North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 41 24
80: 204 49
40: 374 52
20: 651 51
15: 23 13
10: 1 1
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Total: 1294 190 Total Score = 245,860
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: CTDXCC Phonies
Comments:
The station at K5TR:
http://www.k5tr.net/
160 meters:
- sloping vertical from 120', fixed E
- sloping vertical from 120', fixed W
80 meters:
- Sloping dipole from 120', fixed NE
- Sloping dipole from 120', fixed NW
40 meters:
- two element Force 12 240N yagi at 120', rotatable
- two element Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 90', rotatable
20 meters:
- six element 44' boom yagi at 80', rotatable
- six element 44' boom yagi at 80', fixed NE
- six element 44' boom yagi at 40', fixed NW
- four element Cushcraft 32' boom yagi at 60', fixed SE
15 meters:
- six element 36' boom yagi at 70', rotatable
- six element 36' boom yagi at 35', fixed NE
- four element Cushcraft yagi at 50', fixed SE
10 meters:
- six element 24' boom yagi at 60', rotatable
- six element 24' boom yagi at 30', fixed NE
- four element Cushcraft yagi at 40', fixed SE
- three element yagi at 20', fixed W
Receiving antennas:
- Four 500' long Beverages fixed NE, NW, SE, SW
Radio 1: Elecraft K3
Radio 2: Elecraft K3
Headset: Heil Proset Plus HC-4
DVK: W9XT Contest Card
Software: TR Log 6.78
Other: Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches, ICE bandpass
filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, homebrew
audio switchbox
This was my first effort at this contest as a single operator, and the first
time I've operated the January contest in several years. I was surprised at
how good the low bands were - I should have taken more off-time during the
daylight. On three occasions, I had someone in my skip zone slide onto my
frequency and gradually erode my rate. I'm not really sure what to do about
that except recognize earlier that it's happening and just move or take an
off-time or something.
I should be more aggressive about moving multipliers, and I need to figure
out how to make about 10 more QSOs an hour.
-------------- 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 0 173 8 0 181 181 13.8
1900 0 0 0 105 10 0 115 296 8.8
2000 0 0 0 163 3 0 166 462 12.7
2100 0 0 4 64 1 0 69 531 5.3
2200 0 0 5 107 1 0 113 644 8.6
2300 0 0 80 38 0 0 118 762 9.0
0000 0 0 151 1 0 0 152 914 11.6
0100 0 2 86 0 0 0 88 1002 6.7
0200 0 6 47 0 0 0 53 1055 4.1
0300 5 149 1 0 0 0 155 1210 11.9
0400 9 36 0 0 0 0 45 1255 3.4
0500 27 11 0 0 0 1 39 1294 3.0
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Total 41 204 374 651 23 1 1294
Gross QSO's=1308 Dupes=14 Net QSO's=1294
Unique callsigns worked = 1032
The best 60 minute rate was 185/hour from 1801 to 1900
The best 30 minute rate was 200/hour from 1801 to 1830
The best 10 minute rate was 252/hour from 1803 to 1812
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSO's/minute 2 times.
5 QSO's/minute 21 times.
4 QSO's/minute 69 times.
3 QSO's/minute 133 times.
2 QSO's/minute 185 times.
1 QSO's/minute 132 times.
There were 117 bandchanges and 59 (4.6%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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4 462
5 521
6 307
8 4
------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
Ca 5 24 57 85 3 0 174 13.3
Oh 1 8 20 49 0 0 78 6.0
Pa 1 9 22 37 0 0 69 5.3
Il 1 7 15 35 0 0 58 4.4
Va 1 8 16 31 0 0 56 4.3
Mn 1 8 14 28 0 0 51 3.9
Wa 0 8 14 18 4 0 44 3.4
Ny 0 5 8 30 0 0 43 3.3
vE3 0 6 7 28 0 0 41 3.1
In 0 8 10 23 0 0 41 3.1
Ga 1 10 14 15 0 0 40 3.1
Nc 0 3 6 26 0 0 35 2.7
Fl 0 7 14 13 0 0 34 2.6
Ut 1 2 10 20 0 0 33 2.5
Mi 0 4 4 25 0 0 33 2.5
Az 1 8 9 14 0 0 32 2.4
Or 2 4 12 10 4 0 32 2.4
Tn 2 5 10 13 0 0 30 2.3
Wi 1 1 7 18 0 0 27 2.1
Md 0 2 8 15 0 0 25 1.9
Co 4 6 7 6 0 0 23 1.8
Id 1 1 8 12 0 0 22 1.7
Sc 1 2 3 11 1 0 18 1.4
Al 2 5 7 3 0 0 17 1.3
Nv 1 2 3 8 0 0 14 1.1
Ct 0 4 5 4 1 0 14 1.1
Ia 0 3 5 5 0 0 13 1.0
Ma 0 1 6 6 0 0 13 1.0
Mo 1 3 4 5 0 0 13 1.0
Ok 1 9 2 0 0 0 12 0.9
Ky 0 1 7 3 0 0 11 0.8
Nj 0 2 1 8 0 0 11 0.8
Wy 0 3 3 4 0 0 10 0.8
Mt 0 1 2 6 1 0 10 0.8
Nh 0 1 4 4 0 0 9 0.7
vE7 0 0 0 7 2 0 9 0.7
Tx 3 1 1 1 2 1 9 0.7
Ks 3 3 2 0 0 0 8 0.6
Nm 0 4 4 0 0 0 8 0.6
Ar 3 2 1 1 0 0 7 0.5
Ri 0 2 4 1 0 0 7 0.5
Sd 1 1 1 2 1 0 6 0.5
La 2 2 2 0 0 0 6 0.5
vE6 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.4
vE2 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 0.4
Wv 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3
Ms 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.3
Me 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.3
Nd 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.2
Vt 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2
Ak 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
vE1 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2
vY2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
Ne 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2
De 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
vE8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
DX 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
HI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
va 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
TI 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
vE9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
vE5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
Hi 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1
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Total 41 204 374 651 23 1 1294
Callareas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
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0 117 9.0
1 71 5.5
2 89 6.9
3 148 11.4
4 200 15.5
5 54 4.2
6 181 14.0
7 179 13.8
8 119 9.2
9 136 10.5
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 813
2 bands 182
3 bands 31
4 bands 6
5 bands 0
6 bands 0
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 18 86 215 486 8 0
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