[3830] TXQP K5T M/M HP
Kenneth E. Harker
kharker at cs.utexas.edu
Mon Oct 1 16:33:29 EDT 2001
[more details]
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
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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
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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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