I have a vague recollection that Dave, W6NL, and company had a 400 hour from
EA9 a few years ago in CQWW SSB. Can someone confirm that?
73, andy, ae6y
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From: "KEN SILVERMAN" <k2kw@prodigy.net>
To: <ha5pp@yahoo.com>; "[Contest Reflector]" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1429
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The best QSOs/hour on SSB/CW
>
> >1. Is it possible to make over 300 QSOs/hour on SSB or on CW?
>
> Others have already mentioned that 300/hr has been achieved on SSB, but I
> tend to think a sustained hour of 300 is probably not possible... not
enough
> activity.
>
> >2. Which contest the best for the best QSOs/hour?
>
> On CW, I think that the only contest where super high rates are possible
is
> during the CQ WW CW Contest. No other contests have enough CW activity.
> But I don't think that pure rate is the ultimate goal. I tend to think
that
> a higher average rate is more important to successful contesting.
>
> >4. What is your best QSOs/hour and which contest on?
>
> My personal best on CW is a 237 clock hour, with a 248 Q-Rate hour. This
> was on 10m at 4M7X in the early afternoon when EU was dying out and the
USA
> was looking for somebody to work. The only way I heard the EU signals was
> to be double-beaming with 2 antennas (one USA, the other EU). Otherwise
the
> EU stations were just too weak to work with the single antenna on the USA.
> I would guess that the EU QSOs added about 20-25% of the QSOs in that
> period.
>
> As others who have had high CW rates, the high rate times are NOT during
big
> pileups. High rates are only achieved when there are 1, 2, or 3 callers
at
> a time, and you can nail the call correctly the first time. In fact,
during
> the 237 hour, I had to call CQ a number of times!
>
> This weekend in Field Day, I had an interesting moment... I was on 15m CW
> and the band was really weak for the SSN numbers. Most of the signals
were
> at the noise level. Someone came in the trailer and asked how 15 was
doing,
> and I said it was really slow. Then I looked at the rate meter, and my
last
> 100 rate was around 205! As I scrolled through the log, sure enough, I
was
> working about 3 QSOs a minute, but I also had to call CQ for every QSO.
It
> just appeared to be boring since there was no pileup.
>
> 5. Who gives more QSOs/hour? USA? Eu? JA?
>
> The operator has the biggest impact on rate!!! Also having a radio
capable
> of discerning individual callers in a pileup is also critical, all radios
> are not created equally. Though I would say if you are looking at any one
> target zone for high rates, it would be USA in my opinion. But don't let
> that fool you... NT1N has averaged a little over 200/hr for 5-7 hours
> straight each time he operated 40m CW at 4M7X, 6Y2A, 6Y4A. I analyzed the
> ratio of USA/EU, and he was working around 60% EU during those hours.
>
> I guess in summary, working high rate is fun, but I do not believe it is
> solely the result of the characteristics of your target audience.
> Basically a lot of aspects need to fall into place to achieve super high
> rates: operator skill of the runner is the single largest factor. Then
> comes band conditions, sustained time period with only small groups of
> callers, ability to work more than one target area at a time, your
> geographic location for the conditions of that particular contest, and
some
> contest mojo (voodoo).
>
> Kenny K2KW
>
>
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