[3830] ARRL 10 K5TR(WM5R) SO SSB HP

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Mon Dec 10 11:02:53 EST 2007


                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW:    0     0
  SSB: 1709    52
-------------------
Total: 1709    52  Total Score = 177,736

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

Station K5TR:
   http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
   Kenwood TS-850SAT
   Kenwood TS-850SAT
   Ameritron AL-1500
   Ameritron AL-1500
   24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 60' rotatable
   24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 30' fixed NE
   4-element Yagi @ 40' fixed SE
   3-element Yagi @ 20' fixed W
   Half wave vertical, base @ 20'
   Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches
   Heil Proset HC-4
   W9XT contest card
   TR Log 6.78

I always have fun in this contest.  One of these years, George will
want to operate the contest himself, and I'll have to find another
station...

The sporadic E propagation was simply spectacular this year.  The
last year I had a 200 hour in this contest was 2002, and this year I
nearly had two in a row.  Friday night was fantastic, with over
750 QSOs and 30 states in the log before propagation closed for
the night.  I did not work my first non-XE DX QSO until Saturday, and
even then the selection was thin: a few Caribbean stations in
single-hop or double-hop range, a scattering of southern South
Americans, and a couple of South Africans.  I never heard a VK/ZL
station, unfortunately.  Almost all of my QSOs in North America were
single-hop Sporadic E contacts.  I did make one QSO with a station in
Massachusetts, a distance outside the normal single-hop range.  Inside
the single-hop range, the only multipliers missed were DC, MB, and SK.

I made QSOs in 35 of the 36 clock hours I was on the air.

I worked a LOT of 2x3 US call signs this weekend, many with the more
recently issued prefixes like KI4.  Too many were not using phonetics
yet, but it was great to hear new call signs on the air, and I hope
they decide to try other phone contests, too.


Hour      10  Total    Pct
--------------------------
0000     261    261   14.9
0100     197    458   11.3
0200     167    625    9.5
0300     101    726    5.8
0400      30    756    1.7
0500       4    760    0.2
0600       0    760    0.0
0700       0    760    0.0
0800       0    760    0.0
0900       0    760    0.0
1000       0    760    0.0
1100       0    760    0.0
1200       0    760    0.0
1300       5    765    0.3
1400      36    801    2.1
1500      64    865    3.7
1600      38    903    2.2
1700      16    919    0.9
1800       6    925    0.3
1900       8    933    0.5
2000       4    937    0.2
2100       2    939    0.1
2200       3    942    0.2
2300      20    962    1.1
0000      66   1028    3.8
0100     105   1133    6.0
0200      78   1211    4.5
0300      35   1246    2.0
0400       8   1254    0.5
0500       2   1256    0.1
0600       0   1256    0.0
0700       0   1256    0.0
0800       0   1256    0.0
0900       0   1256    0.0
1000       0   1256    0.0
1100       0   1256    0.0
1200       2   1258    0.1
1300       6   1264    0.3
1400       3   1267    0.2
1500      17   1284    1.0
1600      98   1382    5.6
1700      99   1481    5.7
1800     120   1601    6.9
1900      76   1677    4.3
2000      24   1701    1.4
2100       2   1703    0.1
2200       3   1706    0.2
2300       3   1709    0.2
--------------------------
Total          1709

The best 60 minute rate was 261/hour from 0000 to 0059
The best 30 minute rate was 298/hour from 0003 to 0032
The best 10 minute rate was 324/hour from 0007 to 0016

The best 1 minute rates were:
 7 QSO's/minute    6 times.
 6 QSO's/minute   10 times.
 5 QSO's/minute   32 times.
 4 QSO's/minute   57 times.
 3 QSO's/minute  130 times.
 2 QSO's/minute  223 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  383 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   4       511
   5       694
   6       501
   8         1
   9         1
  10         1

 Multiplier Distribution
 -----------------------
   1.  Oh  171
   2.  Il  137
   3.  Tx  101
   4.  Mi   98
   5.  In   88
   6.  Tn   85
   7.  Fl   73
   8.  Wi   73
   9.  Mo   71
  10.  Ga   61
  11.  Ky   58
  12.  Ca   52
  13.  Va   51
  14.  Co   48
  15.  Az   46
  16.  Pa   46
  17.  Mn   42
  18.  Al   42
  19.  Ks   41
  20.  Nc   39
  21.  Ia   36
  22.  Ar   26
  23.  Sc   26
  24.  Ne   25
  25.  Wv   25
  26.  On   25
  27.  Nm   18
  28.  Md   17
  29.  Ok   14
  30.  Ms   11
  31.  Sd    8
  32.  La    7
  33.  Nv    7
  34.  Ut    5
  35.  Ny    4
  36.  Nj    4
  37.  PY    4
  38.  Id    4
  39.  Wy    2
  40.  XE    2
  41. KP4    2
  42.  ZS    2
  43.  LU    2
  44.  CX    2
  45.  De    1
  46.  CE    1
  47. XF4    1
  48.  Nd    1
  49.  Mt    1
  50.  P4    1
  51. PJ2    1
  52.  Ma    1


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