North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 91 32
80: 139 44
40: 334 51
20: 362 48
15: 176 31
10: 2 1
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Total: 1104 207 Total Score = 228,528
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
I found out on Friday evening that the house guests that I thought would prevent
me from spending much time in NAQP were leaving 1/2 hour before the contest,
freeing me to operate the whole time. I assumed that we'd be M/2 so I sent a
late-night email to rally our crew.
I hadn't heard from everyone by the time I left home but it appeared that I was
going to be on my own. I had a very slow start due to some set-up glitches and
spent most of the first hour trying to CQ on 15 while S&Ping on 20.
I switched to dual CQing in the second hour and had a 193 hour which is about
40 Q's better than my previous best NAQP CW hour. This included 9 minutes of
fruitless CQing on 10 meters since I'd gone up there to make a couple of local
Q's and still wasn't sure whether anyone else would show up for a M/2 so I was
following the 10 minute rule. After a couple hours I concluded that I was
single-op and had to plan for off-time.
160 was surprisingly good. K4TD sounded like a local. It also helped to have
a functional transmit antenna on 160 for a change.
Here's my rate sheet. Off times started at 2029/2157/0200/0332.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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1800 0 0 0 56 51 0 107 107 9.6
1900 0 0 0 124 67 2 193 300 17.4
2000 0 0 0 43 32 0 75 375 6.8
2100 0 0 0 62 26 0 88 463 7.9
2200 0 0 24 32 0 0 56 519 5.0
2300 0 0 62 35 0 0 97 616 8.7
0000 0 6 123 11 0 0 140 756 12.6
0100 0 27 90 0 0 0 117 873 10.6
0200 0 21 19 0 0 0 40 913 3.6
0300 0 29 16 0 0 0 45 958 4.1
0400 50 14 0 0 0 0 64 1022 5.8
0500 41 42 0 0 0 0 83 1105 7.5
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Total 91 139 334 363 176 2 1105
Gross QSO's=1109 Dupes=4 Net QSO's=1105
Unique callsigns worked = 693
The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 1856 to 1955
The best 30 minute rate was 206/hour from 1919 to 1948
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 1920 to 1929
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSO's/minute 2 times.
5 QSO's/minute 6 times.
4 QSO's/minute 40 times.
3 QSO's/minute 99 times.
2 QSO's/minute 205 times.
1 QSO's/minute 196 times.
There were 444 bandchanges and 231 (20.9%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.
-Mike, N7MH
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