[3830] NK7U WPX SSB M/M
K7ZO, Scott Tuthill
k7zo at micron.net
Mon Mar 29 21:00:30 EST 1999
CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1999
Call: NK7U Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 164 241 1.5 17 ¼ elevated ground plane
80 518 1396 2.7 65 3 element yagi, rotating dipole
40 537 2400 4.5 128 rotating 4/4
20 1560 3132 2.0 424 5/5/5/5 EU, rotating 6/6
15 1525 3657 2.4 374 6/6/6/6 EU, 4/4/4/4 JA, rotating
6/6
10 741 1478 2.0 128 5/5 JA, rotating 7/7
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Totals 5045 12304 2.4 1136 = 13,977,344
Rigs: 3 x TS-950, 1 FT-1000MP
Amps: 2 x Amp Supply, 1 Alpha, 1 Quadra
All reports sent were 59, unless otherwise noted.
Operator List: Joe/NK7U, Scott/K7ZO, Rod/W7ZRC, Jim/K7MK, Jim/K9JF,
Mike/KC7DPD, Mike/K7NT, Pat/W7UA
Comments and the like
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What a great time and congrats to WT6V/N6RO for an amazing score. We knew
they would be the team to beat but we had no idea they would cream us like
they did (though at least we beat them on 160!). Also, what a fine effort
from KU8E/K8CC and the self-described “half baked” effort at WO8CC. Wait
until next year when propagation should be better and hopefully more even
for us northernly and westernly stations. Finally, though not posted yet,
our local competitor W7RM is within a few percentage points of us, though we
think we will end up ahead. It was fun monitoring their QSO totals during
the contest, as I am sure they did ours, to see who was in the lead.
Here are some random thoughts. I will post some more quantitative data later
when I get a chance.
* The first M/M from NK7U in many years. We ran a 4 station operation with
8 operators. It was fun having some new faces make the trip to Baker.
We managed to borrow K9JF and K7NT from Portland and convinced W7UA
to fly in from Carson City. With this crew, Joe, and the Boise gang we had
a
little of all the different contesting styles. I am sure we all walked
away
learning something new – even if it was just a new joke or two. In
hindsight
we wish we had done a recording of the shack and done a “Best Of” outtakes
for presentation at club meetings.
* According to Joe this effort was a QSO and Point total record for NK7U.
We were working the bands like mad the last two hours when we realized
we were in sight of 5,000 Q’s. We all screamed when we logged
number 5,000 at 2349Z! Little did we know that we would be just 10
three pointers short of breaking 14,000,000 points.
* Too bad the flux was at a low point in its 27 day up and down cycles. 10M
was
kind of a disappointment. The JA openings were late and short all days and
it
never really opened into EU for us – just 4 10M EU QSO’s.
* 15M was fun Sunday as it was open into Europe until 2200Z or so. It was
interesting to experience the waves of mini packet pileups.
* 20M into Europe was so/so both days. We are not sure why. Partly
propagation I
am sure, but I also heard that the QRM from intra-Europe QSO’s was so
intense that it masked our signals. Though, we did not seem to have this
problem on 15M.
* It is amazing to see the similarity in the scores from what appears to be
the
3rd, 4th, and 5th place US M/M efforts.
QSO Mults
NK7U 5,045 1,136
W7RM 4,800 1,130
WO8CC 4,565 1,131
How about those mult totals? How close can you get? Kind of makes the
battle
boil down to who can push the F1 key more.
* The impact of our northernly QTH is really amazing. On Saturday night I
listened to WT6V/N6RO running stations on 20M about 1AM local when the
band
was essentially flatline for us and I could not even hear the stations
they were working. Obviously they had similar advantages on 10 and 15 as
their QSO totals were 50% more than ours on 10-15-20 with fairly similar
antenna systems. When the flux goes up and the band openings are more
similar for us as compared to N6RO, K8CC, W7RM, etc, you all better watch
out.
* I think we all agreed that we liked the new WPX rules, kept the contesting
interesting the whole time.
Until later and thanks to all those that worked us. In particular thanks to
N6WS who we were able to move across 4 bands in 3 minutes right as we were
driving for 5,000 Q’s at the end of the contest.
Scott/K7ZO for the NK7U Contest Gang.
For now here are the rate sheets and other data for those interested.
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults NK7U CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 14/13 106/66 88/57 99/45 307/181 307/181
1 . . 18/15 79/31 79/34 14/7 190/87 497/268
2 . 20/6 29/15 109/40 84/20 . 242/81 739/349
3 . 22/5 16/12 94/34 32/18 . 164/69 903/418
4 19/2 18/1 21/9 84/25 1/1 . 143/38 1046/456
5 27/3 29/5 21/7 58/22 . . 135/37 1181/493
6 32/4 30/2 3/0 37/10 . . 102/16 1283/509
7 . 43/9 25/5 . . . 68/14 1351/523
8 7/1 36/7 34/6 4/1 ..... ..... 81/15 1432/538
9 8/0 30/3 39/14 13/1 . . 90/18 1522/556
10 19/3 33/2 26/2 1/1 . . 79/8 1601/564
11 12/2 43/5 26/2 2/2 . . 83/11 1684/575
12 . 37/8 28/6 1/0 . . 66/14 1750/589
13 . 11/2 24/4 19/9 6/1 . 60/16 1810/605
14 . . 4/1 25/15 29/8 13/7 71/31 1881/636
15 . . . 43/9 49/26 13/3 105/38 1986/674
16 ..... ..... ..... 29/15 45/23 18/1 92/39 2078/713
17 . . . 21/7 61/23 25/5 107/35 2185/748
18 . . . 32/7 66/23 54/11 152/41 2337/789
19 . . . 18/5 33/11 28/5 79/21 2416/810
20 . . . 32/5 48/8 20/4 100/17 2516/827
21 . . . 51/16 60/12 66/5 177/33 2693/860
22 . . . 40/6 63/12 70/4 173/22 2866/882
23 . . . 46/7 63/7 41/5 150/19 3016/901
0 ..... ..... ..... 58/7 43/7 120/5 221/19 3237/920
1 . . 12/3 62/12 92/7 21/1 187/23 3424/943
2 . 2/0 11/2 55/12 94/15 4/1 166/30 3590/973
3 . 4/0 14/0 37/3 65/7 . 120/10 3710/983
4 . 5/1 4/1 51/10 2/0 . 62/12 3772/995
5 7/0 23/0 2/0 34/4 . . 66/4 3838/999
6 8/1 17/4 8/1 20/3 . . 53/9 3891/1008
7 16/1 11/2 24/2 3/0 . . 54/5 3945/1013
8 5/0 11/0 21/1 ..... ..... ..... 37/1 3982/1014
9 2/0 13/0 25/0 4/0 . . 44/0 4026/1014
10 2/0 14/2 17/1 . . . 33/3 4059/1017
11 . 20/0 13/1 . . . 33/1 4092/1018
12 . 26/0 19/2 . . . 45/2 4137/1020
13 . 20/1 19/1 . . . 39/2 4176/1022
14 . . 3/0 39/5 8/1 . 50/6 4226/1028
15 . . . 37/8 8/1 . 45/9 4271/1037
16 ..... ..... ..... 23/1 25/0 ..... 48/1 4319/1038
17 . . . 10/3 20/5 5/1 35/9 4354/1047
18 . . . 43/4 25/4 12/2 80/104434/1057
19 . . . 17/3 48/10 9/3 74/164508/1073
20 . . . 21/3 69/9 14/3 104/154612/1088
21 . . . 12/0 103/16 11/2 126/184738/1106
22 . . 5/2 48/6 44/2 20/3 117/134855/1119
23 . . 12/0 42/6 72/6 64/5 190/175045/1136
DAY1 124/15 352/55 328/111 944/334 807/284 461/102 ..... 3016/901
DAY2 40/2 166/10 209/17 616/90 718/90 280/26 . 2029/235
TOT 164/17 518/65 537/128 1560/424 1525/374 741/128 . 5045/1136
Continent Statistics
NK7U CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Multi 28 Mar 1999 2359z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 166 393 193 834 498 403 2487 48.5
South America SSB 0 6 8 47 33 111 205 4.0
Europe SSB 0 0 64 487 436 4 991 19.3
Asia SSB 0 118 246 167 525 199 1255 24.5
Africa SSB 0 1 4 12 11 5 33 0.6
Oceania SSB 2 8 27 33 51 31 152 3.0
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