CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: KG1D Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 44 168 3.8 7 GP w/raised radials
80 344 1460 4.2 82 4-sq phased verticals
40 1113 4232 3.8 331 2L 120, 2L 80 (not phased)
20 1915 4377 2.3 442 5/4/4 132/99/66', 4L south 33'
15 265 478 1.8 64 5/5 110/60'
10 21 37 1.8 2 5L 95', 5L 65', 4L south 35'
-------------------------------------- Beverages 1200'NE, 600'E/SE/W
Totals 3702 10752 2.9 929 = 9,988,608
Operator List: K1KI K1TO W1OD K1CC N1MM AA2Z
plus KG1D and K2SS who loaned equipment
Equipment Description:
Two TS-930, two TS-850, Alpha86, Alpha89, Alpha76, AL-1200
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Continent Statistics:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America(non-USA) 5 91 66 50 15 2 229 6.2
USA 15 25 387 441 102 8 978 26.3
South America 1 10 28 26 50 10 125 3.4
Europe 23 205 584 1249 76 0 2137 57.5
Asia 0 1 19 130 0 0 150 4.0
Africa 0 6 10 10 15 1 42 1.1
Oceania 0 6 23 16 8 0 53 1.4
Country totals: (I had to know)
160 17
80 54
40 90
20 111
15 59
10 7
This was our first multiop effort in WPX CW, and my first ever serious WPX
effort. The last WPX log I sent in was about 15 years ago and it was
classified as a check log by an unofficial rule that "official" entry
forms were required so my enthusiasm hasn't been there. But, N8BJQ did
call in on a couple of bands this time to say hello.
Very little antenna work the day (or week) before WPX, the major effort was
attaching coax to the 33' 4L 20M beam pointed south at 33' - seemed kinda
wimpy after the last couple of Friday contest antenna work sessions in the
snow... On the other hand it took several hours to get the CT network
working right this time for some reason. I hate IRQs and null modem cables.
It looked like WW2Y/N2NU was the station to beat since they won last year and
had plans to do it again in 1995. Thanks to WW2Y for some helpful hints
(obviously not quite enough) to educate me on QSO breakdowns by band. It was
a nice feeling to pass their 1994 totals by 1300Z Sunday, only problem was
that they were beating us or it was close on most bands at that point.
By late Sunday we realized we had a shot at 10M points and pushed a little
harder, and since the record was 10.9M we kicked ourselves for not working
much harder earlier. We added 1M points to our total in the last three hours
and were within one prefix of 10M at the end...and WW2Y was 200K (40 minutes)
ahead of us. We just didn't want to endure the pain of being on 80 and 40
meters during the day, (or 10 meters anytime!) and they did. Congrats!!!
On the other hand the nice New England weekend weather did take a toll. We
only had three operators who put in more than 24 hours, and three ops who
only could put in 4-6 hours each. We had two stations going most of the time
but there was a five hour stretch Sunday before sunrise with only one very
wiped-out operator on duty. Yea, excuses, excuses...
We ran into that nice broadband noise on 40 meters each time Europe was wide
open (and heard it on 20 also). I decided it sounded like waves coming in at
the beach - that made it a soothing rather than annoying noise. It still
covered up a lot of weak signals. Looks like the local power company is
finally planning to help track down some loud noises on 15/10 meters. First
contact with them was last fall before CQWW SSB and many letters and phone
calls since then may finally be paying off. What a pain!
Working DX and USA made the time go fast, even so it was really slow at
times! Seemed weird to have USA stations call us on several bands when there
were no QSO points to be earned, guess they wanted to make sure someone was
hearing them!
Watch out for a couple of callsigns in your log. LU2WV/O ("oh" not zero) is
wrongly credited as an O0 prefix by CT (I changed it to LU2WV/LU2O in my log,
hope it doesn't get deleted). Also, WL7WO/1 is counted as a two or four
pointer when it should be a 0 pointer (same for NP4IW/6 and KL7JV/4). KG4MN
is really Guantanamo Bay, Cuba(two or four pointer). And who was it that
left OO0PS and NO1QSO in my log? Do the X5 QSOs count for prefix or QSO
point credit?
I wish CT (or any logging program) would provide some additional information
to help assess results. After the contest I ended up changing CT so it
thought I had a CQWW log instead of WPX so I could get the continent (and
country) breakdowns above (no .CON file is generated by CT). I'd also find
it helpful to be able to view the prefix worked list during the contest.
In the 929 prefixes worked, 320 were from the USA (not including KH6 KL7
KP4). More than one third of the 929 total prefixes were worked in the first
two hours.
It was fun, even if it was really a two-band contest!
73 - Tom K1KI
160M - noisy condx but worked most we heard
80M - with the new 4-square it finally looks like our signal is competitive
40M - still able to work some Europeans 2-3 hours after their sunrise
20M - it kept going and going and going!
15M - whisper weak openings for 5 hours day one and 9 hours day two
10M - hardly worth it, did snag EA1AK/EA8 at 2119Z day two
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults:
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 5/1 19/12 116/93 112/76 18/12 ..... 270/194 270/194
1 2/1 36/21 99/45 76/41 21/12 . 234/120 504/314
2 1/0 28/4 75/34 54/21 3/3 . 161/62 665/376
3 9/3 39/12 53/24 29/14 . . 130/53 795/429
4 7/1 43/11 73/14 11/6 . . 134/32 929/461
5 . 15/5 39/15 18/12 . . 72/32 1001/493
6 . 10/0 17/8 20/7 . . 47/15 1048/508
7 . 6/3 18/5 10/1 . . 34/9 1082/517
8 ..... ..... 10/5 2/1 ..... ..... 12/6 1094/523
9 . 8/0 17/5 28/4 . . 53/9 1147/532
10 . 2/1 14/3 69/21 . . 85/25 1232/557
11 . . 26/8 52/16 3/0 . 81/24 1313/581
12 . . 15/3 68/18 13/2 . 96/23 1409/604
13 . . 7/3 65/13 22/2 . 94/18 1503/622
14 . . 5/2 70/11 21/3 1/0 97/16 1600/638
15 . . . 63/10 8/2 1/0 72/12 1672/650
16 ..... ..... ..... 49/8 15/4 ..... 64/12 1736/662
17 . . . 75/11 8/1 . 83/12 1819/674
18 . . 1/1 44/3 11/3 . 56/7 1875/681
19 . . 2/2 70/9 3/2 . 75/13 1950/694
20 . . 8/3 58/13 3/1 . 69/17 2019/711
21 . . 3/1 73/12 . . 76/13 2095/724
22 . 1/1 22/2 78/4 4/1 . 105/8 2200/732
23 . 9/2 52/7 60/10 . . 121/19 2321/751
0 ..... 25/0 58/9 34/9 ..... ..... 117/18 2438/769
1 8/0 13/2 45/4 21/8 . . 87/14 2525/783
2 11/1 22/2 36/6 4/0 . . 73/9 2598/792
3 1/0 30/0 39/5 2/0 . . 72/5 2670/797
4 . 15/2 57/2 . . . 72/4 2742/801
5 . . 45/3 . . . 45/3 2787/804
6 . 2/1 4/2 . . . 6/3 2793/807
7 . . 14/3 . . . 14/3 2807/810
8 ..... 2/0 3/1 ..... ..... ..... 5/1 2812/811
9 . 3/0 3/1 7/2 . . 13/3 2825/814
10 . 2/2 5/1 30/5 . . 37/8 2862/822
11 . . 1/1 54/17 5/0 . 60/18 2922/840
12 . . 2/0 41/7 13/0 . 56/7 2978/847
13 . . 5/0 52/5 13/0 . 70/5 3048/852
14 . . 1/1 64/7 17/4 3/0 85/12 3133/864
15 . . . 40/5 9/2 3/0 52/7 3185/871
16 ..... ..... 13/2 34/4 18/2 ..... 65/8 3250/879
17 . . 6/1 31/2 5/0 . 42/3 3292/882
18 . . 2/2 45/5 8/3 1/0 56/10 3348/892
19 . . 6/0 35/3 8/2 6/2 55/7 3403/899
20 . . 5/1 42/4 6/0 4/0 57/5 3460/904
21 . . 11/0 59/6 6/3 2/0 78/9 3538/913
22 . 2/0 38/1 34/7 1/0 . 75/8 3613/921
23 . 12/1 42/2 32/4 3/0 . 89/7 3702/928
DAY1 24/6 216/72 672/283 1254/342 153/48 2/0 ..... 2321/751
DAY2 20/1 128/10 441/48 661/100 112/16 19/2 . 1381/177
TOT 44/7 344/82 1113/331 1915/442 265/64 21/2 . 3702/928
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E-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093
Phone: 203-668-5444
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