ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG +PACKET
Station: N4KG
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 52 45
80: 109 64
40: 131 73
20: 283 98
15: 106 47
10: 40 14
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Total: 721 341 Total Score = 737,583
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
A Bad Cold (chills, low-grade fever, Post-Nasal Drip, SORE THROAT, and
multiple-triggered coughs) made this PHONE contest a Real Challenge. Ended up
taking LOTS of Breaks / Naps Saturday and Sunday just to get through it all.
Conditions on 20,40, 80, and 160 were Excellent the First Night with Good
Propagation and Low Noise on all bands. The Packet Pileups were a bit
'challenging' but that's what you sign up for when you enter the Assisted
Category. When you find yourself bumping heads with all the Multi's, you know
you are chasing "Fresh Meat"! Thank Goodness for Frequency Memories in modern
radios.
My first 10M QSO was OA4SS at 2107Z Sunday, followed by a weak QSO with LT1F.
That was it. Back to 20M. My plan was to go to 40M at 2200Z to pick up many
missed multipliers in Eastern / Northern Europe. At 2153, I finished sweeping
20M and decided to check 10 again for a possible PY multiplier. WOW! At
2200Z, I had 10 QSO's and several LU/PY in the log and 10 was getting hotter by
the minute. After one hour, I finally went to 40M with 40 Q's and 14 Mults in
the 10M Log from SA, CA, and Caribbean. My first QSO on 40 was in UA3 and I
settled into the ES5GP and SV9CVY slug-fests. Finally snagged ES5GP as his
signal was fading with the approaching sunset and Low MUF in Northern EU. I
saw a spot for VK3GK on 15M at 2345, turned the beam, and BINGO another mult
followed by TG9NX. At 2354Z I switched to 20M and saw J37T spotted for my last
multiplier. What a finish!
ALL contacts were made S&P or from Packet Spots using ONE Radio (Icom 746 with
cascaded 2.4 KHz SSB Filters) and my venerable B&W Amp. Those 3-500's didn't
even blink when I moved all over the Low Bands without adjusting the tuners to
bring my (CW Tuned) antennas under a 2:1 SWR. Only needed to retune (to get
full power) for the more brutal pileups on the rarer multipliers. The Icom
Speech Compressor must have worked Very Well as I had NO Voice Power, even at
the beginning of the contest. I was amazed that people came back with my
correct call after literally 'coughing it out'. A TH7 at 40' and a TH6 fixed
SE at 40' produced most of the High Band Contacts. My MonoBanders are all
damaged / broken / immobilized due to 30 years of Tree Growth. (N4KG
Suggestion: Cut Down EVERYTHING within 40 ft of your Towers!)
Here are some statistics compiled from K5KA's CBS06 program and KG4CUY's
"Cabstat" program.
Contest: ARRL-DX-SSB 2009
Callsign: N4KG
Operators: N4KG + Packet
Category: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL-BAND HIGH-PWR SSB SO1R
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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0000 0 0 0 34 0 0 34 34 4.7
0100 0 18 25 0 0 0 43 77 5.9
0200 13 17 0 0 0 0 30 107 4.1
0300 0 0 35 0 0 0 35 142 4.8
0400 6 11 3 0 0 0 20 162 2.8
0500 12 3 9 0 0 0 24 186 3.3
0600 4 11 3 0 0 0 18 204 2.5
0700 2 8 10 0 0 0 20 224 2.8
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 0.0
1200 0 3 3 40 0 0 46 270 6.3
1300 0 0 0 27 8 0 35 305 4.8
1400 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 306 0.1
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 306 0.0
1600 0 0 0 0 44 0 44 350 6.1
1700 0 0 0 31 1 0 32 382 4.4
1800 0 0 0 10 4 0 14 396 1.9
1900 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 404 1.1
2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 404 0.0
2100 0 0 0 29 7 0 36 440 5.0
2200 0 0 7 10 1 0 18 458 2.5
2300 0 0 3 13 5 0 21 479 2.9
0000 0 0 3 4 0 0 7 486 1.0
0100 0 9 1 0 0 0 10 496 1.4
0200 1 6 6 0 0 0 13 509 1.8
0300 2 0 7 0 0 0 9 518 1.2
0400 3 5 5 0 0 0 13 531 1.8
0500 4 8 0 0 0 0 12 543 1.7
0600 4 9 0 0 0 0 13 556 1.8
0700 1 0 3 0 0 0 4 560 0.6
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 560 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 560 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 560 0.0
1100 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 562 0.3
1200 0 0 0 17 0 0 17 579 2.3
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 579 0.0
1400 0 0 0 0 6 0 6 585 0.8
1500 0 0 0 22 2 0 24 609 3.3
1600 0 0 0 0 8 0 8 617 1.1
1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 617 0.0
1800 0 0 0 4 4 0 8 625 1.1
1900 0 0 0 16 0 0 16 641 2.2
2000 0 0 0 0 8 0 8 649 1.1
2100 0 0 0 17 1 10 28 677 3.9
2200 0 0 0 0 1 30 31 708 4.3
2300 0 0 7 1 5 0 13 721 1.8
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Total 52 109 131 283 106 40 721
BAND 160 80 40 20 15 10 TOTAL
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QSO'S 52 109 131 283 106 40 721
MULTS 45 64 73 98 47 14 341
Gross QSO's=725 Dupes=4 Net QSO's=721
Unique callsigns worked = 452 Operating Time= 27 hrs
The best 60 minute rate was 62/hour from 1222 to 1321
The best 30 minute rate was 70/hour from 1226 to 1255
The best 10 minute rate was 102/hour from 1226 to 1235
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSO's/minute 2 times.
3 QSO's/minute 4 times.
2 QSO's/minute 71 times.
1 QSO's/minute 559 times.
There were 69 bandchanges, SO1R, ALL Search and Pounce.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 11
4 327
5 223
6 152
7 8
Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 337
2 bands 40
3 bands 28 8P9EX AH7C AN1A CE4CT CW7T DL0MB EE7E
ES5GP HA3NU HB9TSW HE8CXZ HG1S HI3FVA IR4M
IR4T J7Y JA3YBK KH6RC KP2BH LW1DTZ PI4TUE
PS2T PT3T SO8A SP9PRO VP8KF YR9P YV5KG
4 bands 22 9A1A C6ANM CT1ILT CV5K ED5T G4BUO G5W
HD2A HP1WW J88DR KH7X LT1F M1A OA4SS
OX2A PW2P RW2F T46G TM6M VP9I ZP0R ZX2B
5 bands 18 4B2S 6Y1V CS2C CT9L FS5KA HI3K HI3TEJ
HK6P KL7RA KP2M PS0F TI8M TO2T TO5A
V26F V48M VP5H ZY7C
6 bands 7 PJ4G YN2NB PJ2T P40A VP2E TI5N P49Y
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 15 39 43 185 39 16
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