[3830] WPX SSB DL6FBL(@DF0CG) SOAB HP
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Tue Mar 29 11:14:06 EST 2005
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: DL6FBL
Operator(s): DL6FBL
Station: DF0CG
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: JO31CQ
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 41
80: 342
40: 432
20: 1879
15: 761
10: 34
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Total: 3489 Prefixes = 1079 Total Score = 10,024,322
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
2x FT-1000MP + amps
160: Dipole @ 30m
80: Dipole @ 30m
40: 3-ele KLM @ 34m + 40-2CD @ 34m
20: 5 over 5 @ 32/16m + XM520 @ 20m
15: 5 over 5 @ 35/25m + 155BA @ 20m
10: 5-el @ 30m (rotary) + 5-el (fix SA) @ 23m + 5-el (fix NA) @ 16m
Beverages to NA (160m long) and JA (100m long).
BIG Thanks to the DF0CG crew for letting me use the station again. It's always
fun for a Single OP to play with a Multi/Multi setup... ;-) I arrived at the
station Thursday around 1 pm and unloaded my stuff which was still originally
packed from my CQWW CW trip to 9Y4ZC. At this opportunity I found my swimming
trunks, which were hiding under the FT-1000MP...
Markus (DJ7EO), Jochen (DH5HV) and Thorsten (DO1ET) helped me fix some minor
problems. Markus later headed to Belgium to be a part of the OT5A team, Jochen
operated the contest from his home station, and Thorsten made some more cables
and preparations for the final station-wide computer network.
Right at the beginning of the contest I lost my voice. It was the revenge of the
last delayed influenza, and I was only able to caw into the microphone for the
whole contest. People who might have been thinking about my "bad modulation",
please accept my apologies.
I had decided to start the contest on 80 meters, because 80 meters was better
than 40 meters last year from my home station. On 3769 I worked 234 stations in
the first two hours, which included many Europeans, some forty W/VEs, a few
UA9/UNs, and YY5YMA, PU7EEL, PJ4Y, 9Y4W, YV5KAJ, PS8DX and YW4M.
At 0216z I checked 40 meters, but US signals were only marginal. I switched over
to 160 meters, but detected a problem in the 160m amplifier only 5 QSOs later. I
switched it off and went jumping between 40 and 80 meters until 0610z. Goodies
on 40 meters were J75RZ, YI9VCQ, PJ4Y, NP2I, XE1MM, CN8SG, 5K3W, NP3CW, 4L2M,
HI3CCP, WP4CTD. On 80 meters YV4BU, P43E, HR2AEC, TS3A, and on 40 meters again
6Y4Y, T49C, CN2BC, XE1MEX, XE1REM, ZL1ANH, ZL1V, FY5KE, V25O, CE3RDV, some more
South Americans and a good number of W/VEs with better signals now.
20 meters had not really come to live so I decided for a first quick one hour
break, poured some coffee and held the fridge up. I was back at 0721z, worked a
few mixed QSOs on 20 meters (Europe, UA9s, VK/ZLs, one! JA giving me a 001 on
short path, TO1T, J75RZ and V25O, but no Stateside) before going to 15 meters at
0740z.
JA signals were loud, the rate was OK at slightly above 100 QSOs/hour, and many
rare Asia multipliers went in the log. Goodies were 9M2MT, 9V1RH, BG7KQF,
BX1AAB, BD7IPO, BY4BNS, VR2BG, WH2V, BG1JR, BG6AHP, 4F1MEU, EY1ZA, BX2AH, BU2AI,
S9SS, DV3ZQR, B3C, 9V1BH, 6M0MM, BD7IEE, BY2HIT, BG1FBV, a few VK/ZL/YB and some
more South Koreans. It was amazing to see the rising activity from China, and we
can only hope that more and more new Chinese Amateurs find their way into
Contesting.
When nobody was coming back to a CQ, I threw in a quick 20 meters QSO on the
Second Radio.
At 1036z I found 14193.5 clear and did not leave the frequency until 2002z, when
I started my major break. These almost 9.5 hours produced 1208 QSOs, which is an
overall rate of 127 QSOs/hour. Best hours were 12z, 13z, and 14z with 157, 160,
and 150 QSOs. That's not too bad regarding my "ordinary" DL6 callsign and the
serial number thing, which slows down the rate dramatically compared to a CQWW
or ARRL DX contest. Goodies were VP9I, P43E, JU1DX, KG6DX, B3C, CB5A, WH2V,
TI5N, VP9FX, DU1IVT, 9M2FB, B4HG, 9M2TO, BG7LHY, HS8KGG, ST2NH, YE3K, DZ9DZ,
KH7X, DU4JT, VR2XLN, VY0PW, FM5DN, AH7C, and 6Y5BB. I only managed 25 QSOs on 15
meters on the Second Radio during this run, among which were ZD8Z, ST2T, EK3SA,
5U7JB, TZ9A, D4B, 8P9AM, 9G5FO and 8R1K.
My voice had to be lubricated with mineral water all day long to get at least
the caws out. A summary showed that I was drinking 14 liters of water during the
contest (not to forget the two beers in the break ;-). Especially during my long
run on 20 meters I knew perfectly well that when I was running for the bathroom
I would be losing my precious running frequency. In my desperation I remembered
a tip from DL4NAC (YLs, children and gentlemen: close your eyes) and: I cut off
the upper part of one of the 1.5 liter plastic mineral water bottles, stood up
and peed in the bottle, while still making QSOs. Yeah, I even managed this stunt
four times without losing a drop! How’s MTV saying: “Don’t try this at home…”
;-)
Certainly this would have been even more entertainingly, when the webcams had
been in action, but (luckily?) the DSL internet connection was down all weekend,
which was also the reason why I was going “unassisted”…
In the break (after holding up the fridge again), I had programmed my alarm
clock for 2330z, when I wanted to fill in two hours of running 40 meters
stateside. It woke me up, but after testing my voice I decided to forget about
40 meters. I wanted to take the rest of the 12 hours break now and re-programmed
the alarm clock for 0600z. After a long shower and a brief visit to the fridge I
jumped on 20 meters at 0650z, called CQ and CQ and CQ without answer, and
suddenly knew that it was a mistake to give away the more productive evening
hours the day before. The rate was quite low. Some goodies were TG9IIW, PJ2T,
3W2XK, FM5JC and PJ4Y. The Second Radio on 15 meters produced some UA9s, weak
JAs, TR8CA and 8Q7DV.
At 0817z I jumped over to 15 meters, but couldn't get anything going. I had
hoped for a repeat of Saturday's 15 meters JA opening, which was part of my
break time strategy. Only a few minutes later I left 15 meters and wandered
around between 40, 20 and 15 meters without good luck. A quick Second Radio
visit to 10 meters revealed VU2DSI with a good signal, but nobody else. Some
minutes later 8Q7DV and OD5WPX became workable on 10 meters, too. The JAs were
weaker than Saturday, and a much smaller number went in the log. Goodies on 15
were BG4WCK, 9M2TO, EY8BA, BA4AA, VR2XLN, YI9VCQ, BD4AAQ, BX4AQ abd DW1NJT.
At 1036z I switched over to 20 meters for an hour. The only goodie was OX3RZ. At
1140z I went back to 15 meters and was rewarded with V8ASV, DU4PMA, V25O, TO1T,
V85GD, XV2PS and BD7IHN - within 15 minutes! The Second Radio was on 10 meters
and found YI9VCQ and a number of nice signals from South America. I even called
CQ on 10 meters for 15 minutes, but was only called by UN2O, three DLs, three
PAs, F5POJ and PY2BRZ. The Second Radio found ZF2NT, HI3CCP and some others on
15 meters. At 1225z I was CQing on 15 meters again, but the rate was low.
Goodies were BG9TD, TI5N, 5R8FU, TI2VW, CP1FF, T49C, HZ1EX and VP9BO, with
second radio QSOs on 10 meters with YI9QWO, JY4NE and YB0ECT in between.
At 1248z N2MM called for my first US on 15 meters. He said his antenna was
pointing due East, and so I was beaming due West. At 1253z came K3ZO and K5TR,
at 1307z came NJ4U, and then K3TW, who suddenly was 40 over 9. This magic only
lasted for a few minutes. K3KO, K4ZW, WC4E, N3KS, and K4JE found me, but I could
not establish a good rate.
The next 15 minutes I struggled to decide for the next running band and jumped
between 20, 15 and even 40 meters, before I found a clear spot on 14296. The
rate went up, but signals were difficult to read, because the band was fully
packed, and especially the neighbouring stations BELOW my own frequency produced
a babbling noise at S9. This "noisefloor" made it almost impossible to copy
signals weaker than S7! And there were plenty of them. This was a bit strange,
because the "neighbours" were more than 2 kHz away, which should already make a
good separation. I did not have this problem from the neighbours sitting HIGHER
in frequency... Goodies were HR2JGG, 4F1MEU and SV9CVY, Michael, whom I had
visited for the CQ WW SSB contest in 2001.
At 1436z I tried 15 meters again, but couldn't establish a good rate to the US.
It was more like DX'ing with stations like HQ2DMR, T49C, ZF2SC, 8P6EX, HR2AHC,
and RU3HD/ANT (Antarctica) calling in. At 1454z I gave up, and tried 40 meters.
I knew that I was still lacking many easy Central European multipliers, because
I had mostly been on the high bands on Saturday working DX, not Europe... ;-)
The rate was OK, but after 20 minutes I went back to 15 meters. Now the US
signals were better, and I stayed there until 1640z working W/VE, South America
and ZS9Z, VP8BKF, XE1KK, XE1MM, PT9ZBJ (who was the first PT9 station in my
life), and P49MR (who said: "This is your new multiplier calling..." ;-).
>From 1640z thru 1653z I wandered over 40 and 15 meters without luck, and finally
sat down on my money band, 20 meters, again. I was on 14271 until 1819z, worked
W/VEs, Europeans and KH7JJ, HP1XX, XE1KK, XE1MEX and OX3LX. The Second Radio on
15 meters found P40A, VQ5L, FY5KE and HP1XX, whom I tail-ended at the end of
another QSO (just for the fun of it ;-). For the last few minutes I had watched
the LX5A frequency on 15 meters. The distance is just 250 kilometers, but I
could NOT HEAR most of the stateside stations they were working. At 1820z I
could hear most of the stations in the LX5A pileup and decided to give 15 meters
another try. The rate was good, but my friend Carl, OE9MON, shocked me deeply
when he asked why I was CQ'ing when so many US stations were calling me. That
was just another hint, how a few hundred kilometers “South” can change your
whole life... ;-)
>From 1840z thru 2156z I sat on 14272 milking the band for more US stations. I
was also called by KH7FX, a loud E21EIC on the back of the stack (I'm not trying
to rhyme...), CN8BV, NP2KW, TG9ANF, 6Y4Y and V31TT. The Second Radio found PJ4Y,
9Y4W, XQ3BRN, J75RZ, 8P6GE, NP2I, PJ2T and P43E on 15 meters, and loud and easy
D4B and 8Q7DV on 40 meters.
In between I had called HG8R for a new multi on 80 meters, and I was obviously
giving him a hard time to copy me. After the QSO I checked the setup and found
the 80 meters amplifier to block all HF. Probably the output relay was hanging,
so I had worked HG8R with a piece of coax cable in the basement a few meters
UNDER the Earth. Good ears there... ;-) After switching the amplifier off, I
could get at least the barefoot power out for a few more QSOs. Later I even
tried to run barefoot for a few minutes on 3733, but was quickly driven away...
I had planned for an intense running on 80 meters for these easy, yet elusive
European multipliers, but this was obviously not going to happen.
Now that 80 meters was unusable for running, I jumped between 160 and 40 meters
for the rest of the contest. 160 produced some of the easy European multipliers,
but the rate was not good, so I better went for some more 6 point US stations on
40 meters. Michael, SV9CVY, called in again, and just in time for the end of the
contest my voice came back. I was able to speak in whole sentences again, and
not just caw a five-nine-whatever-number-it-was into the mike.
Here is some statistics. Note that I almost worked double as many DX stations
than EU stations:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 40 283 190 552 178 15 1258 36.1
NA 0 35 179 1133 205 0 1552 44.5
AS 1 14 19 108 280 13 435 12.5
SA 0 9 36 19 55 5 124 3.6
AF 0 1 6 14 14 0 35 1.0
OC 0 0 2 52 27 1 82 2.4
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- 124/112 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 124/112 124/112
D1-0100Z - 111/80 - - - - 111/80 235/192
D1-0200Z 5/2 24/18 55/27 - - - 84/47 319/239
D1-0300Z - 4/2 69/34 - - - 73/36 392/275
D1-0400Z - 69/42 6/4 - - - 75/46 467/321
D1-0500Z - - 90/48 - - - 90/48 557/369
D1-0600Z - - 12/4 - - - 12/4 569/373
50
D1-0700Z - - - 28/11 34/15 - 62/26 631/399
30
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 18/11 104/45 --+-- 122/56 753/455
D1-0900Z - - - 16/8 103/37 - 119/45 872/500
D1-1000Z - - - 84/26 11/5 - 95/31 967/531
D1-1100Z - - - 116/35 8/4 - 124/39 1091/570
D1-1200Z - - - 157/50 - - 157/50 1248/620
D1-1300Z - - - 160/47 - - 160/47 1408/667
D1-1400Z - - - 150/40 - - 150/40 1558/707
D1-1500Z - - - 94/23 5/5 - 99/28 1657/735
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 96/27 7/5 --+-- 103/32 1760/767
D1-1700Z - - - 115/33 1/0 - 116/33 1876/800
D1-1800Z - - - 119/30 - - 119/30 1995/830
D1-1900Z - - - 101/29 4/1 - 105/30 2100/860
D1-2000Z - - - 3/2 - - 3/2 2103/862
57
D1-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D1-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 2103/862
60
D2-0600Z - - - 5/1 - - 5/1 2108/863
52
D2-0700Z - - - 63/16 13/2 - 76/18 2184/881
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 10/3 13/1 34/8 3/0 60/12 2244/893
D2-0900Z - - 9/4 7/1 55/11 1/0 72/16 2316/909
D2-1000Z - - - 21/7 31/12 7/3 59/22 2375/931
D2-1100Z - - - 25/5 26/5 2/0 53/10 2428/941
D2-1200Z - - - - 49/11 21/3 70/14 2498/955
D2-1300Z - - 8/2 36/5 37/8 - 81/15 2579/970
D2-1400Z - - 11/3 50/6 17/6 - 78/15 2657/985
D2-1500Z - - 24/3 - 77/12 - 101/15 2758/1000
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 4/1 8/1 80/5 --+-- 92/7 2850/1007
D2-1700Z - - - 101/13 6/2 - 107/15 2957/1022
D2-1800Z - - - 75/10 37/4 - 112/14 3069/1036
D2-1900Z - - - 77/12 10/3 - 87/15 3156/1051
D2-2000Z - - 3/1 75/5 12/1 - 90/7 3246/1058
D2-2100Z 16/2 1/1 17/0 66/6 - - 100/9 3346/1067
D2-2200Z 20/3 9/2 35/0 - - - 64/5 3410/1072
D2-2300Z - - 79/6 - - - 79/6 3489/1078
Total: 41/7 342/257 432/1401879/461 761/207 34/6
73 Ben
DL6FBL
http://www.dl6fbl.de
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