CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ/9
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 42.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 62 13 34
80: 136 23 63
40: 297 28 85
20: 356 30 93
15: 644 31 102
10: 250 25 75
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Total: 1745 150 452 Total Score = 2,984,114
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
CQ-WW-CW SUMMARY SHEET
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
START DATE: 24-11-12
CALLSIGN USED: N4TZ
LOCATOR: EN70
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CLUB: Society of Midwest Contesters
NAME: Terry Zivney
ADDRESS: 8843 W County Road 950 N
ADDRESS-CITY: Middletown
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: IN
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 47356
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: N4TZ@ARRL.NET
OPERATING TIME: 42:34:52
CQ COUNTER: 2660
RUN/SEARCH: 553/1217 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 1147
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
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160CW 62 62 151 34 13
80CW 138 136 376 63 23
40CW 298 297 842 85 28
20CW 361 356 1013 93 30
15CW 660 644 1874 102 31
10CW 251 250 701 75 25
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Totals 1770 1745 4957 452 150
Final Score = 2984114 points.
2012 CQ-WW-CW N4TZ
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 1 1 2 3 3 3 13
Canada calls = 21 15 19 20 26 14 115
NA calls = 11 14 24 27 24 26 126
SA calls = 5 8 15 30 29 42 129
Euro calls = 17 74 192 227 457 140 1107
African calls = 3 9 11 13 17 14 67
Asian calls = 1 4 8 12 10 0 35
Japan calls = 0 8 20 23 82 6 139
Ocean calls = 3 5 7 6 12 6 39
Total calls = 62 138 298 361 660 251 1770
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I have been having a long-running battle with my prop pitch
rotor. Most recently, during the CQWW SSB contest it lost
calibration sometime and was 90 degrees off by the end of
the contest! I spent quite a bit of time since then trying
to find out what the problem was. Some days I could run
the antennas back and forth dozens of times and never drop
a degtee. Other times, it would lose or add 15 degrees on
a single rotation of 180 degrees! The past two weeks I
had it hooked up to a dual-channel oscilloscope to monitor
both the motor drive pulses and the reed relay sensing
pulses. There was no indication of cross-talk, and the
reed relay line looked very clean. During this extended
time period there was no loss of calibration. So, the
Wednesday before the contest I disconnected the scope
to clean up the desk for the contest. During the Thursday
pre-contest checkout I found that the rotor was losing
calibration again. Out came the scope - nothing found,
but the rotor seemed ok again. I must have turned the
rotor 100 times Friday and had no problems.
So, I left the scope connected the entire contest and
after 48 hours the antenna still pointed in the correct
direction.
Also, last year everytime the temperature dropped below
the freezing point, the motor would not turn. I have
installed a heater Kluge on the motor and that fixed
it last winter. However, I had rolled up the 500 foot
long wires to the shack during the summer so I could
mow. Thursday I ran the wires back to the shack,
just in case. Never had to turn on the heater power,
even though the temperature dropped to 20 degrees F
Saturday morning.
So all the hardware worked for the entire contest.
Conditions weren't quite so accomodating. Only worked
a few Germans and one Swede on 10m - nothing further
east. My CQs on 10 on both Saturday and Sunday
were mostly answered by G's and EA's. Sure had
my hopes up after hearing lots of Mideast and
South Asian stations on 10 just a few days earlier.
Very little luck CQing on 40 the first two nights,
either.
Using the Reverse Beacon lookup today I find that
very few of my thousands of CQs were picked up by
the big-time EU skimmers on 10, even during time
periods when N5AW, N1UR and W3EF were spotted with
decent signal levels (about on a level with WB9Z,
who has at least 12dB on me; W9RE was often
weaker on 10 than Jerry). I tried splitting
my antennas to 45/90/135 instead of all 3 pointing
NE but that didn't seem to help any - slow going
in both cases.
Had a problem with my SE 160m semi-vertical wire -
my 160 wires are suspended from a long continuous
loop of rope running thru pulleys at the top of
the tower down to anchor points in the field, like
the old-fashioned apartment clothsline. There
was a lot of wind this weekend and Monday I found
that the SE wire had move down about 3 feet, so that
the bottom of the antenna wire was laying on the
radial field. During the contest I found the SWR
to be very high on that antenna and it was more
difficult to work stations in that direction
compared to normal.
Had a high number of 6 band contacts this time out
9A1A, C5A, C6AQQ, CR2X, D4C, DR1A, HK1NA, KH6LC,
KH7X, KP2M, PJ2T, PJ4A, VE2EKA, VE7FO, VE7GL,
VP5CW, and VY2Tt. Heard EL2A on 160 the first
night but considerably weaker than C5A and D4C.
And doesn't HK1NA have a big signal!
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