CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K3CR
Operator(s): LZ4AX
Station: K3CR
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: State College, PA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 63 15 38
80: 588 23 81
40: 1285 34 116
20: 746 33 110
15: 1067 35 106
10: 1107 30 113
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Total: 4856 170 564 Total Score = 10,360,410
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
Think I got everything out of both me and the station this time. Was so tired
after it ended that let my girlfriend drive back to NYC. Felt asleep as soon as
I got into the car, then somehow made it from the car to her apartment. Was
supposed to leave to Boston by 8 am and be at a "super important meeting" in
the afternoon but after 3 cups of coffee in the morning went back to bed and
left the air moving to my colleagues there. Even let Bloomberg make another 45
bucks off me and left the car where it was parked. Now, more than 24 hours
later I'm slowly coming back to life and thinking about all the different ways
I could have done it. Perhaps better, perhaps not.
This year's CQ WW CW marks exactly 10 years since I operated a contest in US
for a first time. Although we've been in top 3 in CQWW CW for the better part
of these 10 years, it was after the last year's contest when I really got to
believe we can win it from out here in the bushes. K5ZD did it from the K3TUP
in the late 80's, so it is about the time to be done again from PA. Not this
year, obviously, but perhaps next? Then it will be 11 years since my first US
CQWW. If you take these two 1s and then add another one for the first place,
that makes three times 1. Now, that IS a sign! I think all parties involved
should take a note and behave accordingly next year.
This year was also the hardest one to keep the station intact. WA3FET is on a
sabbatical and comes back to town only on weekends. I took a new job at MIT and
moved from New York to Boston. The 8-hour long commute to State College stops
being a fun drive when it has to be done every third weekend. My family there
also is not very happy with me spending all of my time at the station when I'm
in town. Still, we managed to get a lot done and if it wasn't for the lightning
strike we took just before CQ WW Phone, the station would've been in top shape
now. No major issues this time, all patches seemed to work for now; there were
some "adjustments" on the fly but nothing really serious.
The contest: the only thing I clearly remember now is that I ran. Boy, I ran as
if my life depended on it. Tried to run even on 160. Had only one station coming
back - PY2NY, a double mult. Quite good by my 160 run standards. Heard him later
again under some huge unbreakable pile-up.
No time for mult hunting. Just whatever I could get on the second radio. Almost
all requests to move a mult were rejected. Not sure why, perhaps it is somehow
activity related? Ended up with no XE and zone 6 on 80. No KH6 and zone 31 on
160 either.
Ran JAs on 40 for a first time ever! Until now I was quite happy with 2 or 3
JAs on 40. This summer we got one of W3TX 4L40 OWA monsters and W2GD and K4ZA
put it up at 160 ft just in time for CQWW Phone. It is fixed to JA for now but
not for long. This thing is a game changer for sure.
Congratulations to K1DG and K5ZD for the huge scores!
As always, my sincere thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me operate the station
and putting up with my not always sane ideas.
73, Alex LZ4AX
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06g) by K5KA
Callsign: K3CR
Contest: CQ-WW-CW
Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
Operators: LZ4AX
-------------- 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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0000 0 0 111 0 1 0 112 112 2.3
0100 0 0 79 11 0 0 90 202 1.8
0200 0 22 46 26 0 0 94 296 1.9
0300 0 97 0 0 0 0 97 393 2.0
0400 1 135 0 8 0 0 144 537 2.9
0500 27 2 0 4 0 0 33 570 0.7
0600 6 101 0 0 0 0 107 677 2.2
0700 3 47 49 0 0 0 99 776 2.0
0800 1 10 115 0 0 0 126 902 2.6
0900 4 9 71 0 0 0 84 986 1.7
1000 4 3 36 0 0 0 43 1029 0.9
1100 0 5 3 101 0 0 109 1138 2.2
1200 0 0 9 107 71 0 187 1325 3.8
1300 0 0 0 0 45 138 183 1508 3.7
1400 0 0 0 0 0 187 187 1695 3.8
1500 0 0 0 0 0 173 173 1868 3.5
1600 0 0 0 0 88 73 161 2029 3.3
1700 0 0 0 0 122 22 144 2173 2.9
1800 0 0 0 0 84 34 118 2291 2.4
1900 0 0 0 57 19 17 93 2384 1.9
2000 0 0 0 103 10 0 113 2497 2.3
2100 0 0 106 10 20 0 136 2633 2.8
2200 0 0 127 0 10 0 137 2770 2.8
2300 0 0 76 0 8 8 92 2862 1.9
0000 2 0 45 14 3 0 64 2926 1.3
0100 0 0 17 35 0 0 52 2978 1.1
0200 10 0 13 12 0 0 35 3013 0.7
0300 0 40 1 0 0 0 41 3054 0.8
0400 2 56 8 0 0 0 66 3120 1.3
0500 3 43 4 0 0 0 50 3170 1.0
0600 1 4 69 0 0 0 74 3244 1.5
0700 0 3 67 0 0 0 70 3314 1.4
0800 0 7 26 0 0 0 33 3347 0.7
0900 0 1 53 3 0 0 57 3404 1.2
1000 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 3408 0.1
1100 0 2 5 48 43 0 98 3506 2.0
1200 0 0 0 3 153 0 156 3662 3.2
1300 0 0 2 0 26 106 134 3796 2.7
1400 0 0 0 0 3 158 161 3957 3.3
1500 0 0 0 0 20 110 130 4087 2.6
1600 0 0 0 0 103 45 148 4235 3.0
1700 0 0 0 0 137 5 142 4377 2.9
1800 0 0 0 3 69 19 91 4468 1.9
1900 0 0 0 139 3 1 143 4611 2.9
2000 0 0 0 41 7 11 59 4670 1.2
2100 0 0 38 5 14 0 57 4727 1.2
2200 0 0 44 3 6 0 53 4780 1.1
2300 0 0 63 8 2 0 73 4853 1.5
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Total 64 588 1285 746 1067 1107 4857
Gross QSO's=4914 Dupes=57 Net QSO's=4857
Unique callsigns worked = 3129
The best 60 minute rate was 199/hour from 1335 to 1434
The best 30 minute rate was 210/hour from 1334 to 1403
The best 10 minute rate was 252/hour from 1335 to 1344
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 22 times.
4 QSO's/minute 218 times.
3 QSO's/minute 531 times.
2 QSO's/minute 755 times.
1 QSO's/minute 768 times.
There were 681 bandchanges and 334 (6.9%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.
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