CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: ES9C
Operator(s): ES2RR, ES2EZ, ES5RY, ES5JR, ES5GP, ES5QX, ES5TV, ES5NC, ES5MG
Station: ES5TV
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: Jogeva
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1893 State/Prov = 52 Countries = 96 Total Score = 1,750,692
Club: Tartu Contest Team
Comments:
First I would like to apologize to anyone who might have been distrubed by our
possible key clicks. Some stations have reported that. That was very first time
we were notified about it and will seriously check the FT1000MP that was used as
Run station. I should have key click mode on it (not W8JI though) but maybe the
good old MP is getting tired.
I appreciate any other direct signal quality reports, positive or negative!
ES9C did not have any spurious signals though (as was confirmed) and there were
quite a few stations with those. We could hear a EW station on most of our CQ
frequencies:)
Anyhow, a claim was posted by SJ2W that "One could even see on the bandmap
where he was located because pretty much 1-2kHz on each side was clear of
spots."
I did not believe this could be true at all as we had stations in our 200hz
Inrad filter passband most of the time to both sides. I am sure you all had. I
wanted to have clear answer and did exact statistics which are presented at the
end of this message. The result is that either I used all the spots in the
contest or only EU spots, SJ2W and ES9C have practically equal amount of spots
posted +/- 1 KHz of their run frequency per minute and BOTH have more spots
than average 2 KHz frequency band in this segment per minute. So this statement
is completely false. It is clear that ES9C frequencies differed in no way on
average from other frequencies and number of spots was no different. If
anything then ES9C frequencies were more crowded with spots than average.
Now about the contest itself:
Of course propagation was not like last year. 230 US/VE instead of 500 made the
whole difference. All the other figures are about the same. 5 states less and 2
countries more. 96 JAs and 95 UA9s (even a few more than last year).
Missed more than 10 spotted mults. Heared but did not get through: FM5BH,
HI3TEJ, CX6VM, KD4POJ and a few more states. Missed AR, LA, MS, KS, ND, SD, LB,
MB, NT, YT and NU.
We are most happy to work FK8CP. It was first time for me to ever hear Remi on
160. He came up just for short time but with nice signal then. Wonderful mults
calling in: 8P9NX, EA9EU, HS0ZEE (never heard him from spots before), KL7RA,
SU9HP and finally VK6DXI 14 min before the end and 10 min past his sunrise was
a huge positive suprise after we had also never heard a whisper of his signal
from spots.
I tried a very innovative station setup this year: 4 stations!
1. RUN station with full size comtek 4 Square as main TX/RX antenna
2. RUN+ listening the Run frequency with omnidirectional antenna (wire
vertical) - helping in pile ups, alerting for callers from other directions and
verifing calls
3. S&P 1 - could use either comtek wire 4 Square or Inverted V (26m apex) for
RX/TX, both ca 700-800m from the main antennas so could listen pretty well on
the band.
4. S&P 2 - only RX. Always had the free RX antenna from S&P 1 as his RX
antenna. Was populating band map and verifing spots for S&P 1.
S&P 1 had TX priority over RUN with PTT lock system so had to be careful not to
interfere with pile up. S&P station made ca 400 QSOs, a few of them (maybe up to
100) also CQ QSOs when we had to send the main station to pick up a difficult
multiplier.
The funny thing was that at times we ended up listening RUN frequency with ALL
4 stations when bandmap was empty. It really helped to pick up the weak callers
to have 8 ears and 4 different antennas. S&P stations could listen RUN station
TX on the same frequency without any blocking, just another 59+50 station:)
Also note that our own S&P stations were not too disturbed by clicks!
Congratulations to UA2FW. It seems that although we did our maximum they were
better in this region. Look forward to see high scores from west and south. 230
NA is probably not enough to top EU this year...
Some statistics below.
73
Tonno
ES5TV
ES9C
QSOs (with dupes) - By time
| Hr | |
-----------------
| 22 | 131 |
| 23 | 164 |
| 00 | 133 |
| 01 | 124 |
| 02 | 112 |
| 03 | 103 |
| 04 | 71 |
| 05 | 63 |
| 06 | 55 |
| 07 | 52 |
| 08 | |
| 09 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | 37 |
| 13 | 32 |
| 14 | 43 |
| 15 | 35 |
| 16 | 59 |
| 17 | 65 |
| 18 | 58 |
| 19 | 57 |
| 20 | 55 |
| 21 | 44 |
| 22 | 46 |
| 23 | 40 |
| 00 | 23 |
| 01 | 15 |
| 02 | 25 |
| 03 | 11 |
| 04 | 50 |
| 05 | 35 |
| 06 | 23 |
| 07 | 11 |
| 08 | |
| 09 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | 4 |
| 12 | 7 |
| 13 | 11 |
| 14 | 20 |
| 15 | 24 |
| 16 | 32 |
| 17 | 27 |
| 18 | 25 |
| 19 | 39 |
| 20 | 37 |
| 21 | 27 |
-----------------
| | 2025 |
ES9C - Continents
QSOs (with dupes)
| Band / Mode | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| 160 CW | 75.2% | 12.3% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 11.4% | 0.2% |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Worked DXCC
DXCC | CT | 160 | TOTAL
==========================
1A | EU | |
1S | AS | |
3A | EU | |
3B6 | AF | |
3B8 | AF | |
3B9 | AF | |
3C | AF | |
3C0 | AF | |
3D2 | OC | |
3D2/c | OC | |
3D2/r | OC | |
3DA | AF | |
3V | AF | |
3W | AS | |
3X | AF | |
3Y/b | AF | |
3Y/p | SA | |
4J | AS | |
4L | AS | 1 | 1
4O | EU | |
4S | AS | |
4U1I | EU | |
4U1U | NA | |
4U1V | EU | |
4W | OC | |
4X | AS | 4 | 4
5A | AF | |
5B | AS | 3 | 3
5H | AF | |
5N | AF | |
5R | AF | |
5T | AF | |
5U | AF | |
5V | AF | |
5W | OC | |
5X | AF | |
5Z | AF | |
6W | AF | 1 | 1
6Y | NA | |
7O | AS | |
7P | AF | |
7Q | AF | |
7X | AF | |
8P | NA | 1 | 1
8Q | AS | |
8R | SA | |
9A | EU | 18 | 18
9G | AF | |
9H | EU | |
9J | AF | |
9K | AS | |
9L | AF | |
9M2 | AS | |
9M6 | OC | |
9N | AS | |
9Q | AF | |
9U | AF | |
9V | AS | |
9X | AF | |
9Y | SA | |
A2 | AF | |
A3 | OC | |
A4 | AS | |
A5 | AS | |
A6 | AS | |
A7 | AS | 1 | 1
A9 | AS | |
AP | AS | |
BS7 | AS | |
BV | AS | |
BV9P | AS | |
BY | AS | 3 | 3
C2 | OC | |
C3 | EU | |
C5 | AF | |
C6 | NA | 2 | 2
C9 | AF | |
CE | SA | 1 | 1
CE0X | SA | |
CE0Y | SA | |
CE0Z | SA | |
CE9 | SA | |
CM | NA | |
CN | AF | 1 | 1
CP | SA | |
CT | EU | 3 | 3
CT3 | AF | 3 | 3
CU | EU | 2 | 2
CX | SA | |
CY0 | NA | |
CY9 | NA | |
D2 | AF | |
D4 | AF | |
D6 | AF | |
DL | EU | 245 | 245
DU | OC | |
E3 | AF | |
E4 | AS | |
E5/n | OC | |
E5/s | OC | |
E7 | EU | 7 | 7
EA | EU | 21 | 21
EA6 | EU | 1 | 1
EA8 | AF | 2 | 2
EA9 | AF | 1 | 1
EI | EU | 8 | 8
EK | AS | |
EL | AF | |
EP | AS | |
ER | EU | 9 | 9
ES | EU | 11 | 11
ET | AF | |
EU | EU | 27 | 27
EX | AS | 2 | 2
EY | AS | 1 | 1
EZ | AS | |
F | EU | 19 | 19
FG | NA | |
FH | AF | |
FJ | NA | |
FK | OC | 1 | 1
FK/c | OC | |
FM | NA | |
FO | OC | |
FO/a | OC | |
FO/c | NA | |
FO/m | OC | |
FP | NA | |
FR | AF | |
FR/g | AF | |
FR/j | AF | |
FR/t | AF | |
FS | NA | |
FT5W | AF | |
FT5X | AF | |
FT5Z | AF | |
FW | OC | |
FY | SA | |
G | EU | 66 | 66
GD | EU | 1 | 1
GI | EU | 2 | 2
GJ | EU | |
GM | EU | 9 | 9
GM/s | EU | |
GU | EU | 1 | 1
GW | EU | 5 | 5
H4 | OC | |
H40 | OC | |
HA | EU | 35 | 35
HB | EU | 6 | 6
HB0 | EU | 2 | 2
HC | SA | 1 | 1
HC8 | SA | |
HH | NA | |
HI | NA | |
HK | SA | |
HK0/a | NA | |
HK0/m | SA | |
HL | AS | |
HM | AS | |
HP | NA | |
HR | NA | |
HS | AS | 2 | 2
HV | EU | |
HZ | AS | |
I | EU | 51 | 51
IG9 | AF | |
IS | EU | 1 | 1
IT9 | EU | 3 | 3
J2 | AF | |
J3 | NA | |
J5 | AF | |
J6 | NA | |
J7 | NA | |
J8 | NA | |
JA | AS | 96 | 96
JD/m | OC | |
JD/o | AS | |
JT | AS | 1 | 1
JW | EU | |
JW/b | EU | |
JX | EU | |
JY | AS | |
KG4 | NA | |
KH0 | OC | |
KH1 | OC | |
KH2 | OC | |
KH3 | OC | |
KH4 | OC | |
KH5 | OC | |
KH5K | OC | |
KH6 | OC | 1 | 1
KH7K | OC | |
KH8 | OC | |
KH8/s | OC | |
KH9 | OC | |
KL | NA | 1 | 1
KP1 | NA | |
KP2 | NA | 4 | 4
KP4 | NA | 1 | 1
KP5 | NA | |
LA | EU | 21 | 21
LU | SA | |
LX | EU | 1 | 1
LY | EU | 43 | 43
LZ | EU | 10 | 10
OA | SA | |
OD | AS | |
OE | EU | 17 | 17
OH | EU | 35 | 35
OH0 | EU | 4 | 4
OJ0 | EU | |
OK | EU | 115 | 115
OM | EU | 38 | 38
ON | EU | 20 | 20
OX | NA | |
OY | EU | 1 | 1
OZ | EU | 15 | 15
P2 | OC | |
P4 | SA | 1 | 1
PA | EU | 41 | 41
PJ2 | SA | 1 | 1
PJ7 | NA | |
PY | SA | 4 | 4
PY0F | SA | 1 | 1
PY0S | SA | |
PY0T | SA | |
PZ | SA | |
R1FJ | EU | |
R1MV | EU | |
S0 | AF | |
S2 | AS | |
S5 | EU | 41 | 41
S7 | AF | |
S9 | AF | |
SM | EU | 46 | 46
SP | EU | 66 | 66
ST | AF | |
SU | AF | 1 | 1
SV | EU | 6 | 6
SV/a | EU | |
SV5 | EU | 1 | 1
SV9 | EU | 1 | 1
T2 | OC | |
T30 | OC | |
T31 | OC | |
T32 | OC | |
T33 | OC | |
T5 | AF | |
T7 | EU | 1 | 1
T8 | OC | |
TA | AS | 1 | 1
TA1 | EU | |
TF | EU | 4 | 4
TG | NA | |
TI | NA | |
TI9 | NA | |
TJ | AF | |
TK | EU | 1 | 1
TL | AF | |
TN | AF | |
TR | AF | |
TT | AF | |
TU | AF | |
TY | AF | |
TZ | AF | |
UA | EU | 207 | 207
UA2 | EU | 5 | 5
UA9 | AS | 95 | 95
UK | AS | 2 | 2
UN | AS | 14 | 14
UR | EU | 155 | 155
V2 | NA | |
V3 | NA | 1 | 1
V4 | NA | |
V5 | AF | |
V6 | OC | |
V7 | OC | |
V8 | OC | |
VK | OC | 1 | 1
VK0H | AF | |
VK0M | OC | |
VK9C | OC | |
VK9L | OC | |
VK9M | OC | |
VK9N | OC | |
VK9W | OC | |
VK9X | OC | |
VP2E | NA | |
VP2M | NA | |
VP2V | NA | |
VP5 | NA | |
VP6 | OC | |
VP6/d | OC | |
VP8 | SA | |
VP8/g | SA | |
VP8/h | SA | |
VP8/o | SA | |
VP8/s | SA | |
VP9 | NA | 1 | 1
VQ9 | AF | |
VR | AS | 2 | 2
VU | AS | |
VU4 | AS | |
VU7 | AS | |
XE | NA | 1 | 1
XF4 | NA | |
XT | AF | |
XU | AS | 1 | 1
XW | AS | |
XX9 | AS | |
XZ | AS | |
YA | AS | |
YB | OC | 1 | 1
YI | AS | |
YJ | OC | |
YK | AS | |
YL | EU | 11 | 11
YN | NA | |
YO | EU | 36 | 36
YS | NA | |
YU | EU | 18 | 18
YU8 | EU | |
YV | SA | 1 | 1
YV0 | NA | |
Z2 | AF | |
Z3 | EU | 1 | 1
ZA | EU | |
ZB | EU | |
ZC4 | AS | 1 | 1
ZD7 | AF | |
ZD8 | AF | |
ZD9 | AF | |
ZF | NA | 1 | 1
ZK2 | OC | |
ZK3 | OC | |
ZL | OC | |
ZL7 | OC | |
ZL8 | OC | |
ZL9 | OC | |
ZP | SA | |
ZS | AF | |
ZS8 | AF | |
==========================
| | 1780 | 1780
Worked States/Provinces
| 160 | TOTAL
====================
CT | 5 | 5
MA | 14 | 14
ME | 9 | 9
NH | 9 | 9
RI | 1 | 1
VT | 2 | 2
NJ | 9 | 9
NY | 17 | 17
DE | 1 | 1
PA | 14 | 14
MD | 7 | 7
DC | 1 | 1
AL | 3 | 3
FL | 11 | 11
GA | 5 | 5
KY | 1 | 1
NC | 4 | 4
SC | 3 | 3
TN | 4 | 4
VA | 13 | 13
AR | |
LA | |
MS | |
NM | 2 | 2
OK | 1 | 1
TX | 3 | 3
CA | 7 | 7
AZ | 6 | 6
ID | 1 | 1
MT | 1 | 1
NV | 1 | 1
OR | 3 | 3
UT | 1 | 1
WA | 1 | 1
WY | 1 | 1
MI | 7 | 7
OH | 9 | 9
WV | 1 | 1
IL | 4 | 4
IN | 3 | 3
WI | 4 | 4
CO | 6 | 6
IA | 1 | 1
KS | |
MN | 5 | 5
MO | 1 | 1
ND | |
NE | 1 | 1
SD | |
NB | 2 | 2
NS | 2 | 2
NF | 1 | 1
PEI | 1 | 1
LB | |
QC | 2 | 2
ON | 11 | 11
MB | |
SK | 1 | 1
AB | 3 | 3
BC | 3 | 3
NT | |
YT | |
NU | |
====================
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Spot statistics using all the spots in the contest:
I took all the 160m spots from the contest (from DX Summit) and found out CQ
periods of ES9C and SJ2W based on spots (spot sequences on one frequency with
200hz accuracy). Now I found the number of spots in the database from those
periods +/- 1KHz from the CQ frequency (spots on SJ2W and ES9C respectively
were eliminated of course) and divided the number of spots with the number of
minutes in that CQ period to find spots per minute.
The results are very interesting. So here are tables for spots per minute +/-
1KHz from SJ2W and ES9C CQ frequency. I am happy to provide xls calculation for
anyone interested.
SJ2W
FREQ START END DATE MIN SPOTS PER MINUTE
1819.4 2217 2257 29 41 4 0.098
1831.6 28 454 30 267 65 0.243
1812 1425 1759 30 215 46 0.214
1812 1857 2131 30 155 45 0.290
1814.3 401 421 31 21 7 0.333
1843.8 535 726 31 112 11 0.098
1821 1610 1712 31 63 10 0.159
1818 1732 1849 31 78 9 0.115
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE: 0.207
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE IN CW BAND (1810-40): 0.221
ES9C
FREQ START END DATE MIN SPOTS PER MINUTE
1814.2 2314 744 29-30 511 92 0.180
1817.8 1241 1359 30 79 15 0.190
1815.7 1605 2130 30 326 82 0.252
1841.3 2241 9 30-31 89 15 0.169
1866 415 710 31 176 21 0.119
1816.2 1530 1610 31 41 12 0.293
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE: 0.194
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE IN CW BAND (1810-40): 0.210
So 2 stations have practically identical statistics. ES9C has as many spots
around him as SJ2W.
What is the average for all frequencies in the contest? That is easy to find
out. Take all the spots submitted in given frequency segment and divide by the
number of minutes (2880 in 48 hours). Then divide by the number of KHz and
multiply by 2 to get spots in 2 KHz segment on average. Here are the averages
of segments:
SEGMENT SPOTS PER MINUTE PER 2 KHz
1810..25 4444 0.206
1825..40 3516 0.163
1840..50 1767 0.123
1850..60 1205 0.084
1860..70 959 0.067
1870..100 1019 0.024
TOTAL 12910 0.100
TOTAL CW 7960 0.184
CW band is most representative as that is where most of the action takes place
and most of the spots are.
General overall average number of +/- 1KHz spots per minute for any given
frequency from 1810-1840 is 0.184!
Now, operating in 1810-1840 segment SJ2W has 0.26, ES9C has 0.275 spots per
minute on average in their 2 KHz band! Those figures now include spots on SJ2W
and ES9C as well to make them comparable to general statistics. Both have
noticeably over average! ES9C CQ frequencies +/- 1 KHz are more populated with
spots than SJ2W! Even without taking own spots into account both exceed the
average: SJ2W 0.221 and ES9C 0.21!
In the whole contest ES9C was operating from 1810 to 1870 segment. Segment
average is 0.138 spots per minute. ES9C average is 0.232 spots per minute
including own spots (0.194 when excluding own spots). Noticeably higher.
Now with EU spots only:
SJ2W
FREQ START END DATE MIN SPOTS PER MINUTE
1819.4 2217 2257 29 41 4 0.098
1831.6 28 454 30 267 38 0.142
1812 1425 1759 30 215 27 0.126
1812 1857 2131 30 155 26 0.168
1814.3 401 421 31 21 1 0.048
1843.8 535 726 31 112 2 0.018
1821 1610 1712 31 63 3 0.048
1818 1732 1849 31 78 5 0.064
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE: 0.111
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE IN CW BAND (1810-40): 0.124
ES9C
FREQ START END DATE MIN SPOTS PER MINUTE
1814.2 2314 744 29-30 511 33 0.065
1817.8 1241 1359 30 79 4 0.051
1815.7 1605 2130 30 326 52 0.160
1841.3 2241 9 30-31 89 7 0.079
1866 415 710 31 176 5 0.028
1816.2 1530 1610 31 41 9 0.220
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE: 0.09
TOTAL SPOTS PER MINUTE IN CW BAND (1810-40): 0.102
Here are the averages of segments:
SEGMENT SPOTS PER MINUTE PER 2 KHz
1810..25 2100 0.097
1825..40 1786 0.083
1840..50 911 0.063
1850..60 605 0.042
1860..70 546 0.038
1870..100 634 0.015
TOTAL 6582 0.051
TOTAL CW 3886 0.090
General overall average number of +/- 1KHz spots per minute for any given
frequency from 1810-1840 is 0.090!
Operating in 1810-1840 segment SJ2W has 0.162, ES9C has 0.150 spots per minute
on average in their 2 KHz band. Those figures now include spots on SJ2W and
ES9C as well to make them comparable to general statistics. Even without own
spots both exceed average: SJ2W 0.124 and ES9C 0.102.
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