CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: OH0X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH0X
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Brando
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 336 12 53
80: 972 23 84
40: 1339 35 105
20: 1914 37 118
15: 1614 35 101
10: 185 29 79
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Total: 6360 171 540 Total Score = 8,935,848
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
And so another edition of my favorite contest is in the books. We only have
about 6.5 hours of daylight in southern OH/OH0 at this time of the year (SR
~07z, SS ~13:30z), so there's not much to look at through the windows when
working CQWW CW and darkness-induced fatigue awaits around every corner. But
fortunately the bands were quite hot!
Propagation towards Asia and the East in general was not so good from up here,
but North America was very good, particularly on 80m-15m. On Sunday morning
there was a nice grayline opening on 160m, way better than Saturday. Both 20m
and 15m seemed to die quite early both days (especially on Sunday when the 18z
hour was a disaster, it seemed also 40m was hopeless to anywhere from here),
only to come back to life with solid NA openings later on. That phenomenon is
pretty much the only hope we can sporadically cling to here in the
propagation-poor North at >60N...! Saturday evening's opening around 21z
resulted in my personal best CW QSO rate of 237/hour (dupes included).
I think both CQWW CW and SSB have shown that 10m is kissing us good-bye for a
few years. The "regular" openings on 15m/20m also seem to be getting
shorter and spottier. Some 10m DX openings were there but on CW it was not
really runnable from up here. Fortunately I managed to collect a decent
multiplier count in any case. The highlight was a spotty but lengthy opening to
zones 3 and 4 around 20z-23z on Sunday evening. Heard N2IC there on Saturday
evening when he replied to somebody, but couldn't catch him.
The weather here in the northeastern Åland Islands was stormy and rainy all
weekend. I had trouble sleeping before the contest, as the wind makes loud
whistling noises particularly due to the nearby yagis and our cottage is not
exactly soundproof. So in desperation I tried sleeping with my Bose
noise-cancelling headphones on, which worked so-so at times and I got some 4-5
hours of rest :)
I worked for 48 hours straight, only getting up from the chair occasionally to
stretch or to heed nature's call. I had some serious trouble staying awake on
Sunday around 02z (our sunrise is at 07z), so I tried to stand up while making
QSQs, slapped myself in the face to get some adrenaline running, drank an
energy drink, etc., but it wasn't helping. Finally I went into the cold outside
and splashed some water in my face, which seemed to help. Only got really tired
one other time later on Sunday soon after sunrise. I think I held myself
together pretty well, but my deteriorating CW copying and multitasking
abilities were evident as Sunday progressed. Not quite sure how to simulate
that for practice, other than just getting tired like this and practicing
"on the job"...!
The station worked well, although I had some issue with Win-Test crashing a few
times. It seems to be related to the Contest Recorder and the use of heavy MK2R+
switching due to SO2R. The audio level bars in the recorder freeze and CW
messages can stop in mid-transmission. So I stopped recording (pressing the
stop button also resulted in a crash...), re-started a couple of times and
after that there was no problem. I've seen the same also in some mixed-mode
contests earlier and thought it was related to the mutually different modes on
the two radios, but it seems one-mode contests can cause failure too.
Thanks to the Brando Island Group and Radio Arcala teams for support, and
thanks to all for the QSOs and multiplier moves! Some statistics below as
usual.
Kim OH6KZP
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CALLSIGN: OH0X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: OH6KZP
-------------- 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 1 102 11 0 0 114 114 1.8
0100 0 134 37 1 0 0 172 286 4.5
0200 10 61 64 3 0 0 138 424 6.7
0300 78 55 48 0 0 0 181 605 9.5
0400 0 130 46 0 0 0 176 781 12.3
0500 7 151 6 0 7 0 171 952 15.0
0600 68 3 26 64 0 0 161 1113 17.5
0700 0 10 38 67 30 4 149 1262 19.8
0800 0 0 59 1 82 15 157 1419 22.3
0900 0 0 80 1 33 20 134 1553 24.4
1000 0 0 29 85 0 40 154 1707 26.8
1100 0 0 0 105 67 5 177 1884 29.6
1200 0 0 0 119 71 1 191 2075 32.6
1300 0 1 0 119 33 7 160 2235 35.1
1400 0 0 3 2 130 11 146 2381 37.4
1500 0 0 89 0 132 0 221 2602 40.9
1600 1 0 0 91 46 2 140 2742 43.1
1700 10 2 42 96 1 0 151 2893 45.5
1800 11 119 2 37 0 0 169 3062 48.1
1900 36 39 12 17 0 0 104 3166 49.8
2000 1 1 0 112 52 0 166 3332 52.4
2100 0 0 0 105 127 0 232 3564 56.0
2200 16 19 10 31 10 0 86 3650 57.4
2300 0 0 59 15 0 0 74 3724 58.6
0000 0 0 95 5 0 0 100 3824 60.1
0100 0 0 77 12 0 0 89 3913 61.5
0200 0 0 104 2 0 0 106 4019 63.2
0300 0 3 89 2 0 0 94 4113 64.7
0400 27 38 28 0 0 0 93 4206 66.1
0500 2 68 17 4 0 0 91 4297 67.6
0600 30 68 2 0 2 0 102 4399 69.2
0700 1 63 1 0 48 1 114 4513 71.0
0800 0 0 0 0 101 26 127 4640 73.0
0900 0 0 7 72 76 0 155 4795 75.4
1000 0 0 0 55 79 3 137 4932 77.5
1100 0 0 38 3 54 12 107 5039 79.2
1200 0 0 12 27 72 6 117 5156 81.1
1300 0 0 0 89 34 4 127 5283 83.1
1400 0 0 0 79 86 0 165 5448 85.7
1500 0 0 0 53 110 0 163 5611 88.2
1600 0 0 10 82 48 0 140 5751 90.4
1700 0 0 54 43 0 0 97 5848 91.9
1800 0 0 23 9 1 1 34 5882 92.5
1900 0 0 1 96 14 2 113 5995 94.3
2000 0 0 0 75 63 1 139 6134 96.4
2100 0 0 0 86 2 22 110 6244 98.2
2200 10 3 1 36 2 2 54 6298 99.0
2300 28 3 27 2 1 0 61 6359 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 336 972 1339 1914 1614 185 6360
Gross QSOs=6460 Dupes=100 Net QSOs=6360
Unique callsigns worked = 4255
The best 60 minute rate was 232/hour from 2057 to 2156
The best 30 minute rate was 246/hour from 1510 to 1539
The best 10 minute rate was 282/hour from 1515 to 1524
The best 1 minute rates were:
7 QSOs/minute 4 times.
6 QSOs/minute 22 times.
5 QSOs/minute 100 times.
4 QSOs/minute 370 times.
3 QSOs/minute 669 times.
2 QSOs/minute 816 times.
1 QSOs/minute 580 times.
There were 2049 bandchanges and 1126 (17.7%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- 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 33 181 426 978 670 32 2320 36.5
South America 0 7 14 25 29 10 85 1.3
Europe 290 713 743 704 705 97 3252 51.1
Asia 9 61 136 180 175 28 589 9.3
Africa 4 7 12 13 17 12 65 1.0
Oceania 0 3 8 14 18 6 49 0.8
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 336 972 1339 1914 1614 185 6360
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 47
4 2702
5 2254
6 1304
7 11
8 28
9 10
10 4
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B9 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
3V 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
3W 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 0.1
4J 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
4L 0 2 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
4O 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 0.1
4S 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
4X 0 2 2 2 1 1 8 0.1
5B 1 2 2 3 2 2 12 0.2
5R 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.0
8P 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
8Q 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
9A 4 12 11 9 11 2 49 0.8
9H 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.1
9K 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
9M2 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.1
9M6 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.0
9Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A6 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.0
A7 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
A9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
BY 0 3 9 6 15 2 35 0.6
C9 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
CE 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.1
CE9 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.0
CM 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.1
CN 0 1 2 2 1 1 7 0.1
CT 0 2 2 3 1 4 12 0.2
CT3 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 0.1
CU 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 0.1
CX 0 0 1 3 2 1 7 0.1
D4 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
DL 49 104 95 105 97 6 456 7.2
DU 0 0 0 2 2 1 5 0.1
E7 1 2 1 5 5 1 15 0.2
EA 6 10 15 17 32 6 86 1.4
EA6 1 2 2 2 2 2 11 0.2
EA8 2 2 4 4 6 1 19 0.3
EA9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
EI 3 2 4 6 5 0 20 0.3
EK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ER 1 2 2 0 3 1 9 0.1
ES 3 4 4 3 7 1 22 0.3
EU 5 21 11 8 8 3 56 0.9
EX 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
F 3 18 17 23 39 3 103 1.6
FM 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.0
FR 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.0
FY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
G 9 19 25 25 35 0 113 1.8
GD 1 1 1 3 0 1 7 0.1
GI 0 1 1 3 2 0 7 0.1
GJ 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
*GM/s 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
GM 1 5 6 10 2 1 25 0.4
GU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
GW 1 4 1 5 1 0 12 0.2
HA 8 20 24 8 7 1 68 1.1
HB 3 5 5 9 10 1 33 0.5
HB0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
HI 0 2 3 4 2 0 11 0.2
HK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HP 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.0
HR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HS 0 0 1 1 6 1 9 0.1
I 10 18 43 29 46 2 148 2.3
*IG9 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
*IT9 1 0 3 2 2 3 11 0.2
JA 1 20 63 85 76 0 245 3.9
JT 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
JW 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
JY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
K 29 158 380 885 605 26 2083 32.8
KH2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
KH6 0 0 1 3 4 1 9 0.1
KL 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.0
KP2 0 1 2 1 0 1 5 0.1
KP4 0 1 4 3 2 1 11 0.2
LA 7 9 8 11 12 0 47 0.7
LU 0 1 2 3 5 1 12 0.2
LX 0 2 2 1 1 1 7 0.1
LY 8 16 13 9 10 1 57 0.9
LZ 3 9 16 13 17 7 65 1.0
OA 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OD 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
OE 2 6 8 9 8 1 34 0.5
OH 15 28 17 21 23 10 114 1.8
OH0 0 1 2 2 2 1 8 0.1
OK 13 29 32 35 33 3 145 2.3
OM 5 12 8 15 7 1 48 0.8
ON 3 11 9 5 10 0 38 0.6
OX 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
OY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
OZ 5 7 7 3 2 0 24 0.4
P4 0 2 1 2 1 2 8 0.1
PA 5 7 20 18 10 1 61 1.0
PJ2 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
PJ4 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.1
PJ5 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.0
PY 0 2 5 6 16 3 32 0.5
PZ 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.0
S5 10 15 22 13 14 1 75 1.2
S9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
SM 10 22 18 17 19 2 88 1.4
SP 21 43 35 33 30 4 166 2.6
SU 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
SV 1 1 2 2 2 3 11 0.2
SV9 0 1 0 1 2 1 5 0.1
TA 1 2 1 2 3 1 10 0.2
*TA1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
TF 1 2 1 2 3 0 9 0.1
TI 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TK 1 2 1 1 2 0 7 0.1
UA 38 124 115 113 101 11 502 7.9
UA2 3 4 1 1 2 0 11 0.2
UA9 4 25 49 55 48 11 192 3.0
UK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
UN 2 3 5 11 10 4 35 0.6
UR 20 70 72 62 38 3 265 4.2
V2 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
V3 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
V4 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
VE 4 14 25 68 53 1 165 2.6
VK 0 1 2 7 4 2 16 0.3
VP2E 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VP2V 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
VP5 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
VP9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
VR 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 0.0
VU 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 0.1
XE 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.1
YB 0 0 2 0 5 2 9 0.1
YL 2 6 6 3 8 2 27 0.4
YN 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
YO 3 18 24 17 16 1 79 1.2
YU 1 10 18 12 10 1 52 0.8
YV 0 1 2 1 2 0 6 0.1
Z3 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.1
*Z6 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
ZA 0 1 2 1 1 1 6 0.1
ZB 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
ZD8 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
ZF 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.1
ZL 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
ZS 0 0 1 1 3 2 7 0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 336 972 1339 1914 1614 185 6360
------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
14 108 234 242 272 286 30 1172 18.4
05 30 125 220 419 306 4 1104 17.4
15 110 231 257 212 227 37 1074 16.9
04 2 46 139 376 266 19 848 13.3
16 63 216 202 179 149 18 827 13.0
03 1 0 46 157 86 4 294 4.6
25 1 20 63 86 76 0 246 3.9
20 9 35 49 41 44 16 194 3.1
17 7 23 31 52 40 9 162 2.5
18 0 7 19 14 16 6 62 1.0
08 0 8 15 18 7 5 53 0.8
33 3 6 8 7 8 4 36 0.6
24 0 4 7 5 15 2 33 0.5
11 0 2 5 6 15 3 31 0.5
09 0 4 5 8 5 5 27 0.4
13 0 1 3 6 7 2 19 0.3
21 0 2 2 6 4 2 16 0.3
28 0 1 4 0 8 3 16 0.3
26 0 0 1 2 8 2 13 0.2
40 1 2 2 4 3 0 12 0.2
30 0 1 1 6 3 1 12 0.2
19 0 0 2 5 4 0 11 0.2
22 0 0 0 4 3 2 9 0.1
31 0 0 1 3 4 1 9 0.1
38 0 0 1 2 3 2 8 0.1
35 1 1 1 1 3 1 8 0.1
23 0 0 2 3 3 0 8 0.1
39 0 0 0 3 3 2 8 0.1
27 0 0 1 3 3 1 8 0.1
07 0 1 3 1 2 0 7 0.1
06 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.1
12 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.1
32 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
02 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
29 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
36 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.0
01 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.0
37 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.0
34 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
10 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
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Total 336 972 1339 1914 1614 185 6360
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2945
2 bands 773
3 bands 347
4 bands 133
5 bands 46
6 bands 11
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
ES9C D4C UA4M UP2L E7DX TC0A
TM6M P33W EF8R EF6T DH0GHU
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 123 406 597 988 766 65
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