JIDX Contest, Phone
Call: NK7U
Operator(s): NK7U, K7ZO
Station: NK7U
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Oregon - Zone 3
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 58 26
40: 401 44
20: 206 42
15: 127 37
10:
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Total: 792 149 Total Score = 126,650
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
As Joe/NK7U and I were talking after CQWW SSB we said: â??Hey we should try the
JIDX SSB contest this year. It should be fun, we can try out the new JA stacks
some more, and it still would leave us most of our Sunday after the contest is
overâ??. So, with this background we sat down at 11PM local time on Friday the
13th to take part in the 2009 JIDX SSB contest. Joe was a bit apprehensive that
there might not be good participation from JAâ??s. I was more worried about
propagation. But, when things wrapped up Sunday at 5AM local time we both said:
â??Hey that was a lot of fun, what a great contestâ??. Our complements to all
the hams in Japan and the contest organizers.
As some tidbits:
* Participation was great. We had a total of 623 different JA callsigns in our
log. 10 of them were in the log on 4 bands, 27 on 3 bands, and 92 on 2 bands.
* Amazingly 189 or 30% of those callsigns were from stations who were making
their first QSO ever with NK7U. So, the contest seemed to draw out casual
contesters who donâ??t normally participate in ARRL, CQWW, WPX, etc. A couple
of comparisons are worthwhile to frame how amazing is this number. First in
CQWW SSB this year we worked a similar number of JA QSOâ??s but only had 89
â??First QSO everâ?? callsigns. Second, going through the entire NK7U DX4WIN
log with >200,000 QSOâ??s stretching back into the late 1980â??s there are a
total of 11,700 JA callsigns. So, to have 189 â??First QSO Everâ?? in a 30 hour
period is pretty amazing.
* Propagation was great. The bands were about as quiet as we have ever heard
them, notably on 40 and 80. We had a steady rate of QSOâ??s all night, both
nights, on 40M as the band stayed open. And with much much lower levels of QRM
as compared to major contests, and being able operate simplex, 40M was a joy to
be on, as opposed to being a pain.
* Working JA operators all weekend was a pleasure -- they are such a great
group of hams.
* And, finally, our score was beyond our expectation. We set a goal at the
start of setting a new North America multi-op record score. We did that easily
as our score was >500% of the old record score. In fact our results on 80, 40,
and 20 by themselves would represent new North America record scores. The
comparisons:
NA Record NK7U Score % of Record
Multi-Op 22,137 126,650 572%
80M 180 3,016 1,675%
40M 12,056 17,644 146%
20M 6,552 8,652 132%
Thanks again to the contest organizers and all the JA hams who were on the
air.
Now if only 10M would open....
Scott/K7ZO
The numbers are below
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QSO/Mul by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0700Z - 11/10 - - - 11/10 11/10
D1-0800Z 1/1 10/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 11/8 22/18
D1-0900Z 1/1 63/16 - - - 64/17 86/35
D1-1000Z - 50/4 - - - 50/4 136/39
D1-1100Z - 56/3 - - - 56/3 192/42
D1-1200Z 4/4 20/1 - - - 24/5 216/47
D1-1300Z - 51/0 - - - 51/0 267/47
D1-1400Z 20/11 4/0 - - - 24/11 291/58
D1-1500Z - 33/1 - - - 33/1 324/59 1
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 324/59 60
D1-1700Z - - - - - 0/0 324/59 60
D1-1800Z - - - - - 0/0 324/59 60
D1-1900Z - - - - - 0/0 324/59 60
D1-2000Z - - 1/1 - - 1/1 325/60 55
D1-2100Z - - 60/28 3/3 - 63/31 388/91
D1-2200Z - - 27/2 50/18 - 77/20 465/111
D1-2300Z - - 3/3 71/16 - 74/19 539/130
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 49/3 3/0 --+-- 52/3 591/133
D2-0100Z - - 65/5 - - 65/5 656/138
D2-0200Z - - 1/0 - - 1/0 657/138 59
D2-0300Z - - - - - 0/0 657/138 60
D2-0400Z - - - - - 0/0 657/138 60
D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 657/138 60
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 657/138 60
D2-0700Z 2/0 - - - - 2/0 659/138 53
D2-0800Z 6/1 22/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 28/1 687/139
D2-0900Z 1/0 47/2 - - - 48/2 735/141
D2-1000Z 8/5 34/0 - - - 42/5 777/146
D2-1100Z 4/0 - - - - 4/0 781/146 38
D2-1200Z 11/3 - - - - 11/3 792/149
Total: 58/26 401/44 206/42 127/37 0/0
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