CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: AA1K
Operator(s): AA1K
Station: AA1K
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Delaware
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1377 State/Prov = 59 Countries = 61 Total Score = 638,760
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
I only had a few hours for this contest.
Thirty.
CONGRATS to KT1V for a super single op score, and W2GD, KC1XX and K1TTT for
outstanding multiop totals.
This years's pre-contest project was to get the vertical transmit array working
in all four directions. While it still needs some final tuning to get the best
f/b and gain, it already is performing nicely over a single vertical. Details at
www.aa1k.us.
For most of the weekend, signals were better copy on the verticals than on the
phased Beverages. But at times they would flip-flop in a short period.
Friday night gave us 60 Europeans in the log. We ended the night with all W/VE
mults except VY0, VE8 and VO2. Never heard those all weekend and never heard KL7
-- only one needed for a contest WAS. Some good mults did call in though:
5B/K3UY and ZS4TX at their sunrises. 5B was the only Asian heard all weekend.
Also worked ZL and VK as sunrise approached -- these are never a sure thing in
this contest. Special thanks to W0ZTL -- the only North Dakota we heard all
weekend.
Had an equipment failure at 0531z that cost us 48 minutes to debug just as we
had begun a good European run.
Second night, a dozen or so Europeans trickled in before 01z, but then the
European signals suddenly got VERY loud for about 30 minutes before taking a
nose dive and having flutter for a short period. Sounded like a flare had hit
us. But the big waves of Europeans started rolling in just before 03z through Eu
sunrise. The 04z and 06z hours were the best, though with many weak Europeans
calling in. Sounded at times like every Butternut vertical and low dipole on the
continent was calling me.
Sunday evening gave us only three Europeans but included T9 for a new mult. We
heard many others from across the pond but they either were dupes or couldn't
hear us.
I think the only mult I heard but missed all weekend was an LZ4 who called in
Saturday night but got swallowed up by the pileup.
The gear: FT1000MP with Inrad roofing filter and pair 250hz filters. TS940S
second radio -- usually listening on a South or West Beverage while beaming
Europe on the main radio. Top Ten DXDoubler SO2R box. Homebrew 4-1000A
grounded-grid amplifier. TX verticals, 4-el 229 ft. "boom" toward Europe, 3-el.
132-ft "booms" to SE, SW and NW. It's a modified K3LR array. Multiple phased
Beverage receiving antennas, 500-935 feet long. NA logging software.
The stats:
2 point QSOs: 1004 (last year we had 1017)
5 point QSOs: 83 (last year we had 58)
10 point QSOs: 290 (last year we had 320)
QSO BREAKDOWN BY CONTINENT
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N America: 1049 (78%)
S America: 3 (100%)
Europe: 271 (20%)
Africa: 6 (0%)
Asia: 1 (0%)
Oceania: 6 (0%)
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QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS
UTC 160 rate total
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00Z 136 136 136
01Z 106 106 242
02Z 88 88 330
03Z 99 99 429
04Z 94 94 523
05Z 37 37 560
06Z 36 36 596
07Z 62 62 658
08Z 48 48 706
09Z 34 34 740
10Z 19 19 759
11Z 27 27 786
12Z 24 24 810
13Z 0 0 810
14Z 0 0 810
15Z 0 0 810
16Z 0 0 810
17Z 0 0 810
18Z 0 0 810
19Z 0 0 810
20Z 1 1 811
21Z 19 19 830
22Z 18 18 848
23Z 29 29 877
00Z 48 48 925
01Z 30 30 955
02Z 41 41 996
03Z 51 51 1047
04Z 75 75 1122
05Z 44 44 1166
06Z 51 51 1217
07Z 39 39 1256
08Z 26 26 1282
09Z 17 17 1299
10Z 15 15 1314
11Z 14 14 1328
12Z 10 10 1338
13Z 0 0 1338
14Z 0 0 1338
15Z 0 0 1338
21z 11 11 1349
22z 12 12 1361
23z 16 16 1377
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tot 1377 ---- 1377
POINTS BREAKDOWN
UTC 160 rate total
------------------------
22Z 0 0 0
23Z 0 0 0
00Z 325 325 325
01Z 266 266 591
02Z 243 243 834
03Z 416 416 1250
04Z 264 264 1514
05Z 197 197 1711
06Z 151 151 1862
07Z 189 189 2051
08Z 124 124 2175
09Z 106 106 2281
10Z 52 52 2333
11Z 60 60 2393
12Z 51 51 2444
13Z 0 0 2444
14Z 0 0 2444
15Z 0 0 2444
16Z 0 0 2444
17Z 0 0 2444
18Z 0 0 2444
19Z 0 0 2444
20Z 2 2 2446
21Z 38 38 2484
22Z 42 42 2526
23Z 89 89 2615
00Z 209 209 2824
01Z 196 196 3020
02Z 176 176 3196
03Z 270 270 3466
04Z 582 582 4048
05Z 251 251 4299
06Z 454 454 4753
07Z 278 278 5031
08Z 58 58 5089
09Z 34 34 5123
10Z 36 36 5159
11Z 36 36 5195
12Z 20 20 5215
13Z 0 0 5215
14Z 0 0 5215
15Z 0 0 5215
------------------------
tot 5215 ----- 5215
MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN
UTC 160 rate total
---------------------
22Z 0 0 0
23Z 0 0 0
00Z 36 36 36
01Z 12 12 48
02Z 15 15 63
03Z 15 15 78
04Z 2 2 80
05Z 4 4 84
06Z 9 9 93
07Z 2 2 95
08Z 3 3 98
09Z 4 4 102
10Z 0 0 102
11Z 1 1 103
12Z 0 0 103
13Z 0 0 103
14Z 0 0 103
15Z 0 0 103
16Z 0 0 103
17Z 0 0 103
18Z 0 0 103
19Z 0 0 103
20Z 0 0 103
21Z 0 0 103
22Z 0 0 103
23Z 1 1 104
00Z 3 3 107
01Z 1 1 108
02Z 1 1 109
03Z 0 0 109
04Z 2 2 111
05Z 3 3 114
06Z 4 4 118
07Z 1 1 119
08Z 0 0 119
09Z 0 0 119
10Z 0 0 119
11Z 0 0 119
12Z 0 0 119
13Z 0 0 119
14Z 0 0 119
15Z 0 0 119
---------------------
tot 119 ---- 119
QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN
Mult QSOs
CT 25
MA 37
ME 11
NH 21
RI 6
VT 6
NJ 61
NY 54
DC 2
DE 3
MD 21
PA 67
AL 16
FL 34
GA 27
KY 7
NC 41
SC 13
TN 38
VA 55
AR 6
LA 4
MS 6
NM 4
OK 5
TX 40
CA 61
AZ 9
ID 2
MT 3
NV 7
OR 11
UT 5
WA 42
WY 3
MI 43
OH 65
WV 12
IL 31
IN 19
WI 26
CO 18
IA 5
KS 6
MN 24
MO 18
NE 6
ND 1
SD 3
NS 4
QC 6
ON 43
MB 1
SK 4
AB 4
BC 8
NB 1
PEI 1
NF 2
5B 1
9A 8
CM 3
CT 2
CT3 3
D4 1
DL 69
EA 3
EA8 1
EI 3
ER 1
ES 1
F 9
G 28
GD 1
GJ 1
GM 1
GU 2
GW 3
HA 8
HB 5
HK 1
I 7
IT9 1
KH6 2
KP2 1
KP4 1
LA 1
LX 1
LY 6
OE 3
OH 6
OH0 1
OK 34
OM 4
ON 15
OZ 1
PA 7
PJ2 1
PJ7 1
S5 15
SM 9
SP 7
SV 1
T9 1
UA 7
UA2 1
UR 3
VK 3
VP2E 1
VP2V 1
VP5 1
XE 1
YL 1
YO 1
YU 5
YV 1
Z3 1
ZF 1
ZL 1
ZS 1
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