CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VA3NR
Operator(s): VA3NR
Station: VA3NR
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: z4
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 187 6 10
80: 345 11 33
40: 255 17 52
20: 304 20 71
15: 130 17 51
10: 24 6 15
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Total: 1245 77 232 Total Score = 842,334
Club:
Comments:
Equipment:
80m rx & 160m - inverted-L 30'v x 105'h
HF6V vertical
15m dipole at 25'
40m dipole at 30'
Mark-V Field
Summary:
My stretch goal was to break 1Meg but I came up short. I expect the VE3 LP
winner will at least double my score. Even so, this is a personal best for me
so I'm happy. I had lots of fun the whole time. CW WW is THE contest.
What worked:
- Friday night strategy was to pretend I was DX and offer a quick and painless
2-pointer to as many W stations as possible. To start I staked out a freq just
above 3525 and didn't leave for almost 4 hours. Then I moved to 160 and had my
best rate of the whole weekend.
- 80m rx antenna. I recently built a relay-type rig protector to let me
transmit on the HF6V and receive with the 135' inv-L. At times the difference
in noise level is just amazing. Switching from HF6V to L the signal level might
drop an S-unit but the noise drops 4-5 S-units. The vertical does hear DX
better but on Friday the goal was to be the DX.
- My 15m dipole at 25' is generally worse than my vertical, but mid-afternoon
the angles must be just right to gain me 2-3 S-units to West coast. Tried some
CQs around 19z and had a nice little run that I wasn't expecting.
- Saturday night, 80m at European sunrise added about 10 mults in 20 minutes.
Very nice.
What didn't work (excuses):
- Multipliers were tough. It just seemed like there were fewer all-band
DXpeditions, and the pile-ups were tougher. And with my antennas, it didn't
make much sense to stay in a big pile-up when I wasn't even sure the DX would
hear me one-on-one.
- 160m. I know my station was good for at least another 100 QSOs but the rate
just dropped. Also heard some Europeans calling big guns but never found any to
work.
- 40m. Somehow I didn't play 40 right. Last year I finished with a 126 Q hour on
40. Maybe there was enough other DX that a VE didn't rate, maybe I waited too
long, maybe I just didn't find a good run freq but it just didn't happen this
year. My station should have been good for maybe another 150 QSOs on 40.
- Operator laziness factor. I killed the alarm clock and slept thru sunrise
Sunday morning, past any openings to juicy double mults in Pacific or Far East.
Nuts!
Conclusion:
Add in another 250 2-point Q's and those missed Sunday morning mults and my
station was capable of breaking 1 Meg. Next year!
Thanks for all the QSOs. I had a great weekend.
73, Chris VA3NR.
CBS:
Callsign: VA3NR
Category: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CW
Contest: CQ-WW-CW
Operators: VA3NR
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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0000 0 69 0 0 0 0 69 5.5
0100 0 78 0 0 0 0 78 6.2
0200 0 69 0 0 0 0 69 5.5
0300 0 49 0 0 0 0 49 3.9
0400 100 0 0 0 0 0 100 7.9
0500 27 16 0 0 0 0 43 3.4
0600 9 11 1 0 0 0 21 1.7
0700 0 12 15 0 0 0 27 2.1
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1200 0 0 15 4 0 0 19 1.5
1300 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 1.0
1400 0 0 0 22 6 5 33 2.6
1500 0 0 0 25 6 0 31 2.5
1600 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0.3
1700 0 0 0 7 10 3 20 1.6
1800 0 0 0 35 9 3 47 3.7
1900 0 0 0 17 18 4 39 3.1
2000 0 0 2 9 14 2 27 2.1
2100 0 0 0 34 9 0 43 3.4
2200 0 0 18 3 0 0 21 1.7
2300 0 0 5 9 0 0 14 1.1
0000 0 0 29 0 0 0 29 2.3
0100 18 0 72 0 0 0 90 7.1
0200 11 1 3 2 0 0 17 1.3
0300 5 12 1 0 0 0 18 1.4
0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0600 14 14 0 0 0 0 28 2.2
0700 1 12 9 0 0 0 22 1.7
0800 2 2 9 0 0 0 13 1.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1500 0 0 5 0 23 1 29 2.3
1600 0 0 0 0 9 3 12 1.0
1700 0 0 0 22 4 2 28 2.2
1800 0 0 10 10 6 1 27 2.1
1900 0 0 0 47 1 0 48 3.8
2000 0 0 5 11 6 0 22 1.7
2100 0 0 24 3 5 0 32 2.5
2200 0 0 10 28 0 0 38 3.0
2300 0 0 22 4 0 0 26 2.1
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Total 187 345 255 304 130 24 1245
Gross QSO's=1261 Dupes=16 Net QSO's=1245
Unique callsigns worked = 889
The best 60 minute rate was 103/hour from 0403 to 0502
The best 30 minute rate was 150/hour from 0056 to 0125
The best 10 minute rate was 180/hour from 0113 to 0122
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 1 times.
4 QSO's/minute 11 times.
3 QSO's/minute 60 times.
2 QSO's/minute 174 times.
1 QSO's/minute 668 times.
There were 66 bandchanges and 1 probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 5
4 816
5 330
6 69
7 5
8 9
9 6
10 5
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
5 113 204 112 49 8 1 487 38.6
4 64 93 51 53 8 0 269 21.3
3 3 12 16 51 35 0 117 9.3
15 0 8 18 42 10 0 78 6.2
14 0 9 14 38 15 0 76 6.0
8 4 9 15 23 16 8 75 5.9
9 2 4 4 11 7 8 36 2.9
13 0 0 1 5 7 5 18 1.4
11 0 0 5 7 5 0 17 1.3
33 0 2 7 1 5 0 15 1.2
7 0 0 3 5 2 1 11 0.9
6 0 2 0 2 4 0 8 0.6
10 1 1 1 2 2 1 8 0.6
16 0 0 2 5 0 0 7 0.6
35 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 0.4
20 0 1 0 3 0 0 4 0.3
38 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3
32 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.2
25 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2
37 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
12 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
31 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
39 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
36 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
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Total 187 345 255 304 130 24 1245
Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands 657
2 bands 146
3 bands 59
4 bands 18
5 bands 7
6 bands 2
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
HC8N PJ2T
----- 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 81 193 126 185 64 8
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