CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2023
Call: ND7K
Operator(s): KJ6JET K1AR N2NC N2NL NK7U K7ZO K6JO N6MJ KL9A W4IX W9KKN KI6RRN
K7ZS N6WIN
Station: N6WIN
Class: M/M HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 175
80: 695
40: 1668
20: 2638
15: 2379
10: 2303
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Total: 9858 Prefixes = 1583 Total Score = 30,053,255
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
This is a hard one to even begin to write as we had such an amazing group of
operators willing to come out to no where Arizona... for WPX SSB!?! This one
continues to be a great gathering of friends who enjoy meat, drink, socializing,
and oh there is a contest to do too!?!
We went into the weekend with the widely shared knowledge that band conditions
may be challenging. During our pre contest meetings I remember pointing to a
little plaque on the wall and discussed how it happened... basically the message
was that if you think it's going to be bad and thus you'll not do well, then
you're right. Conversely, if you just operate hard with a positive outlook then
you'll be just as right. Which one would provide the better result at the end of
the contest due to mindset?
Dan, N6MJ, continued his team Captain role for WPX SSB here. For the past two
years running I've challenged him to bring together operators who have the
skills necessary to do great things... but who can also have a wonderful time
together when off the radio. He's done a great job of it and the entire event
felt more like a party than a 48 hour radio event.
Bill, W9KKN, decided to take on the role of station overhaul inside. He's been
with us for a few years now and continues to push us to improve the technology
even when grumps like MJ and WIN saying no at times due to not understanding or
being fearful of change. He took our desires for improved efficiency to heart
and began showing documentation of his vision around his crazy busy work life.
As the contest drew closer I began to understand just how truly hard he was
working towards making a very special thing happen inside the shack.
With the willingness of Axel, KI6RRN, to come out a week early... Bill had an on
the ground man with exceptional skills to get things implemented. I would check
in during the evenings to see my shack nearly completely being changed...
something that in the past I wouldn't have been so comfortable with. However,
I've seen the level of intelligence and diligence from both of these great guys
and knew to just get out of their way.
The shack was transformed to let the Icom 7610's and Alpha 87's be implemented
around the MOAS and GHEverywhere. Bill introduced reliable PTT driven,
automated, TX/RX solutions. He had new lockout solutions and brought in new
custom PCB's to handle RX switching going way beyond the capabilities of our
K9AY custom 8x4 RX switch. The guys hit this out of the park and I got so many
compliments from the operators here about how great it worked and how reliable
it was!
Chris, KL9A, crushed it with an amazing locally sourced roast dinner on Sunday
along with his awesome idea of craft beer tasting. Joe, NK7U, brought in some
great tasting scotch and Scott, K7ZO, delighted our taste buds with wine that
honored the meat!
Tina, KJ6JET, absolutely kept the boys gaining lots of weight through the
weekend. She was so nervous leading up that the ops wouldn't be well taken care
of and she spent her spring break preparing the QTH. It was really nice to see
so many ops helping her with tasks, socializing when off duty, and letting her
know how much she was appreciated. She even came to the shack on Sunday and
worked some Q's which is something she's never done before.
The full team just hammered the radios and never seemed to be overly upset with
anything or anyone. These boys definitely have their pedigrees in order for
radio contesting, but nobody ever had an ego issue! They had their assignments,
took them seriously, and I believe the end result is a new score out here that
is going to be hard to beat.
We had what appears to be an NA record 573 QSO hour during hour one. 15m was one
of our normal speed demons, N6MJ and N2NL on inband. KL9A stood back and asked
two veteran K3LR men to sit down at 20m with no ND7K station experience... K1AR
and N2NC took that 20m helm. I remember watching our "new" guys fumble
for maybe 5-10 minutes and then they truly showed one of the most professional
showings of teamwork inband that I've seen. I remember saying to Chris,
"these guys are pros" and we enjoyed watching them show how veteran
team guys do their thing.
Joe Rudi, NK7U, took our 80m helm and just killed it with nearly 700 Q's with
the help of K7ZS on the first evening... who does that from AZ?
K6JO kept rate up as he does. W4IX held his own big time and I always knew I'd
see him in the shack. K7ZO put in big numbers during his second operation here.
The recent microburst had taken out five yagis and downed a tower, blah blah
blah right? With the mindset here it's just a new little hurdle for these guys
to leap over. During the contest we had one power supply failure, a preamp go
down and that was it. Amazing with how hard these boys hit the equipment from as
soon as the gate opened. The field of depth here really showed as each little
setback was quickly handled and ops shifted chairs to let the techie guys handle
the hiccups so that Q rates didn't diminish anymore than needed.
The online scoreboard was an absolute treat to watch. I made sure to remind the
ops here that we spot our competition that might beat us more than anyone else.
We spot a lot here and it was really nice to hear that our biggest competitors
WX3B and NR6O noticed it. They both have a long and distinguished track record
in WPX SSB and it was awesome to see them on the live scoreboard hitting it
hard!
A special note to Jim, WX3B... it was really cool to exchange a mid contest
email. The basic message was one of encouraging the other team to push hard and
extending a message of great sportsmanship towards one another. I do believe
that the ops on both teams operated hard but also gave space to each other...
and I know both sides spotted one another a lot. We absolutely worked hard on
our end to try and honor WX3B's team's effort by doing as much as possible to
get the points. They kept us pushing without a doubt! It wasn't until the 20m
crew had their amazing EU opening Saturday night that we felt like we might have
a leg up.
The Icom 7610's worked great in a five station, seven transmitter environment.
The new inband verticals will get some remote preamps on 20-10m, but otherwise
hung in there. MOAS is a keeper (thanks K1XM and NN1C for their previous work on
this too) and I'm excited to see how KL9A implements it from the ground up in
Shawmut!
To the ops who came here and to the ops who gave us Q's, every bit is what goes
into this operation. The #1's on 40m friendship net, the six banders, and the
guys who moved for us... it's all very much appreciated!
Operating conditions:
Icom IC7610's
Alpha 87A's
160m 1/4 λ Vertical
80m JK 801T @145', 80M Vertical
40m K3LR 4/4 el OWA @130' & JK 404C @140'
20m 6/6/6 OWA EU stack @130/80/40', M2 20M6 JA stack @130/60', DXE Skyhawk SA
100'
15m 7 W7-Optimized K3LR OWA EU @120', JK 1015 5 el @140', 7/7 OWA JA stack
@120/90', DXE Skyhawk SA 100'
10m 8/8/8/8 W7-Optimized K3LR OWA EU stack @120/90/60/30', 7/7 M2 JA stack, JK
1015 6 el @140', DXE Skyhawk SA 100'
RX Ant EU, JA, Oceana, & East 580' beverages, 10/15/20/40m RX Verticals
Green Heron Everyware switching worked great driving OK2ZAW stack matches, K7NV
prop-pitches, and 80m Tornado tuner. The K6AM Skunkworkz Seekrit black boxes
continue to be a reliable solution when the more basic brains at ND7K are in
need. MOAS RX/TX Solutions now in place.
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
CALLSIGN: ND7K
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: UNLIMITED
OPERATORS: KJ6JET K1AR N2NC N2NL NK7U K7ZO K6JO N6MJ KL9A W4IX W9KKN KI6RRN K7ZS
N6WIN
-------------- 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 1 56 192 188 136 573 573 5.8
0100 0 13 68 167 115 99 462 1035 10.5
0200 0 15 121 181 80 45 442 1477 15.0
0300 1 31 98 144 65 17 356 1833 18.6
0400 2 61 97 59 33 2 254 2087 21.2
0500 35 68 63 23 0 0 189 2276 23.1
0600 23 47 47 32 0 0 149 2425 24.6
0700 13 30 44 25 0 0 112 2537 25.7
0800 10 32 64 19 0 0 125 2662 27.0
0900 18 45 52 14 0 0 129 2791 28.3
1000 14 55 56 8 0 0 133 2924 29.7
1100 10 39 40 10 0 0 99 3023 30.7
1200 0 10 22 36 6 0 74 3097 31.4
1300 0 1 24 82 82 21 210 3307 33.5
1400 0 0 16 98 107 63 284 3591 36.4
1500 0 0 0 77 108 114 299 3890 39.5
1600 0 0 0 81 96 144 321 4211 42.7
1700 0 0 0 65 101 153 319 4530 46.0
1800 0 0 0 25 83 128 236 4766 48.3
1900 0 0 8 43 85 108 244 5010 50.8
2000 0 0 19 19 74 116 228 5238 53.1
2100 0 0 9 39 75 94 217 5455 55.3
2200 0 0 16 23 60 88 187 5642 57.2
2300 0 0 18 49 85 68 220 5862 59.5
0000 0 0 46 51 74 87 258 6120 62.1
0100 0 13 57 76 66 92 304 6424 65.2
0200 0 29 52 84 52 32 249 6673 67.7
0300 0 38 75 60 32 7 212 6885 69.8
0400 15 32 53 47 10 0 157 7042 71.4
0500 9 30 44 99 0 0 182 7224 73.3
0600 8 30 40 95 2 0 175 7399 75.1
0700 0 9 26 108 0 0 143 7542 76.5
0800 7 15 47 87 0 0 156 7698 78.1
0900 3 11 34 24 0 0 72 7770 78.8
1000 1 5 34 9 0 0 49 7819 79.3
1100 3 18 32 13 0 0 66 7885 80.0
1200 3 13 33 24 1 0 74 7959 80.7
1300 0 3 43 79 63 20 208 8167 82.8
1400 0 0 19 53 84 55 211 8378 85.0
1500 0 0 8 32 64 104 208 8586 87.1
1600 0 0 14 18 58 73 163 8749 88.8
1700 0 0 17 24 69 68 178 8927 90.6
1800 0 0 9 22 86 50 167 9094 92.2
1900 0 0 9 32 59 80 180 9274 94.1
2000 0 0 7 26 58 68 159 9433 95.7
2100 0 1 9 18 49 47 124 9557 96.9
2200 0 0 2 17 60 59 138 9695 98.3
2300 0 0 20 29 49 65 163 9858 100.0
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Total 175 695 1668 2638 2379 2303 9858
Gross QSOs=10169 Dupes=311 Net QSOs=9858
Unique callsigns worked = 6086
The best 60 minute rate was 574/hour from 0004 to 0103
The best 30 minute rate was 600/hour from 0028 to 0057
The best 10 minute rate was 648/hour from 0000 to 0009
The best 1 minute rates were:
15 QSOs/minute 3 times.
14 QSOs/minute 3 times.
13 QSOs/minute 6 times.
12 QSOs/minute 10 times.
11 QSOs/minute 14 times.
10 QSOs/minute 25 times.
9 QSOs/minute 44 times.
8 QSOs/minute 61 times.
7 QSOs/minute 111 times.
6 QSOs/minute 198 times.
5 QSOs/minute 293 times.
4 QSOs/minute 435 times.
3 QSOs/minute 549 times.
2 QSOs/minute 524 times.
1 QSOs/minute 420 times.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 44
4 2844
5 3552
6 3325
7 31
8 38
9 21
10 3
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 4102
2 bands 988
3 bands 491
4 bands 277
5 bands 169
6 bands 59
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
NG3R WW4LL NW8S WM7A VC6X W8BI
WR3Z WX3B NR6O AC0W WC6H NE1C
KE8NBC AC9TO PJ2T VE6AO NH7T W4KW
K6AM W0IO W2GDJ NF3R NC1CC KS9R
KF3P KY7M KO0A AA4VT K0YR KU1CW
K5XU CF3A KT5J CN3A N7ZZ KA6BIM
NU5A K9KJ KE2D WS9M WD6T KC9LA
K7SS KT7E W1FM K5RX KC9ACL W4GE
K0RC NT6Q V31MA K9PG N9OK K9NW
NA9US AJ4F N4RV N5RZ K7HP
------- 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 23 128 599 1240 931 1181
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