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Subject: [3830] VE6JY WPX SSB multi (long)
From: ve6jy@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (Don Moman)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:13:47 -0700 (MST)
                              CQ WPX SUMMARY SHEET

    Callsign Used : VE6JY
        Operators : VE2ZP VE5MX VE7AV VE6BF VE6DGG VE6LDX 
                    VE6MAA VE6MK VE6SLV VE6JY

         Category : multi multi


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Prefixes   
 _____________________________________________________

  160SSB      93          92        310        9 
   80SSB     404         393       1312       52 
   40SSB     651         643       2734      123 
   20SSB    1870        1795       4351      540 
   15SSB     992         983       2434      229 
   10SSB      46          46        122       11 
 _____________________________________________________

 Totals     4056        3952      11263      964 


    Final Score = 10,857,532 points.


   BAND     
 _____________________________________________________

  160SSB    Dipole, delta loop. Bobtail, 5 beverages
   80SSB    2 x BOBTAILS, delta, vee , 9 beverages
   40SSB    3 el at 145, 4-30 LOG at 92'
   20SSB    5/5/5 at 160/110/55, 5 at 145 
   15SSB    6 el, 48' at 120'
   10SSB    7 el, 40' at 55'  
 ___________plus 2 x TH-6, CL-33, etc_________________

160m...FT1000mp / AL-1200 slow to open but conditions seemed OK the first
night, just not much around to work.  Nothing new to work the second night.

80m...FT1000mp / Henry 5-k.....OK to US/carrib, but very little JA or Pac
heard here

40m...FT-1000D / Drake L4-B....worked quite a few EU stations way before
sunset both days, which is a rarity. Good VK/ZL activity otherwise poor to JA
without much luck running. 

20m...FT-1000D / Alpha 77dx... reasonably good with lots of Europe all thru
the evening from 0330 UTC to well past 2000. Some decent runs but nowhere near
as good as in ARRL DX. Better JA runs in the morning here than in the
afternoon.  Band folded badly Sunday around 1900 and never recovered.

15m...FT-1000mp / Henry 5-k and/or FT 840 / Alpha 87a    A real pleasant
surprise to hear over the pole signals (9K2ZZ UN5PR VU2JNA and more) from 0330
Sat to past 1600. Marginal at times in the wee hours here but always at least
one signal audible - usually 9K2ZZ, but for about 30 mins VU2JNA was the only
signal, sometimes to S9!  
     A different band the next 24 hrs, it closed around 0430 and stayed shut
till 0940 then opened for the next 10 hours to Europe, not always runnable but
that came to crash around 1900 and we only managed a handful of q's after
that.

10m .... FT 840 / Alpha 87a... Sat opened long at 2030 to CE/LU etc and closed
2330, never really opening to the US (no runs). Nothing much on the Sunday,
altho it did open briefly but no new stations noted.

The SW fade on the Sunday, in the 1900 area really knocked the wheels off our
best effort ever, but thankfully it stayed away that long. There were auroral
reports all thru the days leading up to the contest and on Sat as well so it
was surprising that conditions held up as they did, esp on 15m. 

A pleasure to have 3 out of province guests with us this year: Dave VE2ZP,
Todd VE5MX and Frank VE7AV.  The local weather was great (El Nino seems to be
our friend, so far) and my randomly intermittent power line noises also stayed
away. All rigs and amps behaved well, and while we did not have cluster
available other than in the last hour, TRlog and the network kept everything
linked perfectly. When packet finally did return (one of the nodes has been
down for sometime) thanks to VE6EEI and VE6DXX, it was neat to see the new
features (like the happy face to hilite new mults) in the bandmap.

Not yet sure about any WPX CW plans but that's a long ways off...

73 Don
VE6JY



      Continent List  

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =     74   300   479   880   396     2   2131
  VE calls    =     15    71    22    40    32     4    184
  N.A. calls  =      2    10    17    34    24     2     89
  S.A. calls  =      0     4    22    50    56    38    170
  Euro calls  =      0     0    32   616   358     0   1006
  Afrc calls  =      0     0     1     7     8     0     16
  Asia calls  =      0     1     3    82    29     0    115
  JA calls    =      0     2    33    72    48     0    155
  Ocen calls  =      1     5    34    13    31     0     84

  Total calls =     92   393   643  1795   983    46   3952

RATE:
                                      
  HOUR  160SSB   80SSB   40SSB   20SSB   15SSB   10SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
    0       0       0      12      75      17       1     105     105
    1       0       1      12     154      12       0     179     284
    2       0      16      44     137      15       0     212     496
    3       5      33      80     101       2       0     221     717
    4      13      31      58      59       3       0     164     881
    5      19      36      41      36       6       0     138    1019
    6      28      49      34      35       8       0     154    1173
    7      23      45      26      34       1       0     129    1302
    8       2      17      20      24       2       0      65    1367
    9       0      15      15      14       5       0      49    1416
   10       1       9       8      12       2       0      32    1448
   11       1       4      11      11       9       0      36    1484
   12       0       0      12      15      25       0      52    1536
   13       0       2      21      14      86       0     123    1659
   14       0       0       3      48      44       0      95    1754
   15       0       0       0      12      26       1      39    1793
   16       0       0       0      35      52       0      87    1880
   17       0       0       0      31      51       0      82    1962
   18       0       0       0      73      57       0     130    2092
   19       0       0       0      37      57       0      94    2186
   20       0       0       0      54      60      18     132    2318
   21       0       0       0      51      57      15     123    2441
   22       0       0       0      36      63       3     102    2543
   23       0       0       6      26      47       6      85    2628

    0       0       0       4      25      36       0      65    2693
    1       0       0      59      72      13       0     144    2837
    2       0       9      28      54      13       0     104    2941
    3       0       6      20      70       6       0     102    3043
    4       0      31       6      32       7       0      76    3119
    5       0      15      22      25       0       0      62    3181
    6       0      37      24      29       0       0      90    3271
    7       0      17      17      11       0       0      45    3316
    8       0      11      14      15       0       0      40    3356
    9       0       0       9      16       5       0      30    3386
   10       0       4       5      22       8       0      39    3425
   11       0       3      11      34       1       0      49    3474
   12       0       0      12      18       1       0      31    3505
   13       0       2       6      17       2       0      27    3532
   14       0       0       3      11      22       0      36    3568
   15       0       0       0      13      25       0      38    3606
   16       0       0       0      56      56       0     112    3718
   17       0       0       0      15      47       1      63    3781
   18       0       0       0      10      12       1      23    3804
   19       0       0       0      21       5       0      26    3830
   20       0       0       0       6       5       0      11    3841
   21       0       0       0      24       8       0      32    3873
   22       0       0       0      49       4       0      53    3926
   23       0       0       0      26       0       0      26    3952

  TOTAL    92     393     643    1795     983      46  
  


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