CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V26B
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 42.1
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 235 14 30
80: 679 19 71
40: 1777 27 93
20: 1101 29 86
15: 1704 27 92
10: 376 20 46
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Total: 5872 136 418 Total Score = 8,043,526
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This was my eleventh trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and ninth visit to the
V26B super station. I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N and Team Antigua
for helping to make this effort possible.
The status of the station was unclear this year. While the V26B gang did their
normal upkeep of the station prior to SSB contest, additional work was done
after they left. I got a report from N3OC that the status of the 20M stack was
unknown and that the 15M rotor box had failed. To make matters worse, the
station owner, V21N, suffered a broken hip and heart attack shortly after the
SSB contest and had to be evacuated to Florida. Fortunately, V21N is on the
road to recovery and doing well. The station also was in great shape when I
got there and worked flawlessly through the contest.
This was the first year ever that I beat my QSO, multiplier and score goals as
shown below.
Goal Goal Actual Actual Delta Delta
Band QSOS Mults QSOS Mults QSOS Mults
160 224 50 235 44 11 (6)
80 624 93 679 90 55 (3)
40 1556 131 1777 120 221 (11)
20 1219 118 1101 115 (118) (3)
15 1620 124 1704 119 84 (5)
10 348 35 376 66 18 31
Total 5601 551 5872 554 271 3
Score Score Score
Goal Actual Delta
7,700,000 8,043,526 343,526
I also establish what I call scenario goals. There are three scenarios from
Zone 8 - run 3 point QSOs (mostly Europe), hunt for multipliers, and run 2
point QSOs (NA & CA). These goals help me manage my operating time allocations.
The following is a comparison of my operating scenario goals vs. actuals:
Goal Actual Delta
Run 3 Pt 27 28.2 1.2 hours
Hunt 5 2.2 (2.8) hours
Run 2 Pt 11 11.7 0.7 hours
Total 43 42.1 (0.9) hours
I operated the contest differently than I had originally planned. The change
in plans was driven by my anticipation that high band conditions were not going
to be good to Europe, due to the G1 disturbance in the hours just prior to the
contest. I therefore felt that I would need to place greater emphasis on NA
(Run 2 Pt) than I have in years past. I also decided to limit my hunting to
short periods of time, generally on the order of 10 to 15 minutes. (In years
past I hunted in 30 to 45 minute blocks.) I think both decisions were good
calls.
The above scenario time allocations produced the following results:
QSOs/ Mults/ Points/
Scenario QSOs Mults Hr Hr Hr
Run 3 Pt 4082 395 145 14 203751
Hunt 51 63 24 30 428823
Run 2 Pt 1739 96 148 8 119267
It interesting to me that the Run 3 Pt rate was not much different than the Run
2 Pt rate. I also note the impact of hunting in short durations resulted in
much better points / hour rates in this scenario than I have seen in past
years.
I thought that conditions were better during the second half of the contest.
The European sunrise on Sunday produced some interesting and much needed
multipliers on 160M. I think the most exciting event was a brief and intense
10M opening to Europe at 1320z on Sunday. The opening only lasted about 20
minutes, but produced 74 QSOs and 26 multipliers. I was really lucky to have
caught it.
I work all dupes and I got plenty of opportunity this year! I logged 164
duplicates, which means that at least one full hour of operating time was
wasted. It is particularly frustrating to note that several stations duped me
multiple times. I sign my call after every QSO, so I am not sure why I enjoy
so many dupes.
Thanks for all the QSOs. I will go again in 2007. QSL via AA3B.
73 Bud V26K / AA3B
Here are other breakdowns and information:
Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
00Z 166/41 166/41 166/41
01Z 179/13 179/13 345/54
02Z 187/11 187/11 532/65
03Z 173/5 173/5 705/70
04Z 131/37 18/0 149/37 854/107
05Z 151/15 151/15 1005/122
06Z 93/16 2/0 27/2 122/18 1127/140
07Z 47/2 95/5 142/7 1269/147
08Z 1/0 54/2 55/2 1324/149 32
09Z 0/0 1324/149 60
10Z 73/9 7/13 80/22 1404/171 17
11Z 34/2 93/25 18/16 145/43 1549/214
12Z 192/34 192/34 1741/248
13Z 161/19 1/2 162/21 1903/269
14Z 165/4 165/4 2068/273
15Z 115/2 21/3 136/5 2204/278
16Z 66/13 84/5 150/18 2354/296
17Z 2/2 1/1 76/17 4/5 14/12 97/37 2451/333
18Z 1/1 137/7 1/2 139/10 2590/343
19Z 186/4 186/4 2776/347
20Z 4/5 141/3 145/8 2921/355
21Z 112/4 4/6 1/2 117/12 3038/367
22Z 143/3 143/3 3181/370
23Z 129/2 129/2 3310/372
00Z 3/0 55/6 1/2 3/3 62/11 3372/383
01Z 1/2 1/2 2/4 3374/387 59
02Z 3/0 3/0 3377/387 59
03Z 118/16 118/16 3495/403
04Z 148/8 148/8 3643/411
05Z 45/13 25/4 70/17 3713/428
06Z 47/11 1/1 33/2 1/1 1/1 83/16 3796/444
07Z 1/0 1/0 122/4 124/4 3920/448 2
08Z 0/0 3920/448 60
09Z 0/0 3920/448 60
10Z 39/3 20/0 11/1 70/4 3990/452 8
11Z 164/14 164/14 4154/466
12Z 78/1 50/3 128/4 4282/470
13Z 87/1 74/26 161/27 4443/497
14Z 56/3 28/3 42/7 126/13 4569/510
15Z 3/0 17/0 178/1 198/1 4767/511
16Z 13/1 19/2 18/11 50/14 4817/525
17Z 1/0 155/0 156/0 4973/525
18Z 146/6 9/0 11/0 166/6 5139/531
19Z 187/4 1/1 188/5 5327/536
20Z 74/0 42/1 16/2 132/3 5459/539
21Z 92/2 88/3 180/5 5639/544
22Z 88/4 23/0 111/4 5750/548
23Z 122/6 122/6 5872/554
Tot 235 679 1777 1101 1704 376
/ 44 / 90 / 120 / 115 / 119 / 66
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 13 253 1002 423 761 82 2534 43.2
NA 210 402 703 621 888 270 3094 52.7
AS 0 5 36 18 7 0 66 1.1
SA 8 7 21 22 31 17 106 1.8
AF 3 9 8 14 12 5 51 0.9
OC 1 3 6 3 5 2 20 0.3
6 Band Calls 52
5 Band Calls 114
4 Band Calls 150
3 Band Calls 264
2 Band Calls 557
1 Band Calls 2484
Unique Calls 3621
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