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To: 3830@contesting.com, mccarty@hal-pc.org
Subject: [3830] CQWW CW A73A M/S HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: mccarty@hal-pc.org
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:53:16 -0800
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: A73A
Operator(s): A71BX, A71EM, K5GN
Station: A73A

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Qatar
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   88     9       41
   80:  461    27       82
   40: 2045    31      109
   20: 1310    33      107
   15: 1149    31      105
   10:   46     8       25
------------------------------
Total: 5099   139      469  Total Score = 8,446,944

Club: 

Comments:

This was a very successful expedition from Doha to a beach location at the north
end of the peninsula.  Our antennas were verticals over salt water at high tide
and within a quarter wavelength or so at low tide.  CQ WW DX CW, Field Day
style!

We now call the 80m vertical The Rainmaker, since it rains every time we try to
set it up at the beach.  It almost never rains here in the desert, but Murphy
had other plans.  We had rain on Friday and thunderstorms all around until
Sunday night after sunset, so our time on 80 and 160 was not as productive as
we had hoped.  Next time we will use some listening antennas, as we had none
for this contest.  Condx appeared very good, but between the noise and the poor
pileup behavior from Europe, rates were not enough to stay there.

A71EM, BX, CV, CO, and K5GN did all the setup and takedown starting Thursday
morning and finishing Monday night.  The contest started here at 3AM Friday. 
BX and GN carried most of the operating, as EM was recalled from leave to work
on Saturday and Sunday.  This meant that the two guys with the least sleep
prior to the start were left to keep the run and mult stations busy for nearly
the full 48 hours.  It has taken us a while to get back to normal since we had
to get right back to our day jobs!

Condx on 40m were amazing.  Ali said, "the pileup never stops!" as we struggled
to keep going Sunday night.  We worked North American stations on 40m in all
hours from 13Z-06Z, and probably could have found more if we had stayed there
full time.  K1AR called in at 1730Z, quite amazing.  We looked hard for Zones 4
and 3 on the long path on 80 and 160, but with no luck.  Missed Zones 2, 6, and
34 for WAZ.

10m refused to really open.  We CQ'd there when we found signals, but never
could get anything going.  No Zone 14, for example.  20m was interesting, we
could hear some signals at nearly all hours, though things were very slim at
night.  15 was not as good as in the SSB contest, but having full-size antennas
for the low bands was very cool.

Station: Two Tents at Al-Mafjar
Radio A: FT-1000MP, AL-811, 600W
Radio B: FT-847, replaced later by IC-746ProIII, IC-2KL, 400W
160: Inverted L, 20m aluminum tubing vertical plus wire, two elevated radials
80: full-size quarter-wave aluminum tubing vertical, two elevated radials
40: full-size quarter-wave wire verticals, two radials apiece, driven element
and reflector
20: full-size half-wave wire dipoles, driven ele. and reflector
15: full-size half-wave wire dipoles, driven ele. and reflector
10: full-size half-wave wire dipoles, driven ele. and reflector
Win-Test

We used the Skimmer software with a QS1R SDR sharing the MP's receive antenna
line.  We also put a switch into the second station's feedline to take the
transceiver out of line and substitute the SDR.  This didn't work as well as it
meant being off the air with that station while the SDR was skimming.  We chose
to try Skimmer since we had no easy way to establish a reliable connection to
any DX clusters, being so far from the city.  

We found that a good operator could find at least as much on the band that the
Skimmer missed as the Skimmer found, but it was a help.  The biggest problem
with finding mults was our fatigue in the second 24 hours.

The antennas were somewhat directive, but really have a broad pattern.  Next
time we may have some listening antennas to help sort out Asia from Europe, LP
from SP, etc.

We are all looking forward to the next opportunity to do this again! 
Especially with a little more of Cycle 24.

Statistics follow

73

Dave K5GN


Cabrillo Statistics      (Version 06g)         by K5KA

Contest: CQ-WW-CW
Callsign: A73A
Category: MULTI-OP
Operators: A71BX, A71EM, K5GN

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       8     26     92      0      0      0    126    126    2.5
0100       3     22     65      6      0      0     96    222    1.9
0200       7      0     92      1      0      0    100    322    1.9
0300       0      1     45     64      5      0    115    437    2.2
0400       0      0     12    100      1      0    113    550    2.2
0500       0      0      1    143     10      0    154    704    3.0
0600       0      0      0     80     50      0    130    834    2.5
0700       0      0      0     32    118      0    150    984    2.9
0800       0      0      0      9    132      3    144   1128    2.8
0900       0      0      0      5    152      2    159   1287    3.1
1000       0      0      0    131     12      0    143   1430    2.8
1100       0      0      0     39     74      0    113   1543    2.2
1200       0      0      0     74     55      0    129   1672    2.5
1300       0      4      5    119      3      0    131   1803    2.5
1400      48      3      3     32      0      0     86   1889    1.7
1500       0     65     26      0      4      0     95   1984    1.8
1600       0      0    126      0      0      0    126   2110    2.5
1700       0      3    113      0      0      0    116   2226    2.3
1800       0      0    128      0      0      0    128   2354    2.5
1900       4      0    126      0      0      0    130   2484    2.5
2000       0      3    111      1      0      0    115   2599    2.2
2100       0      2    108      0      0      0    110   2709    2.1
2200       0      1    145      0      0      0    146   2855    2.8
2300       0      0    116      1      0      0    117   2972    2.3
0000       0      0    103      0      0      0    103   3075    2.0
0100       0     23     49      0      0      0     72   3147    1.4
0200       0     44      6      0      0      0     50   3197    1.0
0300       0     47     32      1      0      0     80   3277    1.6
0400       0      0     32     20      0      0     52   3329    1.0
0500       0      0      8     94      0      0    102   3431    2.0
0600       0      0      0    107      5      0    112   3543    2.2
0700       0      0      0     57     70      1    128   3671    2.5
0800       0      0      0      1    166      1    168   3839    3.3
0900       0      0      0      0    159      2    161   4000    3.1
1000       0      0      0      0    107     13    120   4120    2.3
1100       0      0      0     34      1     20     55   4175    1.1
1200       0      0      0      8     24      4     36   4211    0.7
1300       0      0      1     79      1      0     81   4292    1.6
1400       0     10      0     68      0      0     78   4370    1.5
1500       0     20     68      4      0      0     92   4462    1.8
1600       0      5     83      0      0      0     88   4550    1.7
1700       0     51     47      0      0      0     98   4648    1.9
1800       0      1     79      0      0      0     80   4728    1.6
1900       0      0     70      0      0      0     70   4798    1.4
2000       8      1     76      0      0      0     85   4883    1.7
2100       6     52     40      0      0      0     98   4981    1.9
2200       2     15     37      0      0      0     54   5035    1.1
2300       2     62      0      0      0      0     64   5099    1.2
------------------------------------------------------
Total     88    461   2045   1310   1149     46   5099

Gross QSO's=5142        Dupes=43        Net QSO's=5099

Unique callsigns worked = 3580

The best 60 minute rate was 178/hour from 0829 to 0928
The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 0859 to 0928
The best 10 minute rate was 198/hour from 0555 to 0604

The best 1 minute rates were:
 5 QSO's/minute   13 times.
 4 QSO's/minute  145 times.
 3 QSO's/minute  549 times.
 2 QSO's/minute 1015 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  777 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        38
   4      1119
   5      2393
   6      1511
   7        16
   8         9
   9        12
  10         1

------------ C o u n t r y         S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3A               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
3V               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
3W               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
3X               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
4J               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
4L               0      1      2      2      1      0      6    0.1
4O               0      2      1      1      2      0      6    0.1
4X               1      2      9      6      4      1     23    0.5
5B               1      5      4      3      3      2     18    0.4
5H               0      1      0      1      1      0      3    0.1
5X               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
6W               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
6Y               0      1      1      0      1      0      3    0.1
7Q               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
8P               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
8Q               0      1      1      2      1      1      6    0.1
9A               0      7     21     21     21      2     72    1.4
9H               0      1      2      0      0      0      3    0.1
9J               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
9K               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
9M2              0      1      0      1      1      0      3    0.1
9M6              0      1      0      1      2      0      4    0.1
9Q               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
A4               1      1      0      0      0      0      2    0.0
BV               0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.0
BY               0      1      1      2      2      0      6    0.1
C6               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
CE               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CN               1      0      0      1      0      0      2    0.0
CT               0      2      2      1      2      0      7    0.1
CT3              1      0      2      1      2      0      6    0.1
CU               0      1      2      1      1      0      5    0.1
CX               0      0      2      2      3      0      7    0.1
D4               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
DL               1     25    230    117     73      0    446    8.7
DU               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
E7               1      3     19      4      8      1     36    0.7
EA               1      4     25     11     16      0     57    1.1
EA6              1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
EA8              0      2      2      1      3      0      8    0.2
EI               0      0      4      1      1      0      6    0.1
EK               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
EL               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
ER               1      2     10      4      9      1     27    0.5
ES               1      1      8      6      4      0     20    0.4
EU               1      3     15     17     17      0     53    1.0
EX               0      0      2      1      1      0      4    0.1
EY               1      1      0      0      0      0      2    0.0
F                0      5     38     18     11      0     72    1.4
FM               0      2      1      0      0      0      2    0.0
FR               0      0      1      1      2      0      3    0.1
FS               0      1      0      0      1      0      2    0.0
G                1      4     49     19     11      0     84    1.6
GI               0      0      2      1      0      0      3    0.1
GM               0      1      9      3      3      0     16    0.3
GU               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
GW               0      1      4      2      1      0      8    0.2
H4               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
HA               1      9     40     32     37      6    125    2.5
HB               1      3     19      7      6      0     36    0.7
HB0              0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
HC               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
HC8              0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
HI               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HK               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
HL               0      0      3      1      1      0      5    0.1
HP               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
HS               0      1      1      2      1      1      6    0.1
HZ               1      1      0      0      0      0      2    0.0
I                1      7     73     29     43      1    154    3.0
*IG9             0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.0
IS               0      0      3      1      2      0      6    0.1
*IT9             0      1      5      3      7      0     16    0.3
J2               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
J3               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
J6               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
JA               1     34     61     22     36      0    154    3.0
JT               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
JW               0      1      2      2      0      0      5    0.1
K                0     40    213     57      5      0    315    6.2
KG4              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
KH0              0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
KH2              0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
KH6              0      1      2      2      0      0      5    0.1
KL               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
KP2              0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
KP4              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
LA               2      1     10     10      3      0     26    0.5
LU               0      0      1      1      3      0      5    0.1
LX               1      2      3      2      2      0     10    0.2
LY               2      7     25     21     15      0     70    1.4
LZ               1      7     24     20     24      3     79    1.5
OA               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
OE               0      2     12     10     16      1     41    0.8
OH               3     13     40     27     12      0     95    1.9
OH0              1      1      1      0      0      0      3    0.1
OK               1     14     88     47     42      2    194    3.8
OM               1      6     24     12     17      2     62    1.2
ON               1      1     11      9      2      0     24    0.5
OX               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
OY               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
OZ               1      2     15      8      2      0     28    0.5
P4               0      0      2      1      0      0      3    0.1
PA               1      2     39     18     10      0     70    1.4
PJ2              0      0      3      1      1      0      5    0.1
PY               0      1      8      4      5      0     18    0.4
PZ               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
S5               1      8     38     20     21      3     91    1.8
SM               1      4     24     15      3      0     47    0.9
SP               1     17     89     48     38      2    195    3.8
SU               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
SV               0      2      7      7     10      0     26    0.5
SV5              0      0      0      1      2      0      3    0.1
SV9              0      1      2      4      3      0     10    0.2
T8               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
TA               1      1      2      2      2      0      8    0.2
*TA1             0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
TF               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
TK               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
UA              29     82    276    229    227      1    844   16.6
UA2              0      1      5      7      3      0     16    0.3
UA9             13     34    111    130     98      1    387    7.6
UK               1      0      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
UN               1      4     11     11     15      0     42    0.8
UR               3     33    144    127    109      0    416    8.2
V2               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
V3               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
V4               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
V5               0      0      0      0      1      2      3    0.1
VE               0      3     17      4      2      0     26    0.5
VK               0      1      2      6      2      0     11    0.2
VP5              0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
VQ9              0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
VU               0      1      1      5      2      1     10    0.2
XW               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
YB               0      0      0      5      2      0      7    0.1
YL               2      2     17     12      6      0     39    0.8
YN               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
YO               1      4     33     21     41      5    105    2.1
YU               0     10     27     18     25      3     83    1.6
YV               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
Z2               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
Z3               0      1      5      2      3      0     11    0.2
ZA               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
ZC4              0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
ZF               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
ZL               0      1      2      3      0      0      6    0.1
ZS               0      1      0      3      3      1      8    0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
16        36    123    455    391    373      3   1381   26.9
15        15    115    541    321    321     23   1336   26.0
14        12     58    494    247    149      0    960   18.7
17         8     22     77     86     85      0    278    5.4
20         5     24     82     65     89     11    276    5.4
05         0     35    175     41      7      0    258    5.0
25         1     34     64     23     37      0    159    3.1
18         7     11     34     38     18      0    108    2.1
04         0      8     44     20      0      0     72    1.4
08         0      6     12      5      5      0     28    0.5
33         2      3      6      4      6      0     21    0.4
11         0      1      8      4      5      0     18    0.4
22         0      2      2      7      3      2     16    0.3
28         0      2      0      8      6      0     16    0.3
21         2      4      3      2      3      0     14    0.3
38         0      1      0      4      5      4     14    0.3
19         0      1      4      6      1      0     12    0.2
13         0      0      3      3      6      0     12    0.2
09         0      0      7      3      2      0     12    0.2
35         0      2      3      3      3      0     11    0.2
03         0      0     11      0      0      0     11    0.2
37         0      1      0      3      4      1      9    0.2
26         0      1      2      3      2      1      9    0.2
24         0      1      1      2      4      0      8    0.2
27         0      0      2      1      4      0      7    0.1
40         0      1      2      3      1      0      7    0.1
32         0      1      2      3      0      0      6    0.1
10         0      1      2      1      2      0      6    0.1
30         0      0      1      4      1      0      6    0.1
31         0      1      2      2      0      0      5    0.1
29         0      1      1      2      1      0      5    0.1
39         0      1      1      1      2      0      5    0.1
23         0      0      0      2      2      0      4    0.1
36         0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
07         0      0      3      0      0      0      3    0.1
12         0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
01         0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     88    461   2045   1310   1149     46   5099

Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands    2627
2 bands     554
3 bands     267
4 bands      99
5 bands      31
6 bands       2

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

LZ9W        P3F         

----- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O ' s  -----
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs     47    178   1248    658    490      6


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