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Subject: [3830] CQ WW CW V26K(AA3B) SOAB LP
From: "The Trench Family" <cwtrench@sprynet.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:18:31 -0500
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Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V21N

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 43.1

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  187    11       28
   80:  569    19       72
   40: 1833    28      105
   20: 1438    28       99
   15: 1448    24       91
   10:  102    13       26
------------------------------
Total: 5577   123      421  Total Score = 7,545,824

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Team: Code Sharks

Comments:

This was my twelfth trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and ninth visit to
the V26B super station.  As always, I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N
and Team Antigua for helping to make this effort possible.

The station was in great shape when I arrived.  The only problem was that
the bottom antenna in the 10M stack was inoperative - this didn't matter
anyway as 10M was not very productive.  The backup generator transfer box
was out of service, but V21N set up a manual failover approach should it be
needed.  Fortunately, there were no power drop outs at all, which I think is
a first for me in Antigua.  Beverages for Europe and NA survived the time
span between the V26B operation and mine and they really helped.

I was generally pleased with my 2006 operation and therefore decided to use
it as the basis for my 2007 goals.  I assumed a small increase in QSOs and
multipliers, and an average of 2.5 points per QSOs.  I scaled my 2006
results based on these assumptions.  (I also tested this approach against
the CQ WW SSB 2007 performance of V26B and 8P5A to see if there was anything
out of line.)  My performance against these goals is shown below:

              Score          Score           Score
              Goal           Actual          Delta

              8400000       7545824        (854176)


              Goal   Goal    Actual  Actual  Delta  Delta
       Band   QSOs   Mults   QSOs    Mults   QSOs   Mults

       160     240    44      187     39     (53)    (5)
       80      694    91      569     91    (125)     0 
       40     1816   120     1833    133      17     13 
       20     1125   116     1438    127     313     11 
       15     1741   120     1448    115    (293)    (5)
       10      384    67      102     39    (282)   (28)

       Total  6000   558     5577    544    (423)   (14)

I significantly underachieved!  Obviously a big part of this was caused by
my poor results on 10 and 15.  I truly expected an opening on 10 at some
point, but it never happened.  Although 15 did open, I did not have the kind
of rates to Europe that I've enjoyed in previous years.  I also believe that
80M was down a bit from last year in that I never was able to generate a
good European run.

I started to feel in trouble around 1300z on Saturday when the rates were
less than I expected.  It felt like Europe dried up on 15 and I couldn't get
anything going on 20M.  I realized that I would need to change my strategy
so I decided to allocate more time to hunting than I had planned.  The
following shows my actual time allocations against my pre-contest plan:

           Scenario     Goal    Actual    Delta

           Run 3 Pt     28.8     27.1     (1.8)   hours
           Hunt          2.2      4.0      1.8    hours
           Run 2 Pt     12.0     12.0      0.0    hours

           Total        43.0     43.1      0.1    hours

These time allocations produced the following results:

                       QSOs/    Mults/   Points/
          Scenario     Hour      Hour     Hour

          Run 3 Pt    144.6     11.4     158094
          Hunt         28.6     31.1     431871
          Run 2 Pt    165.5      9.3     129626

          Overall     129.4     12.6     175467

My productivity during 3 point runs was down significantly from last year
(203K points / hour) primarily as a result of lower than anticipated rates
on 15.  My hunting productivity was approximately the same as 2006, which is
sort of unexpected given that I spent twice the amount hunting in 2007 as I
did in 2006. The time I spent running NA was very enjoyable, including 4
hours of rates in excess of 200.

Thanks for all the QSOs.  I will go again in 2008.  QSL via AA3B.

73 Bud V26K / AA3B


Here are other breakdowns and information:

Hr  160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M   Total     Cumm

00 --+-    --+-   154/40   --+-    --+-    --+-   154/40    154/40  
01   -       -    183/21     -       -       -    183/21    337/61  
02   -       -    165/8      -       -       -    165/8     502/69  
03   -       -    146/5      -       -       -    146/5     648/74  
04   -    143/34   14/0      -       -       -    157/34    805/108 
05 64/14   61/5      -       -       -       -    125/19    930/127 
06 33/2      -    116/5      -       -       -    149/7    1079/134 
07   -       -    162/7      -       -       -    162/7    1241/141 
08 14/5    21/3     4/0    --+-    --+-    --+-    39/8    1280/149 
09   -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1280/149 
10  1/2    48/6    76/10     -       -       -    125/18   1405/167 
11   -       -       -       -    180/49     -    180/49   1585/216 
12   -       -       -       -    179/13     -    179/13   1764/229 
13   -       -       -      7/11  108/4      -    115/15   1879/244 
14   -       -       -      1/1    77/3     2/4    80/8    1959/252 
15   -       -       -     40/22   79/3     4/7   123/32   2082/284 
16 --+-    --+-    --+-   169/21   --+-    --+-   169/21   2251/305 
17   -       -       -     24/7    16/17    5/7    45/31   2296/336 
18   -       -       -       -    212/3      -    212/3    2508/339 
19   -       -       -       -    193/9      -    193/9    2701/348 
20   -       -       -       -    149/1      -    149/1    2850/349 
21   -       -     99/1      -       -      8/3   107/4    2957/353 
22   -       -    143/8      -       -       -    143/8    3100/361 
23   -       -    124/3      -       -       -    124/3    3224/364 
00  2/2     3/3    57/2    12/11   --+-    --+-    74/18   3298/382 
01  2/3    11/14    7/7      -       -       -     20/24   3318/406 
02   -      2/1    72/3      -       -       -     74/4    3392/410 
03  1/2    27/1    43/0      -       -       -     71/3    3463/413 
04   -    128/9      -       -       -       -    128/9    3591/422 
05 64/3    26/1      -       -       -       -     90/4    3681/426 
06  3/3    86/11    1/1      -       -       -     90/15   3771/441 
07   -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3771/441 
08 --+-    --+-    --+-    --+-    --+-    --+-     0/0    3771/441 
09   -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3771/441 
10   -     13/3    11/3    24/7      -       -     48/13   3819/454 
11   -       -       -    171/10     -       -    171/10   3990/464 
12   -       -       -    121/2     9/0      -    130/2    4120/466 
13   -       -       -      1/1   110/2      -    111/3    4231/469 
14   -       -       -      1/1   119/2      -    120/3    4351/472 
15   -       -       -     57/3     2/0    34/12   93/15   4444/487 
16 --+-    --+-    --+-    31/6     9/4    41/1    81/11   4525/498 
17   -       -       -     20/8     6/5     8/5    34/18   4559/516 
18   -       -       -    212/7      -       -    212/7    4771/523 
19   -       -       -    213/1      -       -    213/1    4984/524 
20   -       -       -    218/3      -       -    218/3    5202/527 
21   -       -     38/0   116/5      -       -    154/5    5356/532 
22   -       -    139/6      -       -       -    139/6    5495/538 
23  3/3      -     79/3      -       -       -     82/6    5577/544 

  187/39  569/91 1833/133 1438/127 1448/115 102/39 


          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    NA     172    408    604    871    724     81    2860    51.3
    EU       6    137   1144    503    668      1    2459    44.1
    AF       5      8     18     16     20      5      72     1.3
    AS       0      3     37     24      9      0      73     1.3
    SA       4     11     22     18     23     15      93     1.7
    OC       0      2      8      6      4      0      20     0.4

6 Band Calls       26
5 Band Calls       66
4 Band Calls      166
3 Band Calls      275
2 Band Calls      572
1 Band Calls     2458
        
Unique Calls     3563


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