CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: NS3T
Operator(s): NS3T
Station: NS3T
Class: SOSB80 LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 20
80: 351
40: 1
20: 3
15: 3
10: 0
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Total: 351 Prefixes = 184 Total Score = 94,392
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Made a few contacts on other bands, but decided early in the contest to do an
80 meter single band entry and it was a lot of fun. I made it until around
3am
local time on both nights and then had to go to bed, so my score could have
been even better!
79% of my QSO's were made by CQ'ing. It became obvious to me early that I
wasn't going to have much luck getting through to Europe (or any DX for that
matter) so plan B was to CQ, high, low and in the middle of the new phone band
to find as many US and 4-point VE's as possible.
The highlights included being called by ZY7C, J75RZ, PJ2T, YW4M and CQ9K...so
that tells me my little 80 meter wires are doing the trick at least part of the
time (maybe when the wind blows the RF the right way?)
Above 3800 was difficult of course, and several times people plunked down right
on top of me and started calling CQ and listening down (not on their frequency
where they probably would be able to hear me making Q's.) So I took advantage
of the new phone band in the US and simply went down to their listening
frequency and started CQ'ing there...and that worked very effectively.
My best runs were all under 3700. It sure is nice to have all of that real
estate for phone contesting now. At one point, I had been CQ'ing for 90
minutes on 3634 when 5D5A decided he would use the frequency. I tried in vain
to fight that off, but since he couldn't hear me, the battle was lost. One guy
said "HEY YOU'RE ON TOP OF 5D5A!!" I decided not to argue the point that HE
was on top of little ole me!
This version of my pre-recorded voice files was my best by far. It still needs
a lot of fine tuning, but I am very happy with the product, now totaling over
16,000 wav files and 500+ MB of space on the shack computer. I took some time
to record some prominent ops as well this weekend and will dissect that in
coming months to see how to best tweak my stuff.
Thanks to everyone for the Q's. It was a fun winter contest season. Hope to
see you here and there before WPX CW.
73 Jamie NS3T
TS-2000
100 watts
three inverted L's with directional radials
one to EU, one NW, one W and soon one to the SSE.
-------------- 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 5 6 0 0 0 0 11 11 2.8
0100 12 4 0 0 0 0 16 27 4.1
0200 3 22 0 3 3 0 31 58 8.0
0300 0 12 0 0 0 0 12 70 3.1
0400 0 24 0 0 0 0 24 94 6.2
0500 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 125 8.0
0600 0 25 0 0 0 0 25 150 6.5
0700 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 158 2.1
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0
1100 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 162 1.0
1200 0 13 0 0 0 0 13 175 3.4
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0
2000 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 180 1.3
2100 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 183 0.8
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 0.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 0.0
0000 0 11 0 0 0 0 11 194 2.8
0100 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 225 8.0
0200 0 32 0 0 0 0 32 257 8.3
0300 0 41 0 0 0 0 41 298 10.6
0400 0 28 0 0 0 0 28 326 7.3
0500 0 21 0 0 0 0 21 347 5.4
0600 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 353 1.6
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0
1100 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 354 0.3
1200 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 359 1.3
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0
1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0
1800 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 362 0.8
1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 362 0.0
2000 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 367 1.3
2100 0 11 0 0 0 0 11 378 2.8
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 378 0.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 378 0.0
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Total 20 351 1 3 3 0 378
Gross QSO's=386 Dupes=8 Net QSO's=378
Unique callsigns worked = 367
The best 60 minute rate was 49/hour from 0219 to 0318
The best 30 minute rate was 58/hour from 0258 to 0327
The best 10 minute rate was 90/hour from 0303 to 0312
The best 1 minute rates were:
3 QSO's/minute 4 times.
2 QSO's/minute 48 times.
1 QSO's/minute 270 times.
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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