ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: KC4HW
Operator(s): KC4HW
Station: KC4HW
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 15.3
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 38
40: 258
20: 306
15: 361
10: 126
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Total: 1088 State/Prov = 55 Countries = 43 Total Score = 106,624
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
Thanks for the QSOs! Always fun to see the old familiar and new calls in RTTY
Contesting. It certainly seems that it has grown over the 22 years that I have
been participating. I think that the first year I played in RU was 1993 and I
had 278 Qs, man! I thought that was a big effort, how times have changed!
Congratulations to all!
All in all, I think that my station did pretty good. I never had a bit trouble
with anything.
I thought that band conditions were up and down. 10m was pretty pitiful
considering how well it had been leading up to the event. 15m seemed to do
very well, as well as 20m/40m. I did not expect to do very well with 80m,
because one leg of my inverted vee is caught on the guy wire and I am sure that
it affecting its performance.
WX was challenging here on Sunday morning, rain static was 20 over S9 on 40m.
Worked a few stations and I know that there were others calling, so my
apologizes for not being able to hear you! I gave up for a few hours and took
my YL to breakfast and when I got back it had cleared up.
This was the first time in the last 10 years that I was able to get the SO2R to
consistently work. Unfortunately the 6x2 switch bit the bullet during a small
tornado that we had last summer. However was able to get a "limited"
SO2R setup working with 10/20/80 on left radio and 15/40 on the right radio.
Used the K2TX stubs and they worked perfectly. Just a barely noticeable bit of
noise between 10 and 15m and I am sure that was because those antennas are only
about 6 feet apart on the same tower.
Being very very rusty with the SO2R setup, I did not start to well with the
second radio. In fact I really just did a few to get my feet wet again. The
first few hours I really had a hard time thinking about it. But as the contest
moved on, I began to think that I had more time to tune it and so it was.
According to Cabrillo Statistics 13.6% of my QSOs were made on the second radio
in total. Actually I think that I did much better on Sunday with the second
radio, so perhaps with some more practices that percentage will go up.
The hardest obstacle to overcome now is staying in the seat. The FT mental and
physical challenge may be just to much anymore. I enjoy the activity, so not
ready to give up yet... hi
OK, thanks again for the QSOs and Happy New Year.
Jim/KC4HW
The following is a portion of the CBS analysis.
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: KC4HW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY
OPERATORS: KC4HW
ACTUAL OPERATING TIME: 15 hrs 20 minutes
ACTUAL OFF Time: 14 hrs 40 minutes
-------------- 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 55 3 0 58 58 5.3
1900 0 0 0 55 13 0 68 126 11.6
2000 0 0 0 68 16 0 84 210 19.3
2100 0 0 0 3 44 7 54 264 24.2
2200 0 0 0 0 53 12 65 329 30.2
2300 0 0 0 5 16 0 21 350 32.1
0000 0 0 36 1 0 0 37 387 35.5
0100 0 8 74 0 0 0 82 469 43.1
0200 0 26 57 0 0 0 83 552 50.7
0300 0 4 35 0 0 0 39 591 54.3
0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 591 54.3
1200 0 0 25 0 1 0 26 617 56.7
1300 0 0 5 36 10 0 51 668 61.3
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 668 61.3
1500 0 0 0 1 60 3 64 732 67.2
1600 0 0 0 0 35 35 70 802 73.6
1700 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 824 75.7
1800 0 0 0 0 10 8 18 842 77.3
1900 0 0 0 0 50 24 74 916 84.1
2000 0 0 0 0 50 15 65 981 90.1
2100 0 0 2 38 0 0 40 1021 93.8
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1021 93.8
2300 0 0 24 43 0 0 67 1088 99.9
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Total 0 38 258 306 361 126 1089
Gross QSOs=1097 Dupes=8 Net QSOs=1089
Unique callsigns worked = 852
The best 60 minute rate was 90/hour from 1517 to 1616
The best 30 minute rate was 98/hour from 0040 to 0109
The best 10 minute rate was 126/hour from 2046 to 2055
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSOs/minute 3 times.
3 QSOs/minute 42 times.
2 QSOs/minute 272 times.
1 QSOs/minute 406 times.
There were 295 bandchanges and 148 (13.6%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Here is the lineup on the station
FTDX-5000MP (Left Radio)
FT-2000D (Right Radio)
10m 4 x 4 (78' and 39')
15m 155CA (72')
20m 204BA (108')
40m 402CD (118')
80m Inverted Vee (105')
Writelog 11.07D
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