[3830] WAE SSB KD4D(@N3HBX) Single Op HP

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Mon Sep 13 11:10:52 EDT 2004


                    WAE DX Contest, SSB

Call: KD4D
Operator(s): KD4D
Station: N3HBX

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Clarksburg, MD
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  QTCs  Mults
-------------------------
   80:   81         120
   40:  167         111
   20:  646          96
   15:  824          94
   10:                 
-------------------------
Total: 1718  1694   421  Total Score = 1,436,452

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

I will never get the strategy right for this one!  :-)
Congratulations to K3CR for a great score!  Never heard
anything but South America on 10.  No US stations heard
and certainly no Europe.

Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me invade his basement
again.  It's a great opportunity for me to be able to use such
a great station.  WAE CW is my favorite contest, but SSB is
a lot of fun too.

I had two nice suprises.  One, 4S7VK called in during a run.  No
points, but I think that it's an all-time new one for me!  Two,
G1IOO called in and told me that I was behind my pace from last
year.  I guess somebody does actually look at these reports.  Too
bad he was absolutely right!  :-)

There were a couple of major lessons learned this weekend.
1.  Just because I've used an Orion a couple of times on CW
DOES NOT mean I can use one on SSB.  I never did quite get the
AGC and NR figured out.  One time, I thought the setup was
hopeless and swapped radios to the FT1000MP.  Then, I found
out that splatter just sounds different on the Orion and, in
fact, copy was better on the Orion.  I ended up changing
frequencies.
2.  I have got to figure out how to quickly set up a small
receiving antenna for 80 as a guest operator.  I guess I'll
try an EWE.  I've never had any success with the flag or
pennant.  Beverages need a lot of space and get in the way
of lawn mowers!  :-)  I ended up being an alligator on 80.  
My apologies to the stations I couldn't pull out of the noise.

I got off to a slow start.  I don't really know why, but I
never made it up.  I really stuck to the grind on 80 Saturday 
night, and it shows in the thirty multipliers. 

I still have a lot to learn about effectively using the second
radio, especially on SSB, and off-time strategy.

Here's a bunch of statistics/numbers:


                               2004 WAE SSB - KD4D


  HOUR   80SSB   40SSB   20SSB   15SSB   TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
    0       0       9      33       0      42      42
    1       8      32       0       0      40      82
    2       3      17       0       0      20     102
    3       4      19       0       0      23     125
    4       2      21       0       0      23     148
    5       2      13       0       0      15     163
    6       0       0       0       0       0     163
    7       0       0       0       0       0     163
    8       0       0       0       0       0     163
    9       0       0       0       0       0     163
   10       0       0      13       0      13     176
   11       0       0      43      39      82     258
   12       0       0      10      85      95     353
   13       0       0       2      93      95     448
   14       0       0       1      98      99     547
   15       0       0       2      68      70     617
   16       0       0       3      55      58     675
   17       0       0       0      58      58     733
   18       0       0       3      63      66     799
   19       0       0      74       2      76     875
   20       0       0      68       2      70     945
   21       0       0      85       0      85    1030
   22       0       0      44       0      44    1074
   23       0       4      38       0      42    1116

    0       1      14       2       0      17    1133
    1       6      10       0       0      16    1149
    2       6       5       3       0      14    1163
    3       9       3       0       0      12    1175
    4      28       1       0       0      29    1204
    5      19      20       0       0      39    1243
    6       0       0       0       0       0    1243
    7       0       0       0       0       0    1243
    8       0       0       0       0       0    1243
    9       0       0       0       0       0    1243
   10       0       0       0       0       0    1243
   11       0       0      39       0      39    1282
   12       0       0      40       3      43    1325
   13       0       0       6      43      49    1374
   14       0       0       0      47      47    1421
   15       0       0       0      57      57    1478
   16       0       0       0      73      73    1551
   17       0       0       0      27      27    1578
   18       0       0       4      21      25    1603
   19       0       0      40       3      43    1646
   20       0       0      38       0      38    1684
   21       0       0      41       0      41    1725
   22       0       0      33       0      33    1758
   23       0       0       5       0       5    1763

  TOTAL    88     168     670     837 

2004 WAE SSB - KD4D

 80BTH
CT      EI      F       HA      LX      OE      OM      PA      SP      UR
DL      ER      G       HB      LY      OH      ON      S5      SV      YO
EA      EU      GW      I       LZ      OK      OZ      SM      UA      YU

 40BTH
9A      DL      F       GW      LA      OE      ON      SM      UR      Z3
C3      EA      G       HA      LX      OH0     OZ      SP      YL      
CT      EI      GI      HB      LY      OK      PA      T9      YO      
CU      ER      GM      I       LZ      OM      S5      UA      YU      

 20BTH
9A      EA      F       GU      LA      OH      OZ      SP      TK      YO
C3      EA6     G       GW      LX      OH0     PA      SV      UA      YU
CT      EI      GD      HA      LY      OK      R1MV    T7      UA2     Z3
CU      ER      GI      HB      LZ      OM      S5      T9      UR      
DL      EU      GM      I       OE      ON      SM      TF      YL      

 15BTH
9A      EA      G       HA      LA      OH      OZ      SP      UA      YU
9H      EA6     GI      HB      LX      OH0     PA      SV      UA2     Z3
CT      EI      GM      I       LY      OK      R1MV    T9      UR      
CU      EU      GU      IS      LZ      OM      S5      TF      YL      
DL      F       GW      IT9     OE      ON      SM      TK      YO


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