ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 20 18
80: 69 43
40: 253 48
20: 594 77
15: 155 34
10: 67 11
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Total: 1158 231 Total Score = 698,544
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
The station at K5TR:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/
160 meters:
- sloping vertical from 120', fixed E
- sloping vertical from 120', fixed W
80 meters:
- Sloping dipole from 120', fixed NE
- Sloping dipole from 120', fixed NW
40 meters:
- two element Force 12 yagi at 120', rotatable
- two element Cushcraft yagi at 90', rotatable
20 meters:
- six element 44' boom yagi at 80', rotatable
- six element 44' boom yagi at 80', fixed NE
- six element 44' boom yagi at 40', fixed NW
- four element Cushcraft 32' boom yagi at 60', fixed SE
15 meters:
- six element 36' boom yagi at 70', rotatable
- six element 36' boom yagi at 35', fixed NE
- four element Cushcraft yagi at 50', fixed SE
10 meters:
- six element 24' boom yagi at 60', rotatable
- six element 24' boom yagi at 30', fixed NE
- four element Cushcraft yagi at 45', fixed SE
- three element yagi at 20', fixed W
Receiving antennas:
- Four 500' long Beverages fixed NE, NW, SE, SW
SOAPBOX:
Radio 1: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1500
Radio 2: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1200
Headset: Heil Proset HC-4
DVK: W9XT Contest Card
Software: TR Log 6.78
Other: Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches, ICE bandpass
filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, homebrew
audio switchbox
Thanks to George for letting me use his station again. This was the
first time I've operated this contest in the Single Operator, All
Band category. When I've entered in the past, it's always been
in the Multi-Operator or a Single Operator, Single Band category.
This was also my first ever 48-hour single operator DX contest
effort.
40 meters and 80 meters seemed better on the first night than the
second night. In particular, I had a great run on 40 meters to
Japan and Oceania on the first night from about 0700 UTC to about
1000 UTC that was a lot of fun. Although I kept checking, I
never heard 20 meters open over the north pole as it sometimes
does in the 0800 UTC to 1100 UTC time frame on either night.
20 meters to Europe was a lot better for me on Sunday than it was
on Monday, but I never felt like it was a very good opening on
either day. For the most part, it was thin to northern and
eastern Europe. I didn't hear or work a single station from
Finland, even!
15 meters was open both days, primarily to the Caribbean and
South America. Saturday evening, I was able to work some Japanese
stations on the band as well, which is always fun. If 10 meters
was open on Saturday, I missed it, as almost all of my 10 meter
QSOs were on Sunday afternoon to Central America, South America,
and only parts of the Caribbean.
I probably did not have the best sleep strategy. In retrospect,
the 90 minutes I took off in the 2100 UTC hour Saturday was
a mistake, as I had ample time to sleep the second night. Things
were so slow on the low bands that I feel like my five hours of
sleep then probably lost me fewer than 20 potential contacts total.
In fact, I woke up sometime in the 1100 UTC hour, tuned through
all three open bands, found not one new station to call, and
decided to go back to sleep.
One of the amplifiers stopped functioning on Sunday afternoon.
I'm not sure what happened, but the meter showed no high voltage.
I operated the remainder of the contest with just one amplifier.
It seems like I need to work more on getting multipliers into the
log.
2008 ARRL International DX Contest, Phone
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------
-----
0 --- --- 5/5 57/10 1/1 --- 63/16 63/16
0.00M
1 --- --- 9/7 26/4 --- --- 35/11 98/27
0.01M
2 --- 3/3 13/7 3/0 --- --- 19/10 117/37
0.01M
3 5/5 17/13 8/3 --- --- --- 30/21 147/58
0.02M
4 3/2 14/11 12/2 --- --- --- 29/15 176/73
0.03M
5 2/2 9/7 6/4 --- --- --- 17/13 193/86
0.04M
6 1/1 1/1 23/3 --- --- --- 25/5 218/91
0.05M
7 2/2 1/1 38/1 --- --- --- 41/4 259/95
0.07M
8 --- 2/1 57/1 --- --- --- 59/2 318/97
0.08M
9 --- 5/3 29/4 --- --- --- 34/7 352/104
0.10M
10 --- --- 16/2 --- --- --- 16/2 368/106
0.11M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 368/106
0.11M
12 --- 1/0 2/1 --- --- --- 3/1 371/107
0.11M
13 --- 3/0 --- 41/25 --- --- 44/25 415/132
0.15M
14 --- --- --- 36/9 13/7 --- 49/16 464/148
0.19M
15 --- --- --- 25/2 21/5 --- 46/7 510/155
0.22M
16 --- --- --- 39/4 4/1 1/1 44/6 554/161
0.24M
17 --- --- --- 25/4 15/8 --- 40/12 594/173
0.28M
18 --- --- --- 25/2 6/1 --- 31/3 625/176
0.29M
19 --- --- --- 48/4 --- --- 48/4 673/180
0.32M
20 --- --- --- 17/0 --- --- 17/0 690/180
0.33M
21 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 690/180
0.33M
22 --- --- --- 12/4 21/7 --- 33/11 723/191
0.37M
23 --- --- 6/1 --- 53/2 1/0 60/3 783/194
0.41M
0 --- --- 8/3 22/2 --- --- 30/5 813/199
0.44M
1 --- 1/1 2/2 6/1 --- --- 9/4 822/203
0.45M
2 --- 2/0 3/0 --- --- --- 5/0 827/203
0.45M
3 4/4 2/1 7/0 --- --- --- 13/5 840/208
0.47M
4 1/1 3/0 4/0 --- --- --- 8/1 848/209
0.48M
5 2/1 3/1 1/0 --- --- --- 6/2 854/211
0.48M
6 --- 1/0 3/2 --- --- --- 4/2 858/213
0.49M
7 --- --- 1/0 --- --- --- 1/0 859/213
0.49M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 859/213
0.49M
9 --- 1/0 --- --- --- --- 1/0 860/213
0.49M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 860/213
0.49M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 860/213
0.49M
12 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 860/213
0.49M
13 --- --- --- 18/0 --- --- 18/0 878/213
0.50M
14 --- --- --- 38/1 --- --- 38/1 916/214
0.52M
15 --- --- --- 25/3 --- --- 25/3 941/217
0.54M
16 --- --- --- 34/0 --- --- 34/0 975/217
0.56M
17 --- --- --- 24/0 --- --- 24/0 999/217
0.57M
18 --- --- --- 24/0 6/2 --- 30/2 1029/219
0.59M
19 --- --- --- 4/1 1/0 29/5 34/6 1063/225
0.63M
20 --- --- --- --- --- 24/5 24/5 1087/230
0.66M
21 --- --- --- 4/0 7/0 12/0 23/0 1110/230
0.67M
22 --- --- --- 24/1 7/0 --- 31/1 1141/231
0.69M
23 --- --- --- 17/0 --- --- 17/0 1158/231
0.70M
D1 13/12 56/40 224/41 354/68 134/32 2/1 783/194
D2 7/6 13/3 29/7 240/9 21/2 65/10 375/37
TO 20/18 69/43 253/48 594/77 155/34 67/11 1158/231
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 1 5 7 106 0 0 119
VE calls = 0 1 0 30 0 0 31
N.A. calls = 11 30 26 57 22 5 151
S.A. calls = 6 12 20 41 75 62 216
Euro calls = 1 14 32 284 0 0 331
Afrc calls = 0 2 5 10 0 0 17
Asia calls = 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
JA calls = 0 3 120 54 46 0 223
Ocen calls = 1 2 43 10 12 0 68
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Total calls = 20 69 253 594 155 67 1158
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