CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: YP9W
Operator(s): YO9GZU
Station: YO9WF
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Buciumeni
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 36
80: 251
40: 1076
20: 742
15: 701
10: 123
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Total: 2929 Prefixes = 1149 Total Score = 8,846,151
Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Comments:
As from WPX SSB 2011, this was already my 5th phone CQ contest in a raw operated
from Ionut's station YP9W. To be honest, I was expecting band conditions at
least as good as in 2011, but it turned out to be the toughest one so far in
this series. The propagation this weekend had really messed up my target of
beating the previous year score.
Some contest facts:
* Excepting the first 10 minutes in 40m, I don't remember to have a remarkable
run all weekend long. Instead, I was struggling for every QSO and had to work a
lot on the second radio for keeping the rate at 80-90/hour.
* The conditions were awful particularly on Saturday, and it no surprise with
an A index of 25 and k of 5. The bands were very noisy, with signals seeming
like they come from the barrel. Morning window towards JA was almost
nonexistent, and later the path to NA seemed skewed to me, the signals coming
better when I was beaming to South and Central America. The first day I've
managed to put only a handful of NA stations in the log, with both 15m and 20m
closing very early in the evening.
* Like never before, first night I couldn't make anything going in 40m, neither
simplex above 7125 nor split, hurting the score as well. Second night was much
better, with a slow but solid NA run and amazing morning with lot of West Coast
coming in at the first show up as multipliers.
* On Sunday, even 15m and 20m were in better shape and closed late in the
night. At the first sight, given the better condx, I was in doubt if it wasn't
a mistake not to keep more operating hours for the second day. After dawn, 15m
was wide open to NA and very quiet, but simply there were not enough callers,
maybe because of Easter holiday (???) so I've had only limited runs.
* My feeling was that if you're not on the cluster, you simply don't exist.
This time I got way too few spots, for example a single DX one in the first 14
hours.
* It is really exciting to follow realtime scores on cqcontest.ru. There were a
lot of ups and downs on the scoreboard, so I could enjoy every moment of the
game, even in the slow hours. Special thanks to IR4M, IW2HAJ, S53MM and others
for the fine competition, and kudos to cqcontest.ru team for their good job!
* Some guys have a bad assumption that they deserve at least 2kc up and down
from their main frequency, and they become very aggressive in behavior if you
pass this limit. These guys should make a simple calculation to see how many
stations can simultaneously hold a running freq on a band like 40m if you apply
this formula. Lets act with more fair-play and be more tolerant, keeping in mind
that QRM is a part of the game.
* Saturday was my birthday, and I even got greetings on air from some friends.
It was a cool way to celebrate my 30th anniversary, but now I have to return to
a lot of missed phone calls and explain why I wasn't reachable ;)
See you next time!
73 Tibi YO9GZU
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: YP9W
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH SSB
OPERATORS: YO9GZU
-------------- 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 0 22 82 0 0 0 104 104 3.6
0100 0 39 36 0 0 0 75 179 6.1
0200 0 36 37 0 0 0 73 252 8.6
0300 0 34 17 4 0 0 55 307 10.5
0400 0 0 80 20 1 0 101 408 13.9
0500 0 0 64 14 2 0 80 488 16.7
0600 0 0 0 19 17 0 36 524 17.9
0700 0 0 0 0 18 10 28 552 18.8
0800 0 0 0 0 57 20 77 629 21.5
0900 0 0 0 0 7 1 8 637 21.7
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 21.7
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 21.7
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 21.7
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 21.7
1400 0 0 0 15 60 34 109 746 25.5
1500 0 0 0 107 4 11 122 868 29.6
1600 0 0 0 46 53 8 107 975 33.3
1700 0 0 1 63 23 5 92 1067 36.4
1800 0 0 75 2 7 0 84 1151 39.3
1900 0 1 15 69 4 0 89 1240 42.3
2000 0 3 31 19 0 0 53 1293 44.1
2100 0 0 94 6 0 0 100 1393 47.6
2200 0 46 13 0 0 0 59 1452 49.6
2300 36 8 40 0 0 0 84 1536 52.4
0000 0 1 86 0 0 0 87 1623 55.4
0100 0 10 58 0 0 0 68 1691 57.7
0200 0 6 73 0 0 0 79 1770 60.4
0300 0 2 75 0 0 0 77 1847 63.1
0400 0 0 58 11 0 0 69 1916 65.4
0500 0 0 25 49 0 0 74 1990 67.9
0600 0 0 1 5 0 0 6 1996 68.1
0700 0 0 0 0 32 1 33 2029 69.3
0800 0 0 0 8 46 0 54 2083 71.1
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2083 71.1
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2083 71.1
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2083 71.1
1200 0 0 0 0 17 5 22 2105 71.9
1300 0 0 0 10 77 6 93 2198 75.0
1400 0 0 0 0 81 8 89 2287 78.1
1500 0 0 0 5 66 13 84 2371 80.9
1600 0 0 0 21 69 1 91 2462 84.1
1700 0 0 0 86 9 0 95 2557 87.3
1800 0 1 10 22 47 0 80 2637 90.0
1900 0 0 13 80 4 0 97 2734 93.3
2000 0 10 10 56 0 0 76 2810 95.9
2100 0 22 30 5 0 0 57 2867 97.9
2200 0 10 52 0 0 0 62 2929 100.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2929 100.0
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Total 36 251 1076 742 701 123 2929
Gross QSOs=2939 Dupes=10 Net QSOs=2929
Unique callsigns worked = 2290
The best 60 minute rate was 138/hour from 1527 to 1626
The best 30 minute rate was 164/hour from 1538 to 1607
The best 10 minute rate was 192/hour from 1455 to 1504
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 10 times.
4 QSOs/minute 45 times.
3 QSOs/minute 210 times.
2 QSOs/minute 606 times.
1 QSOs/minute 857 times.
There were 739 bandchanges and 383 (13.1%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 24
4 984
5 1122
6 765
7 9
8 18
9 4
10 3
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1820
2 bands 339
3 bands 102
4 bands 21
5 bands 7
6 bands 1
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
ED9Z
------- 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 22 126 693 451 444 84
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