[3830] CQ WW RTTY P49X(W0YK) SOAB HP
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Wed Oct 1 18:35:30 EDT 2008
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 451 1344 51 59 19
40: 1102 3284 54 82 26
20: 1287 3843 53 83 30
15: 643 1910 47 64 21
10: 16 39 2 6 6
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Total: 3499 10420 207 294 102 Total Score = 6,283,260
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
I like to post my contest results to 3830 within an hour after the contest ends,
so I regret being delinquent with this one. Due to extreme fatigue (read
further!) and various station de-commissioning tasks before catching my flight
home, I’m finally getting around to looking at log statistics and writing
this post on the plane.
Once again, we owe much of our fun and satisfaction of operating CQWW RTTY and
other RTTY contests to the ever increasing, enthusiastic participants, many for
the first time. In addition, the quality of operating continues to improve
overall along with the personal bests achieved each year. Many stations worked
P49X on four bands and three made it on five bands: HC8N, K4ADR (FL) and N5SJS
(TX).
My highest clock hour rate was 151 compared to 193 in ARRL RTTY Round-Up this
year. Propagation on 15-80 “seemed†pretty good, but my results don’t
reflect it. Admittedly my last reference on P4 propagation was CQWW WPX CW in
May when Aruba got its turn in the propagation black hole, even compared to
other Caribbean QTHs. So, I was really pleased with the propagation
improvement this weekend.
I chose not warm up starting run frequencies and didn’t work my first 40
meter contact until minute 3 and my first 80 meter contact until minute 9.
That diminished my beginning enthusiasm and contest outlook, but once some rate
developed I was pleasantly distracted with working the contest. Unlike many
other reports I found 15 meters to be much better on Saturday than Sunday. I
spent a lot of pre-contest effort on the Beverage system only to find low band
conditions that didn’t really favor the Beverages over the transmitting
antennas. Still I used the Beverages exclusively on 40 and 80 because the K9AY
SO2R Beverage switch allowed instant direction change between US-West, US-East
and Europe (or any combination). Since the February tower/antenna re-build
project, the 20, 40 and 80 antennas are ten feet higher and the 80 horizontal
dipole is a huge improvement over the prior inverted-V and inverted-L
antennas.
With 15 performing so well to both Europe and North America, I was “sureâ€
that I could rally some contacts on 10 meters and at least pick up some mults.
I even took a blind flyer on Sunday and CQ’d for an hour hoping to instigate a
Packet pileup. I picked up the Azores, Argentina and Venezuela by tuning
around. But, I never heard ZX2B and missed working Oms, PY5EG, who answered my
CQ, for a double-mult. Today I run into the HC8N team on the plane and learn
they had a short run to both Europe and the US, accounting for much of the
multiplier difference between us.
I haven’t done much serious SO CQWW in recent years (any mode) and that
haunted me this weekend. I was not physically capable of operating the 47
hours that I did. At 32 hours in I kept dozing off and decided to take a 45
minute nap. This was after several short dozing events, one of which resulted
in sending Windows on the left computer into some inescapable Accessibility
mode where the keyboard was unresponsive after my hand collapsed on it. A
re-boot was needed to restore operation. Feeling somewhat “refreshedâ€
after my nap, I sat down in the chair … and couldn’t remember how to
operate! I can’t describe this in words, but for the remainder Sunday I was
frustrated with never understanding what I was doing by copying zone and QTH
data into another part of the screen. I was sure there was something else I
should be doing, but danged if I could remember what it was. I was
particularly concerned that I didn’t remember how to “work†other
stations, only record their zone and state on the screen. Only those who have
experienced the effects of extreme sleep deprivation will appreciate what I
went through for those 15 hours!
Clearly I needed to tend to my sleep needs, however slight, long before
hallucination set in. This is just one of many aspects of radio-sport that
must be well-executed for overall high performance. How much did this
negatively impact my results is unknown. But, I certainly didn’t feel like I
was doing my best. This is much less a factor in CQWW WPX or ARRL RTTY Round-Up
because breaks need to be taken earlier in the contest for strategic reasons
irrespective of sleep needs. There is an important reason many serious
single-ops post 40-44 hours operating time in CQWW.
My next biggest mistake was not operating 20 at night. I pretty much stuck to
80 and 40 during darkness and as a result I missed a number of 20 meter mults.
The 80 meter number is OK, but it would have been better to trade off some of
that time for key hours on 20 meters. Somehow I missed Montana on every band.
Thanks again to everyone for the contacts and moves. As always, my
appreciation to station owners P40L/W6LD and P49Y/AE6Y.
73,
Ed – P49X (W0YK)
! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC !
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! 80 ! 31.0% ! 65.1% ! 1.7% ! 1.5% ! 0.2% ! 0.4% !
! 40 ! 36.5% ! 53.9% ! 2.1% ! 0.4% ! 5.8% ! 1.3% !
! 20 ! 40.0% ! 53.5% ! 1.4% ! 0.4% ! 4.6% ! 0.2% !
! 15 ! 40.5% ! 54.2% ! 2.9% ! 1.5% ! ! 0.8% !
! 10 ! 17.6% ! 29.4% ! 52.9% ! ! ! !
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! Hr ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total !
! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
------------------------------------------------------------------------
! 00 ! 19 ! 68 ! ! ! ! 87 !
! 01 ! 42 ! 69 ! ! ! ! 111 !
! 02 ! 25 ! 56 ! ! ! ! 81 !
! 03 ! 37 ! 63 ! ! ! ! 100 !
! 04 ! 61 ! 62 ! ! ! ! 123 !
! 05 ! 53 ! 60 ! ! ! ! 113 !
! 06 ! 27 ! 48 ! ! ! ! 75 !
! 07 ! 36 ! 29 ! ! ! ! 65 !
! 08 ! 17 ! 33 ! ! ! ! 50 !
! 09 ! 12 ! 18 ! ! ! ! 30 !
! 10 ! 16 ! 27 ! ! ! ! 43 !
! 11 ! 1 ! 39 ! 12 ! 23 ! ! 75 !
! 12 ! ! ! 67 ! 76 ! ! 143 !
! 13 ! ! ! 72 ! 78 ! ! 150 !
! 14 ! ! ! 53 ! 61 ! ! 114 !
! 15 ! ! ! 44 ! 48 ! ! 92 !
! 16 ! ! ! 31 ! 14 ! 2 ! 47 !
! 17 ! ! ! 71 ! 5 ! ! 76 !
! 18 ! ! ! 85 ! 26 ! ! 111 !
! 19 ! ! ! 87 ! 13 ! ! 100 !
! 20 ! ! 1 ! 81 ! ! ! 82 !
! 21 ! ! 27 ! 65 ! ! ! 92 !
! 22 ! ! 23 ! 48 ! ! ! 71 !
! 23 ! ! 51 ! 65 ! ! ! 116 !
! 00 ! ! 45 ! 38 ! ! ! 83 !
! 01 ! 9 ! 29 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! 40 !
! 02 ! 2 ! 20 ! ! ! ! 22 !
! 03 ! 8 ! 53 ! ! ! ! 61 !
! 04 ! 27 ! 36 ! ! ! ! 63 !
! 05 ! 24 ! 38 ! ! ! ! 62 !
! 06 ! 2 ! 43 ! ! ! ! 45 !
! 07 ! 1 ! 28 ! ! ! ! 29 !
! 08 ! 2 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 4 !
! 09 ! 8 ! 18 ! ! ! ! 26 !
! 10 ! 20 ! 39 ! ! ! ! 59 !
! 11 ! 2 ! 15 ! ! ! ! 17 !
! 12 ! ! ! 5 ! 11 ! ! 16 !
! 13 ! ! ! 33 ! 13 ! ! 46 !
! 14 ! ! ! 58 ! 3 ! ! 61 !
! 15 ! ! ! 57 ! 9 ! ! 66 !
! 16 ! ! ! 54 ! 9 ! 4 ! 67 !
! 17 ! ! ! 42 ! 40 ! ! 82 !
! 18 ! ! ! 32 ! 83 ! ! 115 !
! 19 ! ! ! 49 ! 77 ! ! 126 !
! 20 ! ! ! 14 ! 46 ! 10 ! 70 !
! 21 ! ! 15 ! 34 ! 7 ! ! 56 !
! 22 ! ! 23 ! 49 ! ! ! 72 !
! 23 ! ! 24 ! 39 ! ! ! 63 !
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! ! 451 ! 1102 ! 1287 ! 643 ! 16 ! 3499 !
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