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

Wed Dec 17 18:52:40 EST 2008

                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

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

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: EM10
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW:           
  SSB: 1055    55
-------------------
Total: 1055    55  Total Score = 116,050

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

Station K5TR:
   http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
   Kenwood TS-850SAT
   Elecraft K3
   Ameritron AL-1500
   Alpha 76
   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 was over 27 hours into the contest before I had a QSO total
that equaled what I worked in the first hour of the 2007 contest.
The only good Eskip I had all weekend was on Sunday, when I managed
three 100+ hours in a row.

I never did work Oregon or Washington, and I missed New Jersey,
Delaware, and all of New England in the northeast.  I only worked
two provinces in Canada - Ontario and Quebec.  All of my DX
multipliers were from North or South America this year, the first
time I've failed to find at least one Africa or Oceania station
on the band to work.

I struggled both mornings with the wind.  The rotator on the 10 meter
tower has a broken brake, and the strong southerly winds kept me
from pointing the high yagi at South America as consistently as I
would have liked.  I don't know that that really impacted my totals
that much, as the band was not in great shape either morning, but
it was frustrating at the time.

I borrowed an Elecraft K3 from K5PI for the second radio, but it
never really got a good workout.  When the band was closed, the
vertical it was using could not hear anything, and when the band
was open, I was generally too busy to work the second radio much.

It was nice to work 10 different stations from Mexico.  The contest
activity from there has been increasing for several years.

HR   HR TOT CUM TOTAL  SCORE
--   ------ ---------  -----
 0    10/2     10/2    0.00M
 1     9/4     19/6    0.00M
 2    14/6     33/12   0.00M
 3    18/2     51/14   0.00M
 4    12/6     63/20   0.00M
 5     5/1     68/21   0.00M
 6     ---     68/21   0.00M
 7     ---     68/21   0.00M
 8     ---     68/21   0.00M
 9     ---     68/21   0.00M
10     ---     68/21   0.00M
11     ---     68/21   0.00M
12     6/1     74/22   0.00M
13    14/1     88/23   0.00M
14    15/1    103/24   0.00M
15    25/6    128/30   0.01M
16    38/2    166/32   0.01M
17    14/1    180/33   0.01M
18     5/0    185/33   0.01M
19     6/0    191/33   0.01M
20     4/2    195/35   0.01M
21     7/1    202/36   0.01M
22     2/0    204/36   0.01M
23     3/0    207/36   0.01M
 0     3/1    210/37   0.02M
 1     3/0    213/37   0.02M
 2    31/0    244/37   0.02M
 3    46/0    290/37   0.02M
 4     8/0    298/37   0.02M
 5     2/0    300/37   0.02M
 6     ---    300/37   0.02M
 7     ---    300/37   0.02M
 8     ---    300/37   0.02M
 9     ---    300/37   0.02M
10     ---    300/37   0.02M
11     ---    300/37   0.02M
12     ---    300/37   0.02M
13     4/0    304/37   0.02M
14     4/0    308/37   0.02M
15    18/1    326/38   0.02M
16    83/5    409/43   0.04M
17   144/2    553/45   0.05M
18   134/2    687/47   0.06M
19   160/1    847/48   0.08M
20    85/2    932/50   0.09M
21    43/2    975/52   0.10M
22    46/3   1021/55   0.11M
23    34/0   1055/55   0.12M
D1            207/36
D2            848/19
TO           1055/55

The best 60 minute rate was 166/hour from 1855 to 1954
The best 30 minute rate was 192/hour from 1908 to 1937
The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 1915 to 1924

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   15 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   25 times.
 3 QSOs/minute   69 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  142 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  377 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   4       296
   5       450
   6       305
   7         1
   8         3

Multiplier Distribution
     Mult  QSOs
 --------------
  1.   Oh   96
  2.   Fl   76
  3.   Il   74
  4.   Tx   73
  5.   Mi   55
  6.   Ca   54
  7.   Mo   48
  8.   In   46
  9.   Nc   38
 10.   Az   37
 11.   Ga   33
 12.   Ia   33
 13.   Co   31
 14.   Tn   31
 15.   Ky   29
 16.   Mn   28
 17.   On   26
 18.   Sc   19
 19.   Va   19
 20.   Ne   19
 21.   LU   17
 22.   Pa   16
 23.   Ks   15
 24.   Wi   13
 25.   XE   10
 26.   Ms   10
 27.   Nv   10
 28.   Sd    8
 29.   Md    8
 30.   La    7
 31.   Ar    7
 32.   Ny    7
 33.   Al    6
 34.   CE    6
 35.   PY    6
 36.   Wv    6
 37.   Wy    5
 38.   CX    4
 39.   Ut    4
 40.   Nm    4
 41.   HK    2
 42.   HR    2
 43.   Nd    2
 44.   Dc    2
 45.   Id    2
 46.  KP4    1
 47.  VP5    1
 48.  KP2    1
 49.   HI    1
 50.   TG    1
 51.   ZF    1
 52.   Qc    1
 53.   Mt    1
 54.   Ok    1
 55.   OA    1

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