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Subject: [3830] WPX CW WC1M SOAB Unassisted HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: wc1m73@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 21:40:56 +0000
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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2022

Call: WC1M
Operator(s): WC1M
Station: WC1M

Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Unassisted 
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 33.3
OpMode: 2BSIQ

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  143
   40:  713
   20: 1287
   15:  521
   10:   28
------------
Total: 2692  Prefixes = 886  Total Score = 6,687,528

Club: 

Comments:

I don’t know why, but unlike most years I wasn’t super-motivated to do this
contest. I thought I might do a casual effort, but it didn’t turn out that
way. I guess I like WPX CW so much that it’s hard to leave the radio, even
when conditions are poor! I was woefully under-prepared, but it didn’t seem to
matter much, except that lack of planning let to me taking too much break time
at the wrong times (one night I spent an more than an hour making dinner for my
wife and me instead of running the low bands!)

Aside from missing 2 ½ hours of operating time, which mostly hurt my numbers on
40, the poor conditions took a toll on 15 here at the higher latitudes. The band
never really opened on Day 1, though I was able to make up a fair amount of
ground on Day 2. It was a strange contest, in that conditions were bad at the
start (K index or 5), improved a lot in the middle (K index of 1), then
deteriorated about halfway through Day 2 (K index of 3). Usually it’s two good
days, two bad days, or one of each.

Really missed the Russians and Ukrainians. Honestly, I had forgotten about the
ban on Russian stations and thought I wasn’t working any because of the poor
conditions. Then I noticed DXLog counted zero points for the eight Russians I
worked who must not have gotten the memo. When I realized what was going on, it
made me very sad. Not for my score or contest fun, but for the thousands of hams
and millions of their fellow countrymen who are affected by the terrible war in
Ukraine.

For the record, last year I worked 880 Russian stations and 139 Ukrainian
stations, for a total of 1,019 contacts. That was 30% of the Qs for the whole
contest. Aside from the leaders, I’m sure this and the poor conditions had a
significant impact on most QSO totals. Still, it’s amazing how many Qs were
filled in by hams in other counties. Nevertheless, I hope someday this will be a
distant bad memory and we’ll have a truly worldwide event.

73, Dick WC1M

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

CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW
CALLSIGN: WC1M
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE

-------------- 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    108      4      0      0    112    112    4.2
0100       0     15     65      1      0      0     81    193    7.2
0200       0     31     67      0      0      0     98    291   10.8
0300       0     35     61      0      0      0     96    387   14.4
0400       0     18     77      1      0      0     96    483   17.9
0500       0      0     47     11      0      0     58    541   20.1
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    541   20.1
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    541   20.1
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    541   20.1
0900       0      0      0     42      0      0     42    583   21.7
1000       0      0      4     97      3      0    104    687   25.5
1100       0      0      0     88      4      0     92    779   28.9
1200       0      0      0     98      4      0    102    881   32.7
1300       0      0      0     75      5      0     80    961   35.7
1400       0      0      0     56      4      8     68   1029   38.2
1500       0      0      0     65      6      4     75   1104   41.0
1600       0      0      0     38      0      2     40   1144   42.5
1700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1144   42.5
1800       0      0      0     59      0      0     59   1203   44.7
1900       0      0      0     99     24      0    123   1326   49.3
2000       0      0      0     71     47      0    118   1444   53.6
2100       0      0      0     52     38      0     90   1534   57.0
2200       0      0      0      8      1      0      9   1543   57.3
2300       0      0     35      0      0      0     35   1578   58.6
0000       0      0     62     41      0      0    103   1681   62.4
0100       0      1     11      7      0      0     19   1700   63.2
0200       0     13     62      0      0      0     75   1775   65.9
0300       0     29     41      7      0      0     77   1852   68.8
0400       0      1      0      0      0      0      1   1853   68.8
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1853   68.8
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1853   68.8
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1853   68.8
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1853   68.8
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1853   68.8
1000       0      0      2     27      0      0     29   1882   69.9
1100       0      0      0     55      1      0     56   1938   72.0
1200       0      0      1     32     41      0     74   2012   74.7
1300       0      0      0      6     93      0     99   2111   78.4
1400       0      0      0     10     48      0     58   2169   80.6
1500       0      0      0     22     53      0     75   2244   83.4
1600       0      0      0     10     15      1     26   2270   84.3
1700       0      0      0     53     13      0     66   2336   86.8
1800       0      0      0     36     48      1     85   2421   89.9
1900       0      0      0     29     38      0     67   2488   92.4
2000       0      0      0      7     16     12     35   2523   93.7
2100       0      0      0     20     17      0     37   2560   95.1
2200       0      0     29     21      2      0     52   2612   97.0
2300       0      0     41     39      0      0     80   2692  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    143    713   1287    521     28   2692

Gross QSOs=2731        Dupes=39        Net QSOs=2692

Unique callsigns worked = 2016

The best 60 minute rate was 129/hour from 1924 to 2023
The best 30 minute rate was 136/hour from 2007 to 2036
The best 10 minute rate was 174/hour from 1251 to 1300

The best 1 minute rates were:
 4 QSOs/minute   28 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  229 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  581 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  731 times.

There were 777 bandchanges and 416 (15.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        37
   4      1140
   5       884
   6       606
   7         9
   8        13
   9         1
  10         2

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1509
2 bands     356
3 bands     134
4 bands      16
5 bands       1
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     56    340    833    259     21

Antennas:

160M  -  inverted vee @90'
80M  -  delta loop @75'
40M  -  Cal-Av 2D-40A @110', 4-square (used together for Diversity RX)  
20M  - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72'
15M  -  4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50'
10M  -  4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50'. 6-el @115'

Tower#1:   Force 12 EF-610, Cal-AV 2D-40A, 4-el SteppIRs, 160 inverted vee
770-MDP:   Force-12 EF-420
AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515
AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E

Delta loop hung from a tree

15m monobander got stuck by a tree branch at 270-degrees early on day 2 and
couldn't be rotated.

dual 580' beverage aimed 20/220 degrees (NOT WORKING)

Equipment:

Elecraft K3/P3 + Alpha 87A, DXLog.net, YCCC SO2R Box, homebrew Windows antenna
switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), 8" Windows tablet
Pro running AntennaMaster station software for wireless touch-screen
"button box", K1XM MOAS II USB Switch, TopTen and KK1L SO2R switches,
Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam Stack Switch and StackMax


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