[3830] ARRLDX CW N5AW SOAB LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   26    19
   80:  142    63
   40:  377    86
   20:  447    94
   15:  130    50
   10:   13    10
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Total: 1135   322  Total Score = 1,095,444

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

This HAS to be the bottom of the cycle. Poorest I've ever heard 10 meters from
Texas in this contest. And if that weren't bad enough local thunderstorms from
Friday afternoon until early Sunday morning virtually wiped out 160 and
severely impacted 80. With all this it was a struggle to break 1 meg. Of course
I think back to the peak of cycle 22 in 1989 when three of us became the first
ever low power W/VE stations to score over 1 meg. How things have changed! In
1989 I used a quad at 48 feet, a multiband vertical, one radio and manual
logging. Never thought I'd have the set up I have today (see below).

Equipment: Tentec Orion and Icom IC-746Pro at 100 watts. Homebrew SO2R
controller. TR log.

Antennas: 
10/15/20 - stack of 2 C3's (2L each) @ 31 and 25 mtrs fixed NE, 3L SteppIR @ 41
mtrs, 4L SteppIR @ 23 mtrs, TH3jr @ 13 mtrs fixed SE
40 - Homebrew Moxon @ 42 mtrs, Lazy H @ 35 mtrs beaming NW-SE
80 - array of 5 sloping dipoles from 41 mtr tower
160 - elevated radials on 42 mtr tower
Receiving: one 160 mtr long beverage NE

QSOs by Continent:
                   160    80    40    20    15    10    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    --    
  N.A. calls  =     15    22    25    27    22     4    115
  S.A. calls  =      4    10    30    23    40     6    113
  Euro calls  =      1    74   138   319    26     0    558
  Afrc calls  =      0     4     9    10     9     0     32
  Asia calls  =      0     3    10     9     0     0     22
  JA calls    =      1    16   144    45    20     0    226
  Ocen calls  =      5    13    21    14    13     3     69

  Total calls =     26   142   377   447   130    13   1135

The best 60 minute rate was 75/hour from 1254 to 1353
The best 30 minute rate was 96/hour from 1319 to 1348
The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 1333 to 1342

There were 122 band changes and 25 probable 2nd radio QSO's.

Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands     591
2 bands      86
3 bands      50
4 bands      30
5 bands      12
6 bands       7

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

VP6DX       V31UZ       J7DX        PJ4O        6Y1LZ       PJ2T        
KH6LC


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