CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: KR7X
Operator(s): KL2A
Station: K7ZSD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: ORE
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 23
40: 485
20: 1432
15: 307
10: 27
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Total: 2274 Prefixes = 797 Total Score = 4,808,301
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
Wow! That was fun.
A big round of applause to our winner Chris, KL9A over at NK7U.
You just rocked it bro!
THE REAL COMPETITION
As much as I wanted to travel to DX for this one, KL9A & N6MJ easily
enticed me into a raging competition on the west coast, again. The idea is
to get the biggest station available in the same region (west coast)
and proceed to out ace each other. Admittedly, W7 this time of year
is no place for contesting, but, this year was different, much different.
We were pumped and one of us was going to win.
Many of you know the "K7RL advantage" of W7 we saw in WPX SSB where he worked
into EU and the rest of us (W7s) watched on the sidelines hearing one or two
as he ran through the list...
This was my thinking for this one, and Brad - K7ZSD answered the call.
There were some trade offs in deciding which way to go but I figured for
one, Brads place is in the NW, 200 miles south of K7RL and
should experience some northern propagational advantage, where Nevada
(my new home QTH) may not. It was a gamble. The gamble is that Europe
will come in on that midnight path, I'll work an hour or so, and that
will fill the gap a bit to place higher than KM7W.
In addition, Brad is near the coast, and that would give me the long
openings into JA needed to milk a victory away from NK7U.
THE CONTEST "The Short Version"
Just before the starting bell, we were all drop-jaw amazed at how well the bands
were open, and to EU? KL9A was hearing EU on 15m 300 miles to the east @NK7U.
N6MJ & I were sure to rally the JA's with his southern advantage and my coastal
QTH.
KL9A and MJ both started 15M JA (KL9A w/ some EU) and KR7X on the coast
could not get a JA run so scooted to 20 for the start to run EU, and they
just kept coming! (The pie chart shows more EU than anything else)
THE STATION
FT1000D & MP
1 big tower - stacks and 3el 40
1 mult tower - tribander / 2el 40m
STRATEGY
My strategy at the time seemed stealthly obvious, work EU now because here
in W7 it's long gone in a blink and work the JA's later, after all, I'm on
the coast!
THE MISTAKES TO LEARN FROM
This was 1 of the 2 mistakes I made, that kept me nipping at the heels of
the other boys the rest of the game. The other was taking 3 hours off
thinking "save the last 3 hours for a JA opening" which never came.
WAN GAB FILES
We were all 3 connected during the contest, and the one liners flew
for the entire contest. Here are just a few:
[16:21] kl9a: oh they changed thef froecase
[16:21] kl9a: dude
[16:21] kl9a: this contest is
[16:21] kl9a: gonna
[16:21] kl9a: ROCK
[16:22] n6mj: SM2LIY 14030.3 AL1G Already on # 004
2326
(KL7's need a head-start this time in the cycle)
[16:45] n6mj: ur gonna rock the 1st hour dude
[16:45] kl9a: love this stuff
[16:45] kl9a: KL7 style
(it's obvious he was feeling the zone at an early point)
[09:48] n6mj: <--21082.5
[09:48] n6mj: nose bleeds
[09:48] kl9a: I don't think I've been above 010 on any band :)
[10:18] kl2a: I'm m/s now
[10:18] kl2a: brad is putting 3rd 20m antenna in line
[10:18] kl2a: so I can squirt 3 ways
(needed all the help I could get to catch these guys, thanks Brad)
[11:26] n6mj: Jim is working on getting me a 2nd rotatable 20 right now
(look, even Dan had dreams of going bigger!)
[11:03] kl9a: looking at prop forecast
[11:03] kl9a: going to be good tonight
[11:04] kl2a: nice
[11:04] kl2a: going to kick ur xxx (tail)
[11:04] kl9a: bring it
(A few friendly words amongst friends)
13:15] kl2a: man, the donut aurora is getting read
[13:15] kl2a: RED
[13:15] kl2a: supposed to get to a-20 today
[13:15] dann6mj: fuck
[13:15] n6mj: not good
[13:15] kl2a: I know.
[13:15] kl2a: at 4 now
[13:15] kl2a: going up fast.
[13:15] kl2a: get em!
[13:15] n6mj: dammit
[13:15] n6mj: tonite is gonna suck big time
[13:15] kl2a: gotta stay on
[13:15] kl2a: now
[13:15] kl2a: crash tonight
[14:09] kl9a: alriht boyz
[14:09] kl9a: these condx gonna separte us
[14:09] kl9a: men vs girly men
(band seems to open simultaneously to JA for all of us)
[14:23] kl9a: ja on 20
[14:23] dann6mj: ja on 15
[14:24] kl9a: nice
[14:24] kl2a: ja on 20
(can you tell it's getting slow?)
[16:15] kl9a: MULTI OP!!!!
[16:15] kl9a: DQ
[16:15] kl9a: DQ
[16:15] kl9a: DQ
[16:15] kl9a: DQ
[16:15] kl9a: DQ
[16:15] kl9a: mmm dairy queen sounds good
[16:15] n6mj: lmao
[16:15] kl2a: DQ
[16:15] kl2a: yum
[16:16] n6mj: actually it does sound good.. too bad we dont have those down
here :(
[16:16] kl2a: brad made me a BLT
[16:16] kl9a: !
[16:16] kl9a: no DQ and no taco time
[16:16] kl9a: how do you live?
[16:16] kl9a: AU going down still
[16:16] kl2a: but you have IN AND OUT BURGER!
[16:16] kl2a: that place rurals
[16:16] kl2a: uh... rules
[17:00] kl9a: 1781x705
[17:05] kl9a: 3.31M here
[17:05] dann6mj: 1824x693 3.35mil
[17:05] kl9a: what'd u do????
[17:05] kl2a: MJ takes the lead for the 1st time this weekend?
[17:29] kl9a: HAIR ON FIRE
[17:29] kl2a: woohooo
[17:29] kl2a: step back from bbq
[21:27] dann6mj: kr7x catching up fastg
(had to put it)
So you get the idea... we rally each other through the slow times
and kept tabs on each other knowing where we stood each step of the
way. The future of radio?
The longer version; the entire contest gab text will be available on the website
KL2A(.)com
(.)(.)
LOOKING BACK
For me, it was nearly a perfect contest with only 2 visible errors
in operation strategy:
1. I started on 20 to EU and not 15, thinking I could get the JA runs anytime,
at least later, and rally the EU boys now because they will
be gone forever soon. JA never opened again, and EU was open for the boys.
Advantage - them.
2. Traded out 3 hours of 70/hr because it wasn't making a difference, the boys
were also running 70 or better. This was after the 24 hour mark on a panic
hoping for a better 3 hour stint later in the game. Never happened.
THANKS
Thanks to Brad and Ruth for the first rate hospitality, spicy food,
& bird sanctuary style atmosphere! I felt very loud where ever
the band was open. His QTH is high in the hills above the Columbia
River and gets out very well.
Also, Brad is the man at building stuff. On day 2 I asked if it would be
possible to "stack match" the 3el 40 and the 2el 40, with the high noise back
east as it may help fill the minutes with a few SA or USA. He said "sure", and
proceeded to build a first class super stack match with 6 switches and
all the antennas were "spray'able". Thanks Brad, that was cool.
Good contest, stiff competition, great fun!
73 KL2A
www.KL2A.com
The stats:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AS 0 7 242 243 49 0 541 23.8
EU 0 0 7 648 24 0 679 29.9
NA 0 14 198 495 204 11 922 40.5
OC 0 2 29 24 9 0 64 2.8
SA 0 0 6 14 17 14 51 2.2
AF 0 0 3 8 4 2 17 0.7
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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0000 0 0 0 75 16 0 91 3.9
0100 0 0 0 57 14 0 71 3.0
0200 0 0 0 96 3 0 99 4.2
0300 0 0 0 102 0 0 102 4.4
0400 0 0 8 92 0 0 100 4.3
0500 0 0 0 86 4 0 90 3.9
0600 0 0 6 98 0 0 104 4.5
0700 0 0 0 84 6 0 90 3.9
0800 0 0 0 60 8 0 68 2.9
0900 0 0 17 46 3 0 66 2.8
1000 0 0 93 0 0 0 93 4.0
1100 0 0 81 0 0 0 81 3.5
1200 0 0 19 0 1 0 20 0.9
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1600 0 0 0 56 3 0 59 2.5
1700 0 0 0 35 31 0 66 2.8
1800 0 0 0 27 16 0 43 1.8
1900 0 0 0 6 60 0 66 2.8
2000 0 0 0 1 7 9 17 0.7
2100 0 0 0 45 8 2 55 2.4
2200 0 0 0 19 59 0 78 3.3
2300 0 0 0 24 31 0 55 2.4
0000 0 0 0 46 5 0 51 2.2
0100 0 0 1 46 1 0 48 2.1
0200 0 0 5 54 1 0 60 2.6
0300 0 0 2 63 0 0 65 2.8
0400 0 0 22 56 0 0 78 3.3
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0900 0 0 24 1 0 0 25 1.1
1000 0 3 64 0 0 0 67 2.9
1100 0 20 31 0 0 0 51 2.2
1200 0 0 55 4 0 0 59 2.5
1300 0 0 38 4 0 0 42 1.8
1400 0 0 14 22 0 0 36 1.5
1500 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1700 0 0 0 8 1 0 9 0.4
1800 0 0 0 16 15 3 34 1.5
1900 0 0 0 33 8 0 41 1.8
2000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
2100 0 0 0 21 2 10 33 1.4
2200 0 0 2 22 4 2 30 1.3
2300 0 0 3 23 0 0 26 1.1
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Total 0 23 485 1432 307 27 2274
Gross QSO's=2331 Dupes=57 Net QSO's=2274
Unique callsigns worked = 1894
The best 60 minute rate was 113/hour from 0243 to 0342
The best 30 minute rate was 124/hour from 0638 to 0707
The best 10 minute rate was 156/hour from 0000 to 0009
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 1 times.
4 QSO's/minute 8 times.
3 QSO's/minute 120 times.
2 QSO's/minute 491 times.
1 QSO's/minute 894 times.
There were 285 bandchanges and 117 probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 5
4 705
5 776
6 712
7 18
8 43
9 10
10 5
Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands 1595
2 bands 230
3 bands 57
4 bands 12
5 bands 0
6 bands 0
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 0 7 284 1161 134 9
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
Cumm OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 75/66 16/12 --+-- 91/78
91/78
D1-0100Z - - - 57/40 14/6 - 71/46
162/124
D1-0200Z - - - 96/58 3/2 - 99/60
261/184
D1-0300Z - - - 102/52 - - 102/52
363/236
D1-0400Z - - 8/5 92/44 - - 100/49
463/285
D1-0500Z - - - 86/45 4/2 - 90/47
553/332
D1-0600Z - - 6/4 98/39 - - 104/43
657/375
D1-0700Z - - - 84/36 6/3 - 90/39
747/414
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 60/19 8/2 --+-- 68/21
815/435
D1-0900Z - - 17/2 46/14 3/0 - 66/16
881/451
D1-1000Z - - 93/29 - - - 93/29
974/480
D1-1100Z - - 81/31 - - - 81/31
1055/511
D1-1200Z - - 19/5 - 1/1 - 20/6
1075/517 29
D1-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0
1075/517 60
D1-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0
1075/517 60
D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0
1075/517 60
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 56/18 3/2 --+-- 59/20
1134/537 4
D1-1700Z - - - 35/10 31/14 - 66/24
1200/561
D1-1800Z - - - 27/9 16/6 - 43/15
1243/576
D1-1900Z - - - 6/2 60/19 - 66/21
1309/597
D1-2000Z - - - 1/0 7/3 9/5 17/8
1326/605
D1-2100Z - - - 45/15 8/3 2/0 55/18
1381/623
D1-2200Z - - - 19/1 59/16 - 78/17
1459/640
D1-2300Z - - - 24/8 31/5 - 55/13
1514/653
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 46/11 5/1 --+-- 51/12
1565/665
D2-0100Z - - 1/0 46/13 1/0 - 48/13
1613/678
D2-0200Z - - 5/2 54/10 1/0 - 60/12
1673/690
D2-0300Z - - 2/0 63/18 - - 65/18
1738/708
D2-0400Z - - 22/3 56/8 - - 78/11
1816/719 1
D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0
1816/719 60
D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0
1816/719 60
D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0
1816/719 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0
1816/719 60
D2-0900Z - - 24/1 1/0 - - 25/1
1841/720 43
D2-1000Z - 3/0 64/8 - - - 67/8
1908/728
D2-1100Z - 20/1 31/4 - - - 51/5
1959/733
D2-1200Z - - 55/6 4/0 - - 59/6
2018/739
D2-1300Z - - 38/7 4/1 - - 42/8
2060/747
D2-1400Z - - 14/3 22/6 - - 36/9
2096/756
D2-1500Z - - - 3/1 - - 3/1
2099/757 55
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0
2099/757 60
D2-1700Z - - - 8/0 1/0 - 9/0
2108/757 46
D2-1800Z - - - 16/5 15/5 3/0 34/10
2142/767
D2-1900Z - - - 33/10 8/3 - 41/13
2183/780 1
D2-2000Z - - - - - 1/0 1/0
2184/780 60
D2-2100Z - - - 21/3 2/1 10/2 33/6
2217/786
D2-2200Z - - 2/0 22/2 4/2 2/1 30/5
2247/791
D2-2300Z - - 3/0 23/6 - - 26/6
2273/797
D3-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/0 --+-- --+-- 1/0
2274/797
Total: 0/0 23/1 485/1101432/570 307/108 27/8
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