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Subject: [3830] WPX CW CR2X(OH6KZP) SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: kim.ostman@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 11:51:44 +0000
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CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: CR2X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: CR2X

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Ribeira Grande
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    5
   80:  269
   40: 1205
   20: 1525
   15: 1172
   10:  100
------------
Total: 4276  Prefixes = 1194  Total Score = 13,967,412

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

This contest marked my fifth visit to the fabulous island of São Miguel, backed
by other members of the Radio Arcala team. The CR2X project officially ended
with ARRL SSB this March, but since any dismantling has yet to be done, it was
possible to run WPX CW as an "encore" to our M/M team effort in
March.

I arrived at noon on Wednesday, with Martti OH2BH having arrived the previous
day to mark another destination on his world tour of "retro DXing".
We were greeted by an ominous sight at the station, as the base of one tower
had partly crumbled, leaving the tower leaning by a "healthy" few
degrees (just waiting for the next storm to deliver the death blow...), and the
rotating tower was missing a guy wire. Heavy winds on Wednesday and Thursday
also slowed down our antenna preparation work, leading to a pretty worrisome
outlook.

In any case, we managed to fix the guy wire issue on Thursday, and fortunately
our friends José CU2CE, Francisco CU2DX, Bruno CS8ABG, and their resources
were able to straighten and secure the second tower on Friday, finalizing it
during the contest on Saturday. Francisco also kindly loaned an amplifier, as
it seemed that the main amplifier we had brought for the second radio wasn't
performing as expected. We also repaired the direction indicator of the
rotating tower, and installed the NA and EU beverages prepared by Pertti OH2PM,
and a 160m sloping dipole in keeping with the importance of the low bands in
WPX. 

Running up and down the hill and changing sweaty T-shirts from morning until
evening, seeing one part of the planned pre-contest schedule fail after
another, and worrying over how things and I were going to hold up, left me both
physically and mentally exhausted by Friday afternoon. So when the farmers
appeared at 17z, requesting the removal of a beverage part for some time so
they could spread fertilizer on the hilly field, I was ready to throw in the
towel. Thank heavens that one has to be QRT for 12 hours of this 48-hour
race....! My apologies especially to those who suffered from my deteriorating
CW copying skills by Sunday morning, probably thinking an idiot must be manning
the station's cockpit :)

High-band signals from the USA and Canada were pretty good except for brief
periods in the afternoon when things died down a little. Even 10m showed minor
life over the pond. I divided my off-time so that I could try the difficult
morning JA path on 15m for the all-important prefixes, but unfortunately
signals were very weak. In any case, together with 20m I managed to reel in 27
Japanese prefix multipliers, which is about half of what I was aiming for. The
biggest problem on the high bands was QRN-related, with intermittent periods of
several noisy minutes killing all but the strongest signals on all bands
especially on Sunday.

The low bands worked well, and even the 80m remnant antenna was in good shape
thanks to the rescue operation by Toni OH2UA and Juha OH8NC just after the ARRL
SSB contest. I was especially happy with having gone through the effort of
installing the EU/NA beverages, as they provided considerable help on the noisy
bands. I made only 5 QSOs on 160m, quickly realizing that it was pretty
pointless to be there even with the second radio. But at least I had to prove
to myself that we didn't erect the antenna in vain ;)

Thanks to the efforts of all involved, I feel grateful in claiming the European
SOAB HP record for the Radio Arcala team. A personal goal also became reality:
simultaneously holding/claiming the four most significant European SOAB HP
records in the CQ contest family (CQWW/WPX CW/SSB), which is something I didn't
dare dream of. 

Due to a callsign-specific parser/scoring bug with the logging software I
wasn't sure of the exact score during the contest, and thus the cqcontest.net
live score didn't reflect the up-to-date situation either. However, periodic
checks by exporting/importing the Cabrillo to another software gave me an idea
of the "delta" to reality and the target score.

I would especially like to thank Martti OH2BH (who worked SOSB80 from another
station) for all his support during this trip and otherwise, and other members
of the Radio Arcala team. As noted above, our local friends José CU2CE,
Francisco CU2DX, and Bruno CS8ABG with their resources provided invaluable help
for which I am very grateful. Fixing and preparing the station tends to eat up
most of the pre-/post-contest time on the island, so it was really nice to
still see them briefly. Thanks also to Dave K1ZZ@CU4DX for the local Azorean
competition!

Some statistics below.

73
Kim OH6KZP

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
CALLSIGN: CR2X
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      0     92     94      0      0    186    186    4.3
0100       0      0    115     56      0      0    171    357    8.3
0200       0     33    104     20      0      0    157    514   12.0
0300       0     33     84     12      0      0    129    643   15.0
0400       0     10    100     18      1      0    129    772   18.1
0500       0     28     95      0      0      0    123    895   20.9
0600       0     15     82      0      1      0     98    993   23.2
0700       0      0     25      0      3      0     28   1021   23.9
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1021   23.9
0900       0      0      0     22     59      0     81   1102   25.8
1000       0      0      0      0     35      0     35   1137   26.6
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1137   26.6
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1137   26.6
1300       0      0      0     10     78      0     88   1225   28.6
1400       0      0      0     43     84      6    133   1358   31.8
1500       0      0      0    100     57      0    157   1515   35.4
1600       0      0      0     57     83     17    157   1672   39.1
1700       0      0      0     93     59      0    152   1824   42.7
1800       0      0      0     98     28      0    126   1950   45.6
1900       0      0      0     84     57      0    141   2091   48.9
2000       0      0      0    101     22      1    124   2215   51.8
2100       4      0     24    100      5      0    133   2348   54.9
2200       0     12     10     97     11      0    130   2478   58.0
2300       0     18     38     58      8      0    122   2600   60.8
0000       0     47     36     29      9      0    121   2721   63.6
0100       0      0     38     36     19      0     93   2814   65.8
0200       0     12     22     55      0      0     89   2903   67.9
0300       0      0     71     20      0      0     91   2994   70.0
0400       0     30     69      5      0      0    104   3098   72.5
0500       0     27     45      0      0      0     72   3170   74.1
0600       0      3     25      0      0      0     28   3198   74.8
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3198   74.8
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3198   74.8
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3198   74.8
1000       0      0      0     19     28      0     47   3245   75.9
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3245   75.9
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3245   75.9
1300       0      0      0      2     44     15     61   3306   77.3
1400       0      0      0     14     48     11     73   3379   79.0
1500       0      0      0     15     59     20     94   3473   81.2
1600       0      0      0     24     48     28    100   3573   83.6
1700       0      0      0     54     53      0    107   3680   86.1
1800       0      0      0     38     35      0     73   3753   87.8
1900       0      0      0     82     26      0    108   3861   90.3
2000       0      0      0     41     73      0    114   3975   93.0
2100       1      1     60     27      7      0     96   4071   95.2
2200       0      0     33      1     75      2    111   4182   97.8
2300       0      0     37      0     57      0     94   4276  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      5    269   1205   1525   1172    100   4276

Gross QSOs=4338        Dupes=62        Net QSOs=4276

Unique callsigns worked = 2975

The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 0012 to 0111
The best 30 minute rate was 204/hour from 0007 to 0036
The best 10 minute rate was 252/hour from 0011 to 0020

The best 1 minute rates were:
 7 QSOs/minute    1 times.
 6 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   27 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  146 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  506 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  732 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  556 times.

There were 1567 bandchanges and 875 (20.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        22
   4      1847
   5      1597
   6       762
   7        22
   8        13
   9        10
  10         3

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    2089
2 bands     553
3 bands     260
4 bands      65
5 bands       7
6 bands       1

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

OL4A        

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      4    102    560    815    562     46


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