CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V26B
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 42.2
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 219 13 34
80: 609 16 72
40: 1529 26 99
20: 1190 24 88
15: 1582 23 95
10: 340 12 21
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Total: 5469 114 409 Total Score = 7,175,560
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This was my tenth trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and eight visit to the V26B
super station. As always, I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N and Team
Antigua for helping to make this effort possible.
I set goals prior to every trip. I develop these goals by scaling my previous
year score based on the CQ WW SSB results from V26B and other Zone 8 stations
(this year I used 8P1A). The following is a comparison of my goals and
results:
Goal Goal Actual Actual Delta Delta
Band QSOS Mults QSOS Mults QSOS Mults
160 176 35 219 47 43 12
80 441 88 609 88 168 0
40 1149 128 1529 125 380 -3
20 1399 131 1190 112 -209 -19
15 1824 139 1582 118 -242 -21
10 811 71 340 33 -471 -38
Total 5800 590 5469 523 -331 -69
It is obvious that I underestimated the low band performance and overestimated
high band performance. The following are my band by band observations.
160: I heard and worked stuff on this band that I?ve never believed was possible
using low power. QRN was very low. These were my highest QSO and multiplier
totals ever.
80: Signals from Europe were booming and I enjoyed several hours of great runs.
These were my highest QSO and multiplier totals ever.
40: This band just kept going and going! Again, these were my highest QSO and
multiplier totals ever.
20: This was my highest QSO tally on this band, but multipliers were a
disappointment. Zones in particularly were tough to come by.
15: I knew this was going to be the big band, but I did not get the performance
I was hoping for. My QSO and multiplier totals were both mediocre compared to
previous years. Not sure why.
10: Huge disappointment. I did catch a good NA opening on Saturday, but Sunday
was tough sledding. I was particularly frustrated by not being able to work
Zone 8 or Zone 9 stations ? I heard them but they couldn?t hear me!
In addition to setting band goals, I also establish what I call ?scenario?
goals. There are three scenarios from Zone 8 ? run 3 point QSOs (mostly
Europe), hunt for multipliers, and run 2 point QSOs (NA & CA). These goals help
me manage my operating time allocations. The following is a comparison of my
operating scenario goals vs. actuals:
Goal Actual Delta
Run 3 Pt 28 26.9 1.1 hours
Hunt 5 5.1 0.1 hours
Run 2 Pt 10 10.2 0.2 hours
Total 43 42.2 -0.8 hours
I remained true to the plan for the most part. I took three 1.5 hour breaks for
sleep and generally felt good during the duration of the contest. The above time
allocations produced the following results:
QSOs/ Mults/ Points/
Scenario Hr Hr Hr
Overall 129 12 170228
Run 3 Pt 142 13 177987
Hunting 19 20 273554
Run 2 Pt 152 7 98179
The above results highlight the benefit of hunting and running 3 pointers. The
problem with hunting is that it becomes increasingly less productive through the
course of the contest; indeed my last hunt period produced only 7 multipliers in
30 minutes ? this is one part of the contest I wish I had to do over again.
Thanks for all the QSOs. I?ll try again in 2006. QSL via AA3B.
73 Bud V26K / AA3B
Here are other breakdowns and information:
Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
00z --+- --+- 154/36 7/4 --+- --+- 161/40 161/40
01z - - 190/17 - - - 190/17 351/57
02z - - 169/11 - - - 169/11 520/68
03z - - 168/4 - - - 168/4 688/72
04z - 17/11 97/4 - - - 114/15 802/87
05z 100/19 33/12 6/0 - - - 139/31 941/118
06z - 167/29 - - - - 167/29 1108/147
07z 28/0 75/3 34/3 - - - 137/6 1245/153
08z 1/0 1/0 9/0 --+- --+- --+- 11/0 1256/153
09z - - - - - - 0/0 1256/153
10z - - 24/2 88/33 - - 112/35 1368/188
11z - - - 16/3 163/48 - 179/51 1547/239
12z - - - - 170/9 - 170/9 1717/248
13z - - - - 182/6 - 182/6 1899/254
14z - - - - 117/3 66/6 183/9 2082/263
15z - - - 8/1 149/7 - 157/8 2239/271
16z --+- --+- --+- 162/22 --+- --+- 162/22 2401/293
17z - - - 69/2 - 121/7 190/9 2591/302
18z - - - 1/1 11/12 78/6 90/19 2681/321
19z - - - 1/1 136/12 1/1 138/14 2819/335
20z - - - - 202/3 - 202/3 3021/338
21z - - 109/13 - 16/2 - 125/15 3146/353
22z - - - 100/15 - - 100/15 3246/368
23z 1/2 1/1 5/4 94/3 - - 101/10 3347/378
00z --+- --+- 146/8 --+- --+- --+- 146/8 3493/386
01z 2/4 5/6 75/2 - - - 82/12 3575/398
02z 5/5 - - - - - 5/5 3580/403
03z 4/5 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 - 8/5 3588/408
04z 71/6 16/2 - - - - 87/8 3675/416
05z - 104/8 - - - - 104/8 3779/424
06z - 106/6 1/1 - - - 107/7 3886/431
07z 1/1 74/4 5/6 - - - 80/11 3966/442
08z --+- --+- --+- --+- --+- --+- 0/0 3966/442
09z - - - - - - 0/0 3966/442
10z 1/1 4/3 47/9 - - - 52/13 4018/455
11z - - 13/0 108/2 - - 121/2 4139/457
12z - - - 74/2 73/2 - 147/4 4286/461
13z - - - 18/1 97/1 1/2 116/4 4402/465
14z - - - 13/2 94/7 1/0 108/9 4510/474
15z - - - 120/8 1/2 - 121/10 4631/484
16z --+- --+- --+- 30/1 --+- 34/5 64/6 4695/490
17z - - - 1/1 89/2 15/1 105/4 4800/494
18z - - - 36/2 22/0 23/5 81/7 4881/501
19z - - - 185/5 - - 185/5 5066/506
20z - - - 52/2 58/2 - 110/4 5176/510
21z - - 110/4 1/1 - - 111/5 5287/515
22z - - 147/1 - - - 147/1 5434/516
23z 5/4 5/3 19/0 5/0 1/0 - 35/7 5469/523
All 219/47 609/88 1529/125 1190/112 1582/118 340/33
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 193 272 654 586 659 323 2687 49.1
EU 13 316 801 525 878 0 2533 46.3
AF 2 9 11 12 16 4 54 1.0
AS 0 1 45 43 8 0 97 1.8
SA 11 11 12 21 18 13 86 1.6
OC 0 0 6 3 3 0 12 0.2
6 Band Calls 47
5 Band Calls 59
4 Band Calls 187
3 Band Calls 261
2 Band Calls 527
1 Band Calls 2306
Unique Calls 3387
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