CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: NH2T
Operator(s): N2NL
Station: N2NL
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Guam
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
------------------------------
160: 149 18 20
80: 331 25 49
40: 1816 34 94
20: 953 37 94
15: 1355 35 96
10: 1732 34 86
------------------------------
Total: 6336 183 439 Total Score = 11,658,768
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Elecraft K3+AL1200 and Kenwood TS930+SB1000
Spiderbeam @ 40ft
40m vertical (1/4l)
80/160m top loaded vertical (60ft tall)
Fan dipole (10/15/20m)
4 Beverage RX antennas (four directions, 700-1100ft long, hidden in the
jungle)
More info at www.n2nl.net
I made lots of small changes to try to improve on last year's effort that
fell just short of the Oceania SOAB record. I was greatly able to improve
isolation for SO2R with the addition of a home built 6x2 switch (SM2WMV design)
and a simple fan dipole placed away from the Spiderbeam that worked very well
considering what it was. The station is the most I can get away with living in
a military housing area, and I've pushed the limit just to get this much stuff
up.
After sleeping four hours last year, and potentially missing the record
because of it, I operated the full 48 hours. I was away from my headphones on
three short occasions (one CQ worth of time at most) to empty the Gator-aid
bottle :) - I had no real issues with fatigue and small exercises while
operating helped, as did a large exercise ball I used as a seat for some of the
time. I was tired this morning and stumbled a couple times while sending CW
manually but no hallucinations. I felt good enough at the end to make a short
visit to the operators of AH2R with KG6DX before taking a post contest nap.
I never imagined being able to make 6000+ CW QSOs in a contest from
anywhere, especially from here this far from NA and EU. Many thanks to 10
meters and 40 meters for providing the propagation. When one band took a rest,
the other stepped up to take over. I was really amazed at the huge activity
from zone 16 - I have never worked so many UA's, EW's, UR's ETC. More than
1000 QSOs were with UA, UA9, and UR only. 40m stayed open throughout the night
and I had some of my best hours when last year I could work nothing - this
helped also for me to stay awake.
The packet pileups were very bad on the receiving side. Twice I had to go
split (both times for NA surprisingly) because no one could hear me. I love my
K3 and it is a great rig but there were times when the pileup reached saturation
and even riding the RF gain would not help separate zero beat callers. Spread
out! It is impossible to hear a call when everyone sends the same speed and is
the same strength on the same frequency. One EU packet pileup was so bad that I
QSYed to move Saty 9M6NA to 160m - when I returned they were still calling and
had no idea I had left.
I enjoy operating assisted and the race to the next pileup - but unassisted
is just as fun because you never know what you will tune across, and usually
can find multipliers out of synch with the packet pileups so they are easy to
work. Often I'd tune past them again later to hear them getting mobbed by
callers.
I am fortunate to have a short call sign but I always sign after *every*
QSO. I don't feel right just saying "TU" during a contest. I am afraid I will
forget to sign if I do that, and my luck is that someone always will go "CL?"
covering a caller if I didn't sign, even once. A couple times I tuned past
stations sending only "TU" - after a couple QSOs I just moved on - granted
there are many KH2s QRV but maybe they lost a multiplier because they did not
sign. I fully understand not signing every time, but if you go more than a
minute without signing (enough for several QSOs), I personally feel that it
reflects badly on your operating style and ability.
I called CQ 100% of the time and used the 2nd radio to S&P. The rate was
very high so I only could use the 2nd radio to call multipliers because I did
not want to risk breaking my rhythm.
It was a pleasure to operate on the bands alongside the other Oceania
participants! There are such huge distances out here that it is impossible to
compare scores to skills - KH6 is 4,000 miles east and gets little EU and 9M6
is 2,000 miles west and gets shorter NA openings. VK and ZL are south of the
equator and have completely different propagation and QRN challenges during
their summer. I would like to single out the team of AH2R, who had to build
and put up all antennas Friday afternoon, finishing construction at 2359z, then
take everything down as soon as the contest is over. I feel bad beating them
up; but they had some problems this weekend. Their location is great for TX
but is also very noisy for RX - I am very fortunate to be in a very quiet
location with no local noise. The AH2R crew does very well from their
location, year after year, and has given all of us many multipliers in the CQWW
contests.
Thanks also to Saty san, JE1JKL @ 9M6NA, who was a competitor when I was
here the last time in 1998-2000. It is great that is was back for this
contest. I do not know how well he did, but he sounded great every time I
tuned across him. Every time I got lazy with SO2R I would remind myself of him
and push to work harder - I know he was also trying to break the Oceania SOAB
record this weekend.
73, Dave KH2/N2NL
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 1 195 4 200 200 3.2
0100 0 0 0 36 144 0 180 380 6.0
0200 0 0 0 86 3 100 189 569 9.0
0300 0 0 0 4 19 135 158 727 11.5
0400 0 0 0 4 0 170 174 901 14.2
0500 0 0 0 2 48 103 153 1054 16.6
0600 0 0 0 0 24 118 142 1196 18.9
0700 0 0 0 54 7 57 118 1314 20.7
0800 0 0 12 55 76 0 143 1457 23.0
0900 0 0 66 0 12 72 150 1607 25.4
1000 0 0 184 0 0 0 184 1791 28.3
1100 58 67 13 0 0 1 139 1930 30.5
1200 27 114 0 0 0 1 142 2072 32.7
1300 0 6 163 3 3 0 175 2247 35.5
1400 20 0 123 2 0 0 145 2392 37.8
1500 7 55 24 1 0 6 93 2485 39.2
1600 0 0 142 2 0 2 146 2631 41.5
1700 6 2 76 3 1 0 88 2719 42.9
1800 0 0 142 0 0 0 142 2861 45.2
1900 6 29 59 0 0 0 94 2955 46.6
2000 15 4 15 10 0 37 81 3036 47.9
2100 0 0 0 0 0 184 184 3220 50.8
2200 0 0 0 0 0 200 200 3420 54.0
2300 0 0 0 0 65 120 185 3605 56.9
0000 0 0 0 62 91 0 153 3758 59.3
0100 0 0 0 93 47 15 155 3913 61.8
0200 0 0 0 24 0 70 94 4007 63.2
0300 0 0 0 50 13 38 101 4108 64.8
0400 0 0 0 44 24 11 79 4187 66.1
0500 0 0 0 0 4 141 145 4332 68.4
0600 0 0 0 0 93 51 144 4476 70.6
0700 0 0 0 73 63 2 138 4614 72.8
0800 0 2 7 0 23 40 72 4686 74.0
0900 1 1 58 23 18 0 101 4787 75.6
1000 0 14 24 68 0 0 106 4893 77.2
1100 0 0 0 162 0 0 162 5055 79.8
1200 3 28 45 7 0 0 83 5138 81.1
1300 0 0 141 0 0 0 141 5279 83.3
1400 3 1 83 0 1 0 88 5367 84.7
1500 2 0 91 0 0 0 93 5460 86.2
1600 0 0 72 11 0 0 83 5543 87.5
1700 1 1 115 0 0 0 117 5660 89.3
1800 0 0 106 0 0 0 106 5766 91.0
1900 0 7 54 0 0 0 61 5827 92.0
2000 0 0 1 0 73 3 77 5904 93.2
2100 0 0 0 0 185 0 185 6089 96.1
2200 0 0 0 6 103 27 136 6225 98.2
2300 0 0 0 66 20 24 110 6335 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 149 331 1816 953 1355 1732 6336
Gross QSOs=6462 Dupes=126 Net QSOs=6336
Unique callsigns worked = 4307
The best 60 minute rate was 201/hour from 0001 to 0100
The best 30 minute rate was 210/hour from 0002 to 0031
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 0013 to 0022
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 1 times.
5 QSOs/minute 31 times.
4 QSOs/minute 398 times.
3 QSOs/minute 852 times.
2 QSOs/minute 790 times.
1 QSOs/minute 446 times.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 24 141 462 314 751 581 2273 35.9
South America 0 3 10 10 21 33 77 1.2
Europe 22 54 854 302 248 426 1906 30.1
Asia 93 121 458 300 305 644 1921 30.3
Africa 0 1 7 9 7 8 32 0.5
Oceania 10 11 25 18 23 40 127 2.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 149 331 1816 953 1355 1732 6336
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|