CQ WW SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 25-Nov-95, 26-Nov-95
Callsign Used : 3B8 / N6ZZ
Operator : N6ZZ
Category : Single Operator, All Band
Default Exchange : 59939
Name : Phil Goetz
Address : 225 Pine Drive
City/State/Zip : Southlake, TX 76092 USA
Country : Mauritius
Team/Club : Southern California Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
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80CW 71 71 197 48 22
40CW 653 644 1902 77 32
20CW 981 961 2845 102 35
15CW 2306 2208 6582 111 33
10CW 363 354 1019 79 24
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Totals 4374 4238 12545 417 146
Final Score = 7,062,835 points.
QTH of 3B8CF
Radios: TS-850, Alpha 76
Antennas: 10-15-20: A3 at 45 feet
40: 2-el at 40 feet
80: Inverted vee (sort of), apex at 38 feet
160: SWL only
Computer: Ancient laptop w/ TR Log
Continent List 1995 CQ WW CW - 3B8/N6ZZ
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 0 4 271 363 680 53 1371
VE calls = 0 0 2 23 33 0 58
N.A. calls = 0 1 5 7 12 5 30
S.A. calls = 0 0 5 10 12 4 31
Euro calls = 0 31 296 410 1345 238 2320
Afrc calls = 0 8 14 19 21 20 82
Asia calls = 0 21 30 77 75 33 236
JA calls = 0 1 16 47 22 1 87
Ocen calls = 0 5 5 6 8 0 24
Total calls = 0 71 644 962 2208 354 4239
A few comments: Blew fuse in Alpha during first hour. Had forgotten to pack
spares. Lost about 15 minutes finding one. No idea why it blew.
160: Got the 80 meter inverted vee to load with the 850, but nobody could
hear me. Eventually decided my time would be more productively spent
elsewhere!
80: Not enough room for a true inverted vee. Had to fold ends in a weird
way to keep the antenna on the property. Didn't do much of a job competing
with QRM from Eu. The only time that guys called me were when I was trying
to work a multiplier and didn't want them to call! Never could get a run
going. Worked W1KM around 02Z and 3 W6s around 15Z. No zone 4. Some line
noise.
40, 20: No particular comments.
15: May have stayed here too long, but this was the Bunny Band: It just
kept on running and running. Several hours in the 170s.
10: The north-south propagation sure helps when it's Europe that's located
to the north. Kind of made up for the dismal experiences of 80 and 160. All
U.S. QSOs were made between 15Z and 17Z the first day. I think I tried the
second day, but no takers. Mostly zone 5s, a few zone 4s, no zone 3 QSOs.
The call was a killer. No way was I gonna sign it after every QSO. If I
had, it would have cost me 300 QSOs. My call contains three times as much
information as EA8EA's, and if I didn't surround the "/" with spaces, guys
just wouldn't get it. In any case, the dupe rate was just over 3%, and even
if I had just signed my call, I would occasionally work a dupe on the next
QSO. Go figure! I work guys even if the computer says he's a dupe.
Operating time about 46 hours. I found pileup management extremely tiring
this time. Perhaps it was because when others had propagation to me, there
weren't too many other options available to them, so they all hung out at my
pop stand. I occasionally needed to operate split so that guys could hear
what station I was responding to, but there is a risk of co-mingling with
somebody else's pileup----which happened a few times.
Hope you guys enjoyed working 3B8. Wish that I had worked a 3B8---I also
missed zone 39 on 3 bands. By the time I remembered that I needed to pick up
those pesky multipliers, it was too late---everybody, including my host, was
asleep. That little oversight cost me over 100,000 points!
QSL to N6ZZ at address above---be patient, I'm getting photo cards printed.
73, Phil, N6ZZ
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