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[3830] CQWW SSB N7DX(@K7RL) M/2 HP

To: 3830@contesting.com, n7dx@tonygarland.com
Subject: [3830] CQWW SSB N7DX(@K7RL) M/2 HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: n7dx@tonygarland.com
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:21:24 +0000
List-post: <mailto:3830@contesting.com>
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2021

Call: N7DX
Operator(s): K7RL N7DX
Station: K7RL

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Camano Island, WA
Operating Time (hrs): 27:38
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:    6     5        3
   80:   53    13       15
   40:  251    26       60
   20:  561    32      103
   15: 1031    29       96
   10:  140    19       39
------------------------------
Total: 2042   124      316  Total Score = 2,379,080

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Comments:

Band conditions were good at the start. Mitch had a great run at the start into
Asia for several hours. I struggled at the start on 20 as I was running a Rube
Goldberg set up trying to work around issues running that prevent me from using
Flex Radio SmartSDK for remote control in conjunction with N1MM for contests. 
The work-around required using two different keyboards -- one controlling a
Windows 10 virtual machine (logging in N1MM) and another running voice
recordings in a Chrome browser connected to K7RL via RHR -- running on macOS. 
Anyway, it took about 30 minutes for me to get into the swing about how to make
the arrangement fly. Even then, it proved awkward at best.

We had fun the first evening and were doing reasonably well.

However, I was occasionally receiving reports of marginal audio quality.  In the
wee hours of the first night, reports of poor audio were mounting.  When  the
Asia run slowed down on 40 at about 1100Z, I took some time out to go up on 10
meters (closed locally at that time) and investigate further.

I had been listening to the audio recordings which RHR plays back through the
local browser. Although they sounded fine on my end they were not being
transmitted to the remote K7RL site in-tact.  Listening to the monitor on the
transmit end (which one doesn't tend to do during the heat of battle due to
significant latency which almost makes it impossible to speak) I could hear some
serious audio artifacts.  Even with low power -- they were not RF related.  

I guessed it was due to poor audio bandwidth between RHR running in Chrome on my
computer and how the audio arrived at K7RL on the other end. I contacted by
Internet service provider and managed to upgrade my service -- on the fly -- to
double both download and upload rates.  Unfortunately, even with twice the
upload speed as before, the garbled audio persisted.  I reluctantly decided to
bow out of the effort rather than continue spewing obnoxious audio around the
world. Mitch gracefully offered to continue to the effort in my absence.

As a result, the vast majority of the effort was really a one-man show by Mitch
who pulled together a really respectable score when the M/2 with two ops
degenerated into M/2 with only one op. (I only contributed 17% to the total Q
count: 355 out of 2042.)

We had agreed going in that we'd take a more casual approach than in times past
-- getting a reasonable amount of sleep with only two operators. Of course, that
became even more of a factor once Mitch was left on his own. N1MM reported a
total time on of 27:38 out of the 48 possible hours.

The gory details follow...

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

CALLSIGN: N7DX
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: TWO
OPERATORS: K7RL, N7DX

**  1  ****** Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y **************

Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0      0    218      0    218   12.9
0100       0      0      0      0     99      0     99   18.8
0200       0      0     21      0      0      0     21   20.0
0300       4      2     15      0      0      0     21   21.3
0400       1     12      7      0      0      0     20   22.5
0500       0      1     20      0      0      0     21   23.7
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   23.7
1400       0      0     19      0      0      0     19   24.8
1500       0      0     12      0    107      0    119   31.9
1600       0      0      0      7     96      0    103   38.0
1700       0      0      0     23     11      8     42   40.5
1800       0      0      0      6     11     80     97   46.2
1900       0      0      0     28      7     22     57   49.6
2000       0      0      0      5      3     12     20   50.8
2100       0      0      0     26     42      0     68   54.8
2200       0      0      0      0    129      3    132   62.7
2300       0      0      0      6     69      9     84   67.6
0000       0      0      0      4    117      1    122   74.9
0100       0      0      0      2      0      0      2   75.0
0200       0      1      7      9      1      0     18   76.1
0300       1      0      1      0      0      0      2   76.2
0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   76.2
1500       0      0      0     21      0      0     21   77.4
1600       0      0      0     25      2      0     27   79.0
1700       0      0      0     66      0      0     66   82.9
1800       0      0      0    115      0      0    115   89.7
1900       0      0      0     25     15      4     44   92.4
2000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   92.4
2100       0      0      0     12      9      1     22   93.7
2200       0      0      0      7     21      0     28   95.3
2300       0      0      0      5     74      0     79  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      6     16    102    392   1031    140   1687


**  0  ****** Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y **************

Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0     71      0      0     71   20.0
0100       0      0      0     61      0      0     61   37.2
0200       0      0      0     24      0      0     24   43.9
0300       0      0      0     13      0      0     13   47.6
0400       0      0      4      0      0      0      4   48.7
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   48.7
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   48.7
0700       0      0     27      0      0      0     27   56.3
0800       0     10     53      0      0      0     63   74.1
0900       0     10     41      0      0      0     51   88.5
1000       0     17      9      0      0      0     26   95.8
1100       0      0     15      0      0      0     15  100.0
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
1900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
2300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0     37    149    169      0      0    355


-------------- 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     71    218      0    289    289   14.2
0100       0      0      0     61     99      0    160    449   22.0
0200       0      0     21     24      0      0     45    494   24.2
0300       4      2     15     13      0      0     34    528   25.9
0400       1     12     11      0      0      0     24    552   27.0
0500       0      1     20      0      0      0     21    573   28.1
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    573   28.1
0700       0      0     27      0      0      0     27    600   29.4
0800       0     10     53      0      0      0     63    663   32.5
0900       0     10     41      0      0      0     51    714   35.0
1000       0     17      9      0      0      0     26    740   36.2
1100       0      0     15      0      0      0     15    755   37.0
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    755   37.0
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    755   37.0
1400       0      0     19      0      0      0     19    774   37.9
1500       0      0     12      0    107      0    119    893   43.7
1600       0      0      0      7     96      0    103    996   48.8
1700       0      0      0     23     11      8     42   1038   50.8
1800       0      0      0      6     11     80     97   1135   55.6
1900       0      0      0     28      7     22     57   1192   58.4
2000       0      0      0      5      3     12     20   1212   59.4
2100       0      0      0     26     42      0     68   1280   62.7
2200       0      0      0      0    129      3    132   1412   69.1
2300       0      0      0      6     69      9     84   1496   73.3
0000       0      0      0      4    117      1    122   1618   79.2
0100       0      0      0      2      0      0      2   1620   79.3
0200       0      1      7      9      1      0     18   1638   80.2
0300       1      0      1      0      0      0      2   1640   80.3
0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1640   80.3
1500       0      0      0     21      0      0     21   1661   81.3
1600       0      0      0     25      2      0     27   1688   82.7
1700       0      0      0     66      0      0     66   1754   85.9
1800       0      0      0    115      0      0    115   1869   91.5
1900       0      0      0     25     15      4     44   1913   93.7
2000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1913   93.7
2100       0      0      0     12      9      1     22   1935   94.8
2200       0      0      0      7     21      0     28   1963   96.1
2300       0      0      0      5     74      0     79   2042  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      6     53    251    561   1031    140   2042

Gross QSOs=2072        Dupes=30        Net QSOs=2042

Unique callsigns worked = 1729

The best 60 minute rate was 293/hour from 0002 to 0101
The best 30 minute rate was 314/hour from 0005 to 0034
The best 10 minute rate was 336/hour from 0005 to 0014

The best 1 minute rates were:
 7 QSOs/minute   10 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   14 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   26 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   66 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  145 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  271 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  517 times.

----------------- 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      6     29     55     90    109     72    361   17.7
South America      0      6     16     18     62     54    156    7.6
Europe             0      0     30    277    196      0    503   24.6
Asia               0     16    126    159    572      5    878   43.0
Africa             0      0      3      7      6      3     19    0.9
Oceania            0      2     21     10     86      6    125    6.1
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total              6     53    251    561   1031    140   2042

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        22
   4       405
   5       521
   6      1073
   7         2
   8        16
   9         2
  10         1

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3W               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
4L               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
4O               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
4X               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
5B               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
8P               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
9A               0      0      1      4      4      0      9    0.4
9H               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
9K               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
9M2              0      0      0      1      2      0      3    0.1
9M6              0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
9V               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
9Y               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
A4               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
A7               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
BV               0      0      0      1      5      0      6    0.3
BY               0      0      1     12     38      0     51    2.5
CE               0      0      1      2      4      2      9    0.4
CM               0      0      1      1      2      1      5    0.2
CP               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CT               0      0      1      2      4      0      7    0.3
CT3              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.2
CU               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CX               0      0      0      1      4      2      7    0.3
D4               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
DL               0      0      1     33     28      0     62    3.0
DU               0      0      3      4     19      1     27    1.3
E7               0      0      1      2      0      0      3    0.1
EA               0      0      2     16     25      0     43    2.1
EA8              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.2
EI               0      0      1      3      3      0      7    0.3
ES               0      0      1      2      1      0      4    0.2
EU               0      0      1      3      0      0      4    0.2
F                0      0      2     23     33      0     58    2.8
FG               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
FK               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
FM               0      0      1      2      2      1      6    0.3
FP               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
FR               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
FS               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
FY               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.1
G                0      0      1     18     29      0     48    2.4
GD               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
GI               0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.1
GM               0      0      0      5      3      0      8    0.4
GU               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
GW               0      0      0      2      4      0      6    0.3
HA               0      0      2      6      1      0      9    0.4
HB               0      0      1      1      2      0      4    0.2
HB0              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HC               0      0      1      2      2      1      6    0.3
HC8              0      1      1      0      1      1      4    0.2
HI               0      0      1      1      3      1      6    0.3
HK               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
HL               0      0      3      1     14      0     18    0.9
HP               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
HS               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
HZ               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
I                0      0      2     26     27      0     55    2.7
IS               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
*IT9             0      0      0      3      2      0      5    0.2
J6               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.2
JA               0     15    122    117    497      5    756   37.0
JD/o             0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
JW               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
K                2     10     21     49     55     44    181    8.9
KH0              0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
KH2              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
KH6              0      0      4      4      3      1     12    0.6
KL               0      2      3     10      9      1     25    1.2
KP2              1      0      1      1      1      3      7    0.3
KP4              0      1      2      1      4      4     12    0.6
LA               0      0      0      8      2      0     10    0.5
LU               0      0      2      1      9     10     22    1.1
LX               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
LY               0      0      1      4      0      0      5    0.2
LZ               0      0      1      4      0      0      5    0.2
OA               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.2
OE               0      0      0      6      2      0      8    0.4
OH               0      0      0     16      4      0     20    1.0
OK               0      0      1      9      0      0     10    0.5
OM               0      0      1      5      1      0      7    0.3
ON               0      0      0      4      4      0      8    0.4
OX               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
OZ               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
P4               0      0      0      1      2      1      4    0.2
PA               0      0      0      7      5      0     12    0.6
PJ2              0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.2
PJ4              0      1      2      1      2      2      8    0.4
PJ7              0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
PY               0      2      5      4     28     28     67    3.3
PY0F             0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.2
PZ               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
S5               0      0      2      5      3      0     10    0.5
SM               0      0      0      5      1      0      6    0.3
SP               0      0      3     13      0      0     16    0.8
SV               0      0      0      4      0      0      4    0.2
SV9              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
TA               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
TF               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
TI               0      0      2      1      2      2      7    0.3
TK               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
UA               0      0      1      9      0      0     10    0.5
UA2              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
UA9              0      1      0     12     12      0     25    1.2
UR               0      0      1      8      0      0      9    0.4
V2               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
V3               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.2
V5               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
V8               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
VE               3     13     17     15     17      8     73    3.6
VK               0      1      6      0      9      0     16    0.8
VK9N             0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
VP5              0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
VP9              0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
XE               0      1      0      1      1      1      4    0.2
YB               0      0      6      1     49      1     57    2.8
YL               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
YO               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
YU               0      0      1      6      0      0      7    0.3
Z6               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
YV               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.2
ZF               0      2      1      2      1      1      7    0.3
ZL               0      1      0      0      1      0      2    0.1
ZP               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
ZS               0      0      1      2      2      0      5    0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total            6     53    251    561   1031    140   2042

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
25         0     15    125    118    511      5    774   37.9
14         0      0      9    130    149      0    288   14.1
15         0      0     17    113     47      0    177    8.7
04         2      8     22     31     30     19    112    5.5
05         1      8      6     10     33     32     90    4.4
11         0      3      6      6     30     29     74    3.6
28         0      0      7      3     54      1     65    3.2
08         1      3     10     10     20     14     58    2.8
24         0      0      1     13     43      0     57    2.8
03         1      7      9     22     11      1     51    2.5
27         0      0      3      6     22      3     34    1.7
09         0      2      5      5     10      7     29    1.4
13         0      0      2      2     13     12     29    1.4
01         0      2      3     11      9      1     26    1.3
16         0      0      3     19      0      0     22    1.1
20         0      0      1     17      0      0     18    0.9
19         0      1      0      7      9      0     17    0.8
10         0      1      2      3      5      4     15    0.7
07         0      0      3      3      4      4     14    0.7
30         0      1      5      0      8      0     14    0.7
31         0      0      4      4      3      1     12    0.6
12         0      0      1      2      4      2      9    0.4
33         0      0      2      2      2      2      8    0.4
18         0      0      0      4      3      0      7    0.3
38         0      0      1      3      3      0      7    0.3
21         0      0      0      6      0      0      6    0.3
40         0      0      0      4      1      0      5    0.2
32         0      1      1      0      2      1      5    0.2
02         1      0      2      1      0      0      4    0.2
06         0      1      0      1      1      1      4    0.2
26         0      0      0      1      2      0      3    0.1
35         0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
29         0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
17         0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
39         0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      6     53    251    561   1031    140   2042

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1495
2 bands     170
3 bands      52
4 bands       9
5 bands       3
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      3     31    145    388    828    100


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