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[3830] CQWW CW P40L(@P40L/P49Y) M/S HP

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Subject: [3830] CQWW CW P40L(@P40L/P49Y) M/S HP
From: webform@b41h.net
Reply-to: jfore@wsgr.com
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:09:24 -0800
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: P40L
Operator(s): N6XI, N7MH, W6LD, W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 48.0

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   67    18       64
   80:  427    27       95
   40: 2677    35      129
   20: 1204    40      139
   15: 2089    38      147
   10: 2369    35      146
------------------------------
Total: 8833   193      720  Total Score = 23,911,470

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

We had a lot of fun again this year and are very pleased to have exceeded our
2010 results by approximately 1000 QSOs.  Conditions on the 10, 15 and 40 bands
were particularly good and contributed greatly to the overall QSO and multiplier
counts.

An innovation in how we configured our run station also contributed
significantly to the improved results.  The new configuration allows two
operators, each with their own computer and logging capability, to share access
to a single run transmit radio while listening on separate radios and, if
desired, different listening antennas.  The two operators then work together to
maximize rate, dynamically adjusting how they go about do so depending on
conditions.  Among other approaches, at times it was very effective to have one
operator listen slightly low, while the other listened slightly high.  Another
effective approach was having one operator listen on an antenna pointed at USA
and JA, while the other listened on an antenna pointed to Europe, or having one
listen on the transmitting antenna, while the other listened on the beverages. 
This new configuration turned out to be highly effective and lots of fun to
boot.  Thanks to Ed, W0YK, who spent many hours working out and assembling the
required wiring and lock-out circuits.
 
Unfortunately, on this trip we were plagued by computer hardware and software
problems, including computer and logging program crashes, delayed keyboard
responses, inexplicable wandering cursor focus, loss of networking and loss of
internet access.  Our apologies to those who worked us while we were contending
with any of the problems.  A five second delay in the keyboard response seems
like forever in the middle of a 250 Q per hour run.  I assure you that any
frustration you experienced was considerably higher on our side.  

By Saturday evening (a time period that normally would be expected to be some
our best rate and mult hours), our computer problems had escalated from mere
nuisances and relatively short disruptions to a major continuous problem that
could not be solved by rebooting programs or computers.  we were very fortunate
to be able to reach out to one of our local ham radio friends, Lissandro, P43L,
who on short notice, dropped everything and came to the rescue.  Lissandro
managed to troubleshoot the problems and bring us up on a new network, all
while minimizing disruption to the our run station.  We are very grateful.    

Nevertheless, computer problems did depress our QSO rates for approximately 3.5
hours of the contest.  The good news is this means that a 9000 QSO total, a goal
we thought was unattainable from this station and location as recently as last
year, is clearly possible in the future.

Outside the contest, we enjoyed multiple dinners and visits with John, W2GD
(operating with his usual call, P40W, Valerie, R5AG (operating as P40F), as
well as Jean-Pierre, P43A, and his wife, Christine, P43C.

Our congratulations to the many fine efforts in this contest, especially the
extraordinary results by the D4C and P33W multi-single teams.

As always, thanks for all the contacts!

73,

John, W6LD/P40L

Station:

Rigs:  Elecraft K3s (3), P3s (2)
Amps:  Alpha 86, Alpha 87A
Antennas:  
C31XR at 43 feet
2 elements 10 meter at 55 feet
5 elements 15 meter at 55 feet
4 elements 20 meter at 68 feet
2 elements 40 meter at 76 feet
1 element 80 meter Sigma 80 at 64 feet
160 meter vertical at 67 feet
Receiving antennas:  three 500 foot beverages and 12AVQ vertical using K9AY
switching box/preamp
Logging software:  Writelog on four networked computers
DSL Internet for Packet
 

73,
 
John
 
W6LD/P40L


Some stastics:

Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: P40L
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
OPERATORS: N6XI N7MH W0YK W6LD

-------------- 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     20    188     19      0    227    227    2.6
0100       0      0     50    188      0      0    238    465    5.3
0200       0      2    190     11      0      0    203    668    7.6
0300       0     43    215      0      0      0    258    926   10.5
0400      31      1    171      0      0      0    203   1129   12.8
0500      10      8    181      0      0      0    199   1328   15.0
0600       9     13    157      0      0      0    179   1507   17.1
0700       1     73     94      0      0      0    168   1675   19.0
0800       3    116     31      0      0      0    150   1825   20.7
0900       2     29    111      0      0      0    142   1967   22.3
1000       0      0    121      5     33      0    159   2126   24.1
1100       0      0      3    105     63     17    188   2314   26.2
1200       0      0      0      0    196     40    236   2550   28.9
1300       0      0      0      0    212     19    231   2781   31.5
1400       0      0      0      2     10    147    159   2940   33.3
1500       0      0      0      5      1    232    238   3178   36.0
1600       0      0      0     12     14    212    238   3416   38.7
1700       0      0      0     11     85    110    206   3622   41.0
1800       0      0      0     10      9    215    234   3856   43.6
1900       0      0      0     10      2    230    242   4098   46.4
2000       0      0      1      2    143     86    232   4330   49.0
2100       0      0      0     34    200      0    234   4564   51.7
2200       0      0      0    216      3      0    219   4783   54.1
2300       0      0     84     69      0      0    153   4936   55.9
0000       0      0    126      0      0      0    126   5062   57.3
0100       0      0    155      4      0      0    159   5221   59.1
0200       6     18    155      0      0      0    179   5400   61.1
0300       2     30     61     47      0      0    140   5540   62.7
0400       0      5    156      1      0      0    162   5702   64.5
0500       0     42     92      2      0      0    136   5838   66.1
0600       1      2    127      1      0      0    131   5969   67.6
0700       0      2    137      0      0      0    139   6108   69.1
0800       1      3    108      0      0      0    112   6220   70.4
0900       0      0     73      0      0      0     73   6293   71.2
1000       1     26     56      0      0      0     83   6376   72.2
1100       0     14      0     74      6     63    157   6533   74.0
1200       0      0      1      0      1    185    187   6720   76.1
1300       0      0      0      0      0    179    179   6899   78.1
1400       0      0      0      0    120     92    212   7111   80.5
1500       0      0      0      0    213     11    224   7335   83.0
1600       0      0      0      1    130     64    195   7530   85.2
1700       0      0      0      3      1    194    198   7728   87.5
1800       0      0      0      0     77    109    186   7914   89.6
1900       0      0      0      0    225      4    229   8143   92.2
2000       0      0      0      1    180      1    182   8325   94.2
2100       0      0      0      4     11    156    171   8496   96.2
2200       0      0      1     58    112      4    175   8671   98.2
2300       0      0      0    140     23      0    163   8833  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     67    427   2677   1204   2089   2370   8833

Gross QSOs=9082        Dupes=248        Net QSOs=8833

Unique callsigns worked = 5505

The best 60 minute rate was 271/hour from 2028 to 2127
The best 30 minute rate was 278/hour from 0323 to 0352
The best 10 minute rate was 306/hour from 1153 to 1202

The best 1 minute rates were:
 8 QSOs/minute    5 times.
 7 QSOs/minute   16 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   98 times.
 5 QSOs/minute  341 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  635 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  794 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  591 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  285 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    291   1300    794    990   1270   4669   52.9
South America      9     11     29     29     36     36    150    1.7
Europe            29     95   1039    206    905    983   3257   36.9
Asia               1     18    270    136    120     41    586    6.6
Africa             3     10     15     23     22     28    101    1.1
Oceania            1      2     24     16     16     12     71    0.8
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total             67    427   2677   1204   2089   2370   8834


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