[3830] ARRLDX CW KR2Q SOAB QRP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: KR2Q
Operator(s): KR2Q
Station: KR2Q

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: FN20ru NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    5     5
   80:   38    27
   40:  154    59
   20:  342    78
   15:   63    32
   10:    0     0
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Total:  602   201  Total Score = 363,006

Club: 

Comments:

Congrats to K2DM who cleaned my clock!  Any others?

CT sez 23.0 hours, but I say more like 34.  

1.  I slept waaaaaay tooooooo much (13 hours).  Oh well, time for weight loss,
exercise, and sleep prep before the contest.  I'm not getting any younger and
it sure is not getting easier (quite the opposite).

2.  Got my first K3 here Jan 30.  Assembly finished Feb 2.  First real contest
experience with this rig.  While I have never used an Orion during a contest,
this is the BEST receiver I have ever experienced....on all counts.  If you
have any questions about the rig, please contact me directly.  2nd one should
arrive by the end of Q1, 2008 (I hope - ordered Nov 21, 2007).  BTW, one of the
BEST features about the K3 for a qrp-er is that once you set it for 5 watts,
that is exactly what you get:  Exactly 5.0 watts on every band, no matter what.
 I LOVE that!

3.  My best 160 score (5 mults) ever - see notes below.

4.  If you want a feel for what qrp is like at the bottom of the cycle, check
out this time analysis, which tracks how minutes there were between Q's.  First
column is time between QSO's (lag) and 2nd column is how many times that
happened (count), and 3rd column is Rate (Q's per hour).  Is it any wonder that
I couldn't stay awake?  :-)

lag     count   rate/hour (but just for one minute!)
0	53	?
1	179	60.0
2	117	30.0
3	76	20.0
4	48	15.0
5	25	12.0
6	20	10.0
7	12	8.6
8	12	7.5
9	10	6.7
10	8	6.0
11	3	5.5
12	4	5.0
13	3	4.6
14	5	4.3
15	2	4.0
16	2	3.8
17	3	3.5
18	2	3.3
19	2	3.2
20	1	3.0
21	2	2.9
22	2	2.7
23	0	
24	2	2.5
25	0	
26	2	2.3
27	0	
28	0	
29	1	2.1
30	0	
31	2	1.9

To be honest, one of the "31 minutes" is actually because my computer locked up
(I thought it had crashed) and it took me 31 minutes to get it going again
(whew!).  The "other" 31 minutes included about 10 minutes of time spent
calling ZPØR (silly me).

Best Rate was 1200 hour day one with just under 65 QSO's in one hour.  The
rest, well, don't ask.

5.  HIGH POINT:  Working 13 JA's (from NJ, QRP) on 20m in about 25 minutes,
almost all with just one call.  This QTH was just made for JA!  

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qt9cyt8sp6c7&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=23693720&encType=1

Too bad the opening wasn't longer and populated with more JA's.  Or maybe I
missed the opening?

6.  Worked on 5 bands:  J7DX and 6Y1LZ (Thanks!)

7.  Antennas:

160:  1/2 wave horizontal wire supposed to be at around 44 feet.  This morning
I found half of it on the roof of the house.  Hey...it's the best number of
mults on 160 I've ever had.  Who knows?  LOL

80:  inverted V at 50 feet

40:  402 CD at around 80 feet (probably a bit less)

20, 15, 10:  OB11-3 @ 72 feet and 2L quad at 55 feet.

Rig: Elecraft K3....just getting to know each other.

In my recent NCJ writeup about contesting at the bottom of the cycle (ARRL DX
2007), I said how much fun I had.  Well, this is REALLY the bottom, and it sure
was not a lot of fun, but I did have reasonably good time...especially when I
was asleep!

Thanks to all the DX for hearing me...you did all the work.  And thanks to EE5E
for not only working me again this year, but for putting me in the log this year
(he told me so!) - and on 4 bands too...not bad with QRP!

Finally, congrats again to K2DM on an FB qrp score.

de Doug KR2Q


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