[3830] ARRLDX CW K5GN(@W5KU) SOAB HP
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Sun Feb 27 22:22:43 EST 2005
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K5GN
Operator(s): K5GN
Station: W5KU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: S. Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 70 42
80: 197 62
40: 651 87
20: 534 93
15: 1071 103
10: 164 57
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Total: 2687 444 Total Score = 3,521,364
Club: Texas DX Society
Comments:
Note: Email me if you want the play by play (hourly comments)
Band-by-band:
Band Goal vs Actual Comment
---- -------- -- ------- -------
160: 50/25 < 70/42 Better than expected, with Friday better
than Saturday to both Europe and Japan.
And I'm sure I left a few mults on the
table!
80: 200/65 = 197/62 Way down from expected, considering the
extra time spent there with 40 so punko.
No rate. After a marked improvement in
station performance noted in CQ WW CW, I
had hoped for better.
40: 1000/100 >> 651/87 Way down from expected. No rate before
Eu sunrise. Hard sledding before sunset,
too. Great when it was going great!
Just a tough band most of the time.
20: 800/110 >> 534/93 No real rate except for the surprise
pre-dawn fandango. Without that 100Q+
injection of fun it would be a normal
crummy S Texas 20m total. Lots of easy
mults missing in Europe and elsewhere.
You can't just stay there CQing if
you aren't getting answers.
15: 700/100 << 1097/103 The money band! Best-ever line score
for 15m in an all-band effort in ARRL
DX CW. Almost makes up for 20m and
40 being so punko. Single band 15m
would have been a great choice this
year. The openings were not as good
as last year (not as far to the east
nor as long), but the peak hours were
every bit as FB!
10: 200/50 = 164/57 The magical little European opening made
up some for a lack of people to work, but
it would have been much better without
the stupid line noise.
ALL: 2950/450 > 2687/444 Well, I think I made the most of most of
3.9MM > 3.5MM the opportunities! Close on the mults,
and not far off the QSO's.
Top W5 Maybe, but N2IC is close.
Top Ten No way. It takes a special weekend to
come close to the New England bunch,
and this wasn't it.
Station Description:
Antennas:
160: sloper as a vertical with one radial, hung from 40m tower.
80: fixed 3el wire yagi NE @150' hung on catenary between 40m and 20m;
inv vee NW/SE @130' on the 15m tower;
2-el vertical array NW, K3LC feed, 4 elev. radials ea, hung from 20m.
40: The tallest tower:
2/2 Cal-AV driven arrays @165'/70' both rotatable;
inv. vee E/W @120';
W8JK NW/SE @100' on the 10m tower.
20: One tower with too many yagis, fed in any combination:
Rotary 5el @140'
5el fixed NE @100'
5el fixed NE @50'
4el rotating @78' (used for LP and JA with the 5el)
4el fixed NW @38' (not very useful in a DX test);
Tribander SE @48' on the 40m tower.
15: Another tower with too many yagis, fed as individual systems:
Rotary 6el @135'+6el @90' fixed NE (U/L/B)
Fixed WNW stack 5/5 @70/30;
5el fixed SE @80'.
10: The shorter tower:
7el rotary @105'
7el fixed NE @70'
7el fixed NE @30'
5el fixed SE @50'
Beverages (all terminated, shared between 80 and 160):
1000' NE, 2x580'phased NE, 580' NW, 320' SE, 480' SW
Radios (three stations any two of which are chosen for SO2R):
80/15: FT-1000D/Henry 3K/1500W
40/10: FT-1000MPmkV/Alpha 78/1500W
160/20: TS-930/Alpha 76/1200W
One computer, N6TR LOG program
Spare computer, running GeoClock
Statistics:
Continent List ARRL DX CW 2005 K5GN
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 0 0 10 10 9 4 33
VE calls = 0 0 7 0 2 1 10
N.A. calls = 24 19 28 30 33 25 159
S.A. calls = 5 11 13 23 32 32 116
Euro calls = 39 126 392 322 784 87 1750
Afrc calls = 0 3 6 6 10 8 33
Asia calls = 0 2 24 33 21 0 80
JA calls = 1 35 159 96 179 3 473
Ocen calls = 3 4 17 24 27 9 84
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 72 200 656 544 1097 169 2738
Compare to CQ WW (This is for N2IC):
Continent List CQ WW DX CW 2004 K5GN
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 5 6 38 36 52 32 169
VE calls = 11 20 43 53 48 29 204
N.A. calls = 11 20 21 26 32 20 130
S.A. calls = 2 7 11 40 43 37 140
Euro calls = 8 122 285 225 476 59 1175
Afrc calls = 0 6 8 18 16 11 59
Asia calls = 0 1 15 31 20 1 68
JA calls = 1 27 146 114 172 36 496
Ocen calls = 1 4 13 19 23 18 78
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 39 213 580 562 882 243 2519
These two contests were similar in results!
Rate:
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 91+ 0 5 0 96 96
1 0 0 7 12 82 0 101* 197
2 0 1 19 33 11 0 64 261
3 0 31 17 16 0 0 64 325
4 23 1 20 0 0 0 44 369
5 22 24 0 4 0 0 50 419
6 11 13 6 0 0 0 30 449
7 3 16 37 1 0 0 57 506
8 0 1 58+ 0 0 0 59 565
9 0 7 48 0 0 0 55 620
10 1 6 44 5 0 0 56 676
11 1 0 56 1 0 0 58 734
12 1 4 33+ 11 0 0 49 783
13 0 1 0 18 36 0 55 838
14 0 0 0 7 136+ 0 143 981
15 0 0 0 0 148 3 151* 1132
16 0 0 0 0 105 7 112 1244
17 0 0 0 0 66 12 78 1322
18 0 0 0 7 51+ 6 64 1386
19 0 0 0 9 14+ 10 33 1419
20 0 0 0 35 1 9 45 1464
21 0 0 0 21+ 13 4 38 1502
22 0 0 0 23 23 5 51 1553
23 0 0 3 9 44+ 1 57 1610
0 0 0 12 4 48 1 65 1675
1 0 0 0 38+ 11 0 49 1724
2 0 11 6 26+ 0 0 43 1767
3 2 1 13 6 0 0 22 1789
4 0 17 26+ 0 0 0 43 1832
5 3 10 5 1 0 0 19 1851
6 1 6 8 0 0 0 15 1866
7 0 10 14 0 0 0 24 1890
8 0 3 61+ 0 0 0 64 1954
9 1 2 26 0 0 0 29 1983
10 1 1 1 103+ 0 0 106* 2089
11 0 13 4 55+ 0 0 72 2161
12 0 18 17 2 0 0 37 2198
13 0 0 0 12+ 3+ 1 16 2214
14 0 0 0 0 56 1 57 2271
15 0 0 0 3 95+ 0 98* 2369
16 0 0 0 10 54 10 74 2443
17 0 0 0 1 4 47+ 52 2495
18 0 0 0 0 11 33+ 44 2539
19 0 0 0 4 22 12+ 38 2577
20 0 0 0 37 10 0 47* 2624
21 0 0 0 10+ 1 2 13 2637
22 0 0 4 10 6 0 20 2657
23 0 0 10 3 15 0 28 2685
TOTAL 70 197 646 537 1071 164
Note: * means that the hour matched or beat the best previous
hourly total for that clock hour in this contest.
+ means that the DX-Summit Spot Database lists a spot
for K5GN on that band in that hour.
Looks like the spots simply correlate with the number of people
worked who might spot me, not the other way around, judging
from the logs. If anything, it was a 2 or 3 QSO increase after
ward. In most cases, there was no change from before the spot.
Sometimes I promptly left the frequency!
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