CQ/RJ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: P43P
Operator(s): P43P
Station: P43P
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 36 103 21 9 9
40: 280 831 44 50 19
20: 565 1686 49 68 23
15: 893 2650 50 80 32
10: 1019 3033 51 75 24
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Total: 2793 8303 215 282 107 Total Score = 5,015,012
Club:
Comments:
2002
CQ World-Wide RTTY DX Contest
CALL: P43P
QSL INFO: I2MQP
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QSOs Points Zones DX States
80m: 36 103 9 9 21
40m: 280 831 19 50 44
20m: 565 1686 23 68 49
15m: 893 2650 32 80 50
10m: 1019 3033 24 75 51
Total: 2793 8303 107 282 215
total mults: 604
total points: 5015012
Station Description:
Radio 1: Yaesu FT1000MP with PK232
Radio 2: Kenwood 570S with PK232
Writelog
WX0B Stackmatch on each Radio
2 Top Ten Band decoders controlling the WX0B 6x2
Antenna(s):
Force 12 Magnum 510/510 @75ft
Force 12 Magnum 520/340 @60ft
Force 12 C4XL @ 30ft (sidemounted pointing stateside)
Force 12 c3++ @ 18 ft (sidemounted)
Inverted V for 80
Some quick stats:
at 0048: 4 q's per minute (240/hr)
at 1253: 31 q's per minute (186/hr)
at 1806: 144 per hour (Best Hour)
Total q's: 2901 Average 60/hour
Soapbox:
Did mostly only station preparation on the computer in the shack before this
contest.
Since I don't like working contests with continuous clicking of the mouse and I
am a handson (=don't lift your hands from the keyboard) type, I was still
debating if I would use WF1B or Writelog for the 2002 CQ RJ RTTY contest.
I always liked the simple WF1B interface, the lack of lost windows real estate
on the screen and how the WF1B callsign detection always had worked better that
the Writelog call detection algorithm.
Anyways, with mixed feelings, I decided to give writelog another try.
My aim was to get everything for the upcoming SO2R RTTY operation to work on
1 computer. This meant that the radio's had to be computer controlled
for the frequency (RS232 COM1 & 2), the PK232 TNC's each needed a COM port
(3&4)
and the writelog needed additional comports to send PSK while receiving
with WINRTTY AND everything had to be working withut crashing (a dificult task
to accompish in WINDOWS)
Thanks to Don's (AA5AU) very informative site, it was pretty straightforward
to
setup the 2 radios and additional listening windows for writelogs WINRTTY. So
final setup was a networked computer backing up all the logs and showing the
rates, scores and some other windows.
The main computer screen was connected to the radios and had the 4 rtty decoding
screens, the actual log entry window, as well as some additional windows. Not
having done two radios with RTTY before, it took me a little getting used to
this idea. Sure was fun though and pretty soon I got a hang of things and was
able to get my rates up pretty high, even though I was running low power.
I did find some quircks with the Writelog program and hope that these will be
solved by the next rtty contest. Besides these minor hiccups, Writelog worked
without a hitch.
Conditions were fantastic and even though my W/Ve multipliers could have been
better, overall the results were inline with what I had expected for my SO2R LP.
Rates at certain times were quite a bit higher than possible while running
single radio.
Even though we did get some tropical depressions pass through the area, we
expected a lot more rain than what we finally got. My qth ended up with about
4/10" of rain, just enough to wash down the salt from all the light poles in the
neigbourhood and definitelly cut down on local powerline interference.
I wish I could have operated more hours, but I did have to work on Friday and
was not able to rest the way I wanted before the contest. This did take a toll
on the amount of hours I could go non-stop for this test and lost some prime
time on 20, 40 and 80m operation. I ended up being able to work about 40 out of
the 48 hours. With an extra 6 to 8 hours of on the air time, it would have been
interesting to see what the results would have been.
There were quite some surprise openings to JA and even saw a few JA's being
worked on 40m, but even though I seached for the JA station on 40, I never saw
him again. Like they say in Dutch "Jammer"...
Nice to see 10m open up till late towards EU. Also saw the big difference
running the PK232's on both the 1000MP compared to the Kenwood 570S. Even though
the 570 had all the cw filters and was in PSK mode, the filters in the 1000M
were much more tolerant of nearby QRM. Will eventually try to find out how many
q's I had on the Kenwood vs the MP1000.
Lots of familiar callsigns during the test and it was nice to be active again
for the CQWW RTTY test after having missed last years contest.
At a certain moment, while operating at an exact multiple frequency between 40m
and 20m, it was quite interesting to see my 40m cq's (7048.25) appear in the
20m (14096.51) window. I innitially though someone was playing a joke or
something, but soon realized if I moved only one Hz up or down, the problem
disapeared. Hmmmm...
I'll trow in some more stats for those of you that lime to look at numbers. I
always like to put up these numbers on the web, like that I'll have an easy
reference to how conditions were that year and it is nice being able to compare
with other stations.
Would also have liked to provide some additional analysis on the log but
Cabrillo stats program would not read the Writelog cabrillo output file. Soo
much for standards....
Special thanks to Mario I2MQP for doing an excellent job as my QSL manager.
Of course thanks to all of you for the q's, especially those that changed bands
upon request and to the organizers for hosting the CQ/RJ WW RTTY contest.
See you on the air for the CQWW SSB test as P40B or next year at Dayton 2003.
Now some info for those of you who like to look at numbers:
80m Summary
Zones
3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 31
Countries
HC8 HP K KH6 P4 PY VE XE YV
States/Provinces
CT MA NH RI NY PA KY NC TN VA LA TX
CA ID UT IN CO IA MO NB ON
40m Summary
Zones
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17
20 22 31 32
Countries
4X 8P 9A DL EA EA6 ER EU F G
GI GM GW HA HC8 HK HP I IT9 K
KH6 KL LA LU LY OK OM ON P4 PA
PY S5 SP SV9 TA1 UA UA2 UA9 UN UR
VE VU XE YL YO YU YV Z3 ZC4 ZL
States/Provinces
CT MA ME NH RI NJ NY MD PA AL FL KY
NC SC TN VA AR LA OK TX CA AZ ID OR
UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN CO IA MN MO
NE ND NB NS PQ ON SK BC
20m Summary
Zones
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 22 25 26 31 40
Countries
4X 5B 8P 9A 9H CP CT DL EA ER
ES EU F FM G GI GM GU GW HA
HB HK HP HS I IT9 JA JX JY K
KH6 KP2 LA LU LY LZ OE OH OK OM
ON P4 PA PY S5 SM SP SV SV9 T9
TF TI TK UA UA2 UA9 UN UR VE VP5
VU XE YL YO YU YV Z3 ZL
States/Provinces
CT MA ME NH RI NJ NY DE MD PA AL FL
GA KY NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK TX
CA AZ ID OR UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN
WI CO IA KS MN MO NE NS PQ LAB ON AB
BC
15m Summary
Zones
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 36
38 40
Countries
4X 5B 5N 8P 9A 9H 9M6 CT CX DL
EA EA6 EA9 EI ER ES EU F FO G
GI GM GU GW HA HB HC8 HK HP HS
I IT9 JA K KH0 KH6 KL LA LU LX
LY LZ OE OH OK OM ON OZ P4 PA
PY PZ S5 SM SP SV SV5 SV9 T9 TF
TK UA UA2 UA9 UK UN UR VE VK XE
YB YL YO YU YV Z3 ZC4 ZD7 ZL ZS
States/Provinces
CT MA ME NH RI VT NJ NY DE MD PA AL
FL GA KY NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK
TX CA AZ NV OR UT WA WY MI OH WV IL
IN WI CO IA KS MN MO NE NB NS PQ ON
AB BC
10m Summary
Zones
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16
17 20 25 27 29 31 32 33 40
Countries
4X 5B 8P 9A 9H CT CX DL EA EA6
EA9 EI ER ES EU F G GI GM GU
GW HA HB HC HC8 HP I IT9 JA K
KH0 KH6 KL KP2 LA LU LX LY LZ OE
OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ P4 PA PJ2 PY
S5 SM SP SV SV5 SV9 T9 TA1 TF TK
UA UA2 UA9 UN UR VE VK XE YL YO
YU YV Z3 ZC4 ZL
States/Provinces
CT MA NH RI VT NJ NY DE MD PA AL FL
GA KY NC SC TN VA LA MS NM OK TX CA
AZ MT NV OR UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN
WI CO IA KS MN MO NE NB NS PQ ON MB
SK AB BC
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QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 66/47 13/20 --+-- 79/67 79/67
D1-0100Z - - 42/15 11/9 2/3 55/27 134/94
D1-0200Z - 28/25 57/15 7/3 - 92/43 226/137
D1-0300Z - 40/23 23/6 - - 63/29 289/166
D1-0400Z - 39/10 29/7 - - 68/17 357/183
D1-0500Z 5/8 28/11 57/9 - - 90/28 447/211
D1-0600Z 1/2 24/11 36/7 4/4 - 65/24 512/235
D1-0700Z 4/5 14/5 7/0 - - 25/10 537/245 21
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 537/245 60
D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 537/245 60
D1-1000Z 4/4 17/6 4/1 8/5 - 33/16 570/261 2
D1-1100Z - - 20/5 37/14 25/15 82/34 652/295
D1-1200Z - - - 57/19 72/28 129/47 781/342
D1-1300Z - - - 45/12 63/15 108/27 889/369
D1-1400Z - - - 24/9 71/12 95/21 984/390
D1-1500Z - - - 22/2 49/7 71/9 1055/399
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/9 47/4 91/13 1146/412
D1-1700Z - - - 49/5 80/14 129/19 1275/431
D1-1800Z - - - 45/9 67/11 112/20 1387/451
D1-1900Z 1/1 1/1 - 57/6 43/4 102/12 1489/463
D1-2000Z - - 1/0 54/1 25/3 80/4 1569/467
D1-2100Z - - - 58/5 41/5 99/10 1668/477
D1-2200Z - 2/0 4/1 43/2 25/0 74/3 1742/480
D1-2300Z - 21/7 54/3 12/1 - 87/11 1829/491
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 17/4 63/10 --+-- 80/14 1909/505
D2-0100Z - 1/0 3/0 30/1 - 34/1 1943/506
D2-0200Z - 8/2 24/4 6/3 - 38/9 1981/515
D2-0300Z - 12/2 17/2 - - 29/4 2010/519 27
D2-0400Z - - - - - 0/0 2010/519 60
D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 2010/519 60
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 2010/519 60
D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 2010/519 60
D2-0800Z 11/12 15/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 26/15 2036/534 6
D2-0900Z 4/2 5/1 - - - 9/3 2045/537 36
D2-1000Z 4/2 9/1 - - 4/1 17/4 2062/541 20
D2-1100Z 1/1 6/0 1/1 1/1 49/5 58/8 2120/549
D2-1200Z - - 11/1 - 34/2 45/3 2165/552
D2-1300Z - - - 19/3 49/0 68/3 2233/555
D2-1400Z - - - 15/1 26/3 41/4 2274/559
D2-1500Z - - - 22/0 16/1 38/1 2312/560
D2-1600Z --+-- 1/2 1/1 7/2 40/2 49/7 2361/567
D2-1700Z - - - 15/0 37/3 52/3 2413/570
D2-1800Z - - 1/0 12/3 38/5 51/8 2464/578
D2-1900Z - - - 34/2 35/3 69/5 2533/583
D2-2000Z - - - 42/0 39/2 81/2 2614/585
D2-2100Z - 1/1 42/3 13/0 3/0 59/4 2673/589
D2-2200Z - - 34/6 24/1 - 58/7 2731/596
D2-2300Z 1/2 8/2 14/2 - 39/2 62/8 2793/604
Total: 36/39 280/113 565/140 893/1621019/150
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Breakdown by Continent:
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AS 0 8 45 61 67 181 6.5
EU 0 106 295 455 538 1394 49.9
NA 31 153 214 331 383 1112 39.8
SA 4 8 8 27 23 70 2.5
AF 0 0 0 4 1 5 0.2
OC 1 5 3 15 7 31 1.1
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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