CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: ND7K
Operator(s): N6MJ
Station: N6WIN
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 7
80: 331
40: 1148
20: 1523
15: 452
10: 103
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Total: 3564 Prefixes = 1015 Total Score = 8,303,715
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Thanks to Tim, N6WIN for hosting me this weekend. WPX CW is one of my favorite
contests, but I was scheduled to be out of town this weekend until the Covid
stay at home orders happened. Tim's station can be fully remoted, but for
serious efforts I really prefer to be on site. After it became clear that it
would be safe to travel to AZ, Tim and I came up with a plan for me to operate.
Tim has put in countless hours getting this station going from scratch. Several
new antennas were added just in the past week. Those include the home built,
K3LR inspired, 20m 6/6 OWA EU stack, and the JK 1015 yagi at 140'. There are
plans to add more antennas for all the bands in the next year or so and Hector,
XE2K, is making sure to continue to be available as the job is way more than Tim
can handle. It is already a top notch contest station as it is today, but it
will only get better as time goes on. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to
come to hang out with one of my best friends, drink some beers, and operate
radio!
There were 2 major issues that had to be addressed prior to doing the contest.
The first issue was Tim's Acom 2000A was acting up. In tests the week prior to
the contest, I received several complaints that our signal was wide. Bill W9KKN
and Marty NN1C believe it to be bad capacitors. They are working to fix the
problem. Thanks to NX1P and V73NS for both taking the time to send me an email.
Tim attempted to make some quick fixes but nothing worked. So I ended up
bringing my Alpha 87A to replace it. The 87A is a great amp, but we haven't
been using it much at home. I was a little worried about the amp, but it worked
like a champ. The other issue was that my secret black box for audio switching
is currently sitting in Costa Rica at TI7W's location due to CoVid related
travel/shipping restrictions. John, K6AM has been a mentor to both Tim and I
over the years, and after some prodding he agreed to build us a brand new
(serial 003) box on short notice. As always, the box worked perfectly and it
helped my score without a doubt.
We will be using the call ND7K from here going forward in all major contests.
Tim and I have been looking for a club call for a while, and missed out on
several other good ones. ND7K was available, so I took a shot and ended up
winning the lottery for it. I happened to mention to our good friend Dave, N2NL
that we got the call. He said that he actually knew the original ND7K and that
he had some of his gear in his shack. This was an incredible coincidence! After
ND7K passed away, K1PT ended up with his collection of keys. Paul came thru and
offered us some of ND7K's old paddles. I was able to use 2 of them this weekend,
and it was a nice way to break in the new club call. A huge thanks to N2NL and
K1PT for making all of this happen.
Going in to the contest, conditions were really good. I knew that could only
mean 1 thing: Conditions would be bad during the actual contest. This thought
held up, as a flare hit at around 06z the first night. Up until that point, we
had an amazing opening to EU on 20. After that, working EU was a struggle. The
over the pole opening Saturday night was very disappointing. Having a 6/6 stack
to both JA and EU on 20m sounds like a bit much, but they both came in handy. I
felt like king of the band, which doesn't happen often from out west.
The contest started out a little rocky, as we ran into some issues in the first
hour. The first issue was one of the computers lost its connection to the
network. It took me a little while to realize that both computers were sending
different serial numbers. After some brainstorming, Tim remembered that this was
the only computer in the network running off WiFi. I was able to put it on an
ethernet connection and there were no more issues the rest of the contest. The
2nd issue was the feedline failed on radio 1 about 45 minutes into the contest.
Originally we thought the problem was the 87A, but that's when we noticed the
SWR was bad on all bands with the amp out of line. I lost about an hour total on
the 2nd radio while diagnosing this issue. With the 8x4 switch a quick swap of
the feedlines was then able to be done and everything worked great for the rest
of the contest.
A huge congrats to Axel, KI6RRN for his tremendous score from NO6T. I was
pushing really hard the entire contest, and still found myself behind all
weekend. We ended in a virtual tie, but I have a feeling Axel will pull out the
win after log checking. He hasn't had a ton of competition from W6/W7 over the
last year or 2, but he is the real deal. I am excited to see how he does in the
next WRTC.
Thank you to all who we worked and to all who go into making such a station.
This station is truly a team effort.
73,
Dan N6MJ
Operating conditions:
K3 and Alpha 87A
K3 and Alpha 78
Flex 6600 band scope
160m 1/4 λ Vertical
80m JK 801T @145'
40m K3LR 4 el OWA @130' & JK 404C @140'
20m 6/6 OWA EU stack @130/80', M2 20M6 JA stack @130/60', JK Mid-Tri NA Stack
@71/37'
15m JK 1015 5 el @140', Mid-Tri NA Stack @71/37'
10m JK 1015 6 el @140', Mid-Tri NA Stack @71/37'
RX Ant EU & JA 500' beverages
Green Heron Everyware switching worked great driving OK2ZAW stack matches, K7NV
prop-pitches, and 80m Tornado tuner.
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
CALLSIGN: ND7K
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS:
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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0000 0 0 0 123 62 0 185 185 5.2
0100 0 0 8 123 10 0 141 326 9.1
0200 0 0 31 109 0 0 140 466 13.1
0300 0 0 65 93 0 0 158 624 17.5
0400 0 0 52 95 4 0 151 775 21.7
0500 0 0 61 91 0 0 152 927 26.0
0600 0 83 2 63 0 0 148 1075 30.2
0700 0 0 64 40 0 0 104 1179 33.1
0800 0 30 59 6 0 0 95 1274 35.7
0900 0 33 66 0 0 0 99 1373 38.5
1000 0 40 60 0 0 0 100 1473 41.3
1100 0 45 77 0 0 0 122 1595 44.8
1200 0 8 78 20 0 0 106 1701 47.7
1300 0 0 55 45 2 0 102 1803 50.6
1400 0 0 9 24 0 0 33 1836 51.5
1500 0 0 0 20 9 2 31 1867 52.4
1600 0 0 0 49 23 3 75 1942 54.5
1700 0 0 0 5 28 2 35 1977 55.5
1800 0 0 0 52 35 29 116 2093 58.7
1900 0 0 0 4 19 1 24 2117 59.4
2000 0 0 0 19 22 0 41 2158 60.5
2100 0 0 0 71 38 0 109 2267 63.6
2200 0 0 0 55 39 0 94 2361 66.2
2300 0 0 0 60 28 1 89 2450 68.7
0000 0 0 17 49 13 0 79 2529 71.0
0100 0 0 40 34 0 0 74 2603 73.0
0200 0 0 36 37 0 0 73 2676 75.1
0300 0 1 66 43 0 0 110 2786 78.2
0400 0 0 34 40 0 0 74 2860 80.2
0500 7 16 18 27 0 0 68 2928 82.2
0600 0 11 26 19 1 0 57 2985 83.8
0700 0 0 36 18 0 0 54 3039 85.3
0800 0 0 31 5 0 0 36 3075 86.3
0900 0 0 41 11 0 0 52 3127 87.7
1000 0 32 39 0 0 0 71 3198 89.7
1100 0 23 36 0 0 0 59 3257 91.4
1200 0 9 41 2 0 0 52 3309 92.8
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3309 92.8
1400 0 0 0 42 10 0 52 3361 94.3
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3361 94.3
1600 0 0 0 0 29 50 79 3440 96.5
1700 0 0 0 0 23 15 38 3478 97.6
1800 0 0 0 2 27 0 29 3507 98.4
1900 0 0 0 5 13 0 18 3525 98.9
2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3525 98.9
2100 0 0 0 17 17 0 34 3559 99.9
2200 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 3564 100.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3564 100.0
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Total 7 331 1148 1523 452 103 3564
Gross QSOs=3675 Dupes=111 Net QSOs=3564
Unique callsigns worked = 2486
The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 0005 to 0104
The best 30 minute rate was 202/hour from 0002 to 0031
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 0010 to 0019
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 20 times.
4 QSOs/minute 101 times.
3 QSOs/minute 381 times.
2 QSOs/minute 625 times.
1 QSOs/minute 667 times.
There were 1584 bandchanges and 877 (24.6%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 8
4 1669
5 960
6 881
7 6
8 29
9 6
10 3
11 2
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1746
2 bands 480
3 bands 193
4 bands 58
5 bands 7
6 bands 2
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
NR6O WW1X
------- 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 3 87 548 913 165 30
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