CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2019
Call: IZ3NVR
Operator(s): IZ3NVR
Station: IZ3NVR
Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 32
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 27 5 18
80: 209 9 43
40: 431 20 77
20: 440 20 69
15: 96 19 37
10: 2 2 2
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Total: 1205 75 246 Total Score = 665,112
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
Disclaimer: lengthy report.
Quite an unusual but fun contest for me.
I have always been amazed at all those people travelling to remote areas and
setting up stations just to work a contest. It’s a challenging activity and
it’s thank to them if, during contests, we can enjoy rare countries contacts.
This year I had the chance of operating this contest with a field day station, a
sort of personal small scale CQWW CW expedition. This implies putting up and
tearing down the entire station for a weekend’s fun. The idea was appealing,
so I started thinking about the setup. Antennas should be easy and light to
erect (one man show) but effective at the same time. After a number of
researches, I settled on the following:
160m: random wire with tuner
80m: dipole
40m: vertical
10/15/20: wire moxon
RTX: FT-450 @ 100W
Friday: cold and rainy weather. I have been plagued by heavy rain for the entire
day. Building up antennas under such WX conditions has been a nightmare. The 40m
vertical should have been the easiest antenna to deploy since it was
pre-arranged (often use it for my SOTA activations). A faulty coax connector had
me wondering why the SWR was too high (4). Pulling out the solder I fixed it but
the overall impedance was not optimal (80ohms). Decided to keep it that way, was
losing way too much time. Setting up the rest was rather easy but took some
time. Fine tuning the threebander took ages. Eventually I settled on average
numbers. The setting up phase was over at about 20z. Had to wear a headlamp to
finish it.
The contest had been a blast. Conditions were above my expectations. Antennas
played pretty well although I was physically worn out from both the setting up
phase and the working weeks prior the contest weekend. I had some fun “running
rates” and working lots of usually rare (for me) DXes. Had to live with huge
noise coming from the thunderstorms in the area. Weather had been terrific
during the weekend. At 20z of the first day, SWR on the 80m antenna went sky
high. A wind gust broke my support and torned out the feeder. I was without
80/160. Half an hour later another wind gust literally snapped in two the 40m
vertical. I thought my contest was over. 666Q. Went to bed since WX conditions
didn’t allow a repair job to be performed at that time. Early Sunday morning
soldered the feeder and literally taped the antenna at 3m from the ground. Black
electrical scotch tape was used to fix the 40m vertical as well. I was back on
business at 04z.
I was quite shocked when PJ2T called me while I was trying to run on 80m with
such an emergency repaired antenna. They must have great ears out there. The
contest kept going on although rates were lower on the second day. NA struggled
to open on 20. 15m were almost dead all day except for some AF stations with
scattery signals. 10m almost nonexistent. At 17z I had almost 3cm of rain water
running over the fields, 20m were closing ì and my 80m antenna was lost
forever. 40m showed signs of high SWR alternated to moments in which it was
working, probably due to the feeder being almost under water. Gave up on 80 and
kept working all I could hear on 40m. At 21z 40m gave up and I was too tired to
try a last minute save. Game over. Hit my sleeping bag and tried to rest a bit
before the station tear down…under heavy rain, of course.
Dismantling took less time but still took me 4-5 hours. Rain never ceased, and
it was both frustrating and exhausting.
This has been my best CQWW CW ever. Best number of QSOs, best declared score and
overall great fun. Hamradio is an adventure and I can’t thank enough all those
people travelling to far away places, building up their stations and making
contacts. I really respect them all.
I really hope I can be active with such a setup again, I made some notes on
things that worked and that didn’t work. This should save me some time when
setting up again and improve the overall system too.
Thanks to all those friends who helped with suggestions and cheerleading. I
would have given up Saturday night if not for RGY and YPF pushing me to
continue. And I owe them the fact that I went LP instead of QRP. And thanks to
the YL that kindly supported this crazy adventure.
Some statistics below:
CQ WW CW - 2019-11-23 0000Z to 2019-11-25 0000Z - 1214 QSOs
IZ3NVR Runs >10 QSOs:
2019-11-23 0350 - 0401Z, 3517 kHz, 16 Qs, 86,5/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-23 0411 - 0421Z, 3535 kHz, 15 Qs, 85,7/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-23 0446 - 0511Z, 3522 kHz, 32 Qs, 76,7/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-23 0635 - 0650Z, 3521 kHz, 20 Qs, 82,9/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-23 1347 - 1407Z, 7007 kHz, 20 Qs, 61,2/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-23 2021 - 2045Z, 7067 kHz, 25 Qs, 63,2/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-24 0438 - 0451Z, 3533 kHz, 13 Qs, 62,3/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-24 0507 - 0529Z, 3544 kHz, 26 Qs, 73,8/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-24 0810 - 0819Z, 7029 kHz, 12 Qs, 73,8/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-24 1728 - 1806Z, 7052 kHz, 26 Qs, 42,1/hr IZ3NVR
2019-11-24 1836 - 1858Z, 7050 kHz, 20 Qs, 54,9/hr IZ3NVR
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: IZ3NVR
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: IZ3NVR
--> 4U25B has an unknown country prefix.
-------------- 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0300 1 14 0 0 0 0 15 15 1.2
0400 7 41 2 0 0 0 50 65 5.4
0500 6 24 2 0 0 0 32 97 8.0
0600 0 40 10 0 0 0 50 147 12.2
0700 0 16 18 4 0 0 38 185 15.4
0800 0 0 20 19 1 0 40 225 18.7
0900 0 0 8 24 13 0 45 270 22.4
1000 0 0 2 21 9 0 32 302 25.1
1100 0 0 0 15 5 0 20 322 26.7
1200 0 0 0 50 2 0 52 374 31.0
1300 0 0 14 26 2 0 42 416 34.5
1400 0 0 6 8 27 0 41 457 37.9
1500 0 0 7 16 6 0 29 486 40.3
1600 0 0 8 18 3 1 30 516 42.8
1700 0 8 12 19 6 0 45 561 46.6
1800 0 0 24 0 0 0 24 585 48.5
1900 0 10 26 0 0 0 36 621 51.5
2000 0 0 34 0 0 0 34 655 54.4
2100 0 0 11 0 0 0 11 666 55.3
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 666 55.3
0400 0 19 0 0 0 0 19 685 56.8
0500 8 28 6 0 0 0 42 727 60.3
0600 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 733 60.8
0700 0 0 23 0 0 0 23 756 62.7
0800 0 0 21 34 2 0 57 813 67.5
0900 0 0 32 18 4 0 54 867 72.0
1000 0 0 2 33 2 1 38 905 75.1
1100 0 0 0 18 3 0 21 926 76.8
1200 0 0 0 25 5 0 30 956 79.3
1300 0 0 0 19 1 0 20 976 81.0
1400 0 0 0 32 1 0 33 1009 83.7
1500 0 0 9 19 3 0 31 1040 86.3
1600 0 0 11 20 1 0 32 1072 89.0
1700 0 3 30 2 0 0 35 1107 91.9
1800 0 0 23 0 0 0 23 1130 93.8
1900 4 0 17 0 0 0 21 1151 95.5
2000 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 1192 98.9
2100 1 0 12 0 0 0 13 1205 100.0
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1205 100.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1205 100.0
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Total 27 209 431 440 96 2 1205
Gross QSOs=1214 Dupes=9 Net QSOs=1205
Unique callsigns worked = 922
The best 60 minute rate was 62/hour from 0828 to 0927
The best 30 minute rate was 76/hour from 1220 to 1249
The best 10 minute rate was 96/hour from 0451 to 0500
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSOs/minute 1 times.
3 QSOs/minute 21 times.
2 QSOs/minute 201 times.
1 QSOs/minute 736 times.
There were 111 bandchanges and 14 (1.2%) 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 34 75 168 33 0 310 25.7
South America 0 1 3 3 7 0 14 1.2
Europe 26 167 321 220 30 2 766 63.6
Asia 0 4 18 37 13 0 72 6.0
Africa 1 3 11 11 10 0 36 3.0
Oceania 0 0 3 1 2 0 6 0.5
??? 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
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Total 27 209 431 440 96 2 1205
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 18
4 694
5 328
6 151
7 3
8 6
9 3
10 2
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
3V 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
4L 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
4O 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
4X 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.4
5B 0 1 3 3 1 0 8 0.7
6W 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
8P 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
9A 1 4 1 1 1 0 8 0.7
9H 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
9K 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
A4 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
C6 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
CN 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.4
CT 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2
CT3 0 1 3 4 3 0 11 0.9
CU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
D4 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.2
DL 6 37 37 7 0 0 87 7.2
E7 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 0.2
EA 0 1 11 14 4 0 30 2.5
EA8 0 1 3 2 2 0 8 0.7
EI 0 1 3 1 0 0 5 0.4
ER 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2
ES 0 1 3 1 0 0 5 0.4
EU 1 1 9 7 1 0 19 1.6
F 1 2 11 4 0 0 18 1.5
FY 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.2
G 0 7 22 9 0 0 38 3.2
GD 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.4
GI 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2
GM 0 1 4 2 0 0 7 0.6
GU 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
GW 1 0 2 1 0 0 4 0.3
HA 2 10 9 1 0 0 22 1.8
HB 1 4 2 0 0 0 7 0.6
HI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2
I 1 1 4 1 1 1 9 0.7
*IG9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
IS 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.2
*IT9 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.3
JA 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3
K 0 30 54 145 29 0 258 21.4
KP2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
KP4 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
LA 0 2 6 6 0 0 14 1.2
LU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
LX 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2
LY 2 5 15 8 0 0 30 2.5
LZ 1 2 13 8 1 1 26 2.2
OE 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
OH 0 1 6 15 0 0 22 1.8
OH0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2
OK 1 13 15 3 0 0 32 2.7
OM 1 5 8 1 0 0 15 1.2
ON 0 3 8 1 0 0 12 1.0
OY 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
OZ 0 3 2 0 0 0 5 0.4
P4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
PA 0 5 11 0 0 0 16 1.3
PJ2 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3
PJ4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
PJ5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
PY 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.2
S5 3 4 4 1 0 0 12 1.0
SM 0 3 10 5 0 0 18 1.5
SP 1 10 23 3 0 0 37 3.1
SV 0 0 3 3 0 0 6 0.5
SV9 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.2
TA 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2
TI 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
TK 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.2
UA 0 14 25 64 18 0 121 10.0
UA2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1
UA9 0 1 7 22 8 0 38 3.2
UN 0 1 2 3 1 0 7 0.6
UR 0 5 15 29 0 0 49 4.1
V2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
V4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
V5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
VE 0 4 10 14 0 0 28 2.3
VK 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.3
VK9C 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
VP2V 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
VP9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
YA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
YL 0 3 3 6 0 0 12 1.0
YO 0 8 11 0 0 0 19 1.6
YU 0 7 7 2 0 0 16 1.3
Z3 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.2
ZA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
ZD7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
ZF 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.3
ZL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
??? 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 27 209 431 440 96 2 1205
------------ 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 9 71 135 57 6 0 278 23.1
15 15 66 110 48 4 1 244 20.2
05 0 26 57 111 29 0 223 18.5
16 1 20 50 104 24 0 199 16.5
20 1 12 32 20 4 1 70 5.8
04 0 8 7 48 0 0 63 5.2
33 1 3 9 9 6 0 28 2.3
17 0 2 5 14 3 0 24 2.0
08 0 0 9 7 4 0 20 1.7
18 0 0 2 8 1 0 11 0.9
09 0 1 3 2 4 0 10 0.8
21 0 0 2 3 2 0 7 0.6
25 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3
35 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
39 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
11 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.2
29 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
07 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
19 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
02 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
30 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.2
32 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
36 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
38 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
13 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
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Total 27 209 431 440 96 2 1205
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 725
2 bands 133
3 bands 44
4 bands 18
5 bands 2
6 bands 0
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 18 124 267 272 43 1
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