[3830] ARRLDX SSB VO1MP SOAB HP

Mon Mar 6 21:31:25 EST 2006

                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: VO1MP
Operator(s): VO1MP
Station: VO1MP

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 17

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  104    49
   80:  251    55
   40:  567    70
   20: 1033    90
   15:  408    77
   10:    3     2
-------------------
Total: 2366   343  Total Score = 2,434,614

Club: East Coast Canada Contest Club

Comments:

ARRL Section : NF
Club/Team : East Coast Canada Contest Club
Software: N1MM Logger V6.2.8

Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty
 1.8     104    312   49
 3.5     251    753   55
 7       567   1701   70
 14     1033   3099   90
 21      408   1224   77
 28        3      9    2

Total   2366   7098  343

Score : 2,434,614

Rig : FT1000MP Field & Alpha 87a 

Antennas : 
10 meters  5 element OWA
15 meters  5 elemnt OWA
20 meters  2 element Loop array and dipole
40 meters  2-El Loop( SWITCHABLE NE/SW)
80 meters  dipole 
160meters  shunt fed tower

Software:  N1MM  Contest logger     

Antennas : 

Soapbox : 

Rearranged my operating times to allow for some sleep or is it
that  I rearranged my sleep time to allow for some operating  ?  
Bands seemed to be pretty  fair except 10   which was virtualy 
non-existant and 15 is really starting to
show where we are in  the sunspot cycle !
As some have already noted it is difficult to 
find and hold a run frequency .... fortunately for us up here we can
establish a run frequency by having an open band earlier than most of
North America and SSB band allocations where we can hide  hi !

There are exceptions of course .... 40 meters being the ZOO it is ..
it is getting to be more frustrating and difficult to either establish 
or maintain a run frequency. The first evening  it is usually out of the
question and one has to force themselves to leave 20 on day one to get to
40 early to start working Europe before the band is completely divided.

Kudos to those who are forced to operate above 7.1 ... have never played 
that game , but then I guess you're listening down into a quieter band 
segment or is it ? I sure wouldn't want to be listening up into all that 
40 over broadcast qrm !! 

Load of 5 banders again seems this batch of Caribean ops were much smoother
than the last bunch  ,,, there did not seem to be an aversion to giving their
calls more often...

however I have to relate this as I observed it ...
Quite Obviously a Caribean Newbee... it goes like this ... hi !

DX     =  qrz?
us/can = calling
DX     = aa?aaa  ur 59 500
us/can tks ur  59 state/prov
DX     =  Thanks for calling in good luck and 73 
DX     =  qrz? ( no call ) 

MY immediate observation is ..... he feels now since now he is 
" Big time" he needs to speed up the operation
by only signing every 10 Q's or so .
H'mmmmm Good thinking
however the  expression  " thanks for calling in good luck and 73" 
takes up more time than giving the call ....obviously he wants to be polite...hi
!
Unfortunately when he gets the hang of it he will drop the greetings and
still only ID every ten Q's or so ....  oh well dem's da breaks.. 
Guess I'm getting crotchety ....  

Here are some stats the software generates.....cheeeeeese  how did we ever
operate/log with paper and pencil ?

ARRL DX SSB VO1MP 
Off Times >= Minimum 30 Minutes

03/04/06 02:02Z - 03/04/06 03:05Z     63 mins
03/04/06 04:10Z - 03/04/06 09:41Z     331 mins
03/04/06 13:55Z - 03/04/06 14:25Z     30 mins
03/04/06 15:07Z - 03/04/06 16:38Z     91 mins
03/04/06 22:44Z - 03/05/06 05:17Z     393 mins
03/05/06 07:53Z - 03/05/06 08:56Z     63 mins
03/05/06 08:57Z - 03/05/06 10:05Z     68 mins

Total Time Off 17.32 hours
Total Time On  30.68 hours

ARRL DX SSB -
Max Rate time :  10:00 to 12:30 

2006-03-04 1051Z - 7.0 per minute (1 minute), 420 p/h
2006-03-04 1100Z - 4.3 per minute (10 minutes), 258 p/h
2006-03-04 1132Z - 3.3 per minute (60 minutes), 199 p/h

Had a few good dx stations call in on 20  a couple of VK6's , 9M2 ,8Q7
who were all well over the nine mark on my high hilltop dipole...which seemed 
to outplay the lower loop array most of the time. 
100 Centimeters of snow earlier this week
made any additional antenna work impossible.
Should have been no shortage of VO  mults for this contest ... heard VO's  VO1HE
VO1BC
VO1TA AND     vo1mx at VO1AU

Look forward to the ssb wpx when we plan to operate a multi two here for the
first time.

73 es thanks for all the QSOs
C'Y'All Next One 
GLWCDR

Gus VO1MP

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