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Subject: [3830] CQWW CW NH2T(N2NL) SOAB HP
From: webform@b41h.net
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:08:04 -0800
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: NH2T
Operator(s): N2NL
Station: N2NL

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Guam
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  149    18       20
   80:  331    25       49
   40: 1816    34       94
   20:  953    37       94
   15: 1355    35       96
   10: 1732    34       86
------------------------------
Total: 6336   183      439  Total Score = 11,658,768

Club: Florida Contest Group

Comments:

Elecraft K3+AL1200 and Kenwood TS930+SB1000

Spiderbeam @ 40ft
40m vertical (1/4l)
80/160m top loaded vertical (60ft tall)
Fan dipole (10/15/20m)
4 Beverage RX antennas (four directions, 700-1100ft long, hidden in the
jungle)
More info at www.n2nl.net

   I made lots of small changes to try to improve on last year's effort that
fell just short of the Oceania SOAB record.  I was greatly able to improve
isolation for SO2R with the addition of a home built 6x2 switch (SM2WMV design)
and a simple fan dipole placed away from the Spiderbeam that worked very well
considering what it was.  The station is the most I can get away with living in
a military housing area, and I've pushed the limit just to get this much stuff
up.    

   After sleeping four hours last year, and potentially missing the record
because of it, I operated the full 48 hours.  I was away from my headphones on
three short occasions (one CQ worth of time at most) to empty the Gator-aid
bottle :) - I had no real issues with fatigue and small exercises while
operating helped, as did a large exercise ball I used as a seat for some of the
time.  I was tired this morning and stumbled a couple times while sending CW
manually but no hallucinations.  I felt good enough at the end to make a short
visit to the operators of AH2R with KG6DX before taking a post contest nap.

   I never imagined being able to make 6000+ CW QSOs in a contest from
anywhere, especially from here this far from NA and EU.  Many thanks to 10
meters and 40 meters for providing the propagation.  When one band took a rest,
the other stepped up to take over.  I was really amazed at the huge activity
from zone 16 - I have never worked so many UA's, EW's, UR's ETC.  More than
1000 QSOs were with UA, UA9, and UR only.  40m stayed open throughout the night
and I had some of my best hours when last year I could work nothing - this
helped also for me to stay awake.

   The packet pileups were very bad on the receiving side.  Twice I had to go
split (both times for NA surprisingly) because no one could hear me.  I love my
K3 and it is a great rig but there were times when the pileup reached saturation
and even riding the RF gain would not help separate zero beat callers.  Spread
out!  It is impossible to hear a call when everyone sends the same speed and is
the same strength on the same frequency.  One EU packet pileup was so bad that I
QSYed to move Saty 9M6NA to 160m - when I returned they were still calling and
had no idea I had left.

   I enjoy operating assisted and the race to the next pileup - but unassisted
is just as fun because you never know what you will tune across, and usually
can find multipliers out of synch with the packet pileups so they are easy to
work.  Often I'd tune past them again later to hear them getting mobbed by
callers.

   I am fortunate to have a short call sign but I always sign after *every*
QSO.  I don't feel right just saying "TU" during a contest.  I am afraid I will
forget to sign if I do that, and my luck is that someone always will go "CL?"
covering a caller if I didn't sign, even once.   A couple times I tuned past
stations sending only "TU" - after a couple QSOs I just moved on - granted
there are many KH2s QRV but maybe they lost a multiplier because they did not
sign.  I fully understand not signing every time, but if you go more than a
minute without signing (enough for several QSOs), I personally feel that it
reflects badly on your operating style and ability.

   I called CQ 100% of the time and used the 2nd radio to S&P.  The rate was
very high so I only could use the 2nd radio to call multipliers because I did
not want to risk breaking my rhythm.

   It was a pleasure to operate on the bands alongside the other Oceania
participants!  There are such huge distances out here that it is impossible to
compare scores to skills - KH6 is 4,000 miles east and gets little EU and 9M6
is 2,000 miles west and gets shorter NA openings.  VK and ZL are south of the
equator and have completely different propagation and QRN challenges during
their summer.  I would like to single out the team of AH2R, who had to build
and put up all antennas Friday afternoon, finishing construction at 2359z, then
take everything down as soon as the contest is over.  I feel bad beating them
up; but they had some problems this weekend.  Their location is great for TX
but is also very noisy for RX - I am very fortunate to be in a very quiet
location with no local noise.  The AH2R crew does very well from their
location, year after year, and has given all of us many multipliers in the CQWW
contests.

   Thanks also to Saty san, JE1JKL @ 9M6NA, who was a competitor when I was
here the last time in 1998-2000.  It is great that is was back for this
contest.  I do not know how well he did, but he sounded great every time I
tuned across him.  Every time I got lazy with SO2R I would remind myself of him
and push to work harder - I know he was also trying to break the Oceania SOAB
record this weekend.

73, Dave KH2/N2NL

-------------- 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       0      0      0      1    195      4    200    200    3.2
0100       0      0      0     36    144      0    180    380    6.0
0200       0      0      0     86      3    100    189    569    9.0
0300       0      0      0      4     19    135    158    727   11.5
0400       0      0      0      4      0    170    174    901   14.2
0500       0      0      0      2     48    103    153   1054   16.6
0600       0      0      0      0     24    118    142   1196   18.9
0700       0      0      0     54      7     57    118   1314   20.7
0800       0      0     12     55     76      0    143   1457   23.0
0900       0      0     66      0     12     72    150   1607   25.4
1000       0      0    184      0      0      0    184   1791   28.3
1100      58     67     13      0      0      1    139   1930   30.5
1200      27    114      0      0      0      1    142   2072   32.7
1300       0      6    163      3      3      0    175   2247   35.5
1400      20      0    123      2      0      0    145   2392   37.8
1500       7     55     24      1      0      6     93   2485   39.2
1600       0      0    142      2      0      2    146   2631   41.5
1700       6      2     76      3      1      0     88   2719   42.9
1800       0      0    142      0      0      0    142   2861   45.2
1900       6     29     59      0      0      0     94   2955   46.6
2000      15      4     15     10      0     37     81   3036   47.9
2100       0      0      0      0      0    184    184   3220   50.8
2200       0      0      0      0      0    200    200   3420   54.0
2300       0      0      0      0     65    120    185   3605   56.9
0000       0      0      0     62     91      0    153   3758   59.3
0100       0      0      0     93     47     15    155   3913   61.8
0200       0      0      0     24      0     70     94   4007   63.2
0300       0      0      0     50     13     38    101   4108   64.8
0400       0      0      0     44     24     11     79   4187   66.1
0500       0      0      0      0      4    141    145   4332   68.4
0600       0      0      0      0     93     51    144   4476   70.6
0700       0      0      0     73     63      2    138   4614   72.8
0800       0      2      7      0     23     40     72   4686   74.0
0900       1      1     58     23     18      0    101   4787   75.6
1000       0     14     24     68      0      0    106   4893   77.2
1100       0      0      0    162      0      0    162   5055   79.8
1200       3     28     45      7      0      0     83   5138   81.1
1300       0      0    141      0      0      0    141   5279   83.3
1400       3      1     83      0      1      0     88   5367   84.7
1500       2      0     91      0      0      0     93   5460   86.2
1600       0      0     72     11      0      0     83   5543   87.5
1700       1      1    115      0      0      0    117   5660   89.3
1800       0      0    106      0      0      0    106   5766   91.0
1900       0      7     54      0      0      0     61   5827   92.0
2000       0      0      1      0     73      3     77   5904   93.2
2100       0      0      0      0    185      0    185   6089   96.1
2200       0      0      0      6    103     27    136   6225   98.2
2300       0      0      0     66     20     24    110   6335  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    149    331   1816    953   1355   1732   6336

Gross QSOs=6462        Dupes=126        Net QSOs=6336

Unique callsigns worked = 4307

The best 60 minute rate was 201/hour from 0001 to 0100
The best 30 minute rate was 210/hour from 0002 to 0031
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 0013 to 0022

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    1 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   31 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  398 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  852 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  790 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  446 times.

----------------- C o n t i n e n t   S u m m a r y -----------------
                 160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America     24    141    462    314    751    581   2273   35.9
South America      0      3     10     10     21     33     77    1.2
Europe            22     54    854    302    248    426   1906   30.1
Asia              93    121    458    300    305    644   1921   30.3
Africa             0      1      7      9      7      8     32    0.5
Oceania           10     11     25     18     23     40    127    2.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total            149    331   1816    953   1355   1732   6336


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