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Subject: [3830] RTTY WPX P49X(W0YK) SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: ed@w0yk.com
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 03:29:36 +0000
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CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: FK52al
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
   80:  536
   40: 1060
   20: 1118
   15: 1069
   10:    0
------------
Total: 3783  Prefixes = 926  Total Score = 14,874,338

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

Another fun weekend spent contesting!  All the way through to the end, WPX
offers the excitement of the continual flow of new multipliers.  And the score
goes up exponentially with QSOs.  One of my other favorite attributes of WPX is
double point for low-band contacts.  This makes the contest competitive
throughout the solar cycle, albeit tactics change.

This is my 11th consecutive year of doing WPX RTTY as P49X.  Incredibly, it is
also now my personal best.  While I always strive to better my prior results,
it gets harder to keep raising the bar.  And, conventional wisdom would put
little hope in a personal best at the solar minimum.  But, of course, WPX is
different with its premium on low-band contacts and that was the enabler for me
this weekend.  While my final score is 2% higher than any of my prior efforts,
both the QSOs and prefix multiplier counts are lower than my two next highest
scores.  This is due to being able to achieve higher low-band QSO totals this
time.

Here in Aruba 40 and 80 were in great shape.  Signals were strong and noise was
low.  Saturday night on the low bands in any contest can be grueling as most of
the louder stations have already been worked and more contacts have to be
summoned out of the noise floor.  Accordingly, I usually take my nightly sleep
break sooner on Saturday night compared to Friday.  Not this weekend!  Just as
I was thinking of knocking off around 05z Sunday, the QSO rate started
increasing, so I stuck around “for a few more minutes’.  That lingering
stretched to 90 minutes because the sustained rate was 100/hour which equates
to 200/hour on the high bands.   I was pretty sure I couldn’t do 200/hour on
15 and 20, especially on Sunday.  So I kept logging Qs on 80 and 40 until the
rate looked like it really was dropping off to 60 and downward.  That was just
about the right guesstimate because I really struggled Sunday to maintain the
60-minute rate at 100 or more QSOs/hour.

Another personal best was set in QSOs per clock hour where my previous high was
167 in WPX RTTY.  Friday evening on 40 and 20, the first two hours were 187 and
185 respectively.  This is a lot lower than I’ve achieved in WW RTTY,
probably due to the serial number exchange.  All and all, it is gratifying to
be able to improve at any point in the solar cycle.

After my sleep break following the decline of the low bands early Sunday
morning, I had less than 6 hours left of my 30-hours scoring time, so there was
no hurry to get started Sunday. During my first hour back on 15 and 20, I was
disappointed in the QSO rate.  It wasn’t much better than the 80/40 rate the
night before, and with 50% of the point value.  In frustration, I took an hour
break, hoping that it might be different upon my return.  It really wasn’t so
I ran out the 30-hour clock with serial number 3836 at 2023z.  As always,
though, I was enjoying the operating so I continued on for another 45 minutes. 
I won’t get credit for those extra QSOs, but my QSO partners will.  Those
contacts are not reported in this 3830 Scores posting.

Thanks to all my QSO partners and especially the 150 who are in the log on all
4 bands.  There is no multiplier credit for working the same station on 
multiple bands, just QSO credit and I really appreciate the additional
contacts.  Thanks to station owners Andy AE6Y/P49Y and John W6LD/P40L.

Ed P49X/W0YK

********************************************************************

Rigs: Elecraft K3s (2), K-Pods (2), P3s (2)
Amps: Alpha 86, Alpha 91B
FilterMax III low power band pass filters (2)
4O3A high power band pass filters
SixPak, StackMatch (2), BandMaster III decoder (2)

Tower 1: C31XR at 43 feet
Tower 2: 2 elements on 10 meters / 5 elements 15 meters at 55 feet
Tower 3: 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 \"Double L\" vertical at 67 feet
Four 400-500 foot beverages using K9AY switching box/preamp (JA/W6, W1, EU and
Africa/VK-ZL

Logging software: WriteLog 12.14F on three networked PCs

RTTY Decoders (each K3): MMTTY, 2Tone (2), Hal DXP-38 on main receiver
                         MMTTY, 2Tone on second receiver
                         (setting both receivers on same frequency
                          yields 6 parallel decoders)
********************************************************************
Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-RTTY
OPERATORS: W0YK

-------------- 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     83    104      0      0    187    187    4.9
0100       0      0    106     79      0      0    185    372    9.8
0200       0     23     91     31      0      0    145    517   13.7
0300       0     39     81      0      0      0    120    637   16.8
0400       0     38     88      0      0      0    126    763   20.2
0500       0     46     75      0      0      0    121    884   23.4
0600       0     77     56      0      0      0    133   1017   26.9
0700       0     37     24      0      0      0     61   1078   28.5
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1078   28.5
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1078   28.5
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1078   28.5
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1078   28.5
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1078   28.5
1300       0      0      0     36     32      0     68   1146   30.3
1400       0      0      0     67     89      0    156   1302   34.4
1500       0      0      0     57    103      0    160   1462   38.6
1600       0      0      0     56     98      0    154   1616   42.7
1700       0      0      0     56    103      0    159   1775   46.9
1800       0      0      0     55     93      0    148   1923   50.8
1900       0      0      0     77     76      0    153   2076   54.9
2000       0      0      0     50     47      0     97   2173   57.4
2100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2173   57.4
2200       0      0      0     73     75      0    148   2321   61.4
2300       0      0     42     56     22      0    120   2441   64.5
0000       0      4     63     42      0      0    109   2550   67.4
0100       0     47     53      0      0      0    100   2650   70.1
0200       0     24     83      0      0      0    107   2757   72.9
0300       0     46     55      0      0      0    101   2858   75.5
0400       0     40     55      0      0      0     95   2953   78.1
0500       0     40     43      0      0      0     83   3036   80.3
0600       0     51     49      0      0      0    100   3136   82.9
0700       0     24     13      0      0      0     37   3173   83.9
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3173   83.9
1400       0      0      0     41     70      0    111   3284   86.8
1500       0      0      0     48     86      0    134   3418   90.4
1600       0      0      0     16     40      0     56   3474   91.8
1700       0      0      0     29     23      0     52   3526   93.2
1800       0      0      0     60     52      0    112   3638   96.2
1900       0      0      0     66     49      0    115   3753   99.2
2000       0      0      0     19     11      0     30   3783  100.0
2100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3783  100.0
2200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3783  100.0
2300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3783  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    536   1060   1118   1069      0   3783

Gross QSOs=3832        Dupes=49        Net QSOs=3783

Unique callsigns worked = 2349

The best 60 minute rate was 194/hour from 0009 to 0108
The best 30 minute rate was 200/hour from 0005 to 0034
The best 10 minute rate was 222/hour from 0007 to 0016

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    5 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   38 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  179 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  426 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  563 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  443 times.

There were 2302 bandchanges and 1483 (39.2%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         9
   4      1373
   5      1472
   6       897
   7        14
   8        12
   9         6

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1468
2 bands     478
3 bands     253
4 bands     150
5 bands       0
6 bands       0

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      0    167    452    432    417      0

********************************************************************
           80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    NA     320    653    917    732      0    2622    69.3
    EU     207    378    132    263      0     980    25.9
    SA       5      9      9     33      0      56     1.5
    AS       1      9     55     32      0      97     2.6
    AF       3      4      2      4      0      13     0.3
    OC       0      7      3      5      0      15     0.4

           80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total

    4X              1                            1
    5B              1                            1
    5W              1                            1
    8P       1      1      1                     3
    9A       2      4      3      3             12
    A6              1                            1
    CE                            1              1
    CM       2      6      7                    15
    CN                     1                     1
    CT       1      2                            3
   CT3                     1                     1
    CU                     1      1              2
    CX       1                                   1
    DL      45     75     30     61            211
  E5/s              1                            1
    E7              2                            2
    EA      17     16     14     16             63
   EA8       3      1             4              8
    EI              1      1                     2
    ER                            1              1
    ES       2      1             1              4
    EU       1      5      2                     8
     F      16     12      8     10             46
     G       6     15     11     23             55
    GI              3             1              4
    GM       2             5      1              8
    GU       1                                   1
    GW       1      2      1      1              5
    HA       6      6             6             18
    HB       4      4      2      2             12
   HB0                            1              1
    HC                            2              2
    HK       1             1                     2
    HL                     2                     2
     I      14     39     12     34             99
   IT9       2      2      1      1              6
    JA              2     52     32             86
     K     289    590    831    674           2384
   KH6              4      1      2              7
    KL              1      5      1              7
   KP4              2                            2
    LA       3      1      1      5             10
    LU              3      2      7             12
    LX       2             1      1              4
    LY       3      5             4             12
    LZ       1      6             5             12
    OA                            1              1
    OE       1      5      2      6             14
    OH       8      4      3      4             19
    OK      14     18      2      6             40
    OM       3     10      1      3             17
    ON       4      7      4      7             22
    OX                     1      1              2
    OZ       2      3             3              8
    P4              1      1      1              3
    PA       4     12      4      8             28
    PY       1      1      3     18             23
    S5       9     12      5      8             34
    SM       2      3      4      5             14
    SP      11     19      7     12             49
    SV       1      7             1              9
   SV9       1                                   1
    TA              1                            1
   TA1              1                            1
    TF       1      1      1                     3
    TG              1             1              2
    TR              1                            1
    UA       4     19      4      2             29
   UA9       1      3      1                     5
    UR       6     32      1     11             50
    V3       1      1                            2
    VE      26     47     68     53            194
    VK              1                            1
   VP8                            1              1
    XE       1      3      4      2             10
    YB                     1      1              2
    YL       3      4             3             10
    YO       3     13      1      4             21
    YU       1      5             1              7
    YV       2      3      1                     6
    Z3              2                            2
    ZB                            1              1
    ZF              1                            1
    ZL                     1      2              3
    ZP              1      1      2              4
    ZS              2                            2


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