[3830] ARRLDX SSB N9RV SOAB HP
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Mon Mar 3 08:11:55 EST 2003
ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N9RV
Operator(s): N9RV
Station: N9RV
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 44
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 21 18
80: 160 57
40: 264 65
20: 777 109
15: 1234 108
10: 405 84
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Total: 2861 441 Total Score = 3,785,103
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
This turned out to be a mostly fun contest. Last mode's challenge
was wind and snow, this time on SSB it was line noise. After calling
the power company twice a day all week about the s9+10 noise
to the NE they finally came out to look on Friday. But the power
company now has a policy about sending trucks out on icy roads
so all they did was tell me was, yep, you've got noise! Thanks.
Beaming to JA the noise was acceptable, and low bands were
unaffected. So I told myself to ignore it and hope for luck. Still, it
was pretty disconcerting to hear the noise all night every time I
checked for it. By 1330z on Sat morning I was still running on
20 (where it wasn't quite as bad) and putting off a move to CQ on
15 and act like an alligator. Was contemplating quitting when I
decided that I at least had to try. Switched bands, and, whoa!
No noise! It disappeared without a trace, and was noise-free for
the entire contest until the last two hours when it came back.
Rates were at times very good in this contest, but frequency ownership
was always contestable. You learn how to "time share" frequencies
in W9. The QRM from splatter was such that you just had to have
faith that the waters would part now and then and you'd have a
chance to pick up whatever fills you needed from a weak station.
We were very obviously moving to lower sunspots in this contest.
One side effect of this is that the Friday night pileups on the low bands
were much more intense, especially on the Carribeans. Can't believe
how long it took me to break through to ZF2DQ on 40m. Not
used to waiting in line that long with 1.5 KW and a Yagi. Scott was
working 'em about 10 a minute, so the problem wasn't on his end ...
Also the bands took very long to open here in the morning.
I didn't do much CQ-ing at all to EU on 10 meters on Sat morning,
and it really shows in my multiplier on that band. 15m was very good,
and I never heard anything very loud there. Almost all EU here was worked
(on both days) on 10m beaming over Africa. Must have been nice to have been
a W4 this weekend! I don't know where these loud JA's on 10m were
that everyone is talking about. None were heard here.
Really blew it on 160m, where some EU were obviously coming through
at about 0400z on Friday night and I didn't stick around to vacuum them
up. How can you operate a contest where your only EU QSO on top
band is with RW2F?
Also have a lot to learn about 2 radio in SSB contests. Its much harder
for me, particularly on RX. I can deal OK with two CW audio streams coming
at me, but with QRN/QSB on SSB I am always switching to get one
radio in both ears.
Had better luck CQ-ing on 75m than I did on 80m in the CW contest.
Perhaps it is because on SSB you're not giving up that much to do it
(since 40m doesn't produce big rates on SSB). Was fun to pick up my
buddy N9NC (SU9NC) on that band.
Now it is back to the real world. Thanks to all who participated. Thanks
especially to all the South Americans for their excellent activity on 10m.
We are going to get to know each other very well in the coming years,
my friends!
- Pat
N9RV
Continent List N9RV ARRL DX SSB 2003 SOAB HP
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
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USA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VE calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N.A. calls = 13 22 20 28 36 31 0 0 0 150
S.A. calls = 4 13 11 47 27 59 0 0 0 161
Euro calls = 1 112 167 548 865 258 0 0 0 1951
Afrc calls = 2 4 3 17 14 11 0 0 0 51
Asia calls = 0 0 4 48 35 1 0 0 0 88
JA calls = 0 5 49 57 238 28 0 0 0 377
Ocen calls = 1 4 10 32 19 17 0 0 0 83
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 21 160 264 777 1234 405 0 0 0 2861
N9RV ARRL DX SSB 2003 SOAB HP
HOUR 160SSB 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 0 10 87 3 100 100
1 0 0 7 12 54 0 73 173
2 0 15 22 3 0 0 40 213
3 0 0 9 29 0 0 38 251
4 7 28 4 0 0 0 39 290
5 0 21 38 0 0 0 59 349
6 3 39 9 0 0 0 51 400
7 2 9 50 11 0 0 72 472
8 2 0 11 16 0 0 29 501
9 0 9 10 1 0 0 20 521
10 1 1 19 5 0 0 26 547
11 0 4 4 28 0 0 36 583
12 0 1 0 82 30 0 113 696
13 0 0 0 23 75 3 101 797
14 0 0 0 0 97 21 118 915
15 0 0 0 0 121 15 136 1051
16 0 0 0 3 59 22 84 1135
17 0 0 0 36 16 10 62 1197
18 0 0 0 3 93 0 96 1293
19 0 0 0 65 17 5 87 1380
20 0 0 0 81 12 1 94 1474
21 0 0 0 77 2 8 87 1561
22 0 0 0 44 13 11 68 1629
23 0 0 12 15 9 1 37 1666
0 0 0 0 12 11 33 56 1722
1 0 2 0 0 97 0 99 1821
2 0 0 5 37 4 0 46 1867
3 0 10 15 5 0 0 30 1897
4 5 9 0 0 0 0 14 1911
5 0 6 12 1 0 0 19 1930
6 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1932
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1932
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1932
9 0 2 1 4 0 0 7 1939
10 1 1 28 7 0 0 37 1976
11 0 0 8 14 0 0 22 1998
12 0 1 0 12 32 0 45 2043
13 0 0 0 0 105 2 107 2150
14 0 0 0 0 43 53 96 2246
15 0 0 0 1 6 79 86 2332
16 0 0 0 0 7 90 97 2429
17 0 0 0 0 98 10 108 2537
18 0 0 0 2 80 7 89 2626
19 0 0 0 48 22 2 72 2698
20 0 0 0 53 5 12 70 2768
21 0 0 0 12 14 8 34 2802
22 0 0 0 16 11 3 30 2832
23 0 0 0 9 14 6 29 2861
TOTAL 21 160 264 777 1234 405
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