CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: VK3TZ
Operator(s): VK3TZ
Station: VK3TZ
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Sydney
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 34 12 17
40: 103 21 38
20: 497 33 93
15: 596 28 82
10: 875 23 61
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Total: 2106 118 292 Total Score = 2,464,920
Club: VK Contest Club
Comments:
This was a difficult contest for me. This was the first time operating at this
site. The site is a scout site and the shack/antennas are maintained by the
Fisher?s Ghost Radio Club. Got my gear from Melbourne to Brisbane the Weekend
before (currently working in Brisbane).I shipped my gear down with me on
Thursday night from Brisbane to Sydney and Jaye VK2SD picked me up on his way
down from Newcastle, arriving at site about midnight. ONly got slugged once for
excess baggage (80+ kgs). We spent Friday attacking a 20m 4 element mono bander
with an angle grinder, to become a computer optimised antenna on 15m. Dropped
the old 10/15m duobander from tower 2 and raised the new yagi. Spent 2 hours
getting the inducto-match set up, all guess work. Then we found an open circuit
at the junction box at the base of the tower, no wonder the old 10/15m yagi was
deaf.
Lots of hours spent trying to get my slopers to work with a wooden tower. NO
success. But we did get the 40/80m loop in better shape and erected a duoband
40/80m dipole between towers 2 and 3. I ended up configuring the slopers as a
vertical with 24 radials at the base but it was deaf compared to the dipole at
70 ft on 80m.
Two weeks prior at JOTA the site had an S zero noise floor. When the rig was
finally powered up, the noise on 10m was S nine plus 20dB at due north and S
nine plus 10 dB from NW to NE. This encompasses EU, JA and NA from VK! Not good,
not good at all. I am used to high noise at my suburban QTH but this site is in
the country, and the noise was worse. I think this had a very big impact on the
final score. We had flare about hour 1 and another 10 minutes later. Another one
on day 2. So conditions on the low bands were depressed but good openings on
10m. Mid daytime propagation was quite poor. Hard to create a pile on most bands
and 20m score was very poor considering the quality and height of the antennas.
I wonder whether it is my skill and/or temperament that has limited the score or
the noise/propagation.
I am used to finding it hard when calling EU but thought the big antennas would
make it different. Not so unfortunately. I guess the major population areas
rarely point the beam south which makes contesting from the Southern Hemisphere
difficult. Even with this fine station it was hard to get a run going. There is
a balance, try to call CQ within the DX portions of the bands and get over the
crud, or go to the band extremeties and call where the QRM is less but the RX
VFOs seldom venture. I think for VK/ZL/OC the band extremeties end up winning,
ie above 14.300, 21.400, and 28.600... 29.200 during peak SSN years.
Can you help? What sort of effect/score would you expect to make with a noise
level of S9 plus at a site. The noise was Powerline noise and noise blanker
could cut it down but IMD then causes a problem. Did you hear me calling and
swore at me under your breath because I was deaf? Sorry, I did the best I could.
Any feedback would be graciously appreciated to tony.burt@rippletech.com.au
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 21/13 35/11 56/24 56/24
D1-0100Z - - - - - 122/4 122/4 178/28
D1-0200Z - - - - 21/16 73/9 94/25 272/53
D1-0300Z - - - 1/2 13/7 1/0 15/9 287/62
D1-0400Z - - - 54/37 - - 54/37 341/99
D1-0500Z - - - 42/5 - 2/2 44/7 385/106
37
D1-0600Z - - - 55/15 - 9/7 64/22 449/128
D1-0700Z - - 12/20 46/4 - - 58/24 507/152
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 52/11 --+-- 52/11 559/163
D1-0900Z - - - 33/16 16/11 1/0 50/27 609/190
D1-1000Z - - - - 181/29 - 181/29 790/219
D1-1100Z - - - 12/5 93/4 - 105/9 895/228
D1-1200Z - 11/14 - 28/5 - - 39/19 934/247
D1-1300Z - - 1/2 11/2 11/0 - 23/4 957/251
D1-1400Z - 8/0 5/6 - - - 13/6 970/257
25
D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 970/257
60
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 970/257
60
D1-1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 970/257
60
D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 970/257
60
D1-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 970/257
60
D1-2000Z - - 1/2 7/6 3/0 - 11/8 981/265
26
D1-2100Z - - - 2/0 15/1 5/1 22/2 1003/267
D1-2200Z - - - 12/2 5/1 - 17/3 1020/270
D1-2300Z - - - - - 6/1 6/1 1026/271
57
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 102/1 102/1 1128/272
D2-0100Z - - - - 1/0 47/2 48/2 1176/274
D2-0200Z - - - - 12/0 20/0 32/0 1208/274
D2-0300Z - - - - - 16/1 16/1 1224/275
54
D2-0400Z - - - - 3/3 17/0 20/3 1244/278
D2-0500Z - - - 10/2 2/3 16/10 28/15 1272/293
D2-0600Z - - - - - 105/15 105/15 1377/308
D2-0700Z - - 6/7 - - 34/5 40/12 1417/320
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 2/2 47/5 --+-- 2/0 51/7 1468/327
D2-0900Z - 1/0 - - 1/0 36/4 38/4 1506/331
D2-1000Z 1/2 7/6 8/6 - - 5/1 21/15 1527/346
D2-1100Z - - 3/2 - - 10/9 13/11 1540/357
D2-1200Z - 1/0 50/0 - - - 51/0 1591/357
D2-1300Z - - - 60/7 - - 60/7 1651/364
D2-1400Z - 1/2 5/3 12/4 - - 18/9 1669/373
D2-1500Z - - - - 100/8 - 100/8 1769/381
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 17/3 4/1 --+-- 21/4 1790/385
D2-1700Z - 1/2 2/3 27/3 - - 30/8 1820/393
D2-1800Z - 2/3 2/3 9/1 - - 13/7 1833/400
D2-1900Z - 2/2 6/3 5/1 - - 13/6 1846/406
D2-2000Z - - - 4/1 7/0 - 11/1 1857/407
D2-2100Z - - - 3/0 3/1 12/0 18/1 1875/408
D2-2200Z - - - - 32/1 32/0 64/1 1939/409
D2-2300Z - - - - - 167/1 167/1 2106/410
Total: 1/2 34/29 103/59 497/126 596/110 875/84
160m Summary
Zones
30
Countries
VK
80m Summary
Zones
3 4 15 16 24 25 27 29 30 31 32 38
Countries
9A JA K KH0 KH2 KH6 OM SP T30 UA
VE VK XX9 YU ZK1/s ZL ZS
40m Summary
Zones
3 4 5 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 18 19 24 25 27
28 30 31 32 33 38
Countries
BV CT CT3 DL DU EA8 ES F G GM
HC8 JA K KH2 KH6 KP2 KP4 LX OH OK
OM P4 SP T30 TI UA UA9 V3 VE VK
VK9N XX9 YB YU YV ZK1/s ZL ZS
20m Summary
Zones
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 35 39
Countries
3B8 3D2 3D2/r 4L 4X 5B 5U 8P 9A 9K
9M2 9M6 9V A6 BV BY C6 CE CN CT3
CU D4 DL DU EA EA8 EI ES EU F
FK FM FP G GI GU HA HB HC8 HK
HL HS I IT9 JA K KH2 KH6 KH8 KL
KP4 LU LZ OE OH OH0 OK OM ON P4
PJ2 PY S5 S7 SM SP SV SV9 T30 T9
TI UA UA2 UA9 UN UR V2 VE VK VP2E
VP5 VQ9 VR VU XE XX9 YB YO YU YV
Z3 ZK1/s ZL
15m Summary
Zones
1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17
18 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Countries
3A 3D2 5B 8P 9A 9K 9M6 9V BV BY
CT CT3 CU DL EA EI ES EU EX EY
F FK FM G GM GW HA HB HC HC8
HL HS I IG9 IS IT9 JA JD/o K KH2
KH6 KL LA LU LX LY LZ OE OH OH0
OK OM ON OZ P2 PA PJ2 PY S5 SM
SP SV SV9 T30 T9 UA UA9 UN UR V3
V4 VE VK VK9N VK9X VR XX9 YB YL YO
YU ZL
10m Summary
Zones
1 3 4 5 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32
Countries
5B 9A 9M2 9V A6 BV BY CT DL DU
EA ES EU EX F G GM GW HA HL
HS I JA JD/o JT K KH2 KH6 KL LY
LZ OE OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ P2 PA
S5 SM SP SV5 T8 T9 UA UA9 UK UN
UR VE VK VK9N VU XE XX9 YB YL YO
YU
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 0 13 59 166 62 391 691 32.8
OC 1 13 12 49 39 24 138 6.6
SA 0 0 3 12 6 0 21 1.0
AS 0 2 10 108 135 280 535 25.4
EU 0 5 16 151 350 180 702 33.3
AF 0 1 3 11 3 0 18 0.9
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