ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N2IC
Operator(s): N2IC
Station: N2IC
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: New Mexico
Operating Time (hrs): 44
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 28 20
80: 116 48
40: 961 99
20: 952 103
15: 1200 111
10: 392 78
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Total: 3649 459 Total Score = 5,024,673
Club:
Comments:
Friday night was the best and worst of times. We got about 8" of heavy, wet snow
on Thursday night and Friday. It was still snowing hard when the contest
started. All that snow bridged over the hairpin matches and linear loading
straps. The 40 meter beam SWR was 3:1. The resonant frequency of my 80 meter
wire beam was down below the band. Even without snow, it only has about 50 kHz
of 2:1 bandwidth.
The contest started. Had about 13 minutes of JA on 10, then off to the races on
15, which abruptly ended at 0131Z. Repeat the sequence on 20. Lots of S&P EU on
40 while running JA. Didn't try to run EU until 0430Z. Probably should have
moved to 40 earlier. Took my first try at 80 and 160 just 10 minutes later.
What a disaster ! The same storm giving us snow was giving Texas severe
thunderstorms. Continuous, S9+30 static crashes. Even the beverages were
worthless against the high arrival angle QRN. Oh, and the few EU I could hear
just CQ'd in my face, with the wire beam being hosed by snow. I ended up the
first night with 10/8 on 160, and 62/31 on 80. Yuck ! Listening to static
crashes on 80 and 160 on the 2nd radio all night while running EU and JA on 40
was just torture. I can imagine what it must be like for our LU, PY, CX, and VK
friends on the low bands during their summertime ! I nearly quit, but kept
reminding myself that the sun will again rise !
Back to 40. Good EU run which ended early - around 0800Z. Time to settle in to
a JA run on 40. XU7ACY, 3W7W and 9N1II called in. Neat ! Sunrise did indeed
come at 1353Z. A short burst of EU on 20 just before sunrise, then off to the
races on 15 at 1347Z. 15 was good until 1800Z. Nothing happened on 10. Worked a
few EU on really weak scatter. Moved to 20, which was good for about 2 hours.
That isn't always the case from this far south.
Great JA, far east and Scandinavian opening on 10. Got a much needed adrenalin
rush when JW/LZ2HM called in on 10 at 2357Z, and I moved him to 15, 20 and even
40. Then at 0002Z, 9N1II called in on 10, and moved him to 15 and 20. I didn't
even think that 10 had a prayer of being open that deep. I probably made a
tactical error leaving 10 at 0041Z. Listened again during the 02Z hour, and it
was still open, so went back up there. The little geomagnetic storm did some
amazing things to 20 between 03Z-05Z. The best nighttime Zone 16, 17 and 18
opening I have heard in years. But they were all T6 auroral. Pulled myself away
to catch EU sunrise on the low bands, but those bands were really broken. 80 and
160 were quiet as a whisper, but nothing to be worked with the now much-improved
antennas (sun melted all the snow off the antennas on Saturday). I doubt I
worked 5 Europeans on 40 all Saturday night. Took a 3 hour siesta, and then did
the JA 40 meter run until sunrise.
Sunrise Sunday. Stayed on 20 until an hour after sunrise, waiting for 15 to
open. Then went straight to 10 to catch a few more EU on scatter while the path
was there. Got tired of most of them CQing in my face, so sent a few CQ's of my
own, hoping to get the attention of some EU multi's Skimmers. It worked - OE3K,
DM8D and IO5O immediately answered, all new mults. Finally got serious about
running on 15 at 15Z, but the band was 20 dB down from Saturday. Seemed like
90% of the guys calling were right at the noise. And those are the ones I could
hear. When 15 died to EU, went to 20, but it was its normal daytime absorption
from down here. No EU run. At 20Z, found myself with nowhere to run. Amazingly
(for New Mexico, anyway), this was the first time all weekend where there
wasn't any band to run EU or JA on. With JA sunrise only an hour away, it
didn't last long.
The last few hours were actually fun. I saw that 5M points was possible if I
really pushed F1 hard and found a few mults on the 2nd radio. Made it with 15
minutes to spare.
Many thanks to all the stations that called me, and to those who moved bands
with me. It was all great fun !
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by N6TV and Ken Adams (ex-K5KA,
SK)
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: N2IC
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: N2IC
-------------- 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 0 115 29 144 144 3.9
0100 0 0 0 42 74 3 119 263 7.2
0200 0 0 17 95 13 0 125 388 10.6
0300 0 0 45 66 0 0 111 499 13.7
0400 0 14 38 16 0 0 68 567 15.5
0500 3 1 66 0 0 0 70 637 17.5
0600 0 3 116 0 0 0 119 756 20.7
0700 0 3 116 0 0 0 119 875 24.0
0800 2 6 72 0 0 0 80 955 26.2
0900 0 8 105 0 0 0 113 1068 29.3
1000 2 5 77 0 0 0 84 1152 31.6
1100 3 3 40 0 0 0 46 1198 32.8
1200 0 5 54 7 0 0 66 1264 34.6
1300 0 14 14 36 42 0 106 1370 37.5
1400 0 0 0 0 151 2 153 1523 41.7
1500 0 0 0 0 100 11 111 1634 44.8
1600 0 0 0 0 96 11 107 1741 47.7
1700 0 0 0 5 59 20 84 1825 50.0
1800 0 0 0 103 17 0 120 1945 53.3
1900 0 0 0 81 20 0 101 2046 56.1
2000 0 0 0 69 13 0 82 2128 58.3
2100 0 0 0 23 29 14 66 2194 60.1
2200 0 0 0 0 27 65 92 2286 62.6
2300 0 0 0 1 14 93 108 2394 65.6
0000 0 0 1 2 18 46 67 2461 67.4
0100 0 0 0 13 83 0 96 2557 70.1
0200 0 0 1 17 33 26 77 2634 72.2
0300 2 0 13 56 0 0 71 2705 74.1
0400 8 0 2 82 0 0 92 2797 76.7
0500 4 18 0 44 0 0 66 2863 78.5
0600 1 7 15 15 0 0 38 2901 79.5
0700 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2904 79.6
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2904 79.6
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2904 79.6
1000 0 2 76 2 0 0 80 2984 81.8
1100 3 1 39 0 0 0 43 3027 83.0
1200 0 17 40 12 0 0 69 3096 84.8
1300 0 6 14 21 0 0 41 3137 86.0
1400 0 0 0 59 11 9 79 3216 88.1
1500 0 0 0 0 52 9 61 3277 89.8
1600 0 0 0 4 54 14 72 3349 91.8
1700 0 0 0 13 47 5 65 3414 93.6
1800 0 0 0 19 36 0 55 3469 95.1
1900 0 0 0 22 18 0 40 3509 96.2
2000 0 0 0 7 9 7 23 3532 96.8
2100 0 0 0 6 12 5 23 3555 97.4
2200 0 0 0 9 30 3 42 3597 98.6
2300 0 0 0 5 27 20 52 3649 100.0
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Total 28 116 961 952 1200 392 3649
There were 723 bandchanges and 342 (9.4%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- 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 16 17 26 35 42 30 166 4.5
South America 4 9 14 28 36 53 144 3.9
Europe 2 28 371 525 656 36 1618 44.3
Asia 1 51 510 329 424 237 1552 42.5
Africa 3 5 13 17 17 13 68 1.9
Oceania 2 5 24 17 21 22 91 2.5
??? 0 1 3 1 4 1 10 0.3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 28 116 961 952 1200 392 3649
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