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Subject: [3830] CQ160 CW ES9C(@ES5TV) Multi-Op HP
From: webform@b41h.net
Reply-to: tonno.vahk@gildbankers.com
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:17:39 -0800
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                    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   |      |
====================
     |  229 |   229

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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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