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
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80: 536
40: 1060
20: 1118
15: 1069
10: 0
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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3 9
4 1373
5 1472
6 897
7 14
8 12
9 6
Multi-band QSOs
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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
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QSOs 0 167 452 432 417 0
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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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