CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K3CR
Operator(s): LZ4AX
Station: K3CR
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: State College, PA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 141 16 62
80: 512 24 89
40: 966 30 114
20: 1593 33 122
15: 204 26 76
10: 7 4 3
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Total: 3423 133 466 Total Score = 5,840,849
Club: North Coast Contesters
Comments:
Well, that was the end of my 5 year long streak of being in US top 3 in CQWW CW.
Unless K4ZW proves me wrong, all three spots there belong entirely to New
England this year.
I did everything possible to be competitive as much as I could but it just
wasn't meant to be. Things started breaking from the beginning and kept doing
so until the end. Maybe there are still things falling apart there now but at
least I'm not there to see. It started with the 40m antenna, went through 80m
antennas, the rotator on 10m, the beverages and finished with my K3. Neither
one of the problems was crucial enough to make me think about quitting, though.
They probably affected my score somehow but not that much. I was able to come up
with quick fixes for the K3 (faulty main VFO encoder) and beverages, the 80m
spare antenna was better than the K1DG's improvised GP and the 40m antenna
wasn't that bad even being broken.
In accordance with general misery theory, conditions also sucked. Well, not on
all bands. They sucked only on the bands where the antennas were in shape. With
the exception of W3LPL, N8II and PR1T everything heard on 10 was worked. Only
one EU on 15 on Saturday. Heard several south Europeans but they couldn't hear
me. I wasn't too persistent, however. 20 was really hot and I decided to stay
there, hoping that 15 would improve on Sunday. And it really did improve. All
EU stations were ESP level but they had no problems copying me. Even managed a
short run. 20 wasn't that bad actually, although in the last several contests I
had at least 70-80 Jas there. Only 16 this time. Nothing from zones 23, 24, 26,
28. Barely got 27. To compensate for the higher bands 40, 80 and 160 were
rocking.
The non-IDing is getting worse and worse every year, though. I have around 100
dupes in my log. About 80 of them are because the other station didn't identify
themselves when I was tuning across. If they would send their call once each 3
QSO, which is very optimistic estimate given the current realities, by jumping
right in I saved time for 160 contacts. They lost time for 80 contacts. It's
that simple. There were also about 10 contacts which I didn't log because I
couldn't squeeze the call out of the other station after working them. Some of
them were probably mults as they were sending rare zones but I wasn't willing
to hang around forever. Here I lost time for 10 contacts, they will loose the
same 10 plus another 30 in penalties. Hopefully one day they will finally get
it, although I'm not that optimistic.
Well, that was my last contest from K3CR. In 2 weeks I will be completely done
with my PhD and I will be leaving Penn State. Ironically, my first contest from
K3CR was also CQWW CW, back in 2001. I learned a lot for these 7 years, the
station also improved a lot. We didn't win any major contest, we were very
close to winning several times but just close. However, K3CR is now a regular
in US top ten of all major contests. Jim Breakall, WA3FET was the driving force
of all of it. My thanks go to Jim and his students Jon Arent, James Turner, Bill
Glessner, Brad Parola and Kyle Labowski, who did a lot of work and spent
countless hours on the towers to help keeping the station in shape through the
years. My hat is off to you guys, you are the greatest !
Congratulations to K1LZ, K5ZD and K1DG for the great scores. I don't know where
my career is going to take me next, but if it will be in US I will definitely be
back at K3CR for more next year. And I hope Randy will change his mind until
then.
73, Alex LZ4AX
-------------- 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 62 10 0 0 72 2.1
0100 0 0 54 0 0 0 54 1.6
0200 8 0 44 0 0 0 52 1.5
0300 37 4 0 0 0 0 41 1.2
0400 0 76 0 0 0 0 76 2.2
0500 27 27 0 0 0 0 54 1.6
0600 10 45 0 0 0 0 55 1.6
0700 3 51 19 0 0 0 73 2.1
0800 0 2 73 0 0 0 75 2.2
0900 6 12 53 0 0 0 71 2.0
1000 1 1 33 0 0 0 35 1.0
1100 0 7 17 0 0 0 24 0.7
1200 0 0 1 135 0 0 136 3.9
1300 0 0 0 186 0 0 186 5.4
1400 0 0 0 178 2 0 180 5.2
1500 0 0 0 191 5 0 196 5.7
1600 0 0 0 128 19 0 147 4.2
1700 0 0 0 81 21 4 106 3.1
1800 0 0 0 40 17 0 57 1.6
1900 0 0 0 35 0 0 35 1.0
2000 0 0 12 8 8 0 28 0.8
2100 0 0 99 0 0 0 99 2.9
2200 0 0 98 4 0 0 102 2.9
2300 0 0 27 7 0 0 34 1.0
0000 0 15 15 0 0 0 30 0.9
0100 0 44 0 0 0 0 44 1.3
0200 9 19 0 0 0 0 28 0.8
0300 7 61 4 0 0 0 72 2.1
0400 0 72 7 0 0 0 79 2.3
0500 20 11 0 0 0 0 31 0.9
0600 7 34 0 0 0 0 41 1.2
0700 3 8 22 0 0 0 33 1.0
0800 0 0 63 0 0 0 63 1.8
0900 0 8 29 0 0 0 37 1.1
1000 3 1 17 0 0 0 21 0.6
1100 0 1 0 16 0 0 17 0.5
1200 0 0 0 157 0 0 157 4.5
1300 0 0 0 151 0 0 151 4.4
1400 0 0 0 9 79 0 88 2.5
1500 0 0 0 28 31 1 60 1.7
1600 0 0 0 91 6 0 97 2.8
1700 0 0 0 73 7 0 80 2.3
1800 0 0 0 22 0 2 24 0.7
1900 0 0 7 10 6 0 23 0.7
2000 0 0 93 3 0 0 96 2.8
2100 0 0 99 4 0 0 103 3.0
2200 0 0 8 26 3 0 37 1.1
2300 0 13 10 0 0 0 23 0.7
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Total 141 512 966 1593 204 7 3423
Gross QSO's=3468 Dupes=45 Net QSO's=3423
Unique callsigns worked = 2549
The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 1501 to 1600
The best 30 minute rate was 200/hour from 1341 to 1410
The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 1500 to 1509
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