[3830] ARRL 160 - KC1XX (KM3T,op) Single-op (long)
Dave Pascoe KM3T
km3t at contesting.com
Mon Dec 8 12:19:33 EST 1997
ARRL 160 METER CONTEST -- 1997
Call: KC1XX Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO SECTIONS COUNTRIES
Totals 1300 3005 2.31 76 34 = 330,550
Hours on: about 27.5 (but CT lies like a dog)
Equipment Description: Icom IC-781+AL-1200 amp (1500W out)
Antenna(s): 1/4-wave vertical with raised resonant radials
Beverages (EU,South,West)
Club Affiliation: YCCC
Missed sections: ORG,AK,YT (heard KL7Y but not well enough)
Story
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I hadn't done this one seriously since about 1985 or so when I tried it
from W3GM's place. It was fun then and it was fun this time....well, sort
of fun. The first night is awesome and then the rates start falling
through the floor. It's a little like a Sweepstakes for 160.
Matt put up a full-size 1/4 wave vertical (a nice piece of work..you have
to see it....web page coming soon) this year. Also nice work by Krassy
K1LZ on the insulators.....you really have to see those to believe it!
Krassy is a master in the machine shop! So I thought it would be good to
get on in some of the 160 'tests to see how the antenna plays. We'll be
on Multi-Op in the CQ 160 CW 'test.
I started out with decent rate....a 100 first hour followed by 90,83,90,99
hours. Cool! Had the occasional European call in, some with excellent
signals. G0IVZ was the first EU and pretty loud as I recall. P40P called
in within the first 10 minutes for a mult. I turned out to be the only
mult from South America.
OY9JD and TF3IRA called in for some cool mults. The first night EU was
spotty until about 0400Z when EU sunrise started to kick in. 0500-0730Z
were particularly good to Europe. Condx to Europe were horrible Saturday
night.
I was going to quit early on Sunday morning but decided it would be cool
to make it to 1300 Q's so I kept pressing on. It's amazing to work guys
during the day on 160. The vertical makes this possible. Horizontally
polarized antennas don't work as well during the daylight hours.
Hats off to K1ZM for a fine score from his Cape Cod location (you have to
see the pictures of that place!). He's just a couple of hundred feet from
the Atlantic Ocean. He's really loud into Europe from there! It was nice
to beat all the multi-op guys though!
You have to be a little warped to operate all of this contest....I didn't
quite stay on for the whole thing...long enough to feel like a lunatic but
not long enough to put myself out of commission for Monday. :-)
Thanks for all the Q's.
73
Dave
KM3T
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Additional stats
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Continent stats:
North America CW 1163 89.5
South America CW 1 0.1
Europe CW 135 10.1
Asia CW 0 0.0
Africa CW 1 0.1
Oceania CW 0 0.0
Rate sheet:
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX ARRL 160 METER CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT
22 100/37 100/37 100/37
23 90/13 90/13 190/50
0 83/9 83/9 273/59
1 93/5 93/5 366/64
2 99/5 99/5 465/69
3 67/4 67/4 532/73
4 55/9 55/9 587/82
5 81/7 81/7 668/89
6 43/4 43/4 711/93
7 33/5 33/5 744/98
8 41/2 41/2 785/100
9 . . 785/100
10 . . 785/100
11 18/1 18/1 803/101
12 13/0 13/0 816/101
13 7/0 7/0 823/101
14 14/0 14/0 837/101
15 3/0 3/0 840/101
16 . . 840/101
17 . . 840/101
18 9/0 9/0 849/101
19 14/0 14/0 863/101
20 24/0 24/0 887/101
21 39/1 39/1 926/102
22 39/0 39/0 965/102
23 49/3 49/3 1014/105
0 33/0 33/0 1047/105
1 37/2 37/2 1084/107
2 31/0 31/0 1115/107
3 27/0 27/0 1142/107
4 26/0 26/0 1168/107
5 30/1 30/1 1198/108
6 30/1 30/1 1228/109
7 19/1 19/1 1247/110
8 . . 1247/110
9 6/0 6/0 1253/110
10 14/0 14/0 1267/110
11 4/0 4/0 1271/110
12 10/0 10/0 1281/110
13 2/0 2/0 1283/110
14 8/0 8/0 1291/110
15 9/0 9/0 1300/110
DAY1 926/102 . 926/102
DAY2 374/8 . 374/8
TOT 1300/110 . 1300/110
BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr KC1XX ARRL 160 METER CONTEST Single
Operator
HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT
22 60/100 60/100 60/100
23 61/89 61/89 121/94
0 59/84 59/84 180/91
1 61/91 61/91 242/91
2 60/99 60/99 301/93
3 59/68 59/68 360/89
4 60/55 60/55 420/84
5 61/79 61/79 481/83
6 59/44 59/44 540/79
7 50/40 50/40 590/76
8 58/43 58/43 648/73
9 . . 648/73
10 . . 648/73
11 23/48 23/48 670/72
12 27/28 27/28 698/70
13 17/24 17/24 715/69
14 40/21 40/21 755/67
15 2/94 2/94 757/67
16 . . 757/67
17 . . 757/67
18 40/14 40/14 797/64
19 38/22 38/22 835/62
20 57/25 57/25 891/60
21 63/37 63/37 954/58
22 57/41 57/41 1011/57
23 59/50 59/50 1070/57
0 51/39 51/39 1121/56
1 63/35 63/35 1184/55
2 61/30 61/30 1245/54
3 57/29 57/29 1302/53
4 45/35 45/35 1347/52
5 61/29 61/29 1408/51
6 50/36 50/36 1458/51
7 45/25 45/25 1503/50
8 . . 1503/50
9 10/35 10/35 1513/50
10 48/17 48/17 1561/49
11 18/14 18/14 1578/48
12 35/17 35/17 1613/48
13 . . 1613/48
14 12/39 12/39 1626/48
15 32/17 32/17 1658/47
DAY1 15.9/58 . 15.9/58
DAY2 11.7/32 . 11.7/32
TOT 27.6/47 . 27.6/47
BREAKDOWN in kilo-points by hr KC1XX ARRL 160 METER CONTEST Single
Operator
HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT
22 67 67 67
23 30 30 97
0 24 24 121
1 18 18 139
2 19 19 158
3 14 14 171
4 22 22 193
5 24 24 216
6 14 14 231
7 13 13 244
8 8 8 252
9 . . 252
10 . . 252
11 3 3 256
12 1 1 257
13 1 1 258
14 2 2 259
15 0 0 260
16 . . 260
17 . . 260
18 1 1 261
19 2 2 262
20 3 3 265
21 8 8 273
22 6 6 278
23 11 11 290
0 4 4 294
1 8 8 301
2 4 4 305
3 3 3 308
4 3 3 311
5 5 5 316
6 5 5 320
7 4 4 325
8 . . 325
9 1 1 325
10 2 2 327
11 0 0 327
12 1 1 328
13 . . 329
14 1 1 330
15 1 1 331
DAY1 273 . 273
DAY2 58 . 58
TOT 331 . 331
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