[3830] ARRLDX CW 7J1AAI(W1NN) SOSB/10 HP

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:00:25 -0500 (EST)

                     ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: 7J1AAI
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: JH1GTV

Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: Tokyo
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:              
   80:              
   40:              
   20:              
   15:              
   10:   1210     57
----------------------
Total:   1210     57  =  206,910

Club: 

Comments:

Thanks to JH1GTV for the use of his fine station once more.  

Shige had just connected the coax to his new 5x5x5 stack the day before the 
contest and was concerned that it might not be working well but it seemed to be 
just fine.  The stack is hard wired so I couldn`t switch among the antennas, 
but that didn`t seem to be a problem.  As everyone has pointed out, conditions 
were really great and it looks like there will be a lot of new records set this 
year.  

Amazingly I had 46 mults at the end of the first hour.  The other 11 mults 
dribbled in throughout the contest.  Thanks to AJ3M for providing the rare DC 
mult in the first hour.  What a relief to get that one in the log.  I managed 
to work all US mults (WY and DC were the only US mults worked only one time) 
but missed NWT, NB, NU, NY, NF and LB.  It appears that several of these were 
on, I just didn`t find them and they didn`t find me.  With rates so good, it 
can be costly to S&P.  At my score level, a new mult was worth 21 qsos, about 
12 minutes of operating when the band is open well.  I suppose if you`re 
seriously into single band operating, you have to have two rigs on the same 
band, but this is not the easiest thing to do with high power, especially at 
someone else`s station.  Shige`s FT-1000MP Mark V has a sub RX, but of course 
it only operates on receive.  I tried to use it, but when the run rate was 
good, there wasn`t enough time to use it, and when rates were not good, there 
weren`t many new stations around to work.  

I had 61 dupes.  I suppose that`s a pretty normal percentage (5%) of my total 
contacts.  But that amounts to about 30 minutes of operating time.  It sure 
would have been nice to utilize that lost time for S&Ping.  Apparently some 
folks copied my call as ZJ1AAI.  I wonder if mistaken packet spots had anything 
to do with this.    

10 Meter single band is a pretty painless way to operate this contest from 
Japan.  You start at 9 AM on Saturday and are finished up about 1-2 PM local.  
Sunday morning things get going about 6 AM local for about seven-eight hours.  
Then there are about three more hours on the final day.  I commuted back and 
forth from my apartment downtown to Shige`s place on the train, so I may have 
missed 15-20 minutes of activity on Sunday and Monday mornings.  And if there 
were any long path openings, I was not there.  I had to get up at around 4:15 
on Sunday and Monday to make the 4:48 train, but that`s sure a lot less painful 
than trying to stay awake for 48 hours and then trying to go back to a normal 
work schedule on Monday.  My hat`s off to all you guys who do 48 or come close. 
 I can still do it but I`m sure not worth much for about three or four days 
afterward.

73,

Hal W1NN/7J1AAI

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