[3830] SS SSB K5TR Single Op HP
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Tue Nov 18 04:46:52 EST 2003
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 185
40: 395
20: 1248
15: 395
10: 1
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Total: 2224 Sections = 79 Total Score = 351,392
Club:
Comments:
This is my favorite contest. This years contest marks my
twenty-fifth consecutive year of operating the phone SS. The last
twenty-one of them have been as a single op high power entry.
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/ssb-ss.html
I was not sure I was going to get to operate this years contest.
We were expecting our second child and his due date was November 11th.
As a result I was not thinking about the contest very much in
the last few weeks. Our son was born on the 11th. By Friday Robin
said that she did not see why I could not do the contest so we
made plans for my mother to take care of our 2 year old boy
during the contest test and to also help out around the house.
I got to the shack about 30 minutes before the start of the
contest and setup the computer, food and drinks. As the
start approached I was tuning up the amps and making the presets
when a fuse blew in the AL-1500 - spent sometime figuring that
out and I called my first CQ on 15 meters at 21:01z. K8CC came
right back and I was off and running.
In the 1986 contest I was operating at N5AU, logging on
paper, and I had 175 first hour - with 100 of those contacts
coming in the first 32 minutes. Ever since that year I have
been dreaming of having a 200+ hour in the SS. I have had
a number of 170 class hours but even those are very hard
to do in the SS given the long exchange. I knew things were
going well this year when I got to 50 contacts by 21:16z, I passed
100 at 21:31z. From then on I was pushing hard to make it to 200
but when the hour ended I did not quite get there - but I clearly
had made my best hour ever with a clock hour of 191 contacts.
After the contest I found that I had an hour starting at 21:02z of
196 contacts - so while it was not 200 it was very close. I guess
I will keep trying for that 200+ hour. Looking at that 1986 log
here I notice that I finished the contest with 1592 / 74 (sweep).
This huge first hour had me off to my best start ever with
the first four hours netting 617 contacts. I was hoping that
20 meters would stay open (I always hope that it stays open late)
but I was forced to move to 40 meters 01:57z. The band was long
on 40m but that is usually a good thing for us in Texas so
the rates were pretty good. I have not had the time or funds
to get a second 40m yagi up yet so I was using the 2 element
Cushcraft and a 40m dipole at 60' as my two antennas on this band.
After my first off time I came back and had very good rates
on 80 meters - much to my surprise. The rest of the contest
went pretty much like most years. The rate on Sunday was
pretty good staying around the 80/hr mark most of
the day. I did have one 100 hour at 18z.
I find two radio operation to be quite hard in the phone SS - with the
long exchange, often high QRM, lack of open frequencies, and only
being able to work stations once - it is very hard to make contacts on
the second radio. Often I will find someone to work but will have to
wait to squeeze the contact in when the rates are 70/hr or better. The
long exchange makes those 70 hours more like 100+ hours in other
contests. As a result I just don't make huge numbers of second radio
contacts. I do find the second radio essential in making band change
decisions and in finding a frequency on the next band.
In all these years of doing SS as a high power entry I think I have
only missed a sweep twice. This year I missed the working a
VY1/VE8 station. It seems like the last time I missed KP4 - as I
recall it was a year that the contest was right after a hurricane
and no one was on the air doing the contest.
As the contest drew to a close 20 meters once again closed
early and I was forced to the low bands again - unlike
the night before I was not having good rates on 40 and only
slightly better rate for a short time on 80 so my last full
clock hour on the radio was only a 47 and the last 30 minutes
of the contest only netted 18 contacts.
I am looking forward to getting the real 40 meter antenna up
and coming back for more next year.
Congratulations to K4XS on a great effort from WCF.
Congrats to WP3R on another win.
It was also great to hear K5TA on after a long absence
from the SS even if he gave be a scare on Saturday night
with his big number.
Station:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
160 - Inverted L
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW & S from 120'.
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 97' - NW
- Half wave dipole at 60' - NE
- NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
20 - 6 element yagis at 80' and 40' fixed NE
- 6 element yagi at 90' - NW
- 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW
- 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE
15 - 4 element yagi at 70' - NW
- 3 element yagi at 35' - NE
10 - 6 element yagi at 60' - NW
- 6 element yagi at 30' - NE
- 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE
HR 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE
-- ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- -----
21 --- --- --- 191/47 --- 191/47 191/47 0.02M
22 --- --- 113/13 35/4 --- 148/17 339/64 0.04M
23 --- --- 146/2 --- --- 146/2 485/66 0.06M
0 --- --- 132/3 --- --- 132/3 617/69 0.09M
1 --- 6/2 114/2 --- --- 120/4 737/73 0.11M
2 --- 117/2 1/0 --- --- 118/2 855/75 0.13M
3 --- 115/0 --- --- --- 115/0 970/75 0.15M
4 6/0 73/0 --- --- --- 79/0 1049/75 0.16M
5 5/1 21/0 --- --- --- 26/1 1075/76 0.16M
6 61/2 26/0 --- --- --- 87/2 1162/78 0.18M
7 45/0 5/0 --- --- --- 50/0 1212/78 0.19M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1212/78 0.19M
9 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1212/78 0.19M
10 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1212/78 0.19M
11 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1212/78 0.19M
12 22/0 11/0 --- --- --- 33/0 1245/78 0.19M
13 4/0 6/0 66/1 --- --- 76/1 1321/79 0.21M
14 --- --- 70/0 --- --- 70/0 1391/79 0.22M
15 --- 2/0 85/0 --- --- 87/0 1478/79 0.23M
16 --- --- 81/0 2/0 --- 83/0 1561/79 0.25M
17 --- --- 86/0 1/0 --- 87/0 1648/79 0.26M
18 --- --- 99/0 3/0 --- 102/0 1750/79 0.28M
19 --- --- 78/0 2/0 --- 80/0 1830/79 0.29M
20 --- --- 19/0 54/0 1/0 74/0 1904/79 0.30M
21 --- --- 3/0 82/0 --- 85/0 1989/79 0.31M
22 --- --- 50/0 23/0 --- 73/0 2062/79 0.33M
23 --- --- 65/0 2/0 --- 67/0 2129/79 0.34M
0 --- 2/0 28/0 --- --- 30/0 2159/79 0.34M
1 35/0 --- 12/0 --- --- 47/0 2206/79 0.35M
2 7/0 11/0 --- --- --- 18/0 2224/79 0.35M
D1 0/0 0/0 259/15 226/51 0/0 485/66
D2 0/0 185/3 395/4 989/6 169/0 1/0 1739/13
TO 0/0 185/3 395/4 1248/21 395/51 1/0 2224/79
The best 60 minute rate was 196/hour from 2102 to 2201
The best 30 minute rate was 206/hour from 2120 to 2149
The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 2120 to 2129
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 3 times.
4 QSO's/minute 51 times.
3 QSO's/minute 201 times.
2 QSO's/minute 435 times.
1 QSO's/minute 532 times.
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 0 181 384 1190 362 0 2117
VE calls = 0 3 8 47 27 0 85
N.A. calls = 0 1 3 8 2 1 15
Ocen calls = 0 0 0 3 4 0 7
Callareas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
------------------
0 214 9.6
1 176 7.9
2 214 9.6
3 191 8.6
4 274 12.3
5 113 5.1
6 342 15.4
7 258 11.6
8 209 9.4
9 233 10.5
Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent QSOs Pct
----------------------
A 1337 60.1
B 378 17.0
Q 87 3.9
M 172 7.7
U 234 10.5
S 16 0.7
1. Il 122
2. Oh 96
3. Mi 95
4. Scv 89
5. Va 85
6. Mn 65
7. Mdc 62
8. WWa 62
9. Wi 62
10. Ep 54
11. Nc 50
12. NNj 49
13. Or 47
14. In 46
15. Sv 45
16. Tn 44
17. Eb 42
18. Em 42
19. Co 42
20. Az 42
21. WNy 37
22. Org 36
23. Lax 35
24. ENy 32
25. On 31
26. Mo 30
27. Sjv 29
28. Nh 28
29. Ct 27
30. SFl 26
31. Ky 26
32. Ga 26
33. Ia 26
34. Ew 25
35. STx 25
36. NLi 24
37. NFl 24
38. Sdg 24
39. Nv 23
40. WPa 20
41. Bc 20
42. Id 20
43. Sf 20
44. Me 20
45. NTx 20
46. WcF 20
47. Mt 18
48. SNj 16
49. Sb 15
50. WMa 15
51. Ks 15
52. Ri 15
53. Wv 13
54. Vt 12
55. Ut 12
56. Al 12
57. Sc 12
58. Ok 12
59. Nm 12
60. De 9
61. NNy 9
62. Nd 9
63. Qc 9
64. Sd 9
65. Ms 9
66. Ne 9
67. Mb 8
68. Wy 8
69. Ab 7
70. Ar 7
71. La 7
72. Vi 6
73. Pac 6
74. Mar 5
75. Sk 4
76. Ak 4
77. Pr 2
78. WTx 2
79. Nl 1
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