[3830] K3LR M/M story CQ WW SSB

Thu Oct 30 21:50:17 EST 1997

M/M from K3LR

There's no truth to the rumor that the first words spoken by Dan Duffy, K3LR's two-year old son, were "CQ Canada."  But you can be pretty sure he's learned that phrase now.

We still haven't figured out what kind of conditions we need to win one of these things, but we plan to keep trying.  Here's how we fared this time:

160 meters: In a word, ouch.  Heard KC1XX working a layer of EU that we obviously couldn't touch.  Worked a few EU at their sunrise and got SV8 during the last hour of the contest.  N3BJ did a superb job.

80 meters: This is a 24/hour band at Tim's.  New 3 el M2 yagi didn't really get a chance to shine, as conditions were terrible.  Except to Ontario, that is.  Not too much went wrong with the station, so K3LR had to stick in his chair the whole contest.  ND8L did a great job on days.

40 meters: Can't think of two people who I'd rather see on this band than K8GL and K8CX.  Lotsa experience here.  No long path in the morning.  No EU sunrise opening.  Good runs at local sunset, with some nice multipliers calling in.  What do you do when you make a sked with one JY and another shows up instead?  Worked lots of our Canadian friends during both days, thanks to W8JZ..  

20 meters: Continues to be the money band.  Very good VK opening at 0500z on first day.   Also had the best rate to JA in years on Saturday night.  Northern Europe was noticeably down.  On the other, the population of Mediterranean hams seems to be limitless.  Signals were down on Sunday, as the MUF moved up.  N9RV abused both K3JT and KB3AFT on this band.

15 meters: A roller coaster ride.  First night had enhanced propagation to JA, with sporadic openings lasting 15 minutes at a time until 0400z.  This kept K3UA from conducting his usual exhaustive research into old QST's.  Band opened early the first morning with Africans before sunrise, but EU opening wasn't "full."  Plenty of west and south EU with a sprinkling of UA9's, with not much else.  JA was a total bust on Saturday night.  Things were much better Sunday.  N3RA also operated, but impending wedding bells caused intense QRM.

10 meters: Knew things would be better this year when KA3JWJ had 10 Q's in the log before sunrise.  Sunday afternoon EU opening was the money maker, but biggest thrill was working VE2QRZ/zone 2 in the middle of the night for a new one.

Real award this year should go to Tim, K3LR, for getting the station in great shape after much adversity.  We'll see everyone on CW for another go at it.

   * Pat
      N9RV

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 

HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 

0 16/5 66/5 58/33 82/42 28/17 4/3 254/105 254/105 
1 17/5 59/11 27/10 51/14 3/1 4/2 161/43 415/148 
2 13/4 45/5 23/11 30/7 23/3 . 134/30 549/178 
3 8/4 19/10 23/12 23/4 13/3 . 86/33 635/211 
4 5/3 24/6 22/8 17/3 . . 68/20 703/231 
5 6/4 24/7 20/5 16/4 . . 66/20 769/251 
6 5/3 41/9 24/5 54/5 . . 124/22 893/273 
7 5/3 30/10 17/4 25/2 . . 77/19 970/292 
8 8/4 19/7 36/6 4/3 ..... ..... 67/20 1037/312 
9 3/2 15/4 10/3 5/3 2/2 . 35/14 1072/326 
10 4/0 18/4 7/3 13/4 9/8 4/2 55/21 1127/347 
11 3/0 18/0 8/1 78/13 23/12 5/2 135/28 1262/375 
12 . 24/0 7/1 133/11 53/25 8/7 225/44 1487/419 
13 . 23/0 10/0 90/7 95/20 32/24 250/51 1737/470 
14 . 24/0 6/0 91/4 101/11 24/16 246/31 1983/501 
15 . 18/0 17/0 69/3 97/10 12/6 213/19 2196/520 
16 ..... 21/0 21/0 63/0 128/6 32/1 265/7 2461/527 
17 . 12/0 11/0 83/2 56/3 23/1 185/6 2646/533 
18 . 18/0 12/0 78/2 49/8 13/0 170/10 2816/543 
19 1/0 17/0 16/0 66/0 46/5 27/0 173/5 2989/548 
20 2/0 22/0 9/0 67/7 27/1 17/1 144/9 3133/557 
21 3/0 13/0 5/0 39/5 18/2 18/3 96/10 3229/567 
22 8/0 39/0 21/0 85/6 17/0 10/2 180/8 3409/575 
23 9/0 17/0 32/2 119/4 5/0 2/1 184/7 3593/582 
0 5/0 28/2 5/1 37/2 1/0 ..... 76/5 3669/587 
1 8/0 40/1 6/1 14/1 . . 68/3 3737/590 
2 8/0 28/1 16/3 9/1 . . 61/5 3798/595 
3 4/0 10/3 9/3 3/0 . . 26/6 3824/601 
4 4/2 13/3 2/1 5/1 . . 24/7 3848/608 
5 8/6 59/3 10/0 10/1 . . 87/10 3935/618 
6 7/1 32/0 11/1 10/3 . . 60/5 3995/623 
7 1/0 21/2 9/1 4/1 . . 35/4 4030/627 
8 ..... 4/0 10/3 ..... ..... ..... 14/3 4044/630 
9 4/1 3/0 6/1 . . 1/1 14/3 4058/633 
10 4/0 3/0 3/0 2/0 . . 12/0 4070/633 
11 4/0 5/0 3/1 59/1 7/1 . 78/3 4148/636 
12 . 26/0 4/0 76/1 27/1 9/1 142/3 4290/639 
13 . 23/0 12/0 81/1 137/5 7/2 260/8 4550/647 
14 . 13/0 24/0 55/3 111/1 46/10 249/14 4799/661 
15 . 15/0 26/0 61/3 107/2 10/5 219/10 5018/671 
16 ..... 6/0 14/0 69/2 74/4 17/0 180/6 5198/677 
17 . 6/0 9/0 48/1 81/3 50/3 194/7 5392/684 
18 . 6/0 7/0 60/3 57/1 43/2 173/6 5565/690 
19 4/0 8/0 6/0 65/0 48/0 80/8 211/8 5776/698 
20 10/0 14/1 11/0 52/1 40/2 65/5 192/9 5968/707 
21 7/0 13/0 4/0 47/1 54/2 27/1 152/4 6120/711 
22 4/1 13/2 46/4 45/2 27/3 16/0 151/12 6271/723 
23 4/0 39/0 36/1 35/1 22/1 1/1 137/4 6408/727 
DAY1 116/37 626/78 442/104 1381/155 793/137 235/71 ..... 3593/582 
DAY2 86/11 428/18 289/21 847/30 793/26 372/39 . 2815/145 
TOT 202/48 1054/96 731/125 2228/185 1586/163 607/110 . 6408/727 

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