1997 WPX SSB -- AE0M (@ N6RO) Multi-Multi
Band QSO Points Prefix
160 104 98 7
80 704 1962 119
40 913 3316 169
20 1741 2882 446
15 429 735 98
10 206 358 34
4092 9351 873 8,163,423 points
Club Affiliation: Northern California Contest Club
160 -- Dipole @ 120', faux Beverage -- FT990, Alpha 76A (later WonderAmp)
AE0M + AK6L, N6RO
Tony put in yeoman duty here and it showed.
80 -- 2 el Quad EU/ZL @ 70', 4 el wire Yagi to JA @ 100'/2 el to Carib.
TS930, Homebrew 3-500Z's <known as Babo>
K6AW + K2KW, KM6F
Tough going with high noise and weak signals. One EU. KM6F was a
very worthwhile addition to the JA team since he speaks the language. He
ran all night on Friday. Took DVP offline Saturday afternoon, so
lots of hoarse voices on Sunday.
40 -- 4/4 @ 135'/65' -- FT1000MP, Alpha 76PA
N6RO + KX7M, KM6F, AK6L
Things were tough here as well, but Ken persevered. Very little EU
and not as many JA's as we would have liked. KX7M put in a lot of long
hours on this band. We used a spotting station and did ok with it.
20 -- 5/5 @ 130'/50' -- TS950SD, Alpha 76PA
K3EST + N6RO, K6AW, K2KW, KX7M, K6XX
20 was really mean. EU stations were scarce and almost
impossible to copy a lot of the time. We all commented it was more like
CQP and SS with a little dx thrown in. We used a spotting station here
for the first time, to great effect. K3EST did his usual masterful job.
15 -- 6/6/6 @ 135'/90'/45' -- FT990, Alpha 76PA
K2KW + K6AW, K6XX, KX7M
We got more action out of this band than we had expected, esp. on Sunday
when we had a nice little JA-VK-ZL run. We even worked three Africans.
10 -- 6/5/5 @ 100'/67'/33' -- FT990, Alpha 76A
AE0M + AK6L, K6AW, K6XX
This was the band for the iron men. Lots of F1. But being on the
band paid off, and we snared some VK-ZL contacts to go
with the US and SA Q's. All credit to AE0M for hanging in there and for
making things happen.
We ran TRLog v5.99+5dB, using 7 computers in the network, 5 with interfaced
radios, and 3 DVPs plus 2 CVBs, and packet. We used the serial number by band
option so had no problems with numbers. The network was rock solid except for
when the sysop (K6AW) screwed up. Many thanks to Tree for his recent multi-
multi improvements. Thanks to W6GO for late-night efforts to get us connected
after the local node crashed.
Special mention to K2KW and AE0M for kitchen duty two nights, providing much
needed hot food. And of course, extra special thanks to Ken and Jean for the
famous Radio Oakley hospitality. K6XX arrived for his traditional Sunday
morning "I'm ready to rescue you guys" routine -- thanks, Bob.
Ken set out this time to beat WZ1R's (N1RR) score. Charlie had some extra bad
weather to contend with, but AE0M was a strong entry anyway. Having 5 stations
on the air almost the entire 48 hours paid off. So did use of spotting
stations on 40 and 20. (Again thanks to TR for the effortless way of passing
mults from spotter to run station.)
I haven't done any zero-point analysis yet. Here are the continent stats:
Continent List WPX SSB AE0M
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 82 351 334 725 172 86 1750
VE calls = 13 59 38 120 3 2 235
N.A. calls = 3 18 25 45 33 0 124
S.A. calls = 1 9 24 37 95 102 268
Euro calls = 2 1 2 146 0 0 151
Afrc calls = 0 1 3 6 3 0 13
Asia calls = 0 15 24 52 0 0 91
JA calls = 0 230 408 464 30 0 1132
Ocen calls = 3 19 48 144 93 16 323
Total calls = 104 704 908 1741 429 206 4092
Thanks everyone for the Q's -- see you in WPX CW.
73, Steve K6AW
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