[3830] VE6JY WPX SSB multi (long)
Don Moman
ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Mon Mar 30 14:13:47 EST 1998
CQ WPX SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : VE6JY
Operators : VE2ZP VE5MX VE7AV VE6BF VE6DGG VE6LDX
VE6MAA VE6MK VE6SLV VE6JY
Category : multi multi
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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160SSB 93 92 310 9
80SSB 404 393 1312 52
40SSB 651 643 2734 123
20SSB 1870 1795 4351 540
15SSB 992 983 2434 229
10SSB 46 46 122 11
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Totals 4056 3952 11263 964
Final Score = 10,857,532 points.
BAND
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160SSB Dipole, delta loop. Bobtail, 5 beverages
80SSB 2 x BOBTAILS, delta, vee , 9 beverages
40SSB 3 el at 145, 4-30 LOG at 92'
20SSB 5/5/5 at 160/110/55, 5 at 145
15SSB 6 el, 48' at 120'
10SSB 7 el, 40' at 55'
___________plus 2 x TH-6, CL-33, etc_________________
160m...FT1000mp / AL-1200 slow to open but conditions seemed OK the first
night, just not much around to work. Nothing new to work the second night.
80m...FT1000mp / Henry 5-k.....OK to US/carrib, but very little JA or Pac
heard here
40m...FT-1000D / Drake L4-B....worked quite a few EU stations way before
sunset both days, which is a rarity. Good VK/ZL activity otherwise poor to JA
without much luck running.
20m...FT-1000D / Alpha 77dx... reasonably good with lots of Europe all thru
the evening from 0330 UTC to well past 2000. Some decent runs but nowhere near
as good as in ARRL DX. Better JA runs in the morning here than in the
afternoon. Band folded badly Sunday around 1900 and never recovered.
15m...FT-1000mp / Henry 5-k and/or FT 840 / Alpha 87a A real pleasant
surprise to hear over the pole signals (9K2ZZ UN5PR VU2JNA and more) from 0330
Sat to past 1600. Marginal at times in the wee hours here but always at least
one signal audible - usually 9K2ZZ, but for about 30 mins VU2JNA was the only
signal, sometimes to S9!
A different band the next 24 hrs, it closed around 0430 and stayed shut
till 0940 then opened for the next 10 hours to Europe, not always runnable but
that came to crash around 1900 and we only managed a handful of q's after
that.
10m .... FT 840 / Alpha 87a... Sat opened long at 2030 to CE/LU etc and closed
2330, never really opening to the US (no runs). Nothing much on the Sunday,
altho it did open briefly but no new stations noted.
The SW fade on the Sunday, in the 1900 area really knocked the wheels off our
best effort ever, but thankfully it stayed away that long. There were auroral
reports all thru the days leading up to the contest and on Sat as well so it
was surprising that conditions held up as they did, esp on 15m.
A pleasure to have 3 out of province guests with us this year: Dave VE2ZP,
Todd VE5MX and Frank VE7AV. The local weather was great (El Nino seems to be
our friend, so far) and my randomly intermittent power line noises also stayed
away. All rigs and amps behaved well, and while we did not have cluster
available other than in the last hour, TRlog and the network kept everything
linked perfectly. When packet finally did return (one of the nodes has been
down for sometime) thanks to VE6EEI and VE6DXX, it was neat to see the new
features (like the happy face to hilite new mults) in the bandmap.
Not yet sure about any WPX CW plans but that's a long ways off...
73 Don
VE6JY
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 74 300 479 880 396 2 2131
VE calls = 15 71 22 40 32 4 184
N.A. calls = 2 10 17 34 24 2 89
S.A. calls = 0 4 22 50 56 38 170
Euro calls = 0 0 32 616 358 0 1006
Afrc calls = 0 0 1 7 8 0 16
Asia calls = 0 1 3 82 29 0 115
JA calls = 0 2 33 72 48 0 155
Ocen calls = 1 5 34 13 31 0 84
Total calls = 92 393 643 1795 983 46 3952
RATE:
HOUR 160SSB 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 12 75 17 1 105 105
1 0 1 12 154 12 0 179 284
2 0 16 44 137 15 0 212 496
3 5 33 80 101 2 0 221 717
4 13 31 58 59 3 0 164 881
5 19 36 41 36 6 0 138 1019
6 28 49 34 35 8 0 154 1173
7 23 45 26 34 1 0 129 1302
8 2 17 20 24 2 0 65 1367
9 0 15 15 14 5 0 49 1416
10 1 9 8 12 2 0 32 1448
11 1 4 11 11 9 0 36 1484
12 0 0 12 15 25 0 52 1536
13 0 2 21 14 86 0 123 1659
14 0 0 3 48 44 0 95 1754
15 0 0 0 12 26 1 39 1793
16 0 0 0 35 52 0 87 1880
17 0 0 0 31 51 0 82 1962
18 0 0 0 73 57 0 130 2092
19 0 0 0 37 57 0 94 2186
20 0 0 0 54 60 18 132 2318
21 0 0 0 51 57 15 123 2441
22 0 0 0 36 63 3 102 2543
23 0 0 6 26 47 6 85 2628
0 0 0 4 25 36 0 65 2693
1 0 0 59 72 13 0 144 2837
2 0 9 28 54 13 0 104 2941
3 0 6 20 70 6 0 102 3043
4 0 31 6 32 7 0 76 3119
5 0 15 22 25 0 0 62 3181
6 0 37 24 29 0 0 90 3271
7 0 17 17 11 0 0 45 3316
8 0 11 14 15 0 0 40 3356
9 0 0 9 16 5 0 30 3386
10 0 4 5 22 8 0 39 3425
11 0 3 11 34 1 0 49 3474
12 0 0 12 18 1 0 31 3505
13 0 2 6 17 2 0 27 3532
14 0 0 3 11 22 0 36 3568
15 0 0 0 13 25 0 38 3606
16 0 0 0 56 56 0 112 3718
17 0 0 0 15 47 1 63 3781
18 0 0 0 10 12 1 23 3804
19 0 0 0 21 5 0 26 3830
20 0 0 0 6 5 0 11 3841
21 0 0 0 24 8 0 32 3873
22 0 0 0 49 4 0 53 3926
23 0 0 0 26 0 0 26 3952
TOTAL 92 393 643 1795 983 46
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