CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: WM5R
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: W5KFT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: EM00st
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 29
80: 179
40: 564
20: 1939
15: 122
10: 3
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Total: 2836 Prefixes = 844 Total Score = 3,996,340
Club:
Comments:
W5KFT Station:
http://www.kkn.net/~w5kft/
Beverages - not working this weekend
160 - Inverted V @ 145'
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
10 - Hy-Gain 105CA @ 140', rotatable
Hy-Gain 105CA @ 100', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 105CA @ 60', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 105CA @ 30', 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
I always love to operate contests from the W5KFT Ranch Station.
With the recent rains, everything on the ranch was green and lush,
SOPABOX: and the bluebonnets (our state wildflower) were everywhere. I saw
more wildlife than usual from the three kilometer long driveway
to the ranch house, including jackrabbits, wild boar, squirrels, four
or five different species of birds, and eight to ten deer.
Robert K5PI had been out there this winter and modified the Top Ten
boxes to drive the SixPak in addition to the ICE bandpass filters,
which was a pleasant surprise - no more remembering to switch
antennas during a band change.
Bryan was out at the ranch on Friday and we tried to repair the
Beverages. The remote coax switch, preamp, transformer, and other
hardware had all been mounted on a tree branch that died and fell
over (and is now home to a fire ant colony). The remote coax switch
had gotten water in it, and we swapped that out, but it appears that
the preamp is also dead. We ran out of time and lacked a spare
preamp anyway, so I operated the contest without receive antennas
on 40 meters, 80 meters, and 160 meters.
This is the first time I've operated the CQ WPX phone contest as an
all-band single-operator. I've not done a lot of single-operator DX
contests aside from the IARU HF World Championships in the summer,
and of course the conditions are quite different then. A lot of the
time, I felt like I was pretty clueless, and was saved mostly by
the fact that for most of the contest, there was only one open band
to choose from.
My off-time strategy was to take four hours off each night to sleep.
There's not so much DX to work from Texas on 40 and 80, and without
Beverages I figured I'd have even less to work. I also figured that
most of the W/VE multipliers I'd hear on 40 and 80 would likely
OAPBOX: have been already worked on other bands. So, I took time off around
0700 UTC both nights. The first night, I just couldn't get up when
the alarm went off at 1100 UTC, so I went back for another hour of
sleep, and even then I was kind of slow to get moving. I didn't
take any off time during the day on Saturday, as the weather
forecast predicted storms on Sunday and I wanted to keep off time
in case I had to shut down for a time for lightning or a tornado.
On Sunday, I had a little under three hours of off time remaining,
but I had to wait until the afternoon to take it before the weather
radar on the TV assured me that the storms weren't going to get
to us before the end of the contest. Unfortunately, Sunday
afternoon was by far the best opening to Europe on 20 meters, and
I am sure I missed out on multipliers during my off times.
My one run on 15 meters was on the first night of the contest
during the 0100 UTC hour, when I worked stations in Japan,
Australia, New Zealand, and South America. 15 meters never
sounded good enough to try another serious run later in the
contest, although I did make a few efforts on Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, a small herd of cows was jogging by the station
and one of them was issuing a series of short, really deep-throated
calls that manged to resonate with the building walls and it sounded
just like I remember it sounding at my office last year when they
were screwing drywall into wall studs on the floor above us. It was
only when I caught sight of the cows outside the window that I
figured out what the noise was.
I had fun.
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ----
USA calls = 24 145 459 1248 17 0 1893
VE calls = 3 11 50 188 1 0 253
N.A. calls = 1 5 17 44 8 0 75
S.A. calls = 0 4 9 47 43 3 106
Euro calls = 0 11 20 231 0 0 262
Afrc calls = 1 2 1 18 3 0 25
Asia calls = 0 0 0 21 0 0 21
JA calls = 0 0 2 110 25 0 137
Ocen calls = 0 1 6 32 25 0 64
--- -- -- -- -- -- ----
Total calls = 29 179 564 1939 122 3 2836
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------
-----
0 --- --- --- 154/93 4/4 --- 158/97 158/97
0.02M
1 --- --- --- 52/22 63/42 --- 115/64 273/161
0.07M
2 --- --- 7/4 102/38 14/6 --- 123/48 396/209
0.14M
3 --- --- 2/1 134/40 4/3 --- 140/44 536/253
0.22M
4 --- --- 64/29 37/9 --- --- 101/38 637/291
0.31M
5 --- 14/4 110/28 --- --- --- 124/32 761/323
0.41M
6 2/1 35/11 14/2 --- --- --- 51/14 812/337
0.45M
7 6/0 --- --- --- --- --- 6/0 818/337
0.46M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337
0.46M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337
0.46M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337
0.46M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337
0.46M
12 --- --- 54/13 15/12 --- --- 69/25 887/362
0.53M
13 --- --- 1/0 22/7 13/7 --- 36/14 923/376
0.58M
14 --- --- --- 72/37 3/2 --- 75/39 998/415
0.70M
15 --- --- --- 112/33 --- --- 112/33 1110/448
0.82M
16 --- --- --- 106/22 2/1 1/1 109/24 1219/472
0.93M
17 --- --- --- 100/32 4/2 2/0 106/34 1325/506
1.08M
18 --- --- --- 104/25 1/1 --- 105/26 1430/532
1.21M
19 --- --- --- 93/23 4/3 --- 97/26 1527/558
1.34M
20 --- --- --- 74/23 --- --- 74/23 1601/581
1.47M
21 --- --- --- 68/16 1/0 --- 69/16 1670/597
1.58M
22 --- --- --- 69/21 1/0 --- 70/21 1740/618
1.71M
23 --- --- --- 80/13 1/0 --- 81/13 1821/631
1.84M
0 --- --- --- 81/16 1/1 --- 82/17 1903/648
1.97M
1 --- --- 35/2 21/3 --- --- 56/5 1959/653
2.05M
2 --- --- 102/10 --- --- --- 102/10 2061/663
2.17M
3 --- 6/0 71/11 --- --- --- 77/11 2138/674
2.31M
4 --- 25/1 47/12 --- --- --- 72/13 2210/687
2.45M
5 --- 64/7 21/2 --- --- --- 85/9 2295/696
2.59M
6 17/2 33/5 4/0 --- --- --- 54/7 2349/703
2.70M
7 4/2 --- --- --- --- --- 4/2 2353/705
2.71M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705
2.71M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705
2.71M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705
2.71M
11 --- --- 24/0 --- --- --- 24/0 2377/705
2.74M
12 --- 2/0 8/0 11/6 --- --- 21/6 2398/711
2.80M
13 --- --- --- 37/26 --- --- 37/26 2435/737
2.97M
14 --- --- --- 48/18 --- --- 48/18 2483/755
3.13M
15 --- --- --- 45/13 2/1 --- 47/14 2530/769
3.26M
16 --- --- --- 62/5 3/1 --- 65/6 2595/775
3.34M
17 --- --- --- 5/0 --- --- 5/0 2600/775
3.35M
18 --- --- --- 47/10 1/0 --- 48/10 2648/785
3.44M
19 --- --- --- 69/22 --- --- 69/22 2717/807
3.62M
20 --- --- --- 2/0 --- --- 2/0 2719/807
3.62M
21 --- --- --- 64/12 --- --- 64/12 2783/819
3.77M
22 --- --- --- 47/23 --- --- 47/23 2830/842
3.97M
23 --- --- --- 6/2 --- --- 6/2 2836/844
4.00M
D1 8/1 49/15 252/77 1394/466 115/71 3/1 1821/631
D2 21/4 130/13 312/37 545/156 7/3 0/0 1015/213
TO 29/5 179/28 564/114 1939/622 122/74 3/1 2836/844
Unique callsigns worked = 2335
The best 60 minute rate was 167/hour from 0007 to 0106
The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 0016 to 0045
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 0031 to 0040
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSO's/minute 3 times.
5 QSO's/minute 13 times.
4 QSO's/minute 63 times.
3 QSO's/minute 213 times.
2 QSO's/minute 532 times.
1 QSO's/minute 798 times.
There were 201 bandchanges and 93 (3.3%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 5
4 1094
5 1031
6 670
7 8
8 16
9 11
10 1
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 1931
2 bands 318
3 bands 75
4 bands 11
5 bands 0
6 bands 0
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 10 55 227 1557 80 2
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