CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ/9
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 37
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 30 7 12
80: 64 14 36
40: 134 25 62
20: 294 26 91
15: 188 21 72
10: 50 10 18
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Total: 760 103 291 Total Score = 817,156
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
CQ COUNTER: 344
RUN/SEARCH: 10/755 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 504
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.73.6 http://www.tr4w.net
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
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160SSB 31 30 58 12 7
80SSB 64 64 154 36 14
40SSB 134 134 364 62 25
20SSB 295 294 837 91 26
15SSB 190 188 524 72 21
10SSB 51 50 137 18 10
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Totals 766 760 2074 291 103
Final Score = 817156 points.
2018 CQ-WW-SSB N4TZ
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 3 1 1 1 4 2 12
Canada calls = 14 21 16 13 6 0 70
NA calls = 9 14 19 30 22 7 101
SA calls = 4 9 31 44 48 41 177
Euro calls = 0 12 50 176 87 0 325
African calls = 0 5 6 9 11 0 31
Asian calls = 0 0 0 5 2 0 7
Japan calls = 0 0 1 11 0 0 12
Ocean calls = 1 1 9 4 9 1 25
Total calls = 31 64 134 295 190 51 765
The soybeans in my hayfield have not been harvested yet, so no
receiving antennas, and no four square on 80 and no verticals
for 160. Dipole on 80 and inverted L on wrong side of tower
for 160 definitely hurt the low band totals.
Finally got the cables connected to the fixed tribanders on the
new back tower. It was nice to switch direction without having
to worry about rotators not turning! One TH7DX is better than
a stack of monobanders that point in the wrong direction.
Top 10/15 overshot the stop on its ring rotator and is now stuck
on VP6D. At least I worked him on 10 meters!
The "gotchas" with the IC7610 continue. Had problems for the
first 3 hours of the contest with losing receive audio when I
switched to the other radio. Every time I switched back to the
7610 I had to fiddle with the audio knob and received a blast
in the ears. I was taking the audio from the speaker jack on the
back panel, just like with every other radio I have ever had.
SO, I plugged a second pair of headphones into the front jack of
the 7610 and had receive audio for the rest of the contest.
I did not have an extension audio cable to move the SO2R wiring
from the back to the front of the 7610. SO2R now became
SO2H, Single OP Two Headsets....
Then, Sunday afternoon I had another problem related to the
7610. I was using the USB audio input to receive the prerecorded
transmit messages from TR4W. Suddenly, the rig was going into
transmit following the PTT signal from the logging program, but
no transmit audio! Furthermore, while troubleshooting the problem,
I heard a "DANG" in the headset, so found out the mike was live
at the same time as the USB audio..... Spent a couple of hours
Sunday troubleshooting, finally hooked up my WRTC laptop and got
the USB audio working again. But, the laptop has no parallel ports
so the antenna switching and SO2R switching had to be done by
hand, which is very risky when you are used to automation!
Luckily, it is hard to hurt things with 100 watts.
Also had a problem with the 40 meter beam which was intermittant
on Friday night and not working at all Saturday night or Sunday,
The Cushcraft at 61 feet had to take up the slack, but it is a
lot down from the 3 element on top of the tower.
I hope someone has a much bigger USA LP score than N9NB because
I hate losing when I'm close. I am pretty accepting when I
lose by a lot, but close losses really bring out the "woulda,
coulda, shoulda" regrets. But, congratulations to whomever wins.
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