ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: South Texas
Operating Time (hrs): ~15
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 413
20: 894
15: 93
10: 85
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Total: 1485 Sections = 80 Total Score = 237,600
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
As always I really look forward to the ARRL SS SSB contest each year.
This is my 33rd time to operate the fone SS.
http://www.k5tr.net/ssb-ss.html
But this year I was a bit worried in the days before the contest as my
voice was not doing so well - and I was not sure that I would be able
to make it work for the entire contest.
On the Friday before the contest the decision was made to put up some new
antennas
that I have been working on and it just happened that everything fell into
place and so I ended up spending all day working on the antenna install. I
don't think yelling
from the top of the tower not to mention spending the day in a cool wind
helped my throat. But I now have a full sized 4 ele 40 meter OWA yagi up
in the air - so I hope in the longer term it will have been worth it.
As it turned out my voice was in very bad shape before the contest started.
Because my voice was not very strong I was not very aggressive and ended up
starting on 20 meters when I should have been on 15 but I had this great
frequency on 20 and it never got bad so I just stayed. At one point I did
go looking for a 15 meter frequency but then the rate would sort of pick up
and I was not finding much room on 15. As a result my first two hours
were not as good as they should have been. My second hour was really poor.
So I sounded bad from the start and while it did have it's ups and downs
I finally could no longer work people at about 04z. Form that point on
I just kind of worked what I could when I could start talking at midday
Sunday and I did some things that I would not have done if I were trying
for a bigger score. I ran some folks on 40 meters (new antenna) in the middle
of the day. I went to 40 way too early and stuck it out to the end on 40
meters
because after the months of building this beast I wanted to use it.
You can see it here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4c_Eb43CIYbe5IqS8Yneww?feat=directlink
I will be adding more photos as soon as I can get to it so check back in a week
or so.
Congrats to all the great scores.
Nice to see N9RV doing the fone SS and doing well.
Despite the disappointment of not being able to put in a full effort I still
had fun when I could talk and run folks. It was also fun to listen around
to others when I was not able to run - this is something that I usually do not
get a chance to do except for the second radio - so it was different.
If all goes well the 40 meter yagi will get a workout in the CQ WW CW contest.
There is also a new 6 ele 10 meter yagi above the new 40. Still need to get
it hooked up but maybe it will get some use in the ARRL 10 meter contest.
Station:
http://www.k5tr.net/
2x Elecraft K3 radios (tnx k5ot)
2x AL-1500 amps
160 - 1/4 wave sloping verticals sloped east and west
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'.
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
40 - 4 element yagi at 120'
- Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87'
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
20 - 6 element yagi at 80' fixed NE
- 6 element yagi at 80'
- 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW
- 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE
15 - 6 element yagi at 70'
- 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE
- 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE
10 - 6 element yagi at 60'
- 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE
- 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g)
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: K5TR
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH SSB
OPERATORS: K5TR
-------------- 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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2100 0 0 0 128 2 0 130 130 8.8
2200 0 0 0 106 1 0 107 237 16.0
2300 0 0 0 146 0 0 146 383 25.8
0000 0 0 0 155 0 0 155 538 36.2
0100 0 0 0 145 0 0 145 683 46.0
0200 0 0 1 106 0 0 107 790 53.2
0300 0 0 0 79 0 0 79 869 58.5
0400 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 879 59.2
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2
1100 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 881 59.3
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 881 59.3
1300 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 882 59.4
1400 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 890 59.9
1500 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 900 60.6
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 60.6
1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 60.6
1800 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 909 61.2
1900 0 0 0 2 8 9 19 928 62.5
2000 0 0 16 0 0 53 69 997 67.1
2100 0 0 0 9 40 14 63 1060 71.4
2200 0 0 31 0 41 0 72 1132 76.2
2300 0 0 93 0 0 0 93 1225 82.5
0000 0 0 73 0 0 0 73 1298 87.4
0100 0 0 101 0 0 0 101 1399 94.2
0200 0 0 86 0 0 0 86 1485 100.0
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Total 0 0 413 894 93 85 1485
Gross QSOs=1492 Dupes=7 Net QSOs=1485
Unique callsigns worked = 1485
The best 60 minute rate was 161/hour from 0009 to 0108
The best 30 minute rate was 168/hour from 0005 to 0034
The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 0011 to 0020
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSOs/minute 32 times.
3 QSOs/minute 179 times.
2 QSOs/minute 272 times.
1 QSOs/minute 276 times.
There were 21 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 3
4 686
5 576
6 217
8 1
9 2
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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Il 0 0 22 49 3 0 74 5.0
Va 0 0 18 39 2 6 65 4.4
Mdc 0 0 11 43 3 4 61 4.1
Mi 0 0 13 35 3 4 55 3.7
Oh 0 0 25 19 4 5 53 3.6
Mn 0 0 18 27 4 0 49 3.3
Az 0 0 7 28 3 0 38 2.6
Co 0 0 6 32 0 0 38 2.6
Nc 0 0 9 25 3 0 37 2.5
Wi 0 0 9 21 3 2 35 2.4
Scv 0 0 4 19 1 9 33 2.2
Tn 0 0 13 16 3 0 32 2.2
WWa 0 0 8 22 1 1 32 2.2
Mo 0 0 6 23 1 1 31 2.1
Or 0 0 8 17 3 0 28 1.9
EMa 0 0 8 14 1 4 27 1.8
EPa 0 0 11 11 1 3 26 1.8
ENy 0 0 8 10 2 5 25 1.7
Ga 0 0 11 10 2 0 23 1.5
Eb 0 0 5 18 0 0 23 1.5
In 0 0 7 13 2 1 23 1.5
On 0 0 4 16 1 1 22 1.5
Nh 0 0 6 13 2 1 22 1.5
Sv 0 0 6 14 0 2 22 1.5
STx 0 0 12 6 0 4 22 1.5
Ks 0 0 7 13 0 0 20 1.3
WPa 0 0 6 9 4 0 19 1.3
WNy 0 0 4 13 1 1 19 1.3
NTx 0 0 15 3 0 1 19 1.3
Ky 0 0 5 12 2 0 19 1.3
Ct 0 0 4 13 1 1 19 1.3
Lax 0 0 5 9 5 0 19 1.3
Nm 0 0 1 17 0 0 18 1.2
SNj 0 0 5 11 1 0 17 1.1
Org 0 0 5 12 0 0 17 1.1
SFl 0 0 9 4 2 0 15 1.0
Ia 0 0 2 10 1 2 15 1.0
NLi 0 0 5 8 1 1 15 1.0
Al 0 0 6 9 0 0 15 1.0
Me 0 0 3 7 2 2 14 0.9
NNj 0 0 3 9 0 2 14 0.9
WcF 0 0 6 3 4 1 14 0.9
Wy 0 0 3 9 1 1 14 0.9
Sc 0 0 4 6 3 0 13 0.9
WMa 0 0 2 8 3 0 13 0.9
Ut 0 0 1 10 2 0 13 0.9
Sf 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 0.9
Sdg 0 0 2 10 1 0 13 0.9
Bc 0 0 3 6 1 2 12 0.8
NFl 0 0 7 2 2 1 12 0.8
Nv 0 0 0 8 0 3 11 0.7
Ok 0 0 3 6 0 1 10 0.7
EWa 0 0 0 8 1 1 10 0.7
Sjv 0 0 2 6 1 1 10 0.7
Ak 0 0 0 8 1 1 10 0.7
Ar 0 0 3 6 1 0 10 0.7
Ms 0 0 1 8 0 0 9 0.6
Sd 0 0 3 5 1 0 9 0.6
Ab 0 0 4 4 0 1 9 0.6
Wv 0 0 5 4 0 0 9 0.6
Pac 0 0 0 7 1 1 9 0.6
La 0 0 3 5 0 0 8 0.5
Id 0 0 1 6 0 1 8 0.5
Qc 0 0 2 5 0 0 7 0.5
NNy 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 0.5
Ne 0 0 3 4 0 0 7 0.5
Vt 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4
Mar 0 0 2 4 0 0 6 0.4
De 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 0.3
Sb 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.3
Mb 0 0 2 2 0 1 5 0.3
Mt 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 0.3
Sk 0 0 2 1 0 2 5 0.3
WTx 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3
Nt 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2
Nd 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2
Pr 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
Nl 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
Ri 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
WWa 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
Vi 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
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Total 0 0 413 894 93 85 1485
Sweepstakes Checks
Check QSOs Pct
----------------------
00 20 1.3
01 12 0.8
02 14 0.9
03 20 1.3
04 11 0.7
05 19 1.3
06 23 1.5
07 28 1.9
08 26 1.8
09 32 2.2
10 28 1.9
11 11 0.7
12 2 0.1
13 1 0.1
14 0 0.0
15 0 0.0
16 2 0.1
17 0 0.0
18 0 0.0
19 0 0.0
20 0 0.0
21 0 0.0
22 2 0.1
23 0 0.0
24 1 0.1
25 0 0.0
26 0 0.0
27 1 0.1
28 0 0.0
29 0 0.0
30 0 0.0
31 1 0.1
32 1 0.1
33 1 0.1
34 0 0.0
35 1 0.1
36 0 0.0
37 0 0.0
38 0 0.0
39 1 0.1
40 0 0.0
41 0 0.0
42 0 0.0
43 0 0.0
44 0 0.0
45 1 0.1
46 1 0.1
47 5 0.3
48 1 0.1
49 6 0.4
50 1 0.1
51 4 0.3
52 9 0.6
53 15 1.0
54 23 1.5
55 28 1.9
56 18 1.2
57 28 1.9
58 32 2.2
59 47 3.2
60 32 2.2
61 29 2.0
62 30 2.0
63 39 2.6
64 25 1.7
65 28 1.9
66 20 1.3
67 37 2.5
68 27 1.8
69 36 2.4
70 26 1.8
71 30 2.0
72 30 2.0
73 25 1.7
74 19 1.3
75 30 2.0
76 55 3.7
77 55 3.7
78 33 2.2
79 31 2.1
80 20 1.3
81 16 1.1
82 14 0.9
83 15 1.0
84 14 0.9
85 11 0.7
86 22 1.5
87 15 1.0
88 12 0.8
89 26 1.8
90 21 1.4
91 27 1.8
92 26 1.8
93 32 2.2
94 27 1.8
95 16 1.1
96 17 1.1
97 13 0.9
98 14 0.9
99 13 0.9
U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
--------------------
0 174 11.7
1 120 8.1
2 129 8.7
3 118 7.9
4 197 13.3
5 95 6.4
6 164 11.0
7 152 10.2
8 129 8.7
9 136 9.2
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Total 1414 95.2
Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent QSOs Pct
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A 767 51.6
B 269 18.1
Q 50 3.4
M 105 7.1
U 285 19.2
S 9 0.6
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