[3830] N5XU IARU M/S
Kenneth E. Harker
kharker at cs.utexas.edu
Tue Jul 13 00:45:09 EDT 1999
1999 IARU SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 10-Jul-99, 11-Jul-99
Callsign Used : N5XU
Operators : KA5WSS, KM5FA, N3TNN
Category : Multi-Single
Default Exchange : 59 07
Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
http://www.utexas.edu/students/utarc/
Country : United States of America
Section : South Texas
Team/Club : Central Texas DX and Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points HQ Stations Zones
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160CW 7 7 7 0 1
80SSB 10 10 20 1 3
40CW 23 23 51 1 0
40SSB 16 16 38 3 7
20CW 31 31 87 2 1
20SSB 477 475 1781 16 38
15CW 9 9 23 0 0
15SSB 311 310 1072 14 29
10CW 8 8 12 0 0
10SSB 19 19 61 2 8
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Totals 911 908 3152 39 87
Claimed Score = 397,152 points.
Station:
http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/n5xu/
Kenwood TS-830S
Heathkit SB-220
Force-12 C-4 @ 100'
40MSSB wire dipole fixed NS @ 60'
80M wire dipole fixed NS @ 60'
350' wire on 160 @ 60'
TR Log 6.42
Super CMOS Keyer II
This was a "casual" contest effort at N5XU.
We had terrible line noise all weekend. It was really bad on 15 meters, and
only a little less so on 20 and 10. We get all sorts of noise on the bands
at N5XU, but this was the first time I've heard line noise. Consequently,
we spent a lot more time on 20, where we could hear a little better.
I'd never actually heard line noise myself until this past June VHF
QSO Party out at W5KFT. This noise was almost an order of magnitude louder.
With the club station located less than 300 feet from an electric power
and distribution station that serves 150,000, and less than 200 feet from
the construction site for a new five story building, I'm sure this was bound
to happen sooner or later.
Most of the equipment worked pretty well, except some part of the DVK
wiring needs to be fixed - it was putting hum on the audio. So, we went
without the headset mic, and did the contest with a desk mic and no DVK.
I also had trouble getting the long wire to load up on 160 that evening,
maybe because I was tired, maybe because of the rain. I think we were
radiating maybe 20 watts on that band.
Sometime around noon or so, we worked W1ET, the club station at my
undergraduate alma mater, which was the first time I've ever heard W1ET on
the air from Texas.
N3TNN joined us in the evening, and made her first DX contacts, with stations
in France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, England, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Germany,
Italy, and Kaliningrad!
I made a few CW QSOs, trying my best to go 18 or 19 wpm, which is still a
little bit faster than my "comfort zone."
It was pretty fun despite the line noise. We also crushed the club's previous
best score for this contest.
Continent List 1999 N5XU IARU HF Championship - Continents
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
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USA calls = 7 9 29 206 164 15 0 0 0 430
VE calls = 0 0 2 23 9 0 0 0 0 34
N.A. calls = 0 1 1 18 12 2 0 0 0 34
S.A. calls = 0 0 2 12 20 8 0 0 0 42
Euro calls = 0 0 5 77 73 0 0 0 0 155
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 8 7 0 0 0 0 15
Asia calls = 0 0 0 12 8 0 0 0 0 20
JA calls = 0 0 0 107 19 0 0 0 0 126
Ocen calls = 0 0 0 43 7 2 0 0 0 52
Total calls = 7 10 39 506 319 27 0 0 0 908
1999 N5XU IARU HF Championship - Rate Sheet
HOUR 160CW 80SSB 40CW 40SSB 20CW 20SSB 15CW 15SSB 10CW 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
12 0 0 0 0 0 83 0 0 0 0 83 83
13 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 19 0 0 39 122
14 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 17 0 0 40 162
15 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 15 0 9 29 191
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 60 251
17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70 0 0 70 321
18 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 44 0 0 54 375
19 0 0 0 0 14 33 0 0 0 0 47 422
20 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 23 5 0 34 456
21 0 0 0 0 15 42 0 0 0 0 57 513
22 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 24 3 6 40 553
23 0 0 0 0 0 33 0 3 0 0 36 589
0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20 0 4 27 616
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 631
2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 635
3 0 9 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 15 650
4 4 1 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 671
5 0 0 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 680
6 0 0 9 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 12 692
7 3 0 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 47 739
8 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 0 0 0 42 781
9 0 0 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 46 827
10 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 0 0 0 42 869
11 0 0 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 0 39 908
TOTAL 7 10 23 16 31 475 9 310 8 19
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: KM5FA
Department of the Computer Sciences President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of the Linux Laptop Home Page
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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