CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1427 37 127
15:
10:
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Total: 1427 37 127 Total Score = 608,768
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Instead of doing a half-manned multi-op effort at W6YX I proposed that I would
do a single-band effort on one station and leave the second operating position
available for DXing by other club members.
I decided to try 20 meters unassisted. I looked up the K6 record which was
just over 1200 Q's and 500K points set by K2KW in 1996. Since I'd only made
1600 Q's when I tried SOAB last year it seemed like a real stretch to try to
break this record.
Last year none of our big monobanders on the hill were working but this year
I'd have the 6-element 20 meter beam. I used the pull-rope to rotate our low
205CA and anchored it to point in the direction of Central and South America
and the Caribbean.
I started well with a 150 first hour and had 299 Q's by the end of the 3rd
hour. Then the rate dropped with hours of 17, 7, 18, 9 and 2. During these
hours I worked mostly South America and Oceania but also managed to snag A25NW
and ZS4TX on long path. Just before 0700 the band opened to deep Asia and UP2L
and UA9CLB made it into the log. I could hear several of the big gun EU
stations on long path but none of them could hear me calling them.
I decided to take a break at 0800 after going 50 minutes without a Q. I could
hear a lot of weak Europeans on short path at that time but again none were
workable. I went home and slept a few hours and got back to the station at
1200 and found that the EU stations were workable. The band was mostly open to
zone 15 but a few zone 14's were also logged. The Caribbean and Central America
was also workable. I tried CQing to EU unsuccessfully.
A few zone 20 stations were worked. 4X2M and P33W were the only zone 20
stations outside of LZ and YO that I heard the entire contest. I worked my
first zone 16 Q just after 1800.
After multiple S&P passes of the band I finally got a CQ run going at 1445,
high in the band at 14123. In the 1500 hour I made 85 Q's, mostly running EU.
When the rate died down I started using the second radio to mostly call
Caribbean and South America stations. When I used the C31XR pointing to EU on
the second radio I got too many pops and hash from the run radio so when the
run started to dry up I went to full-time S&P and picked up a bunch of African
and European mults that I wouldn't have been able to hear in my SO2R
configuration.
S&P was very slow because I had to spend so much time waiting for stations to
ID. Since I had worked very few African stations I assumed I hadn't worked
most of them so I just began calling and then asking for their call after they
came back to me. Many times I'd hear someone go 20 to 30 Q's without IDing
until finally the frequency was full of ? and CALL?, making it hard for not
only the operator to hear callsigns but also for the callers to know who he
came back to. I'm sure that many dupes were also worked by these non-IDers.
I went back to running JAs at 2130 and kept at it until 0300. I hadn't worked
any zone 28 stations so I started searching and found 9M6XRO working a JA
pileup that I wasn't able to break. 9M2CNC was just up the band CQing with no
takers so I worked him and then returned to get 9M6XRO also.
After making 5 Q's in the 0300 hour I decided to get some sleep and try to
return earlier than the previous night to see if EU was workable then. I had
983 Q's and about 360K points so the record of 1200 Q's and 500K seemed in
reach.
I returned at 1030 and almost immediately worked LN3Z. I tried calling 4O3A
and he came back with W6?, but eventually gave up on me. I never heard him
again and missed the mult. By the 1200 hour I'd already worked most of the
stations that I could hear and then the band closed to Europe except for a few
weak EA and CT stations. After not working anyone for 40 minutes I decided to
drive to a nearby fast food place to get some coffee and breakfast.
The band was about the same when I came back. I found a couple Caribbean
mults, but then had another 25 minute stretch with no Q's. At 1430 the band
reopened to EU and again I began running at 1445. In the 1500 hour I had 92
Q's and then the rate went down to 55, then was in the 30's and 40's for the
rest of the contest.
I seemed to have an endless stream of weak callers from the UK and France and
eventually had all of the UK mults except GJ call me. Then a bunch of loud OH
and UA stations began calling, many with heavy auroral flutter that often made
it hard to get callsigns on the initial call.
Around 1800 I noticed I had exactly the same number of zones and countries as
the record I was trying to break and at QSO #1206 I exactly matched the record
score. I moved down the band to 14006 and stayed there for the rest of the
contest. I was sharing the station with Dave, AA6XV, at this point so my
second radio was a barefoot FT1000MP hooked up to a Pro67A fixed at the US east
coast. I was able to work a few VE stations on the second radio. To work
anyone else I spotted I had to switch to the run radio and antenna.
On Saturday I had given up on 9G5XA and ZD8RH because they both had huge
pileups that I wasn't able to crack after trying for a few minutes. Amazingly,
both of them called me late in the afternoon on Sunday when I was beaming JA.
I thought I had already worked all the JA stations but I continued to maintain
a rate of 30 to 40 an hour in the last few hours. In all I worked 478 JAs. I
broke the K6 SOSB/20 record by over 100K. Thanks to everyone for the Q's and
spots.
Here are some statistics extracted from K5KA's CBS:
QSO Rate Summary
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Hour Rate Total Pct
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0000 150 150 10.2
0100 88 238 6.0
0200 61 299 4.1
0300 17 316 1.2
0400 7 323 0.5
0500 18 341 1.2
0600 9 350 0.6
0700 2 352 0.1
0800 0 352 0.0
0900 0 352 0.0
1000 0 352 0.0
1100 0 352 0.0
1200 34 386 2.3
1300 31 417 2.1
1400 50 467 3.4
1500 85 552 5.8
1600 47 599 3.2
1700 39 638 2.7
1800 29 667 2.0
1900 18 685 1.2
2000 19 704 1.3
2100 36 740 2.4
2200 61 801 4.1
2300 64 865 4.4
0000 50 915 3.4
0100 41 956 2.8
0200 22 978 1.5
0300 5 983 0.3
0400 0 983 0.0
0500 0 983 0.0
0600 0 983 0.0
0700 0 983 0.0
0800 0 983 0.0
0900 0 983 0.0
1000 2 985 0.1
1100 9 994 0.6
1200 4 998 0.3
1300 0 998 0.0
1400 37 1035 2.5
1500 92 1127 6.3
1600 55 1182 3.7
1700 33 1215 2.2
1800 33 1248 2.2
1900 24 1272 1.6
2000 36 1308 2.4
2100 33 1341 2.2
2200 44 1385 3.0
2300 42 1427 2.9
Total 1427
Country # Pct
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4X 1 0.1
5B 1 0.1
5N 1 0.1
5R 1 0.1
6W 1 0.1
6Y 1 0.1
8P 2 0.1
9A 9 0.1
9G 1 0.1
9J 1 0.1
9L 1 0.1
9M2 1 0.1
9M6 1 0.1
A2 1 0.1
A3 1 0.1
BV 4 0.3
BY 21 1.5
C9 1 0.1
CE 3 0.2
CE9 3 0.2
CM 2 0.1
CT 2 0.1
CT3 2 0.1
CU 1 0.1
CX 2 0.1
D4 1 0.1
DL 63 4.4
DU 2 0.1
E7 4 0.3
EA 21 1.5
EA6 2 0.1
EA8 5 0.4
EI 2 0.1
ES 1 0.1
EU 1 0.1
F 36 2.5
FG 1 0.1
FK 1 0.1
FK/c 1 0.1
FM 2 0.1
FO 1 0.1
FY 1 0.1
G 54 3.8
GD 1 0.1
GI 1 0.1
GM 6 0.4
GU 2 0.1
GW 2 0.1
HA 14 1.0
HB 9 0.6
HC8 1 0.1
HI 1 0.1
HK 3 0.2
HL 20 1.4
HP 1 0.1
HR 1 0.1
HS 5 0.4
I 25 1.8
IS 3 0.2
IT9 1 0.1
J3 1 0.1
JA 478 33.5
JT 2 0.1
JW 1 0.1
K 136 9.5
KH0 1 0.1
KH2 2 0.1
KH6 8 0.6
KL 10 0.7
KP2 1 0.1
KP4 1 0.1
LA 3 0.2
LU 9 0.6
LX 1 0.1
LY 6 0.4
LZ 6 0.4
OE 3 0.2
OH 21 1.5
OH0 2 0.1
OK 25 1.8
OM 5 0.4
ON 10 0.7
OY 1 0.1
OZ 1 0.1
P2 1 0.1
P4 4 0.3
PA 23 1.6
PJ2 2 0.1
PY 16 1.1
PZ 1 0.1
S5 13 0.9
SM 7 0.5
SP 10 0.7
TF 3 0.2
TI 1 0.1
TK 2 0.1
UA 26 1.8
UA2 1 0.1
UA9 37 2.6
UN 1 0.1
UR 1 0.1
V2 1 0.1
V3 1 0.1
V4 1 0.1
V5 2 0.1
VE 109 7.6
VK 5 0.4
VP2E 1 0.1
VP2V 1 0.1
VP5 2 0.1
VP9 1 0.1
VR 2 0.1
XE 12 0.8
YB 2 0.1
YL 4 0.3
YN 2 0.1
YO 7 0.5
YS 2 0.1
YU 10 0.7
YV 1 0.1
Z3 2 0.1
ZB 1 0.1
ZD8 1 0.1
ZF 1 0.1
ZL 9 0.6
ZP 1 0.1
ZS 2 0.1
Zone Count Pct
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25 496 33.7
14 248 16.9
15 161 11.0
4 112 7.6
5 86 5.9
3 47 3.2
24 28 1.9
16 28 1.9
8 21 1.4
19 19 1.3
11 17 1.2
20 15 1.0
18 12 0.8
6 12 0.8
32 12 0.8
9 12 0.8
13 11 0.7
1 10 0.7
7 8 0.5
31 8 0.5
17 7 0.5
33 7 0.5
38 6 0.4
26 5 0.3
27 5 0.3
35 5 0.3
28 5 0.3
29 4 0.3
30 4 0.3
40 4 0.3
23 3 0.2
12 3 0.2
36 2 0.1
10 1 0.1
37 1 0.1
39 1 0.1
2 1 0.1
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