[3830] ARRLDX SSB W6YX M/2 HP

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Mon Mar 7 13:24:48 EST 2005


                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6OWL K6IF N7MH KJ9U AA6XV W6FEL  W6KNS
Station: W6YX

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:   54    28
   40:  196    46
   20:  369    88
   15:  693   101
   10:  119    40
-------------------
Total: 1465   303  Total Score = 1,300,779

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

At W6YX, 15 meters was the best band this weekend, 10 meters was a pleasant
surprise, and the low bands were a relative disappointment, as members of the
Stanford Amateur Radio Club took up what turned to be a relatively casual
multi-two effort in the 2005 ARRL DX Phone.

Club Contest Sensei Mork, K6UFO, was necessarily absent for the event but
enlisted your author, W6YX newcomer Mark, K6OWL, to coordinate this year's
efforts.  K6UFO kindly came in Thursday evening to help set up for the
contest.

The battle royal began Friday afternoon local time with K6OWL slogging it out on
20 toward the Carribean with Dan, K6IF, making the better choice of running JA's
on 15 to lead our best sustained combined rate of 150/hour.  K6IF left as 15
closed and K6OWL turned north and west on 20, later dropping down to 40 and 80. 
Mike, N7MH, arrived later in the evening starting on 40.  John, KJ9U, and Dave,
AA6XV, handled the late night shift on 40 and 80 (no 160 antenna available). 
Jon, W6FEL, woke up at 3 AM and came in to join KJ9U to "troll the low bands". 
Rising K index and big aurora limited our low band access to EU and hampered
getting through on the higher bands as well later during daylight.  

Saturday morning found the return of N7MH along with Chris, W6KNS, working 20
and 15 as KJ9U retired to the couch to strategize.  K6OWL relieved W6KNS and
began working 20 and later 10 meters.  KJ9U relieved N7MH sticking primarily to
15.  For a brief instant, the combined rate meter topped 250/hour -- obviously
(see below), this was neither typical nor sustained.  Visitors on Saturday
included Carol, W6GEM, and Harry, KX6C.  

Propagation deteriorated that evening suggesting low band fun was not at hand
and the shack was left vacant for about 12 hours.  The WX was excellent on
Sunday after weeks of dreary weather, leaving K6OWL to finish the contest solo,
alternating left and right between bands, CQ'ing, and running, and
troubleshooting an intermittant audio problem, all to little avail as the rate
plummeted through the PM.  Hung up the headset when AA6XV arrived to do antenna
work and the score passed the 1.3 M mark.

73, Mark K6OWL

Facts and figures:

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    NA       0     18     27     51     75     38     209    14.3
    SA       0     13     15     48     58     71     205    14.0
    AS       0     17    131    133    402      7     690    47.1
    OC       0      5     12     21     65      9     112     7.6
    EU       0      0      7    110    106      0     223    15.2
    AF       0      1      6     12      7      0      26     1.8

QSO/DX by hour and band

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm   
OffTime

D1-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   34/24  115/13   --+--  149/37    149/37  
D1-0100Z    -       -       -     29/5    29/3      -     58/8     207/45  
D1-0200Z    -       -       -     19/5    27/2      -     46/7     253/52  
D1-0300Z    -       -     10/9    14/3      -       -     24/12    277/64  
D1-0400Z    -       -     11/6     1/0      -       -     12/6     289/70  
D1-0500Z    -       -     11/10     -       -       -     11/10    300/80  
D1-0600Z    -      4/3    12/4      -       -       -     16/7     316/87  
D1-0700Z    -     11/9    16/3      -       -       -     27/12    343/99  
D1-0800Z  --+--   12/8    69/2    --+--   --+--   --+--   81/10    424/109 
D1-0900Z    -     12/4    26/1      -       -       -     38/5     462/114 
D1-1000Z    -       -     28/8      -       -       -     28/8     490/122 
D1-1100Z    -     11/3     4/0      -       -       -     15/3     505/125 
D1-1200Z    -      4/1     3/1      -       -       -      7/2     512/127 
D1-1300Z    -       -      5/0     3/3      -       -      8/3     520/130    
7
D1-1400Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     520/130   
60
D1-1500Z    -       -       -     17/16     -       -     17/16    537/146   
26
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   10/6    24/17    5/5    39/28    576/174 
D1-1700Z    -       -       -     15/4    51/27   23/0    89/31    665/205 
D1-1800Z    -       -       -     24/5    52/11     -     76/16    741/221 
D1-1900Z    -       -       -     28/3    25/13     -     53/16    794/237 
D1-2000Z    -       -       -      2/0    17/1    30/13   49/14    843/251 
D1-2100Z    -       -       -      7/1    31/5     9/3    47/9     890/260 
D1-2200Z    -       -       -      8/0    40/1    10/3    58/4     948/264 
D1-2300Z    -       -       -     46/4    67/2      -    113/6    1061/270 
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   15/2    88/0     2/1   105/3    1166/273 
D2-0100Z    -       -       -     30/0    23/0     8/1    61/1    1227/274 
D2-0200Z    -       -       -     25/1    71/4      -     96/5    1323/279 
D2-0300Z    -       -      2/2    12/3     8/0      -     22/5    1345/284 
D2-0400Z    -       -      1/0     4/0      -       -      5/0    1350/284   
18
D2-0500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1400Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1350/284   
60
D2-1700Z    -       -       -      6/1    13/0      -     19/1    1369/285   
16
D2-1800Z    -       -       -     13/0     1/0      -     14/0    1383/285 
D2-1900Z    -       -       -       -      3/0    16/8    19/8    1402/293 
D2-2000Z    -       -       -       -      7/1    17/6    24/7    1426/300 
D2-2100Z    -       -       -       -      6/0     5/0    11/0    1437/300 
D2-2200Z    -       -       -     10/2    10/1      -     20/3    1457/303 
D2-2300Z    -       -       -      3/0     5/0      -      8/0    1465/303 

Total:     0/0    54/28  198/46  375/88  713/101 125/40


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