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Subject: [3830] CQ WW RTTY P49X(W0YK) SOAB LP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: ed@p49x.com
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:37:07 +0000
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY

Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 36:03

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX   Zones
------------------------------------
   80:  352       44      48    15
   40:  765       51      66    21
   20: 1055       55      59    22
   15:  623       52      47    18
   10:   42       13       8     7
------------------------------------
Total: 2837      215     228    83  Total Score = 4,447,856

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

It was a lot of fun operating the WW again and I look forward to the CW and SSB
events coming up.  That we are at the bottom of the current solar cycle was
abundantly clear this weekend.  I amplified that fact by choosing to operate
with 100 watts!  Now, I know what the LP entrants deal with.  I can’t imagine
operating QRP; my hat is off to those stalwart folks.

Knowing that propagation would be poor and the difficulty I have being
physically effective for 48 straight hours, I opted to get a few hours sleep
each night.  This was a trade-off to make the operating hours more pleasant, not
having to fight extreme fatigue and drowsiness.  I also considered either a 40
meter single-band or the Classic overlay.  But, each of these would be SO1R and
that wasn’t too interesting to me, especially on the RTTY mode.
The Low Power decision came earlier in the week when I had consistent high
inter-station RFI between 20-10, 40-20 and 80-40.  The lower band transmission
raised the noise floor on the 2x higher band several S-units to the point of
making copy of all but the very strongest signals impossible.  Sometimes this
noise instantly disappears, but I didn’t want to risk the entire weekend’s
operating being relegated to a single radio.  This is some kind of non-linearity
external to the station so filters and stubs have no effect.  It is actual
re-radiated RF coming in the antenna port.

Plus, I was curious what a Low Power effort would be like.  Unless my operating
this weekend was extremely failed, though, I think we need better propagation
and 10 meters before the LP record of 2001 can be challenged.

Despite enjoying the operating as always, the score is, by far, my lowest ever
in this contest.  I only managed to average 79 QSOs/hour compared to typically
130-140.  And the high-rate hours were far below what I usually experience.  I
wonder if this is more related to lower overall activity than band conditions or
my 100-watt transmitters.

I was struck with how low the total QSO count is.  The final score was lowered
significantly more due to far lower mults of all three types.  Of course, a lack
of 10 meters was a key factor but even on 20 and 40, I thought the mults should
have been higher.  Though 40 meters seemed to perform well, I still had much
less QSOs than I expected.

There were excellent 10-meter openings, albeit short, late afternoon both days
that unfortunately very few people participated in.  From here, signals were
strong all the way from Texas up to Ontario and all points east.  We just needed
many more stations to be there.  Interestingly, 15 meters was almost dead during
the 10-meter openings.

Low-band noise was higher on Saturday here than on Sunday.  Still, the signal
strengths on 40 and 80 were substantial enough for mostly good copy.  I was
impressed with how well 100 watts did on 40 and 80, though it clearly would have
been easier with 1500.  At times, there were S9+20 signals on the open band(s)
and it occurred on both EU and NA signals.  On Sunday there were a few periods
of only about a minute each when some local man-made noise was switched on and
literally rendered all high bands, 10-20, unusable.  We’ve had this for
extended periods in the past and I’m glad it was short-lived this time.
 
There were far few Jas and only on 20 meters for me.  On the other hand, the YBs
were out in force this weekend, but I had great difficulty getting them to hear
me.  While they were reasonably strong for me, I’m sure the EUs and other
areas they were running had much stronger signals than mine.  1500 watts would
have solved that as would have turning an antenna in their direction.

DC was added as a mult in this year’s rules, distinct from MD, but I didn’t
encounter one until late Sunday.  It was fun to work that new mult for the first
time in the contest.

Other than the horrendous interstation RFI, the station played well.  The East
US Beverage was dead and I haven’t had time to troubleshoot.  Late Friday
night shortly before I was about to take a break due to low rates, one of the
Rttyrite instances in the right-side WriteLog crashed and the right-side PC lost
connection with the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.  Frenzied troubleshooting
could not revive the Bluetooth devices so I installed USB devices and operated
the rest of the contest.

Thanks to all the stations who moved to my other active band.  Rates were so
slow that I did a lot of moves that weren’t a new mult, but one more QSO in
the log!  Despite only 42 QSOs on 10 meters, 15 stations worked me on 5 bands.

And, thanks as always to John W6LD/P40L and Andy AE6Y/P49Y for sharing this fun
station.
____________________________________________________________________

Rigs: Elecraft K3s (2), with P3s (2)

Amps: Alpha 86, Alpha 91B

Logging software: WriteLog 11.33b on three networked PCs, one for each SO2R
radio and one master as backup.

Tower 1: 4 elements 20 meter at 68 feet; 2 elements 40 meter at 76 feet; 1
element 80 meter Sigma 80 at 64 feet; 160 meter "Double L" vertical at
67 feet 

Tower 2: 2 (yes, two!) elements on 10 meter interlaced with 5 elements on 15
meter at 55 feet 

Tower 3: C31XR at 43 feet
RX antennas:  four 400-500 foot beverages using K9AY switching box/preamp

____________________________________________________________________

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

CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WW-RTTY
OPERATORS: W0YK

--> 4U1A has an unknown country prefix.
[Note: This valid Vienna entity was not in the older cty.dat file
 I used to run this analysis.]

-------------- 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      3     69     24      0      0     96     96    3.4
0100       0     36     60      0      0      0     96    192    6.8
0200       0     31     48      0      0      0     79    271    9.6
0300       0     47     88      0      0      0    135    406   14.3
0400       0     27     33      0      0      0     60    466   16.4
0500       0     36     32      0      0      0     68    534   18.8
0600       0     19      1      0      0      0     20    554   19.5
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    554   19.5
0800       0      7     11      0      0      0     18    572   20.2
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    572   20.2
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    572   20.2
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    572   20.2
1200       0      0      0     12     17      0     29    601   21.2
1300       0      0      0     70     68      0    138    739   26.0
1400       0      0      0     50     78      0    128    867   30.6
1500       0      0      0     37     28      0     65    932   32.9
1600       0      0      0     54      6      0     60    992   35.0
1700       0      0      0     70     20      0     90   1082   38.1
1800       0      0      0     28     14      2     44   1126   39.7
1900       0      0      0     58     27      7     92   1218   42.9
2000       0      0      0     90     65      0    155   1373   48.4
2100       0      0      0     48     28     21     97   1470   51.8
2200       0      0     38     73      6      0    117   1587   55.9
2300       0      0     47     62      0      0    109   1696   59.8
0000       0     16     43     12      0      0     71   1767   62.3
0100       0     22     59      0      0      0     81   1848   65.1
0200       0     37     57      0      0      0     94   1942   68.5
0300       0     25     68      0      0      0     93   2035   71.7
0400       0     37     41      0      0      0     78   2113   74.5
0500       0      8     10      0      0      0     18   2131   75.1
0600       0      1      2      0      0      0      3   2134   75.2
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2134   75.2
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2134   75.2
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2134   75.2
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2134   75.2
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2134   75.2
1200       0      0      0     23      2      0     25   2159   76.1
1300       0      0      0     15     23      0     38   2197   77.4
1400       0      0      0     23     26      0     49   2246   79.2
1500       0      0      0     19     19      0     38   2284   80.5
1600       0      0      0     21     49      0     70   2354   83.0
1700       0      0      0     19     52      0     71   2425   85.5
1800       0      0      0     33     25      0     58   2483   87.5
1900       0      0      0     39     36      0     75   2558   90.2
2000       0      0      0     60     31      0     91   2649   93.4
2100       0      0      1     25      3     11     40   2689   94.8
2200       0      0     22     55      0      1     78   2767   97.5
2300       0      0     35     35      0      0     70   2837  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    352    765   1055    623     42   2837

Gross QSOs=2900        Dupes=63        Net QSOs=2837

Unique callsigns worked = 1621

The best 60 minute rate was 162/hour from 2003 to 2102
The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 1945 to 2014
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 2005 to 2014

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   10 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   79 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  226 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  508 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  765 times.

There were 1393 bandchanges and 802 (28.3%) 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      0    244    498    792    504     29   2067   72.9
South America      0      3     10      8     20     13     54    1.9
Europe             0     96    242    237     92      0    667   23.5
Asia               0      4      6     15      1      0     26    0.9
Africa             0      4      4      2      4      0     14    0.5
Oceania            0      1      5      1      2      0      9    0.3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total              0    352    765   1055    623     42   2837

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        13
   4      1261
   5      1075
   6       469
   7         5
   8        12
   9         2

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
4J               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
4O               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
4X               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
5B               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
9A               0      3      3      5      3      0     14    0.5
A4               0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.1
C3               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
CE               0      0      1      2      1      1      5    0.2
CM               0      4      8      9      6      0     27    1.0
CT               0      2      1      1      1      0      5    0.2
CT3              0      2      1      1      2      0      6    0.2
CX               0      0      0      0      3      1      4    0.1
DL               0     16     40     54     18      0    128    4.5
E7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
EA               0      5      5      3      2      0     15    0.5
EA8              0      2      3      1      2      0      8    0.3
EI               0      0      0      3      0      0      3    0.1
ER               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
ES               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
EU               0      2      5      4      0      0     11    0.4
F                0      6      9      7     11      0     33    1.2
G                0      1     13     10      8      0     32    1.1
GI               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
GM               0      1      3      3      3      0     10    0.4
GW               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HA               0      5      7      4      2      0     18    0.6
HB               0      1      2      3      1      0      7    0.2
HB0              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HC               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
HI               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
HK               0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.1
HP               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
HZ               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
I                0      6     24     23     14      0     67    2.4
IS               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
*IT9             0      3      4      4      3      0     14    0.5
J3               0      1      0      1      0      0      2    0.1
JA               0      0      0      8      0      0      8    0.3
K                0    219    440    717    449     27   1852   65.3
KG4              0      1      2      1      2      0      6    0.2
KH6              0      1      2      1      1      0      5    0.2
KL               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
KP2              0      1      1      2      1      0      5    0.2
KP4              0      1      2      1      1      0      5    0.2
LA               0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.1
LU               0      0      4      2      5      6     17    0.6
LX               0      2      2      2      1      0      7    0.2
LY               0      2      4      3      3      0     12    0.4
LZ               0      1      6      4      2      0     13    0.5
OE               0      1      1      2      1      0      5    0.2
OH               0      2      4     10      0      0     16    0.6
OK               0      7      9      6      1      0     23    0.8
OM               0      3      5      3      1      0     12    0.4
ON               0      0      4      5      0      0      9    0.3
OZ               0      3      1      4      0      0      8    0.3
P4               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
PA               0      4      9     14      2      0     29    1.0
PY               0      0      1      3      9      3     16    0.6
PZ               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
S5               0      4      9      6      3      0     22    0.8
SM               0      1      0      4      1      0      6    0.2
SP               0      8     18     12      3      0     41    1.4
SV               0      0      2      1      1      0      4    0.1
TA               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
TG               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
TI               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
TK               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
UA               0      1     16      6      0      0     23    0.8
UA9              0      2      1      7      0      0     10    0.4
UR               0      3     18     18      1      0     40    1.4
V3               0      2      1      1      1      0      5    0.2
VE               0     12     39     54     37      2    144    5.1
VP2V             0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
XE               0      1      2      3      6      0     12    0.4
YB               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
YL               0      1      2      3      0      0      6    0.2
YO               0      0      5      2      2      0      9    0.3
YU               0      1      3      2      1      0      7    0.2
YV               0      2      2      0      0      1      5    0.2
ZL               0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.1
???              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total            0    352    765   1055    623     42   2837

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
04         0     86    220    319    212      9    846   29.8
05         0    116    186    287    226     19    834   29.4
03         0     30     75    164     48      1    318   11.2
14         0     43     92    115     48      0    298   10.5
15         0     46     96     86     38      0    266    9.4
16         0      7     41     29      1      0     78    2.7
08         0      9     13     15      8      0     45    1.6
20         0      2     15      7      6      0     30    1.1
13         0      0      4      2      8      7     21    0.7
11         0      1      1      3      9      3     17    0.6
33         0      4      4      2      4      0     14    0.5
06         0      1      2      3      6      0     12    0.4
09         0      3      3      0      2      2     10    0.4
07         0      2      2      2      2      0      8    0.3
25         0      0      0      8      0      0      8    0.3
12         0      0      1      2      1      1      5    0.2
21         0      1      3      0      0      0      4    0.1
31         0      0      2      1      1      0      4    0.1
19         0      0      0      3      0      0      3    0.1
18         0      1      0      2      0      0      3    0.1
32         0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.1
10         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
02         0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
01         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
28         0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
45         0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
81         0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
17         0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    352    765   1055    623     42   2837

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands     915
2 bands     361
3 bands     195
4 bands     135
5 bands      15
6 bands       0

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      0     79    261    430    137      8


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