CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 40.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 67 11 34
80: 120 20 64
40: 316 27 77
20: 407 35 110
15: 559 32 108
10: 593 32 111
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Total: 2062 157 504 Total Score = 3,895,934
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
CQ-WW-CW SUMMARY SHEET
OPERATING TIME: 40:28:08
CQ COUNTER: 2086
RUN/SEARCH: 825/1251 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 1397
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
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160CW 68 67 160 34 11
80CW 121 120 320 64 20
40CW 320 316 913 77 27
20CW 409 407 1154 110 35
15CW 561 559 1619 108 32
10CW 597 593 1728 111 32
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Totals 2076 2062 5894 504 157
Final Score = 3895934 points.
2014 CQ-WW-CW N4TZ
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 1 1 2 5 5 3 17
Canada calls = 21 18 14 22 15 14 104
NA calls = 17 19 15 31 28 28 138
SA calls = 8 9 7 27 31 35 117
Euro calls = 19 64 255 252 412 453 1455
African calls = 2 4 8 16 13 16 59
Asian calls = 0 1 11 34 17 10 73
Japan calls = 0 2 4 16 29 22 73
Ocean calls = 0 3 4 6 11 16 40
Total calls = 68 121 320 409 561 597 2076
I'm reminded of the story about John D. Rockefeller, who used
to visit African-American churches on his travels. One Sunday,
after the collection plate made its way around the building,
the preacher announced "Today's collection is $3.42. If the
bill from the gentleman sitting in the back of the church
is good, then the collection is $103.42." ... While calling
CQ high in the band Sunday afternoon, I was answered by a
station signing VU4KV, which would be an all time new one.
Even if the QSO turns out to have been with Andaman Slim,
there certainly was a lot of good DX being worked this past
weekend.
I've been busy out-of-town recently helping my father move
into assisted living. So, I didn't have much time before
the contest to get fully acquainted with my new second radio,
a Tec-Tec Eagle. I just installed N4PY software to enable
the Eagle to be used with a remote tuning knob. Everything
seemed to be working of the first 24 hours, although I
noticed that occasionally the automatic band decoding
from the computer had the antennas on the wrong radios when
I switched bands. I took a couple hours off the second nigh
to sleep and decided to power down the station. Big mistake!
The rigs and N4PY need to be powered on / loaded in a
particular sequence and I didn't take time to do the
sequencing - just turned all the switched on. As a result,
the automatic computerized band switching led to both
rigs being on the same antenna and the new Eagle bit the
dust! I spent some time off-and-on trying to trouble shoot
it, no luck. I removed it, and replaced it with the old
second Orion, which has had some transmitting issues. Now,
the logging program kept crashing on loading because it
couldn't find the right ports. I finally reinstalled
TR4W to obtain a working, but incomplete INI file and then
used it as a guide to patch the complete, but now disfunctional
INI file for the contest.
The second day I spent using the second Orion to spot stations
on a second band and writing down the frequency to await
an opportune time to switch bands and hope the needed stations
were still there. Had some success with that process, but
not as much fun as true second-radio interleaving of QSOs.
The second morning there was some deliberate QRM again on
ten meters. In the SSB contest, over 50kHz was wiped out
by a digital source for a few hours. This CW contest,
I encountered a similar broadband mess above 2l8125
when I went to 10m at 1414z.
160 was really quiet when I went there at 0245z the second
night - was nice to work Europeans on the first call with
100w. When I came back at 0345z, the signals were not
as good, and I didn't hear any great signals from Europe
at their sunrise, so I went to bed. Refer back to see what
happened when I got up. If only 160 had stayed full of
signals!
I had twelve 6 banders, and my best hour on 15 was 145.
All of my antennas and rotors seemed to work ok this time
around. Hopefully the repairs to the new radio won't take
too long. I (we) keep expecting conditions to take a big
down turn, but maybe we can keep things going 'just a little
bit longer.'
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