from: wd5n@msg.ti.com
subj: WP2AHW CQWW-CW score and comments
Callsign Used : WP2AHW
Category : Single Op, Low Power
Operator : WD5N
Name : David Harper
Country : US Virgin Is. (St.Croix Island)
Team/Club : Central Texas DX & Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
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160CW 41 41 85 10 5
80CW 95 95 196 16 11
40CW 1388 1378 3377 70 25
20CW 1298 1290 3147 76 27
15CW 1400 1390 3349 74 20
10CW 16 16 45 12 10
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Totals 4238 4210 10199 258 98
Final Score = 3,630,844 points.
Setup: FT-1000 (no amp), Force-12 C4-XL for 40-10, Carolina 160 Windom,
80M dipole with balanced feedline, all on single 40' tower on
ridge 900' up overlooking north shore. Old 286 laptop running
TRlog 5.52.
Comments:
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Problems: Planned on 4.5 hours sleep total (okay, I'm a wimp) but slept
6 hours due to missing alarm clock. Yagi was pointing 75 degrees off due
to storm earlier in week but I didn't notice until second day (no wonder
those Europeans all seemed to be skew path!). Lost 30 minutes trying to
get 20M RFI out of computer. Altogether 7 hours or so of off-time, which
kept me about 1/2 million points below 9X5EE's record from last year.
I may have set a record for Low Power QSO total (anyone know what the
record is?). Didn't do too well on mults as I didn't S&P much and didn't
move enough mults. HC8N is the only station worked on 6 bands. Did very
little on low bands; I think the lack of an amp hurt here more than the
higher bands. Not sure why, but only had 4 QSO's total from Oceania.
Highlights: Lots of good mults calling in. 10M opening to Africa Sunday
morning for 5N0, 3B8, 7X7, 7Q7 in short order. Great view of surrounding
island out the windows. Most people who encroached my run frequency
QSY'd when I sent "QSY QSY TU". Also, grocery stores there DO carry
Dr. Pepper. I told my friend Lora that I didn't have time to eat real
meals, but she kept putting food in front of me (bacon, eggs, steak,
spaghetti) and somehow I found time to eat it. Good thing it was a CW
contest, and I'm getting pretty good typing with one hand.
Altogether very pleased with my first serious effort as a single op in a
48-hour contest. Regarding the identification thread, with a callsign
like WP2AHW (Island Villa Contest Club callsign) I tried to up my rate
by signing less when the running was fast, but ALWAYS signed at least
every third contact, and more often when things were slower. However,
still got lots of "?" sent to me, even seconds after signing my call.
These "?" were usually loud and therefore wiped out the call I was picking
out of the pile, requiring extra time to recover. I ran at 32 or 35 wpm
most of the time, with the exchange bumped up about 6 wpm faster since
everyone knows what that will be (one station out of 4000 asked for a
repeat on the zone :-) . Unfortunately, at 35 wpm WP2AHW can sound like
WP2ASW, and I am sure some people busted my call but since very few sent
my call while I was running, there is no way for me to know for sure.
Also, seems I had a problem sometimes when I would correct someone's
callsign, and TRlog was configured to just send the corrected suffix or
prefix, followed by "OK" and his name if available. I thought "OK" was
pretty universal, but had a number of folks who misinterpreted it when
I corrected their prefix. Example: I copy XX4XX as XX3XX, and when
he corrects me, I then send XX3 OK WP2AHW, or XX3 OK JOHN WP2AHW, but
then he thinks I am changing his call to XX3OK, and he tries to correct
me again while the pileup ensues. Guess I'll change "OK" to "QSL".
TRlog rate window got up to 198 a few times, but I just couldn't get it
over 200, as suddenly the pile would die out or something. QRATE says
my best minute was 5/minute, best 10 minutes was 37/10-min., and best
hour was 188. Best over-all "run" was Saturday from 12Z-20Z with 1100
worked in 8 hours on 15 and 20. Never even unpacked the TS-690 spare
rig. I had enough work just using one radio :-)
This is definitely the best contest! C U from VP5 next year.
73, Dave WD5N wd5n@msg.ti.com
>From john.devoldere@eunet.be (John Devoldere) Thu Nov 30 21:33:23 1995
From: john.devoldere@eunet.be (John Devoldere) (John Devoldere)
Subject: ON4UN CQ WW CW - MORE (refined)
Message-ID: <199511302131.WAA14676@box.eunet.be>
After cleaning up the log, here are the final results:
CATEGORY: 80 m single op , unassisted
BAND: 80
QSO: 2,280
QSO POINTS: 4.346
PTS/QSO: 1.91
ZONES: 35
COUNTRIES: 118
SCORE: 664.938
STATISTICS:
NORTH AMERICA: 803 QSO'S (34.1 %)
SOUTH AMWERICA: 11 0.5 %
EUROPE: 1274 54.2 %
ASIA: 229 9.7 %
AFRICA: 20 0.9 %
ACOANIA: 15 0.6 %
US/CANADA break-down:
AREA SATURDAY SUNDAY TOTAL %
ZONE 5 221 183 404 53
ZONE 4 197 88 285 37.5
ZONE 3 54 17 71 9
ZONE 2 2 2 4 0.5
Despite relatively poor conditions to the West coast, 10 % of the
North-America QSO's were into the West coast. The second day was clearly
worse than the first day.
These details are provided, because some West Coast stations asked me to
look especially for West coast stations in the fuuture... I tried hard,
believe me.
Thanks to all who provided reports on our signal strength on 80 meters. Much
appreciated.
73, and CU next weekend on 160!
John, ON4UN
PS. Does anyone have the results for LX4B???
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