North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K7GK
Station: W6YX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 14 5
80: 7 31
40: 265 53
20: 459 59
15: 88 31
10: 2 1
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Total: 905 180 Total Score = 162,900
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team: NCCC Team #1
Comments:
First, a huge thank you to Mike, N7MH, who offered me to operate this great club
station, once my original plan for doing NAQP fell through. It was a fun
experience despite less than ideal bands overall and is a kind of a welcome back
for me after I spent two years in zone 14. DX contests, of course, are
immesureably more fun from there. But there is a certain quality unique to the
US domestic contests, which I can't even describe, and it is something I
missed.
I've operated at YX before, but only as a part of a multi- operation, so this
single op SO2R setup was mostly new to me. Pre-contest preparations were not
particularly fruitful, as configuring N1MM+ with the YCCC SO2R box turned out to
be an adventure in itself. At least for those who have not done this previously.
About 30 minutes before the contest Mike and I have abandoned that idea and
decided to revert to the normal setup being used there, which is WriteLog. Last
time I used WriteLog was a dozen of years ago and not with SO2R, so this was a
trial by fire. First hour or so I was stumbling around and I feel that I mostly
botched the 15 meter operation. 20 was quite good, 40 was decent for this time
of the year and 80 as pretty much expected. There was one item, though, that was
another source of anxiety, the situation with 160 meters. During the last August
NAQP Mike had trouble with that antenna, which resulted in 2 Qs and one mult on
that band for the entire contest. I didn't leave much time for 160 because of
this, thinking it can turn out to be a complete bust. Right before the starting
bell Mike put in a possible fix, but we didn't have time to test it. A quick SWR
check showed between 2:1 and 3:1, so it was usable with a tuner. It turned out
to work, at least somewhat, but I didn't find that out until the last half hour
of the contest.
All-in-all it was a very fun experience and a great way to get reintroduced to
the domestic contests.
73, Denis
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: W6YX
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: NAQP-CW
OPERATORS: K7GK
-------------- 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 30 37 2 69 69 7.6
1900 0 0 0 86 20 0 106 175 19.3
2000 0 0 0 56 29 0 85 260 28.7
2100 0 0 0 90 2 0 92 352 38.9
2200 0 0 0 98 0 0 98 450 49.7
2300 0 0 0 49 0 0 49 499 55.1
0000 0 0 43 41 0 0 84 583 64.4
0100 0 0 30 5 0 0 35 618 68.3
0200 0 0 107 0 0 0 107 725 80.1
0300 0 0 52 4 0 0 56 781 86.3
0400 0 54 31 0 0 0 85 866 95.7
0500 14 23 2 0 0 0 39 905 100.0
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Total 14 77 265 459 88 2 905
Gross QSOs=907 Dupes=2 Net QSOs=905
Unique callsigns worked = 617
The best 60 minute rate was 113/hour from 0212 to 0311
The best 30 minute rate was 130/hour from 1929 to 1958
The best 10 minute rate was 162/hour from 1929 to 1938
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 1 times.
4 QSOs/minute 17 times.
3 QSOs/minute 69 times.
2 QSOs/minute 196 times.
1 QSOs/minute 233 times.
There were 166 bandchanges and 70 (7.7%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
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