thanks! There were quite a
number of unsuccessful move tries as well. Results were poor on 15 and nil on
10. Also, our team member KZ5D moved me to 80 and 160 after he called me on 40!
There were a few others who asked me to move. One was VE3NE (no luck on 10
meters) and there were one or two others I have forgotten.
The NAQP really is an amazing event all in all!
My off times were 2030-2103, 0300-0326, and 0509-0559.
Congratulations to European stations UT5UIA and DJ1YFK for calling in on 40
meters. UT5UIA was so loud that he sounded like a W8!
I didn't hear much at all from my local compadres and competitors K5NA, K5PI at
W5KFT, or K5OT at N5TW. They probably were off running them just like I was.
This contest is a real "tour de force" of operating skill. The level of CW is
high, and SO2R skills are tremendous. It's a pleasure to compete at this level,
and also to work all the old pals and folks who are casual and simply enjoying
CW and the hobby on a Saturday.
Here are the numbers. I haven't reviewed any ommisions or errors. These are raw
right off of the TR Post Utility:
N3BB Rate
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
18 0 0 0 58 55 0 113 113
19 1 1 1 56 33 1 93 206
20 0 0 0 29 6 0 35 241
21 0 0 43 61 0 0 104 345
22 0 0 42 58 2 0 102 447
23 2 3 74 31 0 0 110 557
0 0 8 122 1 0 0 131 688
1 0 32 66 1 0 0 99 787
2 0 26 63 0 0 0 89 876
3 11 36 0 0 0 0 47 923
4 39 46 0 0 0 0 85 1008
5 7 4 0 0 0 0 11 1019
TOTAL 60 156 411 295 96 1
N3BB Mults
160CW
Al Ct In Md Mo Ne Ok Tn V3 XE
Ca Fl Ky Mi Ms Nm Or Tx Va vE3
Co Ga La Mn Nc Oh Sc Ut Wi
80CW
Al Ct In Me Nc Ny Sc Va vE3
Ar De Ks Mi Nh Oh Tn Wi vE7
Az Fl Ky Mn Nj Ok Tx Wv vE9
Ca Ga La Mo Nm Or Ut XE
Co Il Md Ms Nv Pa V3 vE2
40CW
Al De In Me Nc Ny Sc Vt vE2
Ar Fl Ks Mi Ne Oh Tn Wa vE3
Az Ga Ky Mn Nh Ok Tx Wi vE5
Ca Hi La Mo Nj Or Ut Wv vE6
Co Ia Ma Ms Nm Pa V3 Wy vE7
Ct Il Md Mt Nv Ri Va XE vE9
20CW
Al De Il Md Nc Oh Tx Wi vE3
Ar Fl In Mi Ne Ok Ut Wv vE5
Az Ga Ks Mn Nh Or V3 Wy vE6
Ca Hi Ky Mo Nj Pa Va XE vE7
Co Ia La Ms Nm Sc Vt vE1 vE9
Ct Id Ma Mt Ny Tn Wa vE2
15CW
Ca Hi In Me Nc Nv Pa Va vE1 vE7
Co Ia Ky Mi Nh Ny Sc Wa vE2 vE9
Ct Id Ma Mn Nj Oh Tn Wi vE3
De Il Md Mt Nm Or Tx Wv vE6
10CW
Tx
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