[3830] CQ WW CW V26K(AA3B) SOAB LP
The Trench Family
cwtrench at sprynet.com
Sat Dec 1 16:18:31 EST 2007
Call: V26K
Operator(s): AA3B
Station: V21N
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Antigua
Operating Time (hrs): 43.1
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 187 11 28
80: 569 19 72
40: 1833 28 105
20: 1438 28 99
15: 1448 24 91
10: 102 13 26
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Total: 5577 123 421 Total Score = 7,545,824
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Team: Code Sharks
Comments:
This was my twelfth trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and ninth visit to
the V26B super station. As always, I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N
and Team Antigua for helping to make this effort possible.
The station was in great shape when I arrived. The only problem was that
the bottom antenna in the 10M stack was inoperative - this didn't matter
anyway as 10M was not very productive. The backup generator transfer box
was out of service, but V21N set up a manual failover approach should it be
needed. Fortunately, there were no power drop outs at all, which I think is
a first for me in Antigua. Beverages for Europe and NA survived the time
span between the V26B operation and mine and they really helped.
I was generally pleased with my 2006 operation and therefore decided to use
it as the basis for my 2007 goals. I assumed a small increase in QSOs and
multipliers, and an average of 2.5 points per QSOs. I scaled my 2006
results based on these assumptions. (I also tested this approach against
the CQ WW SSB 2007 performance of V26B and 8P5A to see if there was anything
out of line.) My performance against these goals is shown below:
Score Score Score
Goal Actual Delta
8400000 7545824 (854176)
Goal Goal Actual Actual Delta Delta
Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults QSOs Mults
160 240 44 187 39 (53) (5)
80 694 91 569 91 (125) 0
40 1816 120 1833 133 17 13
20 1125 116 1438 127 313 11
15 1741 120 1448 115 (293) (5)
10 384 67 102 39 (282) (28)
Total 6000 558 5577 544 (423) (14)
I significantly underachieved! Obviously a big part of this was caused by
my poor results on 10 and 15. I truly expected an opening on 10 at some
point, but it never happened. Although 15 did open, I did not have the kind
of rates to Europe that I've enjoyed in previous years. I also believe that
80M was down a bit from last year in that I never was able to generate a
good European run.
I started to feel in trouble around 1300z on Saturday when the rates were
less than I expected. It felt like Europe dried up on 15 and I couldn't get
anything going on 20M. I realized that I would need to change my strategy
so I decided to allocate more time to hunting than I had planned. The
following shows my actual time allocations against my pre-contest plan:
Scenario Goal Actual Delta
Run 3 Pt 28.8 27.1 (1.8) hours
Hunt 2.2 4.0 1.8 hours
Run 2 Pt 12.0 12.0 0.0 hours
Total 43.0 43.1 0.1 hours
These time allocations produced the following results:
QSOs/ Mults/ Points/
Scenario Hour Hour Hour
Run 3 Pt 144.6 11.4 158094
Hunt 28.6 31.1 431871
Run 2 Pt 165.5 9.3 129626
Overall 129.4 12.6 175467
My productivity during 3 point runs was down significantly from last year
(203K points / hour) primarily as a result of lower than anticipated rates
on 15. My hunting productivity was approximately the same as 2006, which is
sort of unexpected given that I spent twice the amount hunting in 2007 as I
did in 2006. The time I spent running NA was very enjoyable, including 4
hours of rates in excess of 200.
Thanks for all the QSOs. I will go again in 2008. QSL via AA3B.
73 Bud V26K / AA3B
Here are other breakdowns and information:
Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
00 --+- --+- 154/40 --+- --+- --+- 154/40 154/40
01 - - 183/21 - - - 183/21 337/61
02 - - 165/8 - - - 165/8 502/69
03 - - 146/5 - - - 146/5 648/74
04 - 143/34 14/0 - - - 157/34 805/108
05 64/14 61/5 - - - - 125/19 930/127
06 33/2 - 116/5 - - - 149/7 1079/134
07 - - 162/7 - - - 162/7 1241/141
08 14/5 21/3 4/0 --+- --+- --+- 39/8 1280/149
09 - - - - - - 0/0 1280/149
10 1/2 48/6 76/10 - - - 125/18 1405/167
11 - - - - 180/49 - 180/49 1585/216
12 - - - - 179/13 - 179/13 1764/229
13 - - - 7/11 108/4 - 115/15 1879/244
14 - - - 1/1 77/3 2/4 80/8 1959/252
15 - - - 40/22 79/3 4/7 123/32 2082/284
16 --+- --+- --+- 169/21 --+- --+- 169/21 2251/305
17 - - - 24/7 16/17 5/7 45/31 2296/336
18 - - - - 212/3 - 212/3 2508/339
19 - - - - 193/9 - 193/9 2701/348
20 - - - - 149/1 - 149/1 2850/349
21 - - 99/1 - - 8/3 107/4 2957/353
22 - - 143/8 - - - 143/8 3100/361
23 - - 124/3 - - - 124/3 3224/364
00 2/2 3/3 57/2 12/11 --+- --+- 74/18 3298/382
01 2/3 11/14 7/7 - - - 20/24 3318/406
02 - 2/1 72/3 - - - 74/4 3392/410
03 1/2 27/1 43/0 - - - 71/3 3463/413
04 - 128/9 - - - - 128/9 3591/422
05 64/3 26/1 - - - - 90/4 3681/426
06 3/3 86/11 1/1 - - - 90/15 3771/441
07 - - - - - - 0/0 3771/441
08 --+- --+- --+- --+- --+- --+- 0/0 3771/441
09 - - - - - - 0/0 3771/441
10 - 13/3 11/3 24/7 - - 48/13 3819/454
11 - - - 171/10 - - 171/10 3990/464
12 - - - 121/2 9/0 - 130/2 4120/466
13 - - - 1/1 110/2 - 111/3 4231/469
14 - - - 1/1 119/2 - 120/3 4351/472
15 - - - 57/3 2/0 34/12 93/15 4444/487
16 --+- --+- --+- 31/6 9/4 41/1 81/11 4525/498
17 - - - 20/8 6/5 8/5 34/18 4559/516
18 - - - 212/7 - - 212/7 4771/523
19 - - - 213/1 - - 213/1 4984/524
20 - - - 218/3 - - 218/3 5202/527
21 - - 38/0 116/5 - - 154/5 5356/532
22 - - 139/6 - - - 139/6 5495/538
23 3/3 - 79/3 - - - 82/6 5577/544
187/39 569/91 1833/133 1438/127 1448/115 102/39
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 172 408 604 871 724 81 2860 51.3
EU 6 137 1144 503 668 1 2459 44.1
AF 5 8 18 16 20 5 72 1.3
AS 0 3 37 24 9 0 73 1.3
SA 4 11 22 18 23 15 93 1.7
OC 0 2 8 6 4 0 20 0.4
6 Band Calls 26
5 Band Calls 66
4 Band Calls 166
3 Band Calls 275
2 Band Calls 572
1 Band Calls 2458
Unique Calls 3563
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