[3830] JIDX SSB NK7U M/S HP

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Sun Nov 15 17:08:47 PST 2009 

                    JIDX Contest, Phone

Call: NK7U
Operator(s): NK7U, K7ZO
Station: NK7U

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Oregon - Zone 3
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   58    26
   40:  401    44
   20:  206    42
   15:  127    37
   10:           
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Total:  792   149  Total Score = 126,650

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

As Joe/NK7U and I were talking after CQWW SSB we said: “Hey we should try the
JIDX SSB contest this year. It should be fun, we can try out the new JA stacks
some more, and it still would leave us most of our Sunday after the contest is
over”. So, with this background we sat down at 11PM local time on Friday the
13th to take part in the 2009 JIDX SSB contest. Joe was a bit apprehensive that
there might not be good participation from JA’s. I was more worried about
propagation. But, when things wrapped up Sunday at 5AM local time we both said:
“Hey that was a lot of fun, what a great contest”. Our complements to all
the hams in Japan and the contest organizers.

As some tidbits:

* Participation was great. We had a total of 623 different JA callsigns in our
log. 10 of them were in the log on 4 bands, 27 on 3 bands, and 92 on 2 bands. 
* Amazingly 189 or 30% of those callsigns were from stations who were making
their first QSO ever with NK7U. So, the contest seemed to draw out casual
contesters who don’t normally participate in ARRL, CQWW, WPX, etc. A couple
of comparisons are worthwhile to frame how amazing is this number. First in
CQWW SSB this year we worked a similar number of JA QSO’s but only had 89
“First QSO ever” callsigns. Second, going through the entire NK7U DX4WIN
log with >200,000 QSO’s stretching back into the late 1980’s there are a
total of 11,700 JA callsigns. So, to have 189 “First QSO Ever” in a 30 hour
period is pretty amazing.  
* Propagation was great. The bands were about as quiet as we have ever heard
them, notably on 40 and 80. We had a steady rate of QSO’s all night, both
nights, on 40M as the band stayed open. And with much much lower levels of QRM
as compared to major contests, and being able operate simplex, 40M was a joy to
be on, as opposed to being a pain.
* Working JA operators all weekend was a pleasure -- they are such a great
group of hams.
* And, finally, our score was beyond our expectation. We set a goal at the
start of setting a new North America multi-op record score. We did that easily
as our score was >500% of the old record score. In fact our results on 80, 40,
and 20 by themselves would represent new North America record scores. The
comparisons:

            NA Record       NK7U Score    % of Record
  Multi-Op    22,137          126,650       572%
    80M          180            3,016     1,675%
    40M       12,056           17,644       146%
    20M        6,552            8,652       132% 

Thanks again to the contest organizers and all the JA hams who were on the
air.

Now if only 10M would open.... 

Scott/K7ZO


The numbers are below
==================================
QSO/Mul by hour and band

 Hour      80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    OffTime

D1-0700Z    -     11/10     -       -       -     11/10     11/10  
D1-0800Z   1/1    10/7    --+--   --+--   --+--   11/8      22/18  
D1-0900Z   1/1    63/16     -       -       -     64/17     86/35  
D1-1000Z    -     50/4      -       -       -     50/4     136/39  
D1-1100Z    -     56/3      -       -       -     56/3     192/42  
D1-1200Z   4/4    20/1      -       -       -     24/5     216/47  
D1-1300Z    -     51/0      -       -       -     51/0     267/47  
D1-1400Z  20/11    4/0      -       -       -     24/11    291/58  
D1-1500Z    -     33/1      -       -       -     33/1     324/59      1
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     324/59     60
D1-1700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     324/59     60
D1-1800Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     324/59     60
D1-1900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     324/59     60
D1-2000Z    -       -      1/1      -       -      1/1     325/60     55
D1-2100Z    -       -     60/28    3/3      -     63/31    388/91  
D1-2200Z    -       -     27/2    50/18     -     77/20    465/111 
D1-2300Z    -       -      3/3    71/16     -     74/19    539/130 
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   49/3     3/0    --+--   52/3     591/133 
D2-0100Z    -       -     65/5      -       -     65/5     656/138 
D2-0200Z    -       -      1/0      -       -      1/0     657/138    59
D2-0300Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     657/138    60
D2-0400Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     657/138    60
D2-0500Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     657/138    60
D2-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     657/138    60
D2-0700Z   2/0      -       -       -       -      2/0     659/138    53
D2-0800Z   6/1    22/0    --+--   --+--   --+--   28/1     687/139 
D2-0900Z   1/0    47/2      -       -       -     48/2     735/141 
D2-1000Z   8/5    34/0      -       -       -     42/5     777/146 
D2-1100Z   4/0      -       -       -       -      4/0     781/146    38
D2-1200Z  11/3      -       -       -       -     11/3     792/149 

Total:    58/26  401/44  206/42  127/37    0/0


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