ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 26 19
80: 142 63
40: 377 86
20: 447 94
15: 130 50
10: 13 10
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Total: 1135 322 Total Score = 1,095,444
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
This HAS to be the bottom of the cycle. Poorest I've ever heard 10 meters from
Texas in this contest. And if that weren't bad enough local thunderstorms from
Friday afternoon until early Sunday morning virtually wiped out 160 and
severely impacted 80. With all this it was a struggle to break 1 meg. Of course
I think back to the peak of cycle 22 in 1989 when three of us became the first
ever low power W/VE stations to score over 1 meg. How things have changed! In
1989 I used a quad at 48 feet, a multiband vertical, one radio and manual
logging. Never thought I'd have the set up I have today (see below).
Equipment: Tentec Orion and Icom IC-746Pro at 100 watts. Homebrew SO2R
controller. TR log.
Antennas:
10/15/20 - stack of 2 C3's (2L each) @ 31 and 25 mtrs fixed NE, 3L SteppIR @ 41
mtrs, 4L SteppIR @ 23 mtrs, TH3jr @ 13 mtrs fixed SE
40 - Homebrew Moxon @ 42 mtrs, Lazy H @ 35 mtrs beaming NW-SE
80 - array of 5 sloping dipoles from 41 mtr tower
160 - elevated radials on 42 mtr tower
Receiving: one 160 mtr long beverage NE
QSOs by Continent:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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N.A. calls = 15 22 25 27 22 4 115
S.A. calls = 4 10 30 23 40 6 113
Euro calls = 1 74 138 319 26 0 558
Afrc calls = 0 4 9 10 9 0 32
Asia calls = 0 3 10 9 0 0 22
JA calls = 1 16 144 45 20 0 226
Ocen calls = 5 13 21 14 13 3 69
Total calls = 26 142 377 447 130 13 1135
The best 60 minute rate was 75/hour from 1254 to 1353
The best 30 minute rate was 96/hour from 1319 to 1348
The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 1333 to 1342
There were 122 band changes and 25 probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 591
2 bands 86
3 bands 50
4 bands 30
5 bands 12
6 bands 7
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
VP6DX V31UZ J7DX PJ4O 6Y1LZ PJ2T
KH6LC
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