ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: W5KFT
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: W5KFT
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: EM00st
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 266
40: 436
20: 950
15: 150
10: 0
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Total: 1802 Sections = 80 Total Score = 288,320
Club:
Comments:
Station:
http://www.kkn.net/~w5kft/
Beverages - NE and NW, only used on 80 meters
80 - Sloping dipoles - NE, NW from 150', SE from 135'
40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable
Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 70', fixed NE
20 - Hy-Gain 204BA @ 157', rotatable
Hy-Gain 204BA @ 105', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 204BA @ 53', fixed NE
Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 45', fixed NW
Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 75', fixed NW
15 - Hy-Gain 155CA @ 135', rotatable
Hy-Gain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE
Radio 1: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1500
Radio 2: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1200
Headset: Heil Proset
DVK: W9XT Contest Card
Software: TR Log 6.78
Other: WX0B SixPak, WX0B StackMatches, Ameritron RCS-8V switches,
ICE bandpass filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, Top
Ten Devices DXDoubler, CDE rotors
Thanks again to Bryan W5KFT for letting me use his station at the
Ranch in the big contest. Thanks also to Robert K5PI for all the hours
he puts into keeping the station in good working order.
This was a personal best score for me in this contest. It was by far
my best Sunday effort ever. I got behind my running QSO totals from
2005 right from the start on Saturday, and spent all day Sunday catching
up and then surpassing my score from last year.
I started on 15 meters, which allowed me to have a nice clean run
frequency, but the band was long and a little thin, so despite having
no QRM at all, I actually made fewer QSOs that first hour than I did
on the much more crowded 20 meters during the second hour. My worst
mistake all weekend, by far, though, was from about 0040 UTC to 0150 UTC,
when I made my first band change, moving the 15 meter radio to 40
meters. I neglected to switch the SixPak setting for that radio, and
so for over an hour I was making 40 meter QSOs using the 15 meter
antennas! Fortunately, I didn't break anything, the SWR was not so
bad that I noticed, apparently (although I have been known to be rather
clueless about that sort of thing) and the AL-1500 seemed to tolerate
the situation. The rate was disappointing, of course, so after a while
in frustration I decided to take a half hour off-time. When I sat down
in the chair again to get going, I scanned through everything on the
desk and only then realized what I had done. I made sure not to repeat
that mistake.
I took four hours off in one block overnight and got back on the air
around 1230 UTC. I had a decent run of almost 100 QSOs on 40 meters
before moving up to 20 meters for most of the rest of the day.
I made a few second radio QSOs on 15 meters, and tried to run there
for about ten minutes but decided that 20 meters was the place to be.
I should have saved my remaining hour and a half of off-time to take
entirely in the last two and a half hours, but instead I took
a half hour off when I hit a slow point around lunch time. 20 meters
closed around 2330 UTC, before sunset in central Texas! My rate
on 40 meters and 80 meters in those last few hours of the contest
was never as good as it had been on 20 meters.
My goals for next year are to not make any major operator errors,
to get off to a faster start, and to try to make more second radio
QSOs.
Again, I worked every section more than once and had at least one
station from each section call me. Propagation to the northwest on
20 meters was really excellent. I worked more than the usual number
of stations in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon
Territories/Northwest Territories multipliers.
I worked 62 dupes, and it would have been more had I not decided to
start turning dupes away. I had one station that wanted to work me
a third time, and I told him we'd worked before. He asked if I was sure
we were a dupe? I told him we could work again and sent him my
exchange. Getting no response, I sent it again. I sent it a third time,
and then he tells me that his logging software will not let him enter
my call sign as a new QSO!
The weather was excellent all weekend. Because of the drought, however,
beautiful Lake Buchanan was no longer right outside the shack windows.
Instead of the sunshine dancing off the waves, my view out the window
was mostly acres of quicksand and weeds. One fewer distraction, I
guess.
2006 ARRL November Sweepstakes, Phone - W5KFT (WM5R, op.)
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------
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21 --- --- --- --- 135/37 --- 135/37 135/37
0.01M
22 --- --- --- 141/23 7/1 --- 148/24 283/61
0.03M
23 --- --- --- 111/6 --- --- 111/6 394/67
0.05M
0 --- --- 31/3 44/4 --- --- 75/7 469/74
0.07M
1 --- 27/3 22/0 --- --- --- 49/3 518/77
0.08M
2 --- --- 43/1 --- --- --- 43/1 561/78
0.09M
3 --- --- 66/0 --- --- --- 66/0 627/78
0.10M
4 --- 23/1 27/0 --- --- --- 50/1 677/79
0.11M
5 --- 77/0 4/0 --- --- --- 81/0 758/79
0.12M
6 --- 72/0 3/0 --- --- --- 75/0 833/79
0.13M
7 --- 12/0 52/0 --- --- --- 64/0 897/79
0.14M
8 --- 12/0 15/0 --- --- --- 27/0 924/79
0.15M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 924/79
0.15M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 924/79
0.15M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 924/79
0.15M
12 --- --- 48/0 --- --- --- 48/0 972/79
0.15M
13 --- --- 48/0 36/0 --- --- 84/0 1056/79
0.17M
14 --- --- --- 68/0 --- --- 68/0 1124/79
0.18M
15 --- --- --- 69/0 1/0 --- 70/0 1194/79
0.19M
16 --- --- --- 85/0 --- --- 85/0 1279/79
0.20M
17 --- --- --- 42/0 6/1 --- 48/1 1327/80
0.21M
18 --- --- --- 45/0 --- --- 45/0 1372/80
0.22M
19 --- --- --- 80/0 --- --- 80/0 1452/80
0.23M
20 --- --- --- 68/0 --- --- 68/0 1520/80
0.24M
21 --- --- --- 67/0 1/0 --- 68/0 1588/80
0.25M
22 --- --- --- 70/0 --- --- 70/0 1658/80
0.27M
23 --- --- 5/0 24/0 --- --- 29/0 1687/80
0.27M
0 --- --- 56/0 --- --- --- 56/0 1743/80
0.28M
1 --- 21/0 --- --- --- --- 21/0 1764/80
0.28M
2 --- 22/0 15/0 --- --- --- 37/0 1801/80
0.29M
3 --- --- 1/0 --- --- --- 1/0 1802/80
0.29M
TO 0/0 266/4 436/4 950/33 150/39 0/0 1802/80
Multiplier Distribution
1. Il 114
2. Va 96
3. Mi 76
4. Mdc 74
5. Mn 70
6. Oh 64
7. Scv 58
8. Nc 55
9. Ep 53
10. WWa 50
11. Wi 43
12. On 40
13. In 36
14. Sv 35
15. NNj 34
16. Az 30
17. Ct 28
18. Or 28
19. NFl 28
20. Em 27
21. Co 27
22. WPa 26
23. Ga 26
24. WNy 24
25. ENy 23
26. Mo 23
27. Org 23
28. Ky 21
29. Ia 20
30. SNj 19
31. NLi 19
32. Tn 19
33. Ne 18
34. WcF 18
35. Sdg 18
36. Al 18
37. Nh 17
38. Wv 17
39. Eb 16
40. STx 16
41. Ew 16
42. Lax 16
43. Mt 16
44. Sjv 15
45. SFl 15
46. Sf 15
47. Nv 13
48. WMa 12
49. Ak 12
50. Id 11
51. Ut 11
52. NTx 11
53. Ok 11
54. Me 10
55. Ks 10
56. Sd 10
57. Nm 10
58. Vt 9
59. Bc 9
60. Ri 9
61. De 9
62. Ab 9
63. Sc 9
64. Ar 8
65. La 8
66. Qc 7
67. Sb 7
68. Ms 6
69. Mb 6
70. Mar 6
71. Wy 6
72. Nt 5
73. Nd 5
74. Pac 4
75. Sk 4
76. NNy 4
77. WTx 4
78. Nl 3
79. Vi 2
80. Pr 2
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