ARRL DX Contest - SSB
Call: P40B
Operator(s): P43P
Station: P43P
Class: SOAB Power: HP
QTH: ARUBA
Operating Time (hrs): 31
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 138 43
80: 324 55
40: 445 53
20: 719 59
15: 944 61
10: 2278 60
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Total: 4848 331 = 4,814,064
Club: Aruba Amateur Radio Club
Comments:
All reports sent were 59 K
Equipment Description:
FT1000MP
ACOM 2000A Amplifier
WX0B Stackmatch Antenna Combiner
TopTen Devices Automatic Band Decoder
Varios Force 12 and a couple of Cushcraft Antennas on a 60ft tower.
Inverted V for 80 and 160m
CT
Club Affiliation: Aruba Amateur radio Club
Soapbox:
Well, definitelly had double fun over the weekend. Did not quite make 5000q's
over the weekend, but what else would you expect if you leave in the middle of
the contest
to go celebrate the local carnival parade. More on the carnival later on.
Even though I did not get quite the rest I would have liked before the
contest,
I felt pretty good about getting into the contest this weekend.
Started the contest on 10m at 8pm local time at my qth and normally conditions
on 10m should have been dying down already by that time. But with the solar
number as high as they were, it turns out I had my best rate
of the contest during that 1st hour, with 279 contacts. Keeping on the
subject
of rates, best 10 minute rate was a rate of 354 qso/hr for 10min in the last
few minutes of the 1st hour and my best 1 minute rate was 8qso in one minute
for a burst rate of 480 qso/hour. WOW. Overall I worked about 30hours this
contest and averaged around 100q/hr for the whole 48 hours.
Back to the contest. I stayed a litle while more on 10m and switched to 15m
after that. by 0500z I was down to 160m with some fairly good conditions on
160m for once. No real high noice figures like usual, so most of the stations
worked on 160m (my favorite) were relatively easy. I stayed basically on 160,
80 and 40m between 0500z and 0900z.
Took an 1 1/2 hour break about 0845z and got back briefly on 80m before our
sunrise. Took a quick breakfast and got back on the bands alternatinging
between 20, 15 and 10m. Spent most of the day on 10m with an occasional qsy
for
the some needed multipliers. By the time the 1st 24 hours (8 pm local time
saturday night) of the test was over I had about 3500 contacts in the log. Not
too bad I tought.
In the meantime, the whole island was celebrating its last weekend of carnival
and the kids had already come back from the Saturday San Nicolas Carnival
Parade. I was also supposed to have joined that one, but decided to get some
more q's in the log and join the carnival parade on Sunday when things
would be
a little slower on the bands.
By about 0530z (1:30am sunday morning) I decided that if I was going to be
going in the carnival parade the next day I better get a good night sleep,
so I
took a full 5 hour sleep break. Woke up, semi well rested, the next morning
and
in between preparations to get to the carnival parade that morning, I still
managed an additional 150q's between 1030z and 1400z.
My wife Marylin got home al dressed up about 10am and since she was ready to
go, I shut down the radio with 4300+ contacts in the log.
And we was gone to the carnival parade!!
I sure forgot all about contesting for the next few hours.
As some of you might know, living in Aruba, once a year during the months of
January and February, up through Ash-Wednesday, the island gets carnival
fever.
There are lots of carnival related activities, such as carnival-youth and
-queen elections, a calypso contest, the carnival roadmarch contest and all
sorts of other activities, just about every day, from the beginning of the
year
up the the main carnival parade which this year happened to fall during the
ARRL DX Contest weekend.
Oh well, not wanting to miss out on either of the ARRL DX Contest or the
Carnival parade, I though, I'll just do both.
So we joined a "back to the 60's flower power" carnival group called "groovy
babies" for this years carnival, with had some simple but very colorfull
costumes.
It wasn't untill one of the prices that was awarded to the Queens float of our
group for the best HISTORICAL float, that I realized that for a lot of people,
the sixties is just history, while I felt quite at home with those big bell
bottoms. ;-)
You can see some pictures from that day, that my good friend Paolo Cortese,
I2UIY, was kind enough to post on his homepage at
http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/Photopage.html , so you get an idea of why
(according
to Paolo) sometimes I slow handling the pileups!!
http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/Parade%202000a.JPG All dressed up and ready to go
to the parade!! Carlos Santana would have been jealous of that red strap I was
wearing!
http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/Parade%202000b.JPG Taking a break in the shade of
the many trailers on which musical bands play on during the carnival.
http://www.kkn.net/~i2uiy/Parade%202000c.JPG A picture of my wife, mom and
myself during the parade
Anyways, I did manage to work a few more q's afterwards on 10m, but neither my
voice, nor myself were quite ready for handling the contest and my body was
sore all over.
Managed to get 4848 q's in the logs by the end of the contest and even though
my results of this year were less than last years ARRL DX Phone test, I must
say I sure had DOUBLE the FUN, between doing the contest and the carnival
parade in the same weekend.
Did have a strange report from one of the stations after the carnival parade,
whose report was "YOU OWE ME A SPEAKER", I though WHAT &$&^????, this guy
must
be crazy, but after a couple of seconds, mind you I was still very tired since
I had just gotten back from the carnival parade, I realized it was my
signal he
was talking about. That got a big smile on my face. Thanks for that nice
report!!
Was surprised to the many stations that I was able to work on all 6 bands this
year, probably could have worked a few more if I had spent some more time on
160m. At least my station performed very well this weekend and it sure was a
joy working with the FT100MP/ACOM 2000A/TOPTEN/WX0B combination. The
automation
sure makes band changes just a matter of pressing the band button on the
1000MP.
Thanks for the q's and thanks to the contest organizers for organizing this
contest. See you all for the WPX or in Slovenia.
Best 73 de Jacobo P43P/P40B
P.S.
In order to get a better turnaround times with the many qsl cards request I
have been receiving, I have a requested Mario, I2MQP to handle all the QSL's
for the P43P and P40B operations.
In the meantime, he's made up some nice photo qsl cards. For quickest
response,
any qsl request should go directly to him at his call book address.
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults P40B ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 280/49 280/49 280/49
1 . . . . 47/23 133/5 180/28 460/77
2 . . . 85/28 147/19 . 232/47 692/124
3 . . 72/29 87/17 . . 159/46 851/170
4 . . 156/13 . . . 156/13 1007/183
5 55/24 57/23 28/4 . . . 140/51 1147/234
6 17/4 92/21 1/0 39/5 . . 149/30 1296/264
7 10/2 38/6 . 144/3 . . 192/11 1488/275
8 15/5 40/2 15/1 ..... ..... ..... 70/8 1558/283
9 . . . . . . . 1558/283
10 . 38/3 . . . . 38/3 1596/286
11 . . . 90/2 . . 90/2 1686/288
12 . . . 39/1 5/0 26/0 70/1 1756/289
13 . . . 25/0 24/5 6/0 55/5 1811/294
14 . . . . 123/9 1/1 124/10 1935/304
15 . . . 1/0 113/1 1/1 115/2 2050/306
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 16/1 131/2 147/3 2197/309
17 . . . . . 207/1 207/1 2404/310
18 . . . 2/0 13/0 105/0 120/0 2524/310
19 . . . . . 204/0 204/0 2728/310
20 . . . . . 237/0 237/0 2965/310
21 . . . . . 187/0 187/0 3152/310
22 . . . . . 161/0 161/0 3313/310
23 . . . . 85/0 48/0 133/0 3446/310
0 ..... ..... 1/1 ..... 191/1 ..... 192/2 3638/312
1 . . . . 96/0 49/0 145/0 3783/312
2 . . . 109/2 . 51/0 160/2 3943/314
3 . 29/0 28/0 76/0 . . 133/0 4076/314
4 25/4 . 41/2 1/1 1/1 . 68/8 4144/322
5 16/4 30/0 . . . . 46/4 4190/326
6 . . . . . . . 4190/326
7 . . . . . . . 4190/326
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 4190/326
9 . . . . . . . 4190/326
10 . . 38/0 . . . 38/0 4228/326
11 . . 44/1 16/0 2/0 . 62/1 4290/327
12 . . . 4/0 17/0 . 21/0 4311/327
13 . . . . . 28/0 28/0 4339/327
14 . . . . . 29/0 29/0 4368/327
15 . . . . . . . 4368/327
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 4368/327
17 . . . . . . . 4368/327
18 . . . . . . . 4368/327
19 . . . . . . . 4368/327
20 . . . . . . . 4368/327
21 . . . . . 204/1 204/1 4572/328
22 . . . . . 186/0 186/0 4758/328
23 . . 21/2 1/0 64/1 4/0 90/3 4848/331
DAY1 97/35 265/55 272/47 512/56 573/58 1727/59 ..... 3446/310
DAY2 41/8 59/0 173/6 207/3 371/3 551/1 . 1402/21
TOT 138/43 324/55 445/53 719/59 944/61 2278/60 . 4848/331
BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr P40B ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single
Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 60/279 60/279 60/279
1 . . . . 10/281 50/160 60/181 120/230
2 . . . 26/200 34/256 . 60/232 180/231
3 . . 25/174 35/147 . . 60/159 240/213
4 . . 60/156 . . . 60/156 300/201
5 19/173 17/197 13/132 . . . 49/171 350/197
6 10/100 35/158 5/12 10/244 . . 60/149 410/190
7 6/105 12/196 . 43/202 . . 60/192 470/190
8 10/89 21/113 5/186 ..... ..... ..... 36/116 506/185
9 . . . . . . . 506/185
10 . 14/160 . . . . 14/160 520/184
11 . . 3/0 55/98 . . 58/93 578/175
12 . . . 19/122 11/28 26/60 56/75 634/166
13 . . . 13/114 12/116 12/30 38/88 671/162
14 . . . . 59/125 1/71 60/124 731/159
15 . . . 1/106 59/115 1/73 60/115 791/155
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 15/66 45/174 60/147 851/155
17 . . . . . 60/207 60/207 911/158
18 . . . 1/84 18/44 41/154 60/120 971/156
19 . . . . . 61/202 61/202 1032/159
20 . . . . . 59/239 59/239 1091/163
21 . . . . . 60/187 60/187 1151/164
22 . . . . . 60/160 60/160 1211/164
23 . . . . 35/147 25/115 60/134 1271/163
0 ..... ..... 1/109 ..... 59/193 ..... 60/192 1331/164
1 . . . . 46/125 14/213 60/145 1391/163
2 . . . 33/199 . 27/113 60/160 1451/163
3 . 15/114 9/186 36/126 . . 60/132 1512/162
4 20/76 . 28/88 1/48 . . 49/84 1560/159
5 13/73 12/144 . . . . 26/107 1586/158
6 . . . . . . . 1586/158
7 . . . . . . . 1586/158
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1586/158
9 . . . . . . . 1586/158
10 . . 29/79 . . . 29/79 1615/157
11 . . 41/64 16/60 3/45 . 60/62 1675/154
12 . . . 2/118 23/44 . 25/50 1700/152
13 . . . . . 12/144 12/144 1712/152
14 . . . . . 14/124 14/124 1726/152
15 . . . . . . . 1726/152
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1726/152
17 . . . . . . . 1726/152
18 . . . . . . . 1726/152
19 . . . . . . . 1726/152
20 . . . . . . . 1726/152
21 . . . . . 60/203 60/203 1786/154
22 . . . . . 60/186 60/186 1846/155
23 . . 17/74 . 32/121 4/54 53/102 1899/153
DAY1 0.8/129 1.7/160 1.8/148 3.4/151 4.2/136 9.4/185 ..... 21.2/163
DAY2 0.5/75 0.5/128 2.1/83 1.5/141 2.7/136 3.2/173 . 10.5/134
TOT 1.3/106 2.1/153 3.9/114 4.8/148 6.9/136 12.5/182 . 31.6/153
BREAKDOWN in kilo-points by hr P40B ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single
Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 495 495 495
1 . . . . 191 102 293 788
2 . . . 246 211 . 457 1245
3 . . 247 167 . . 413 1659
4 . . 172 . . . 172 1831
5 202 196 43 . . . 440 2271
6 38 198 0 56 . . 292 2563
7 20 62 . 93 . . 175 2739
8 44 34 15 ..... ..... ..... 93 2832
9 . . . . . . . 2832
10 . 41 . . . . 41 2872
11 . . 0 59 . . 59 2931
12 . . . 27 2 13 42 2973
13 . . . 12 48 3 64 3037
14 . . . . 127 8 134 3171
15 . . . 0 63 8 72 3243
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 15 80 95 3338
17 . . . . . 110 110 3448
18 . . . 1 6 52 60 3507
19 . . . . . 101 101 3609
20 . . . . . 118 118 3726
21 . . . . . 93 93 3819
22 . . . . . 80 80 3899
23 . . . . 42 24 66 3965
0 ..... ..... 8 ..... 102 ..... 110 4075
1 . . . . 48 24 72 4147
2 . . . 69 . 25 94 4241
3 . 14 14 38 . . 66 4307
4 42 . 35 8 . . 92 4399
5 37 15 . . . . 52 4451
6 . . . . . . . 4451
7 . . . . . . . 4451
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 4451
9 . . . . . . . 4451
10 . . 19 . . . 19 4470
11 . . 29 8 1 . 38 4508
12 . . . 2 8 . 10 4518
13 . . . . . 14 14 4532
14 . . . . . 14 14 4547
15 . . . . . . . 4547
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 4547
17 . . . . . . . 4547
18 . . . . . . . 4547
19 . . . . . . . 4547
20 . . . . . . . 4547
21 . . . . . 109 109 4655
22 . . . . . 92 92 4748
23 . . 25 . 39 2 67 4814
DAY1 303 532 477 661 706 1287 ..... 3965
DAY2 79 29 130 125 206 281 . 849
TOT 381 561 606 786 912 1567 . 4814
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P40B 4848 331 4,814,064SOAB HP
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