[3830] TXQP K5T M/M HP

Kenneth E. Harker kharker at cs.utexas.edu
Mon Oct 1 16:33:29 EDT 2001


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2001 Texas QSO Party

    Contest Dates : 29-Sep-01, 30-Sep-01
    Callsign Used : K5T
     Station Used : N5XU
        Operators : KB5LBN, W5JLP, AA5BT, K5PI, KM5TY, WM5R
         Category : Multi-operator, Multi-transmitter
             Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
          Section : South Texas (STX)
          Country : United States
        Team/Club : Central Texas DX and Contest Club (CTDXCC)

   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   Countries   
 ______________________________________________________________

   40CW       31          31         93       3         1 
   40SSB     150         150        284      54         0 
   20CW      108         108        324       0         4 
   20SSB     219         218        436      28         2 
   15CW      105         105        315       5        10 
   15SSB     204         203        406      19         2 
   10CW       42          42        126       1         2 
   10SSB     216         216        432       4         5 
    2SSB       7           6         10       2         0 
  222SSB       3           3          2       0         0 
  432SSB       3           3          2       0         0 
 ______________________________________________________________

 Totals     1088        1085       2430     116        26 


  Bonus points: 1,000  (worked Texas mobiles WA5MLT and K5OJ
                        each in five different counties for 
                        500 x 2 = 1,000 bonus points.)

  Claimed Score = 346,060 points.


http://www.utexas.edu/students/utarc/

Station A (10/15/20):
  Kenwood TS-850SAT
  Heathkit SB-220
  Force 12 C-4 @ 90', rotatable
  W9XT DVK
  Homebrew PC keying interface
  Optimus PRO-50MX headset and footswitch
  TR Log 6.59

Station B (40/15):
  Yaesu FT-847
  Dunestar Model 419 Bandpass filter
  40-meter wire dipole @ 80', fixed N/S
  W9XT DVK
  Super CMOS Keyer III
  Optimus Nova-71 headphones and stock hand mic
  TR Log 6.59

Station C:
  Yaesu FT-726R (144)
    AM-6155 (400 W at 144 MHz)
    Cushcraft 13B2 @ 96', rotatable
  Realistic HTX-100 + DEMI 222-28CK (222)
    AM-6155 (400 W at 222 MHz)
    Cushcraft 13-element @ 94', rotatable
  Yaesu FT-726R (432)
    Tokyo Hy-Power HL-60U (60W)
    Directive Systems DSFO432-25 @ 92', rotatable

     The University of Texas Amateur Radio Club is celebrating 80 years of 
ham radio at the University of Texas at Austin.  Experimental/Amateur
station 5XU made its first transmissions on October 1, 1921. Since then, 
the club has held the callsigns W5NLH, W5EHM, W200EHM, and N5XU.  To 
celebrate this ham radio milestone, the club decided to operate a special 
event station K5T ("Kilo Five Texas") during the Texas QSO Party and 
the week afterward, from our on-campus club station, N5XU.

     This was the first time in recent memory that a multi-transmitter 
contest effort was launched from the UTARC club station.  On HF, the 
club is truly a tribander and wires antenna arrangement.  We had been 
debating entering multi-single or multi-multi, but decided that it would 
be more fun to do multi-multi.  The plan we stuck with for most of the 
contest was to keep the high-power station with the rotatable tribander 
on 10/15/20 and the low power station with the fixed dipole on 40.  This 
way, we were able to work the North American and some DX multipliers on 
the high bands, and work the Texas county multipliers (especially the
mobiles) on 40.  On Sunday afternoon, when the pickings got really slim
on 40, we started using the low power station on 15, using the 40 meter 
dipole.  This was not an ideal antenna by any means, but we got out and
made probably 30 or more QSOs than we otherwise would have made.

     Our equipment performed fairly well during the contest.  Our intial 
TR Log networking set up had a problem, though - data was travelling in
one direction and one direction only.  We had purchased an ISA multi-I/O
expansion card for the station A computer the day before the contest, and
while it had looked like everything had installed properly and was 
identified, it turns out that COM4 was behaving in a unidirectional manner.
Station B was seeing station A's information, but not the other way around.
Moving that to COM1 (which had been RigBlaster keying - which we didn't
use during the contest anyway) solved the immediate problem.  The bandpass 
filter on loan from K5TR worked quite well, and aside from being crowded 
in the shack (9' x 12' floorspace) we did manage to keep both stations A
and B on the air the entire contest period.  We had contemplated running 
both stations high power (we even had a loaner amp from K5PI in the shack,)
but as we could only borrow a single set of bandpass filters, and the 
antennas are really close to each other, we decided against it.  

     We also made a few VHF/UHF QSOs on Saturday night, but nothing on 
six meters, as our only six meter radio is the Yaesu FT-847 we were using 
on 40 and (later) on 15.  We did call CQ on six a few times in the 
afternoon without takers, but we didn't linger.  We had the two meter
radio on 144.200 pretty much the entire contest, listening for stations
when we were not actively CQing there.  We also didn't make any QSOs on 
80 or 160, primarily because the hours of the contest operation included 
only one hour of darkness, none of the mobiles were likely to have 80 or 
160, and there were much better ways to spend our time.

     Informally, our goal was 1,000 QSOs with a reasonable number of CW 
contacts.  As it turns out, almost 3/4 of our QSOs were on phone, where 
we could achieve much higher rates, especially on 10M.  At least five
of our operators made CW contacts, and at least four made phone contacts.
It looks like our score alone is greater than the total combined scores 
of both the North Texas Contest Club and the Texas DX Society teams in 
the 2000 TQP.

     We had a great time in the contest.
    

2001 Texas QSO Party - K5T


  HOUR   40CW    40SSB   20CW    20SSB   15CW    15SSB   10CW    10SSB    2SSB  222SSB  432SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
   14       0      25       0       9       0      22       0       0       0       0       0      56      56
   15       0      11       0      39       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      50     106
   16       0      18       0      19       0       1       0       0       1       0       0      39     145
   17       0      19       0      34       0       7       0       0       0       0       0      60     205
   18       3       3       8      44      10       0       0       0       0       0       0      68     273
   19       4       4       1       0      43      10       0       0       0       0       0      62     335
   20       4       0       0       0       0     106       0       0       0       0       0     110     445
   21       0       2       0       0       0       7       0      66       0       0       0      75     520
   22       0      14       0       0       0       0       0      54       0       0       0      68     588
   23       0      21       0      42       0       6       0       4       0       0       0      73     661

    0      10       0      18      18       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      46     707
    1       6       8      45       0       0       0       0       0       5       3       3      70     777
    2       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    3       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    4       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    5       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    6       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    7       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    8       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
    9       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
   10       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
   11       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
   12       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
   13       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0     777
   14       0      12      20       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      32     809
   15       1       3      16       0       0      12       0       0       0       0       0      32     841
   16       1       6       0      13       2      19       6       0       0       0       0      47     888
   17       2       3       0       0      26       0       3      10       0       0       0      44     932
   18       0       1       0       0      16       0       0      77       0       0       0      94    1026
   19       0       0       0       0       8      13      33       5       0       0       0      58    1085

  TOTAL    31     150     108     218     105     203      42     216       6       3       3


2001 Texas QSO Party - K5T

   1.           Ca  118
   2.           Ny   49
   3.           Fl   44
   4.           Oh   39
   5.           Nj   35
   6.           Pa   32
   7.           Il   31
   8.           Md   31
   9.           Va   30
  10.           Ma   28
  11.           Wa   26
  12.       Harris   23
  13.           Nc   20
  14.       Travis   20
  15.           Ga   17
  16.           Wi   16
  17.           Tn   15
  18.          vE3   15
  19.           Mi   14
  20.           In   14
  21.           Co   14
  22.           Or   14
  23.           La   13
  24.           Ar   13
  25.       Willia   12
  26.           Mn   11
  27.          vE7   11
  28.           Ia   11
  29.           Id   11
  30.           Mo   10
  31.           Ok   10
  32.           Az   10
  33.           DL   10
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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences         President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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