2001 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes
Contest Dates : 20-Jan-01, 21-Jan-01, 22-Jan-01
Callsign Used : N5XU
Operators : W5JLP, KB5LBN, WM5R
Category : Multi-Limited
Default Exchange : EM10
Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
Section : South Texas (STX)
Country : United States
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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6SSB 21 21 21 8
2SSB 50 50 50 15
222SSB 16 16 32 8
432SSB 23 23 46 8
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Totals 110 110 149 39
Final Score = 5811 points.
Conditions for the past two January VHF Contests have been pretty
good, and N5XU actually holds the M/L category record score for the
West Gulf Division in this contest, which we set in 1998. This year,
however, the band conditions were just terrible. The cold air kept the
tropo scatter conditions flat, there was no Es, and there were no inversions
to get any ducting. It wasn't until nearly the end of the contest that
I was even able to work outside of the state of Texas! For most
of Saturday, our multiplier total on 222 MHz exceeded our multiplier
total on 50 MHz. Nevertheless, there was a highlight - I worked DM91 on 50
MHz and EL07 on 222 MHz for all-time new ones for the club call.
John K5IUA (EL29), who won the 2000 June VHF contest single-op, said these
were the worst January contest band conditions he'd ever experienced. I have
yet to work a January or September VHF contest that didn't have 0 hours on
Sunday. This year I had three (when I wasn't asleep, that is.)
Activity from Houston and Austin both seemed normal, San Antonio activity
improved a lot, but activity from the DFW area is really down from a few years
ago. I think I worked only one station on one band from EM12.
2001 January VHF Sweepstakes - N5XU
6SSB
dm91 el09 el17 el19 el29 em00 em10 em20
2SSB
dm90 el07 el17 el29 em10 em12 em20 em30
dm91 el09 el19 em00 em11 em13 em22
222SSB
el07 el09 el17 el19 el29 em00 em10 em20
432SSB
dm90 el07 el09 el17 el19 el29 em00 em10
2001 January VHF Sweepstakes - N5XU
HOUR 6SSB 2SSB 222SSB 432SSB TOTAL ACCUM
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19 4 5 3 3 15 15
20 1 3 2 2 8 23
21 2 6 3 3 14 37
22 0 5 0 1 6 43
23 3 1 2 3 9 52
0 2 2 0 0 4 56
1 1 2 0 1 4 60
2 2 4 2 3 11 71
3 0 2 0 1 3 74
4 2 4 1 1 8 82
5 0 1 0 1 2 84
6 0 0 0 0 0 84
7 0 0 0 0 0 84
8 0 0 0 0 0 84
9 0 0 0 0 0 84
10 0 0 0 0 0 84
11 0 0 0 0 0 84
12 0 0 0 0 0 84
13 0 0 0 0 0 84
14 0 1 0 0 1 85
15 0 1 0 0 1 86
16 0 1 0 0 1 87
17 0 2 0 1 3 90
18 0 3 1 1 5 95
19 1 0 1 1 3 98
20 0 0 0 0 0 98
21 0 1 0 0 1 99
22 0 1 0 0 1 100
23 2 1 0 1 4 104
0 0 1 0 0 1 105
1 0 0 0 0 0 105
2 1 1 0 0 2 107
3 0 2 1 0 3 110
TOTAL 21 50 16 23
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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