CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2020
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: 479
40: 970
20: 1054
15: 644
10: 0
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Total: 3147 Prefixes = 847 Total Score = 11,615,758
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Really enjoyed the weekend, my 14th consecutive year as a P4. More activity and
better conditions would be great, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. I was
discouraged at the outset with a very slow start. Typically, the first 4 hours
are 200+ QSOs/hour, but this year all I could get was less than 125/hour.
Saturday morning was the highest rate period as seen in the rate table below.
40 was OK, not great, but neither 20 nor 80 produced much at all at the contest
start. I used my hourly stats from 2017 as the reference during the contest,
since that was almost tied with my all-time best result and it was near the
solar minimum. Unfortunately, conditions and activity this weekend made it
futile to keep up. The 2017 reference was both motivating and depressing!
There were spurts of rate, but nothing consistent. The bands were variable,
changing often from ear-crushing signal levels to near black-out. Some QSOs
were printed with virtually no audio in the headphones. 10 meters was
unproductive, as it has been since 2016 from here. A few SA QSOs could be
squeezed out, but there is no reason to do that. 15 meters was good but not as
strong as 2017 (644 vs. 1069 QSOs). It didn’t open up for any kind or rate
until about noon local time and petered out by late afternoon. And, 20-80
meters were down a bit from 2017 for a net all-band decrease of about 600 QSOs.
OTOH, the bands were all pretty quiet and pleasant to operate on.
It was challenging to make good use of SO2R (or, 2BSIQ in modern lingo) because
there were often times when 2 strong bands weren’t available. The 30-hour
Single-Op scoring limit could have been even shorter this year. The upside of
lower rate is that it was easier to improve my SO4V skills using the two
sub-receivers, working split, to work mults and new stations on each of the two
bands where I was running. Juggling 4 streams, interleaved, max’d me out at
times. It will either keep me young or provoke heart failure.
As always, my strategy was to milk the low bands as much as possible and use the
remaining time for the high bands. Twice the QSO point value is a compelling
incentive. And, there are still plenty of hours for high bands where the prefix
multiplier count can be built. Despite my comments above about lower rate, the
low band rate sustained later in the early morning than prior years which was a
plus.
The station performed flawlessly, other than our long-standing re-radiated RFI
causing 40 to QRM 20 and 20 to QRM 10. To a lesser degree, 80 re-radiates into
40 too. This is the third major contest with the entirely new tower/antenna
replacement (mostly) done last November, and it all works beautifully.
Several QSO partners moved from our QSO on one band to the other band in
literally seconds. Whether QSYs were this speedy or not, the multi-band QSOs
are really appreciated. Thanks to all my QSP partners for getting in the log.
I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Thanks as always to station owners
Andy P49Y/AE6Y and John P40L/W6LD. They arrived at the end of the contest for
another week to wrap up the rebuild project.
73,
Ed P49X (W0YK)
Rohn 45 tower (66’): Single boom 2-element shortened 40m interlaced with
4-element 20m (67’); 80m Inverted-V (65’); 160m Double-L center-fed vertical
dipole(65’)
North Rohn 25 tower (50’): Single boom 5-element 15 interlaced with 6-element
10 (52’)
South Rohn 25 tower (43’): Tri-bander
Beverages: 4 controlled by K9AY switchbox: JA/West-US, East US, EU and East-West
(AF and OC)
K3S/P3/K-pod x 2
Alpha amps: 86 and 91B
WriteLog 12.48B, TinyFSK keyers, networked X-220 ThinkPads (one per radio plus a
main spare)
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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: P49X
-------------- 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 13 103 8 0 0 124 124 3.9
0100 0 23 100 0 0 0 123 247 7.8
0200 0 35 74 0 0 0 109 356 11.3
0300 0 55 68 0 0 0 123 479 15.2
0400 0 42 58 0 0 0 100 579 18.4
0500 0 60 55 0 0 0 115 694 22.1
0600 0 40 44 0 0 0 84 778 24.7
0700 0 26 31 0 0 0 57 835 26.5
0800 0 10 57 0 0 0 67 902 28.7
0900 0 1 5 0 0 0 6 908 28.9
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 908 28.9
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 908 28.9
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 908 28.9
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 908 28.9
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 908 28.9
1500 0 0 0 93 42 0 135 1043 33.1
1600 0 0 0 97 80 0 177 1220 38.8
1700 0 0 0 98 62 0 160 1380 43.9
1800 0 0 0 77 80 0 157 1537 48.8
1900 0 0 0 68 69 0 137 1674 53.2
2000 0 0 0 64 60 0 124 1798 57.1
2100 0 0 1 46 28 0 75 1873 59.5
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1873 59.5
2300 0 0 66 64 0 0 130 2003 63.6
0000 0 0 84 30 0 0 114 2117 67.3
0100 0 27 62 5 0 0 94 2211 70.3
0200 0 35 41 0 0 0 76 2287 72.7
0300 0 37 36 0 0 0 73 2360 75.0
0400 0 38 34 0 0 0 72 2432 77.3
0500 0 30 16 0 0 0 46 2478 78.7
0600 0 7 3 0 0 0 10 2488 79.1
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2488 79.1
1400 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2490 79.1
1500 0 0 0 64 7 0 71 2561 81.4
1600 0 0 0 83 35 0 118 2679 85.1
1700 0 0 0 64 40 0 104 2783 88.4
1800 0 0 0 58 48 0 106 2889 91.8
1900 0 0 0 42 55 0 97 2986 94.9
2000 0 0 0 44 37 0 81 3067 97.5
2100 0 0 26 41 1 0 68 3135 99.6
2200 0 0 6 6 0 0 12 3147 100.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3147 100.0
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Total 0 479 970 1054 644 0 3147
Gross QSOs=3188 Dupes=41 Net QSOs=3147
Unique callsigns worked = 1860
The best 60 minute rate was 180/hour from 1556 to 1655
The best 30 minute rate was 190/hour from 1612 to 1641
The best 10 minute rate was 204/hour from 1611 to 1620
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 2 times.
5 QSOs/minute 21 times.
4 QSOs/minute 102 times.
3 QSOs/minute 318 times.
2 QSOs/minute 549 times.
1 QSOs/minute 570 times.
There were 1665 bandchanges and 1026 (32.6%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 12
4 1254
5 1168
6 682
7 10
8 16
9 5
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1096
2 bands 369
3 bands 267
4 bands 128
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 0 123 408 408 157 0
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