ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: KH7M
Operator(s): NA2U
Station: KH6ZM
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: HI
Operating Time (hrs): 37:38
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 87 33
80: 374 51
40: 857 59
20: 884 58
15: 1166 59
10: 1718 58
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Total: 5086 318 Total Score = 4,849,182
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
My third year in a row for ARRL DX Phone from Hawaii. I think Murphy knows I'm
coming to the island and he has been staying away while I'm here. WHEW!
First a big thanks to Max, KH6ZM, and his XYL, K-A-T-H-Y (there is a personal
joke here), for their exceptional hospitality. It is such a joy to visit with
them and operate Max's excellent station.
With a nod to Ed, N1UR's comment about being "wierd" liking phone
contests, I'll repeat that I used to think I didn't like contesting on phone
until I came here and started getting fantastic rates, and that does feel a
little "wierd". I now think it's just that I don't like phone
contesting from home.
Last year I made 4,834 Qs. This year I made 5,086 Qs (+252). Last year I had
285 mults. This year I had 318 mults (+33 mults). W1IL called me at 2332 UTC
Sunday for my 318th mult. The cherry on top. I know I missed some mults
simply by not moving them. This is one of my weakest areas. Thanks to the 31
stations who worked me on all six bands. (See below)
My best rates were higher this year than last year. My 60-minute fastest rate
equaled my all-time fastest hour on phone in 2014. My 30-minute and 10-minute
rates were faster than last year but slightly lower than those rates in 2014.
A lot has been said about ten-meters. I'll say: Wow! Starting at 1754 UTC on
Saturday I had my longest single run ever both in time and volume: 1,141 Qs in
5:22. I thought I might have some propagation on 10m but running 10m like this
with recent and expected propagation caught me pleasantly by surprise. It's
3,000 miles to the mainland from here and a couple thousand more miles to the
east coast guys. Not the other side of the world but not a chip shot. As I've
said for years: Ain't no meters like TEN-meters!!!
Being fairly new to operating from HI I just learned about using the east coast
sunrise grayline enhancement on 160/80/40 last month in the CW test. GREAT
deal. In this contest I tried that both nights and I stayed up the second
night to catch that opening to include the mid-west. Success both nights,
except not so much on 160m the second night/morning. I've been leaving these
Qs on the table for years. Quel domage.
Most 160m activity was Friday night/Saturday morning. John, VE3EJ, moved me to
160m for the second year in a row and NOT while we were working. John shows up
and asks if I want to go 160m and I think "DUH?" and off we go. A
great guy. John, I meant what I said about the beer at Dayton. Well, maybe NOT
a case! I will also mention K0TT. We knew we already had 5 bands. We talked
about 160m during the fifth Q and agreed to look for each other when we'd have
propagation. Scott heard me on 80m after I had just QSYed there and made a
single and asked if I wanted to go 160m. Another mult in the log.
For the first time in operating six contests from HI I could NOT find a run
frequency. On Sunday morning (local) I could not find a useable frequency on
15m and it was THE place to be. My first forced S&P. It brought back
memories of when I really didn't like phone contests. I really hate looking
for a run frequency on phone. Really.
Prior to last year's phone contest I had completely lost my voice on Christmas
Day, 2014. The voice returned the next day but then I had a cough for the next
couple weeks. That made for really tough contest last year as I hadn't fully
recovered. This last October it happened again but no voice for a day and a
half. I finally ended up going the doc because my voice kept
"cracking". A really cool HD video scope showed the vocal cords not
vibrating in sync. Ten days later they were back in sync but the
"cracking" continued. I had four sessions of speech therapy prior to
the contest. Minor improvement. I decided to contest almost in a whisper voice
this and set the VOX to trip easily. This helped because after doing this for
so many years I was actually letting the rig do the work. This instead of
sometimes working guys by screaming out the window. The strategy worked until
about 2100 UTC Sunday when I started losing my voice. By 2200 UTC I could
barely speak. I took a couple minutes to wolf down some lunch. My voice
seemed to recover somewhat and I was able to finish the contest after thinking
I just wasn't going to have enough voice to do so.
I know I've said this before but working guys I know back in the states is the
biggest kick for me operating on the DX-side. I don't always do it if my rate
is really high, but even when it is, I try to say "hi" when I work
someone I know. On CW that might just be two dits. It could be anything on
phone from "hi" to calling the op by name, and maybe a couple
comments. That makes contesting so much fun for me. Thanks to ALL who called.
I'm in the initial planning stage for a return next year. In any case, I'll
see you in the pileups.
73 from the desert,
Fred/NA2U (aka KH7M)
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: KH7M
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: NA2U
-------------- 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 0 264 0 264 264 5.2
0100 0 0 0 133 92 0 225 489 9.6
0200 0 0 0 253 0 0 253 742 14.6
0300 0 0 57 93 0 0 150 892 17.5
0400 0 5 92 0 0 0 97 989 19.4
0500 0 1 90 0 0 0 91 1080 21.2
0600 0 0 70 0 0 0 70 1150 22.6
0700 2 77 7 0 0 0 86 1236 24.3
0800 33 9 3 0 0 0 45 1281 25.2
0900 19 26 9 0 0 0 54 1335 26.3
1000 3 52 0 0 0 0 55 1390 27.3
1100 21 67 6 0 0 0 94 1484 29.2
1200 6 16 7 0 0 0 29 1513 29.8
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1513 29.8
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1513 29.8
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1513 29.8
1600 0 0 0 39 0 0 39 1552 30.5
1700 0 0 0 30 104 14 148 1700 33.4
1800 0 0 0 0 0 249 249 1949 38.3
1900 0 0 0 0 0 221 221 2170 42.7
2000 0 0 0 0 0 185 185 2355 46.3
2100 0 0 0 0 0 204 204 2559 50.3
2200 0 0 0 0 0 209 209 2768 54.4
2300 0 0 0 0 102 43 145 2913 57.3
0000 0 0 0 0 205 0 205 3118 61.3
0100 0 0 0 103 46 0 149 3267 64.2
0200 0 0 0 161 0 0 161 3428 67.4
0300 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 3500 68.8
0400 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 3503 68.9
0500 0 0 137 0 0 0 137 3640 71.6
0600 0 0 135 0 0 0 135 3775 74.2
0700 0 54 24 0 0 0 78 3853 75.8
0800 0 0 49 0 0 0 49 3902 76.7
0900 0 17 40 0 0 0 57 3959 77.9
1000 0 23 0 0 0 0 23 3982 78.3
1100 0 15 84 0 0 0 99 4081 80.3
1200 3 12 44 0 0 0 59 4140 81.4
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4140 81.4
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4140 81.4
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4140 81.4
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4140 81.4
1700 0 0 0 0 37 0 37 4177 82.1
1800 0 0 0 0 63 0 63 4240 83.4
1900 0 0 0 0 23 125 148 4388 86.3
2000 0 0 0 0 0 197 197 4585 90.2
2100 0 0 0 0 0 209 209 4794 94.3
2200 0 0 0 0 75 62 137 4931 97.0
2300 0 0 0 0 154 0 154 5085 100.0
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Total 87 374 857 884 1165 1718 5085
Gross QSOs=5159 Dupes=74 Net QSOs=5085
Unique callsigns worked = 3204
The best 60 minute rate was 289/hour from 0009 to 0108
The best 30 minute rate was 302/hour from 0026 to 0055
The best 10 minute rate was 324/hour from 0027 to 0036
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 1 times.
7 QSOs/minute 7 times.
6 QSOs/minute 73 times.
5 QSOs/minute 188 times.
4 QSOs/minute 351 times.
3 QSOs/minute 375 times.
2 QSOs/minute 374 times.
1 QSOs/minute 373 times.
There were 39 bandchanges and 2 (0.0%) 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 87 374 856 883 1164 1717 5081 99.9
South America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Asia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oceania 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
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Total 87 374 857 884 1165 1718 5085
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 1
4 2118
5 1985
6 967
7 7
8 6
9 1
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
K 83 350 808 816 1107 1634 4798 94.4
KG4 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 0.1
KH6 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
KL 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
VE 4 24 47 67 54 79 275 5.4
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 87 374 857 884 1165 1718 5085
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
K 83 350 808 816 1107 1634 4798 94.4
VE 4 24 47 67 54 79 275 5.4
KG4 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 0.1
KH6 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
KL 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
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Total 87 374 857 884 1165 1718 5085
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2162
2 bands 573
3 bands 234
4 bands 131
5 bands 73
6 bands 31
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
W1GD K7BHM K9CT K0KX VE3EJ WE3C
K0TT WI7N K6ND W3LPL K1KI K3LR
K5ZO KA6BIM NV9L W4RM W0AIH K4AB
N7IR K7XC K1RO K6GHA K3WW VE7UF
W7YAQ W6WB K5TR WB2P NC1I W9PA
K9DR
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 21 105 311 338 465 922
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