North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: WD6T
Operator(s): WD6T
Station: N6RO
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Oakley, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 47 17
80: 150 38
40: 350 47
20: 426 55
15: 188 37
10: 0 0
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Total: 1161 194 Total Score = 225,234
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Wow, that was challenging! This was my first Winter NAQP as an SO. Felt like an
amped-up version of the summer one (albeit at 100w). Had some great
2BSIQ-fueled rates (including best in any CW contest), but multipliers proved to
be my nemesis.
Started off fruitlessly trying to scrape something from the 10m void. Then
2-keyboard 2BSIQ excitement for two hours. But, by the time I tried an S&P
scan of 15m, everyone was gone, so came up short on mults there. After 15m
became a ghost town, focused on 20m alone for a bit. Not having to worry about a
second radio felt downright relaxing. Then added back S&P'ing on 40m at the
same time.
Later, 80m and 160m proved more challenging. Realizing I was low on mults, and
with rate going down, did a lot more S&P there, but kept returning to the
security blanket of running, perhaps to a fault, as it seemed like "hey,
everyone else is doing it," a faulty perception. I clearly need more
practice at S&P while running at a high run rate.
Had some trouble being heard across the country on 80m--the only New England I
worked on 80 was MA. Perhaps they had noise from weather. Similar issue on
160m. Returned to Top Band twice, but should have gone back again, as it went
longer at the end; I really could have used those mults. Live and learn (I
hope).
Many thanks to Ken N6RO for giving me a shot at this one from his excellent
station.
Selected Stats:
There were 535 bandchanges and 312 (26.9%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Unique callsigns worked = 793
The best 60 minute rate was 174/hour from 1809 to 1908
The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 1903 to 1932
The best 10 minute rate was 198/hour from 1900 to 1909
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 10 times.
4 QSOs/minute 36 times.
3 QSOs/minute 114 times.
2 QSOs/minute 234 times.
1 QSOs/minute 157 times.
Gross QSOs=1181 Dupes=20 Net QSOs=1161
"EFF_RATE" below is rate scaled by minutes operated (to adjust for
break hours.)
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct EFF_RATE
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1800 0 0 0 69 93 0 162 162 14.0 162
1900 0 0 0 100 63 0 163 325 28.0 163
2000 0 0 0 64 32 0 96 421 36.3 133
2100 0 0 9 72 0 0 81 502 43.2 103
2200 0 0 11 59 0 0 70 572 49.3 107
2300 0 0 56 44 0 0 100 672 57.9 118
0000 0 0 83 18 0 0 101 773 66.6 124
0100 0 16 60 0 0 0 76 849 73.1 114
0200 0 50 65 0 0 0 115 964 83.0 115
0300 21 39 22 0 0 0 82 1046 90.1 82
0400 26 25 15 0 0 0 66 1112 95.8 66
0500 0 20 29 0 0 0 49 1161 100.0 98
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Total 47 150 350 426 188 0 1161
------------ 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
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CA 10 27 22 15 5 0 79 6.8
TX 0 6 24 32 16 0 78 6.7
IL 0 7 19 20 18 0 64 5.5
VA 0 1 11 35 7 0 54 4.7
CO 4 10 11 14 12 0 51 4.4
OH 0 2 12 19 17 0 50 4.3
FL 0 4 16 25 4 0 49 4.2
WA 8 16 19 3 1 0 47 4.0
MN 0 6 14 15 8 0 43 3.7
PA 0 2 13 19 7 0 41 3.5
AZ 6 7 20 2 0 0 35 3.0
TN 1 2 9 15 7 0 34 2.9
ON 1 1 6 18 8 0 34 2.9
NY 0 1 10 19 3 0 33 2.8
IN 1 2 6 8 8 0 25 2.2
KS 0 7 6 7 4 0 24 2.1
OR 5 10 8 1 0 0 24 2.1
MO 0 3 6 8 6 0 23 2.0
MA 0 1 7 12 1 0 21 1.8
MD 0 1 8 11 1 0 21 1.8
MI 0 0 6 10 4 0 20 1.7
SC 0 0 7 8 4 0 19 1.6
NC 0 1 1 11 5 0 18 1.6
WI 0 1 7 6 4 0 18 1.6
KY 0 1 7 4 5 0 17 1.5
AL 0 1 9 4 2 0 16 1.4
NJ 0 0 5 10 1 0 16 1.4
GA 1 0 5 5 5 0 16 1.4
IA 0 2 4 7 3 0 16 1.4
MT 2 6 6 2 0 0 16 1.4
NM 1 2 7 4 0 0 14 1.2
ID 1 5 5 2 0 0 13 1.1
UT 1 1 3 7 0 0 12 1.0
OK 0 2 4 3 1 0 10 0.9
LA 0 1 3 3 2 0 9 0.8
AR 0 1 2 3 3 0 9 0.8
WV 0 0 2 3 4 0 9 0.8
MS 1 0 2 2 3 0 8 0.7
NH 0 0 1 6 1 0 8 0.7
DE 0 0 3 2 3 0 8 0.7
BC 2 4 2 0 0 0 8 0.7
WY 1 1 3 1 0 0 6 0.5
QC 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 0.4
CT 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.3
DC 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0.3
DX 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.3
SD 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 0.3
NE 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.3
RI 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.3
NB 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.3
NV 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 0.3
AB 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2
HI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2
VT 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2
AK 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.2
ME 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
NS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
SK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
KP2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
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Total 47 150 350 426 188 0 1161
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