ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 1994
Call: KP4VA ( op KP4TK ) Country: Puerto Rico
Mode: CW Category: Single Op/DX/Low Power
BAND QSO QSO PTS STATES/PROV
160 0 0 0
80 348 1044 48
40 498 1494 53
20 606 1818 58
15 698 2094 57
10 612 1836 54
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Totals 2762 8286 270 = 2,237,220
Power: 100w
Equipment Description:
Kenwood TS-830s
80m, 40m(15m), 20m, 10m Dipoles @ 150ft
Comments:
- My BEST !
- No filters
- After finishing a week with 4 exams, only 5 hours after the contest
to install computer, prepare shack and build the K3KU grid block
keying circuit... And then Dear Murphy appeared. I could not make
the circuit works and the GATEWAY 2000 had a s7 in some frequencies
in all bands!
- Sorry for the bad keying sunday afternoon. My hand was tired!
73's
Eric M. Guzman Colon KP4TK
UPR-RUM E.E. Department Club Station KP4VA
ericm@rmece02.upr.clu.edu
>From hhoyt@k4pql.apex.nc.us (Howard Hoyt) Tue Feb 22 13:29:53 1994
From: hhoyt@k4pql.apex.nc.us (Howard Hoyt) (Howard Hoyt)
Subject: K4PQL Score
Message-ID: <i1H6Hc1w165w@k4pql.apex.nc.us>
Conditions seemed reasonably good. I was hoping 80/160 would have been
better, but a pretty bad chest cold limited hours there anyway.
As usual, 40/15 seemed to be my bread & butter bands.
Called by 3da0ca, only to find my software d/n support the prefix !
Logged to paper while figuring circumvention (changed to 3D6) :-)
As noted earlier, activity outside of the "western world" just wasnt
there. 73, Howie K4PQL
band qsos points mults
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160 22 66 18
80 111 333 48
40 565 1695 75
20 450 1350 75
15 646 1938 77
10 33 99 23
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total: 1827 5481 316 claimed score: 1,731,996
>From Tony Brock-Fisher <fisher@hp-and.an.hp.com> Tue Feb 22 14:26:17 1994
From: Tony Brock-Fisher <fisher@hp-and.an.hp.com> (Tony Brock-Fisher)
Subject: K1KP ARRL CW SCORE
Message-ID: <9402221426.AA15350@hp-and.an.hp.com>
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 1994
Call: K1KP Country: United States (232)
Mode: CW Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 23 66 2.9 21
80 97 288 3.0 48
40 359 1074 3.0 81
20 605 1809 3.0 84
15 490 1470 3.0 68
10 30 90 3.0 22
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Totals 1604 4797 3.0 324 = 1,554,228
Operators: WA1S, K1KP
Equipment Description:
IC-765, SB-220, Kt-34XA (70'), 40-2CD (80'), delta loop on 80, QWS on 160
Club Affiliation: YCCC
>From Jim Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1007 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> Tue Feb
>22 15:03:31 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1007 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim
Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1007)
Subject: ARRL DX CW 1994: AD1C M/S from KC1XX
Message-ID: <9402221503.AA22395@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
We operated Multi-Single from KC1XX's station. Operators were Matt,
N1QQO and myself. Here's our score summary and continental breakdown:
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 41 123 3.0 37
80 203 609 3.0 64
40 693 2079 3.0 95
20 652 1956 3.0 91
15 773 2319 3.0 93
10 60 180 3.0 40
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Totals 2422 7266 3.0 420 = 3,051,720
Antennas are 4/4/4/4 on 10 and 15, 4/4/4 on 20, 2/2 on 40, 2el delta loop on
80 (Eu), 1/4 vertical on 80, 1/4 wave sloper and Inv-L on 160.
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 13 25 24 22 22 22 128 5.2
South America 5 10 13 26 23 20 97 3.9
Europe 21 166 603 554 688 9 2041 82.8
Asia 1 0 38 46 32 0 117 4.7
Africa 2 5 13 8 16 5 49 2.0
Oceania 0 2 13 4 6 5 30 1.2
Other top M/S scores:
K1DG 2231 QSOs X 406 mults = 2.717M
W3BGN 2050 QSOs X 426 mults = 2.620M
K8AZ 2015 QSOs X 420 mults = 2.539M
This is the first time a W1 has won ARRL CW M/S since K1ZZ in 1982.
W3 stations have won every year since 1987. Who says New England
always wins?
Here are some thoughts:
1. Conditions are about the worst I've seen in recent years. European
runs on 20 and 15 were pretty slow at times. Even though the band
was open, no one answered our CQs. We worked fewer JAs on 20 meters
than usual, though we did have a nice JA opening in the last hour of
the contest on 15 meters (including UA0 and VS6), and worked several
JAs long-path on 40 just before 15 opened.
2. Contest highlights included being called by YB and HS on 15 meters
around 1545Z on Sunday, VQ9 on 80 at the end of the contest, and
working SU2MT on both 40 and 80 meters.
3. This was the first major DX contest where the Ukrainians used their new
prefixes. Made for some interesting callsigns - too bad most of them
haven't made it to the MASTER.DTA file yet. If you're using CT without
real-time super-check-partial turned on, you're really missing out on a
neat tool - hit rate is extremely high, and it really keeps you from
busing callsigns.
4. 10 meters never really opened to Europe. Europe came in skew path
over Africa Sunday a.m., and I heard K1AR and W3LPL running some
of them, but rate on 15 was too good to QSY.
5. Isn't it time we did away with the 10 minute rule? Or made ARRL
M/S work the same way as CQWW M/S (separate multiplier station).
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults AD1C Multi Single
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 112/35 ..... ..... ..... 112/35 112/35
1 . 9/7 37/11 . . . 46/18 158/53
2 1/1 10/5 31/9 . . . 42/15 200/68
3 1/1 19/8 3/3 11/7 . . 34/19 234/87
4 3/3 5/5 22/8 . . . 30/16 264/103
5 9/9 14/4 . . . . 23/13 287/116
6 2/2 20/7 6/1 . . . 28/10 315/126
7 . 7/4 42/9 . . . 49/13 364/139
8 ..... 1/1 32/3 1/1 ..... ..... 34/5 398/144
9 . 3/1 5/2 27/17 . . 35/20 433/164
10 . . 11/2 15/6 . . 26/8 459/172
11 . . . 92/10 7/7 . 99/17 558/189
12 . . . 23/5 80/20 . 103/25 661/214
13 . . . . 125/20 . 125/20 786/234
14 . . . . 97/11 5/5 102/16 888/250
15 . . . . 82/5 11/10 93/15 981/265
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 49/0 12/7 61/7 1042/272
17 . . . 68/7 4/0 9/5 81/12 1123/284
18 . . . 65/3 7/2 . 72/5 1195/289
19 . . . 36/1 3/3 2/2 41/6 1236/295
20 . . 8/0 24/1 4/4 . 36/5 1272/300
21 . . 43/0 5/5 . . 48/5 1320/305
22 . 2/2 46/0 12/6 . . 60/8 1380/313
23 . . 37/3 23/5 . . 60/8 1440/321
0 3/3 3/1 23/0 5/1 ..... ..... 34/5 1474/326
1 . 8/2 14/0 7/0 . . 29/2 1503/328
2 2/2 20/7 . . . . 22/9 1525/337
3 4/4 17/1 5/2 . . . 26/7 1551/344
4 2/2 2/0 21/1 . . . 25/3 1576/347
5 12/10 . 12/0 . . . 24/10 1600/357
6 2/0 34/0 . . . . 36/0 1636/357
7 . 8/0 50/1 . . . 58/1 1694/358
8 ..... 4/2 26/0 ..... ..... ..... 30/2 1724/360
9 . 4/1 11/2 . . . 15/3 1739/363
10 . 2/2 7/1 . . . 9/3 1748/366
11 . . . 61/2 . . 61/2 1809/368
12 . . . 32/5 18/3 . 50/8 1859/376
13 . . . 6/0 42/1 6/3 54/4 1913/380
14 . . . . 91/3 . 91/3 2004/383
15 . . . . 55/2 3/3 58/5 2062/388
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 63/3 ..... 63/3 2125/391
17 . . . 35/1 8/0 3/1 46/2 2171/393
18 . . . 59/2 . 4/1 63/3 2234/396
19 . . . 29/2 5/3 . 34/5 2268/401
20 . . 10/1 8/1 5/2 2/2 25/6 2293/407
21 . . 43/1 . 5/1 . 48/2 2341/409
22 . 2/1 24/0 3/1 7/2 3/1 39/5 2380/414
23 . 9/3 12/0 5/2 16/1 . 42/6 2422/420
DAY1 16/16 90/44 435/86 402/74 458/72 39/29 ..... 1440/321
DAY2 25/21 113/20 258/9 250/17 315/21 21/11 . 982/99
TOT 41/37 203/64 693/95 652/91 773/93 60/40 . 2422/420
>From Jim Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1016 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> Tue Feb
>22 15:12:02 1994
From: Jim Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1016 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim
Reisert AD1C 22-Feb-1994 1016)
Subject: IY0A - Italy, not Sardinia
Message-ID: <9402221512.AA22856@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
A couple of people on Packet this weekend asked if IY0A was in Sardinia,
IS0. I asked the op on 40 meters late Sunday and he confirmed that he was
in Rome. I had made a correction to the CTY files on February 10, but if
you were using an older ARRL.CTY, then it might have said it was Sardinia.
73 - Jim AD1C
>From Steven.M.London@att.com (Steven M London +1 303 538 4763) Tue Feb 22
>15:18:00 1994
From: Steven.M.London@att.com (Steven M London +1 303 538 4763) (Steven M
London +1 303 538 4763)
Subject: W0CP Black Hole Score
Message-ID: <9402221523.AA00679@bighorn.dr.att.com>
W0CP (Multi-Single, W0CP, K0KR, K9AY, N2IC)
Band QSO's Countries
160 8 7
80 57 26
40 632 74
20 244 73
15 371 70
10 99 34
1411 284
1,199,616 points
KT-34XA, Cushcraft 2el 40, wires.
Yes, folks, this was a legitimate effort from Colorado. Not just a casual,
25 hour lark. Having a great group to commiserate with made it kind of fun.
Not only were the high bands a joke, but the low bands were super absorptive.
Heard no DX signals on 160 until 0500Z Saturday night. No direct path
EU on 15 on Saturday, only I's and YU's direct path on Sunday. Best EU
"run" of the weekend was 20 meter LP on Sunday morning. Not a single EU
or Africa heard on 10 meters. High points - 40 meter LP Saturday AM,
10 meter JA 2230Z-2330Z Sunday (kept the last 2 hours from being so boring).
We had east coast packet spots, thanks to the 10135 kHz backbone, but they
were of limited value (and non-existent each night from 0300Z-1230Z).
Steve, N2IC/0
>From DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com Tue Feb 22 18:18:19 1994
From: DKMC" <dkmc@chevron.com (DKMC)
Subject: where does the black hole begin?
Message-ID: <CPLAN065.DKMC.9397.1994 0222 10 16 10 16>
Microsoft Mail v3.0 IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
From: McCarty, DK 'David'
To: OPEN ADDRESSING SERVI-OPENADDR
Subject: where does the black hole begin?
Priority:
Message ID: 640D7272
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AA2PZ writes from NJ:
>don't think I could have increased my score a lot because up against the
>propagation black-hole and the northeastern Wall of Power, there were few
takers >to my CQ's....
Where in the world does he think he was operating from?
I know that WNY does not equal NLI or EMA after an ARRL multi-single
operated with Jeff, W2HPF, and others from his Rochester QTH but a W2 is
definitely NOT in the "black hole". I've seen Jeff's neighbor W2TZ's QTH
tribander and wires and I know he's not running a KW yet he runs Europeans
on 20 that I can't hear at ALL with 4/4 near the top of a Texas hilltop, fed
with hardline.
I don't think Texas is in the "hole" either, but I know for sure there ain't
no part of W2 in it.
Where does "the black hole" begin and end?
73,
Dave
David K. McCarty, K5GN
dkmc@chevron.com
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