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To: 3830@contesting.com, geoiii@kkn.net
Subject: [3830] WPX SSB K5TR SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: geoiii@kkn.net
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:52:50 -0800
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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: EM00uf
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   16
   80:   50
   40:  525
   20: 2094
   15:   22
   10:   93
------------
Total: 2800  Prefixes = 784  Total Score = 3,587,584

Club: 

Comments:

I was not sure what I was going to do for this contest. WM5R was
looking for a place to operate and I told him he could come over and
do whatever he wanted to do - single op all band, single band or we
could do a multiop.  Ken got to the station about an hour before the
contest and said he wanted to do a single band effort on 15 meters.

I was thinking I would do a single band 40 - as I had some commitments
that would require me to take time away from the radios during the day
on both Saturday and Sunday.  As the contest start neared I decided
that I would operate the first hour on 20 meters so I could enjoy the
great rates until 20 meters died.  The rates were great at the start
and I did not get around to moving to 40 meters until 0330z after 581
contacts.  After spending so much time on 20 meters I changed plans
and decided that I would do an all band effort minus 15 meters.  At
some point on Sunday I started calling it 'single op all band with one
band tied behind my back'.
 
As it turns out I got in much more time operating than I expected
since the activity that was going to take me away from the radios on
Sunday never happened.  It looks like I got in almost 34 hours of
operating.

I worked WM5R on 15 meters the first night.  In looking back I should
have worked a few more guys on 15 meters during the contest but I did
not bother to go back there until late Sunday afternoon when I loaded
up the 160 inverted L with the tuner in the radio at 100 watts.  I
could only work the guys that were loud enough to hear above WM5R's
noise.  But it was good for 21 more contacts and even 3 new prefixes
that I had not worked yet. If I had known that I was going to put in
as much time as I did I would have gone to 15 meters several other
times during the contest.

One other side effect of Ken being on 15 meters was that I only used
one radio for the weekend - and had only 20 band changes.  There were
several times when I was wishing I had a setup with two SO2R positions
as I have seen at a few stations lately.  In my case each of us was
using one half of my SO2R setup.

All in all it was a fun time on the radio - it would have been a
pretty good weekend to do a single op all band or multiop from Texas -
Ken had a fairly good EU run on Sunday that would have really helped
my score with both mults and need QSO points.  As can been seen from
the continent breakdown sheet I mostly worked stateside.

While the station was in fairly good shape for this contest - the
20/40 yagis that normally rotate were fixed northwest with a broken
rotator and I never did get my free time and good weather lined up to
get the rotator repaired before the contest.  Since the 40 meter yagis
do not have great front to back and I have beverages to listen on it
was not an issue on 40 meters. On 20 meters it did make working stuff
over the pole due north and also the south pacific harder since I did
not have an antenna I could point in those directions.
 
Lots of numbers:


    Contest Dates : 25-Mar-06, 26-Mar-06
    Callsign Used : K5TR
         Operator : K5TR
          Station : K5TR
         Category : SOAB HP SSB

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Prefixes   
 _____________________________________________________

  160SSB      16          16         22        4 
   80SSB      50          50        117       12 
   40SSB     531         525        991      114 
   20SSB    2152        2094       3187      616 
   15SSB      22          22         32        3 
   10SSB      94          93        227       35 
 _____________________________________________________

 Totals     2865        2800       4576      784 

    Final Score = 3,587,584 points.



Station:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html

160     - Inverted L
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long

80      - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW & S from 120'.
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
         
40      - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 97'  - NW
        - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 125' - NE
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long

20      - 6 element yagis at 80' and 40' fixed NE
        - 6 element yagi at 90' - NW
        - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW
        - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE

15      - 160 meter Inverted L and 100 watts

10      - 6 element yagi at 60' - rotates
        - 6 element yagi at 30' - NE
        - 4 element yagi at 45' - SE
                


            Continent List  

                   160    80    40    20    15    10   ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --   ---
  USA calls   =     14    31   409  1441    16    24   1935
  VE calls    =      1    10    42   166     2     1    222
  N.A. calls  =      1     4    15    47     0     3     70
  S.A. calls  =      0     3    11    37     3    64    118
  Euro calls  =      0     1    29   237     0     0    267
  Afrc calls  =      0     1     6    18     0     1     26
  Asia calls  =      0     0     0    49     0     0     49
  JA calls    =      0     0     1    79     0     0     80
  Ocen calls  =      0     0    12    20     1     0     33

  Total calls =     16    50   525  2094    22    93   2800

                                        

HR  160   80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT CUM TOTAL  SCORE
-- ----  ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------  -----
 0  ---   ---      ---    208/118     ---     ---   208/118  208/118  0.03M
 1  ---   ---      ---    193/80     ---      ---   193/80   401/198  0.11M
 2  ---   ---      ---    143/53     ---      ---   143/53   544/251  0.20M
 3  ---   ---     54/15    32/13     1/1      ---    87/29   631/280  0.26M
 4  ---   ---     54/20     ---      ---      ---    54/20   685/300  0.33M
 5  ---   ---     78/28     ---      ---      ---    78/28   763/328  0.41M
 6 16/4  36/10    32/7      ---      ---      ---    84/21   847/349  0.49M
 7  ---   7/2     13/3      ---      ---      ---    20/5    867/354  0.51M
 8  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    867/354  0.51M
 9  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    867/354  0.51M
10  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    867/354  0.51M
11  ---   7/0      7/3      ---      ---      ---    14/3    881/357  0.53M
12  ---   ---     11/3     36/16     ---      ---    47/19   928/376  0.59M
13  ---   ---      ---     89/20     ---      ---    89/20  1017/396  0.67M
14  ---   ---      ---    107/24     ---      ---   107/24  1124/420  0.77M
15  ---   ---      ---     94/23     ---      ---    94/23  1218/443  0.87M
16  ---   ---      ---     71/15     ---      ---    71/15  1289/458  0.93M
17  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1289/458  0.93M
18  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1289/458  0.93M
19  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---     51/22   51/22  1340/480  1.04M
20  ---   ---      ---     61/25     ---      4/2    65/27  1405/507  1.17M
21  ---   ---      ---    106/21     ---      ---   106/21  1511/528  1.31M
22  ---   ---      ---    101/22     ---      ---   101/22  1612/550  1.44M
23  ---   ---      ---    108/16     ---      ---   108/16  1720/566  1.57M
 0  ---   ---      ---    121/24     ---      ---   121/24  1841/590  1.74M
 1  ---   ---      ---     75/16     ---      ---    75/16  1916/606  1.85M
 2  ---   ---      ---     15/3      ---      ---    15/3   1931/609  1.87M
 3  ---   ---     96/17     2/0      ---      ---    98/17  2029/626  2.05M
 4  ---   ---     68/3      ---      ---      ---    68/3   2097/629  2.11M
 5  ---   ---     41/5      ---      ---      ---    41/5   2138/634  2.17M
 6  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   2138/634  2.17M
 7  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   2138/634  2.17M
 8  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   2138/634  2.17M
 9  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   2138/634  2.17M
10  ---   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   2138/634  2.17M
11  ---   ---     41/7      ---      ---      ---    41/7   2179/641  2.27M
12  ---   ---     30/3      ---      ---      ---    30/3   2209/644  2.30M
13  ---   ---      ---     71/24     ---      ---    71/24  2280/668  2.48M
14  ---   ---      ---     66/15     ---      ---    66/15  2346/683  2.60M
15  ---   ---      ---     40/12     ---      ---    40/12  2386/695  2.69M
16  ---   ---      ---     40/6      ---      5/3    45/9   2431/704  2.77M
17  ---   ---      ---     34/6      ---      ---    34/6   2465/710  2.84M
18  ---   ---      ---     12/7      ---      ---    12/7   2477/717  2.89M
19  ---   ---      ---     11/3      ---     10/4    21/7   2498/724  2.95M
20  ---   ---      ---     75/25     ---      ---    75/25  2573/749  3.16M
21  ---   ---      ---     30/7     21/2     12/4    63/13  2636/762  3.30M
22  ---   ---      ---     58/11     ---     11/0    69/11  2705/773  3.43M
23  ---   ---      ---     95/11     ---      ---    95/11  2800/784  3.59M
D1 16/4  50/12   249/79  1349/446    1/1     55/24          1720/566
D2  0/0   0/0    276/35   745/170   21/2     38/11          1080/218
TO 16/4  50/12   525/114 2094/616   22/3     93/35          2800/784


Cabrillo Statistics      (Version 06f)         by K5KA

Callsign: K5TR
Contest: CQ-WPX-SSB
Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH SSB
Operators: K5TR

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0    208      0      0    208    208    7.3
0100       0      0      0    193      0      0    193    401    6.7
0200       0      0      0    143      0      0    143    544    5.0
0300       0      0     54     32      1      0     87    631    3.0
0400       0      0     54      0      0      0     54    685    1.9
0500       0      0     78      0      0      0     78    763    2.7
0600      16     36     32      0      0      0     84    847    2.9
0700       0      7     13      0      0      0     20    867    0.7
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    867    0.0
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    867    0.0
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    867    0.0
1100       0      7      7      0      0      0     14    881    0.5
1200       0      0     11     36      0      0     47    928    1.6
1300       0      0      0     89      0      0     89   1017    3.1
1400       0      0      0    107      0      0    107   1124    3.7
1500       0      0      0     94      0      0     94   1218    3.3
1600       0      0      0     71      0      0     71   1289    2.5
1700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1289    0.0
1800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1289    0.0
1900       0      0      0      0      0     51     51   1340    1.8
2000       0      0      0     61      0      4     65   1405    2.3
2100       0      0      0    106      0      0    106   1511    3.7
2200       0      0      0    101      0      0    101   1612    3.5
2300       0      0      0    108      0      0    108   1720    3.8
0000       0      0      0    121      0      0    121   1841    4.2
0100       0      0      0     75      0      0     75   1916    2.6
0200       0      0      0     15      0      0     15   1931    0.5
0300       0      0     96      2      0      0     98   2029    3.4
0400       0      0     68      0      0      0     68   2097    2.4
0500       0      0     41      0      0      0     41   2138    1.4
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2138    0.0
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2138    0.0
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2138    0.0
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2138    0.0
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2138    0.0
1100       0      0     41      0      0      0     41   2179    1.4
1200       0      0     30      0      0      0     30   2209    1.0
1300       0      0      0     71      0      0     71   2280    2.5
1400       0      0      0     66      0      0     66   2346    2.3
1500       0      0      0     40      0      0     40   2386    1.4
1600       0      0      0     40      0      5     45   2431    1.6
1700       0      0      0     34      0      0     34   2465    1.2
1800       0      0      0     12      0      0     12   2477    0.4
1900       0      0      0     11      0     10     21   2498    0.7
2000       0      0      0     75      0      0     75   2573    2.6
2100       0      0      0     30     21     12     63   2636    2.2
2200       0      0      0     58      0     11     69   2705    2.4
2300       0      0      0     95      0      0     95   2800    3.3
------------------------------------------------------
Total     16     50    525   2094     22     93   2800

Gross QSO's=2865        Dupes=65        Net QSO's=2800

Unique callsigns worked = 2385

The best 60 minute rate was 214/hour from 0002 to 0101
The best 30 minute rate was 258/hour from 0002 to 0031
The best 10 minute rate was 306/hour from 0002 to 0011

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSO's/minute    7 times.
 5 QSO's/minute   26 times.
 4 QSO's/minute   85 times.
 3 QSO's/minute  228 times.
 2 QSO's/minute  466 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  672 times.

There were 20 bandchanges and 1 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         1
   4       911
   5      1187
   6       684
   7         5
   8         7
   9         3
  10         2

Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands    2034
2 bands     311
3 bands      23
4 bands      10
5 bands       7
6 bands       0

----- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O ' s  -----
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      5      7    208   1750      4     60


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