IARU SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 13-Jul-96, 14-Jul-96
Callsign Used : N1PBT
Operator : N1PBT
Category : SOLP Phone Only (100W)
Default Exchange : 5908
Name : Ronald D. Rossi
Address : RR1 Box 1543
City/State/Zip : Swanton, VT 05488-9713
Country : United States
Operating Time = 20 hours
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Zones Pts/QSO
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80SSB 13 13 23 1 4 1.79
40SSB 54 54 120 7 11 2.22
20SSB 395 390 864 13 22 2.22
15SSB 99 99 205 6 13 2.07
10SSB 19 19 31 1 4 1.63
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Totals 580 575 1243 28 54 2.16
Final Score = 101926 points.
Equipment: Ten-Tec Omni-D into Butternut HF6V vertical
Continent List iaru96
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 0 10 36 286 70 16 418
VE calls = 0 2 3 16 5 0 26
N.A. calls = 0 0 0 8 3 0 11
S.A. calls = 0 0 3 6 7 1 17
Euro calls = 0 1 10 64 13 2 90
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
Asia calls = 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
JA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ocen calls = 0 0 2 6 0 0 8
Unknowns = 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Total calls = 0 13 54 390 99 19 575
Unknowns on 20 = T00SW
About an hour before the contest I got on the air and was greeted
with reports of poor audio quality...either too mushy, or poppy and
distorted, or no presence...arrghhh! I tried to find what was
wrong or different. I had no luck...go for the best compromise
gain setting! Homebrew is great, but you need time on the air between
contests to make sure things are still working fine. I am wiring up
a new mic input circuit to allow me to use the two dynamic mics that
I have not yet tried. Some on the air comparisons will be in order.
I enjoyed better rates this year compared to last. 10m quantity was
down, but there were Europeans there!! You see I got my HF ticket
in Febrary of 1994...I don't know what it is like to have the high
bands open. I'd like to think that there was some skill improvement
since last year. The low bands certainly were not better this year
by a long shot! Was so exausted from 4-5 hours a night sleep every
day the week before the contest that I was starting to see things
by 0900Z...I went to bed despite my urge to at least meet last years
Q total or score! This contester needs a spanking!! Thank you sir
may I have another! I ended up with 5.4% fewer contacts in 16.7%
less time. That is a 13.5% improvement in rate however (I have to
find a bright side to walking off the court early)!
I was bummed to hear Alaska on 40m not working split (or at least
listening up). There were few stations listening up for that
matter. Were the rates that good (didn't sound it)? Were they
as ill equiped to work split as I was last year (no second VFO)?
Did they not know US was hearing fine, but unable to respond? It
was funny to hear a US station follow KL7Y below 7.1MHz. I have to
admitt to the urge to do just the same. Dan politely set him straight
however, but I was left with the feeling he thought Dan shouldn't be
there...oh well.
I got a few new ones for me without spending much time (was calling
CQ or S/P on the other VFO)...ZD8Z and TR8IG. I only worked 13 WRTC
stations plus the two bonus AH8s.
Here's my zone/HQ break out.
1. 08 310
2. 07 72
3. 06 36
4. 28 27
5. 27 24
6. 14 11
7. 04 10
8. 09 8
9. 29 7
10. 11 7
11. ARRL 5
12. 12 5
13. 02 5
14. 37 5
15. 18 4
16. SARA 3
17. DARC 3
18. MRASZ 3
19. RSGB 3
20. 10 2
21. 03 2
22. 39 2
23. FRR 2
24. 61 2
25. 55 2
26. 59 2
27. LRMD 1
28. CRC 1
29. IRTS 1
30. ZRS 1
31. SRAL 1
32. SRJ 1
33. UARL 1
34. SSA 1
35. 15 1
36. 66 1
37. 52 1
38. VERON 1
39. 01 1
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73 de N1PBT...ron (rrossi@btv.ibm.com) <><
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