NK7U CQWW SSB M/S
stuthill at micron.net
stuthill at micron.net
Wed Oct 30 21:37:00 EST 1996
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996
Call: NK7U Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 57 70 1.23 11 15
80 123 305 2.48 19 45
40 178 499 2.80 26 59
20 842 2265 2.69 34 119
15 93 251 2.70 18 47
10 0 0 0.00 0 0
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Totals 1293 3390 2.62 108 285 => 1,332,270
Operator List: NK7U, W7ZRC, AB7CZ, N7BZ, AA7TF
Equipment Description:
160M: 1/4 wave elevated ground plane with 3 elevated radials.
The feed point is elevated 15' up. (Yes this is an
elevated antenna, not a ground mounted vertical.)
80M: Joe's famous 3 element beam at 180', also a rotatable
dipole at 200'
40M: 4/4 KLMs at 190/92' on TIC rings -- the big ones for AB105.
20M: 5/5/5/5 with top one around 185' fixed EU. 6/6 at about
134/67' on TIC rings.
15M: 6 el at about 65' sidemounted
10M: Nothing
Rigs: 2 * TS-950S, 1 TS-950SDX
Amps: An Alpha and an Amp Supply (plus an Amp Supply that
died.)
S/W: CT 9.27 which worked great in a 3 station loop network
PC's: An old Northgate, Compaq, and Clone. All 386's with
8-10MB of RAM. (Thanks to AB7CZ who works for Micron.)
This antenna setup is pretty impressive considering 1 week before
the contest the only antennas completely up and wired were the 80M
beam and the 6/6 20M stacks. The 15M antenna came on line about
23:50 UTC Friday. Joe is still working on getting his station
rebuilt from his move 3 years ago -- but there is light at the end
of the tunnel. All four towers are up and the 40M and 80M antennas
are basically complete. On 160M Joe is contemplating replacing the
ground plane with a 4 square and is in the process of building a
Force 12 rotating dipole that will go up at 190'. (Can't wait to
try this in the upcoming 160M contests!) Still to come are fixed
10 and 15 4 stacks on EU and JA and a rotating 3 stack for each
band. Also, a third 6 el 20 will be added for a 6/6/6 all on TIC
rings.
This was the first time in recent memory that we ran M/S for SSB.
With only 4 operators for most of the contest our usual M/M would
be a little silly. Also, 1 hour before the contest started one of
the 3 amps we had suffered a fatal heart attack really only giving
us two stations. This event turned out to be just the beginning of
a series of problems we had during the weekend from foot switches
that broke, to extremely high winds all day Saturday that made it
hard to turn the antennas, to a broken rotator on the 80M dipole,
to ... well I am just whining now but you get the idea.
All in all though fun was had by all. Reading other's posting made
us feel bad we missed some fun 15M and 10M opening enjoyed by
those farther south and east. Though we did not have an antenna up
on 10M we hooked a spare receiver to the 80M dipole and had it
scan 28300-28500 all day Sunday. Not once did anyone hear
anything but white noise coming out of the speaker. There sure did
not seem to be any 10M propagation into the northwest. The new 20M
4 stack was fun to play with and by all comments received we were
VERY LOUD in Europe. But other than for a short period on Saturday
morning we could not keep a EU run going for more than 2-4 Q's. On
Sunday the propogation seemed just enough poorer that we could not
hear the 2nd and 3rd tier stations we are sure were replying
to our CQ's. As others have said it will be good for the spots to
return and spread the stations out across the bands again. The 6/6
20M aimed at JA was a blast. We had great runs going and several
times broke 200/hr on the last 10 rate meter. It was also fun to
aim it at the VR6MW pileup and get through on the first call.
(If I remember NK7U should be in their log right after KM9P!)
Similarly we were often one of the few west coast stations breaking
though the pileups buzzing around the Africa stations. Though the
40M stack was up for its first test we seemed to have more trouble making
Q's than we did during the ARRL when just the top one was up. We
had more than double the 40M Q's in ARRL. Though I also echo the
comments of others that 40M seems to be getting worse in terms of
how low stations operate and much out of band QRM by US stations I
came across. The term "Total Anarchy" is beginning to come to
mind. (By the way did any others out there notice the comment by
one of our JA friends about 10M S9+ QRM they are experiencing from
Chinese cab drivers! And I was so looking forward to 10M
propogation returning to JA.) The 80M beam worked great again. Joe
had some great JA runs with it just before our sunrise. The
highlight though was Joe working HS1AZ on it about 45 minutes after
our sunrise Sunday morning. Joe was talking about it all the rest
of the day.
If you would like to see photos and more info on the NK7U super
station drop by the NK7U Home Page at:
netnow.micron.net/~jcullum/html/nk7u.htm
Following are our rate sheets and other stats..
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults NK7U CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Single
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... 54/11 4/4 ..... 58/15 58/15
1 . . 19/16 35/5 . . 54/21 112/36
2 . . 12/7 4/0 . . 16/7 128/43
3 . . 7/4 . . . 7/4 135/47
4 . 2/2 1/1 7/1 . . 10/4 145/51
5 . . 5/1 11/3 . . 16/4 161/55
6 . 9/8 6/2 . . . 15/10 176/65
7 11/10 21/13 4/4 . . . 36/27 212/92
8 ..... 4/2 3/3 ..... ..... ..... 7/5 219/97
9 . . 36/1 . . . 36/1 255/98
10 . 1/1 15/4 . . . 16/5 271/103
11 . 3/1 13/0 . . . 16/1 287/104
12 . 4/1 14/1 . . . 18/2 305/106
13 . 3/1 12/1 . . . 15/2 320/108
14 . 2/0 . 8/8 . . 10/8 330/116
15 . . . 30/15 . . 30/15 360/131
16 ..... ..... ..... 63/12 ..... ..... 63/12 423/143
17 . . . 42/7 9/9 . 51/16 474/159
18 . . . 25/8 4/4 . 29/12 503/171
19 . . . 38/2 5/4 . 43/6 546/177
20 . . . 42/3 4/4 . 46/7 592/184
21 . . . 15/10 20/5 . 35/15 627/199
22 . . . 77/8 5/2 . 82/10 709/209
23 . . 1/1 77/8 2/0 . 80/9 789/218
0 ..... ..... 1/2 104/1 1/1 ..... 106/4 895/222
1 . 2/2 1/1 53/0 . . 56/3 951/225
2 . 3/1 10/6 . . . 13/7 964/232
3 5/1 . 2/1 . . . 7/2 971/234
4 6/0 3/2 1/1 . . . 10/3 981/237
5 2/2 3/1 3/1 . . . 8/4 989/241
6 1/1 . 5/1 . . . 6/2 995/243
7 1/1 . 4/0 . . . 5/1 1000/244
8 ..... 11/2 ..... ..... ..... ..... 11/2 1011/246
9 1/1 2/2 . . . . 3/3 1014/249
10 2/1 . . . . . 2/1 1016/250
11 27/1 . 1/1 . . . 28/2 1044/252
12 . 4/1 . . . . 4/1 1048/253
13 1/0 33/3 1/1 . . . 35/4 1083/257
14 . 13/4 . 14/4 . . 27/8 1110/265
15 . . 1/1 21/3 1/1 . 23/5 1133/270
16 ..... ..... ..... 24/5 2/2 ..... 26/7 1159/277
17 . . . 20/4 5/5 . 25/9 1184/286
18 . . . 9/0 9/1 . 18/1 1202/287
19 . . . 13/1 1/1 . 14/2 1216/289
20 . . . 19/0 . . 19/0 1235/289
21 . . . 8/2 6/0 . 14/2 1249/291
22 . . . 12/2 5/2 . 17/4 1266/295
23 . . . 17/1 10/3 . 27/4 1293/299
DAY1 11/10 49/29 148/46 528/101 53/32 ..... ..... 789/218
DAY2 46/8 74/18 30/16 314/23 40/16 . . 504/81
TOT 57/18 123/47 178/62 842/124 93/48 . . 1293/299
Continent Statistics
NK7U CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Single 27 Oct
1996 1659z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 49 56 44 143 22 0 314 23.6
South America SSB 4 14 29 36 42 0 125 9.4
Europe SSB 0 0 7 265 1 0 273 20.6
Asia SSB 0 42 88 369 8 0 507 38.2
Africa SSB 0 4 4 20 7 0 35 2.6
Oceania SSB 4 9 18 28 15 0 74 5.6
QSO Counts By Band-Country
NK7U CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Single 27 Oct
1996 1659z
PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
DL 32
DU 2 1 8 1
EA 21
F 15
G 15
HL 14
I 1 24
JA 38 84 326 8
LU 1 7 10 18
OH 24
VE 15 27 11 34 1
VK 4 3 4
XE 2 2 3 11 1
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Scott Tuthill/AA7TF stuthill at micron.net
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