[3830] ARRLDX CW KR1G SOAB HP
ted@demop.com
ted@demop.com
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:43:24 -0500 (EST)
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: KR1G
Operator(s):
Station:
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 42 28
80: 364 58
40: 488 70
20: 1031 87
15: 867 83
10: 713 70
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Total: 3505 396 = 4,021,380
Club: Yankee Spelling Clipper Contest
Comments:
Decided I was doing all my precontest strategy wrong, so I fixed it.
In a contest I eventually get tired. Why sleep a lot the week before? The
resting up notion is cute, BUT, why practice being well rested?? Instead I
slept very little to practice being tired. Got pretty good at it. In fact I'm
still tired.
I usually cut out coffee before a test, and go caffeine free the first 24+
hours. Instead this time I drank lots of coffee. I had three pots on Friday
alone! I like coffee and coffee likes me - why screw with a good thing??
I practiced bladder control the week before. Lots of fluids and infrequent
trips to the loo to "train" the bladder.
I didn't pour over previous years results and stategies at all. Last year, I
overdid it and made myself leave 160 when I had plenty of mults based on the
last few years results. Had I have stayed another 30 minutes or so I probably
would have made the top ten - I was afraid of losing myself in DXing on the
lowbands, which is pretty easy for me. I did however find and post my last
years rate sheet in the shack about 20 minutes before the contest - before this
I couldn't have told you if I had made 2000 or 3500 Qs last year.
I always insist on no antenna work the week on the contest, and end up doing
lots anyway. Not this time - I planned on working on antennas. Put together a
new yagi, installed a ringrotor, did a Delta loop for 160, "tweaked" the
beverages. Climbed towers a lot Thurs, and walked what seemed like a marathon
worth of beverages on friday.
I get a little stressed out before Single Op contests - and it drives my XYL
crazy. I didn't even try to relax this time. Relaxing to prepare for something
exciting??? Sounds silly, huh??
Also, I did no planning. Just get on and run - or S&P - or whatever felt right.
So, what happened??
The first 24+ hours were a blurr - averaged almost 100Q an hour for the first
half. I would have averaged over 100 if I had trained my bladder better! The
first night was incredible on 20m - piles of Europe - sort of a constant peak.
Things really slowed down after the first 24 hours. Although no one seems to
have mentioned it, the A & K went up and it did matter at least in New
Hampshire. Many signals had a pronounced flutter on 20m the second night. 10
opened much later on Sun morning. Also, rates just died. Worked 2343 Qs day 1
vs 1162 Qs day2 - less than 1/2!! Think I had worked almost everyone who was
on, and too many people worldwide were watching the Olympics or something.
Probably grooving on Curling on something. Yeah, the rates are always (I'll say
"almost always" after CQWW CW) slower day two but this was almost ridiculous. I
used the slower rates as an opportunity to move lots of mults - which helped a
lot.
Mults were way down from last year, but with all my passing I ended up with
397 instead of 403 mults - not bad. Also I had 3505 Qs vs. 3650+ last year.
Score was down 10%, but fun remained at *least* constant. I slept about 2 1/2
hours - it wasn't really necessary in hindsight, but things were slow.
Now, how could I have done better??? My CW is much improved over a year ago,
but still has a long way to go. I plan on getting on for a lot more non-serious
contests this year (an hour or two running in contests I'm not putting a real
effort in - my running needs the most work).
Also, conditions were just too good!! On the high bands it lets the lower
antennas compete with the stacks. On the low bands (which were great!), my
beverages just didn't matter much.
Yup, this was a contest where skill was more important than aluminum!
Unfortunately that wasn't good for me, but I wouldn't trade this last weekend
for one with shitty condx where I made the top ten! I plan on several of those
as the sunspots fade away :)
And Puss (my son) had fun. He turned off the amp a couple of times, and
occasionally twirled a dial. But he's really looking forward to ARRL SSB -
although he prefers CW, he really likes Multiops
73
Ted, KR1G, Mr "More Aluminum than Skill" - and thats not too hard!!
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 117/36 ..... ..... ..... 117/36 117/36
1 . . 87/7 5/5 . . 92/12 209/48
2 . 2/2 10/0 66/24 . . 78/26 287/74
3 . 90/23 9/3 . . . 99/26 386/100
4 16/16 33/3 2/1 . . . 51/20 437/120
5 5/3 44/4 12/0 . . . 61/7 498/127
6 . 9/1 59/2 21/1 . . 89/4 587/131
7 . 1/1 . 137/9 . . 138/10 725/141
8 ..... 4/4 ..... 112/7 ..... ..... 116/11 841/152
9 . 2/2 2/2 126/6 . . 130/10 971/162
10 . 2/2 4/4 97/0 . . 103/6 1074/168
11 1/0 . 7/5 . . 88/31 96/36 1170/204
12 . . . . . 129/11 129/11 1299/215
13 . . . . . 126/4 126/4 1425/219
14 . . . . 4/4 76/4 80/8 1505/227
15 . . . . 94/24 8/0 102/24 1607/251
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 115/8 ..... 115/8 1722/259
17 . . . . 121/10 . 121/10 1843/269
18 . . . . 98/4 1/0 99/4 1942/273
19 . . . 47/0 20/0 4/4 71/4 2013/277
20 . . . 101/8 1/0 1/1 103/9 2116/286
21 . . 22/0 23/0 9/3 4/2 58/5 2174/291
22 . . 49/1 . 2/2 31/3 82/6 2256/297
23 . 70/7 6/2 11/1 . . 87/10 2343/307
0 1/1 10/0 18/0 ..... 3/3 ..... 32/4 2375/311
1 1/1 30/3 9/0 5/1 3/1 . 48/6 2423/317
2 9/5 . . 24/9 . . 33/14 2456/331
3 6/1 15/2 25/1 . . . 46/4 2502/335
4 . 10/0 . . . . 10/0 2512/335
5 3/1 31/0 1/1 . . . 35/2 2547/337
6 . 3/0 28/0 17/0 . . 48/0 2595/337
7 . 7/3 1/1 55/1 . . 63/5 2658/342
8 ..... ..... 3/2 22/3 ..... ..... 25/5 2683/347
9 . . . . . . . 2683/347
10 . 1/1 1/1 20/1 . . 22/3 2705/350
11 . . 1/1 16/1 96/4 . 113/6 2818/356
12 . . . 1/1 93/3 2/1 96/5 2914/361
13 . . . 1/0 79/4 . 80/4 2994/365
14 . . . 4/2 20/2 57/3 81/7 3075/372
15 . . . . . 71/0 71/0 3146/372
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 3/1 69/2 72/3 3218/375
17 . . . . 38/4 4/1 42/5 3260/380
18 . . . . 29/2 3/0 32/2 3292/382
19 . . . 4/2 1/1 38/3 43/6 3335/388
20 . . . 50/0 3/1 1/0 54/1 3389/389
21 . . . 47/0 2/0 . 49/0 3438/389
22 . . 15/0 2/1 15/1 . 32/2 3470/391
23 . . . 17/4 18/1 . 35/5 3505/396
DAY1 22/19 257/49 386/63 746/61 464/55 468/60 ..... 2343/307
DAY2 20/9 107/9 102/7 285/26 403/28 245/10 . 1162/89
TOT 42/28 364/58 488/70 1031/87 867/83 713/70 . 3505/396
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