[3830] ARRLDX CW N5AW SOAB LP
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Mon Feb 22 13:17:24 PST 2010
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TEXAS
Operating Time (hrs): 44
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 45 30
80: 129 51
40: 531 81
20: 476 81
15: 799 96
10: 66 24
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Total: 2046 363 Total Score = 2,228,094
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Wow! Ain't sunspost wunerful!!!!
New personal records for ARRL DX CW: most total QSOs (2046), most QSOs on 15
meters(799), most QSOs on 40 meters (531), most multipliers on 15 meters(96),
most multipliers on a single band in all band entry (96), most contacts in a
clock hour (120), and highest score (2,228,094). If score isn't reduced too
much in the log checking or another 5 beats me it will be a new 5th call area
LP record.
I went into this contest with low expectations. Because I needed to use a
windows logging program on my laptop for WRTC I had abandoned trusty old TR and
my DOS computer for an XP laptop with new interfaces and logging software. This
was to a chance to learn the new system in the heat of battle. There were also
some antenna issues. My 4 element SteppIR wasn't working properly (think the
reflector isn't working) but weather and other obligations had precluded fixing
it. Thursday and Friday were spent putting in new NW-SE reversible beverage only
to find it didn't work (bad transformer?). An hour before the contest I walked
up to check the tower with the 40 meter Moxon and 20 meter C3 stack (tower is
450 feet from the shack). I was shocked to find the top C3'S 20 meter reflector
on the ground. Not enough time was left to fix it before the contest. Then
Sunday afternoon I stepped outside for a short break and discovered one of the
dipoles on my 80 meter array had broken loose from it's ground end and was
laying against the tower - perhaps why I didn't seem to have quite the usual
punch on 80. Admittedly though, even with a crippled antenna farm, I've still
got an antenna system the average ham would love to have.
Things did not start off well - after making about a dozen contacts the logging
software quit tracking new multipliers. That is a pretty significant problem so
I spent much of the first hour and a half trying to fix it without success. I
considered going back to TR but that would defeat the purpose of learning the
new software. Finally I discovered the program would recalculate the
multipliers when I edited a contact. Strange but better than not working at
all.
Net result after two hours - I only had only 84 Q's compared to 113 last year,
despite what seemed to be much better conditions (even worked two JAs on ten
meters). At 1400 Saturday morning I was still 15 contacts and 24 multipliers
behind 2009. The next hour was amazing though - 120 Q's on 15 meters, the most
I've ever made in an hour from home in a DX contest. By 1500 I had caught up to
2009 and from there on out I left it in the dust. By 0700 Sunday I had exceeded
2009's total contacts. By 1100 UTC I had passed 2009's total score. By 1800 UTC
I had set a new personal record for contacts and by 2200 UTC I had passed my
previous high claimed score (2002). What is it going to be when ten meters is
really back?
It was a ball!
Marv, N5AW
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Radios: Tentec Orion, Elecraft K3 – 100 watts
Antennas:
160m: 42m tower with 6 elevated radials @ 22m
80m: 5 sloping dipole array from 41m tower (south dipole broken)
40m: Moxon @ 42m
Lazy H @ 40m NW-SE
10/15/20m: 3L SteppIR @ 41m
4L SteppIR @ 23m - not working properly - no reflector?
C3/C3 @ 31m & 25m fixed NE (20m reflector off top C3)
TH3jr @ 13m fixed SE
204BA @ 18m fixed NW
Beverages: 230m NE, 160m NW
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Continent List ARRL DX 2010 CW N5AW
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- --
N.A. calls = 14 17 27 27 26 12 123
S.A. calls = 4 5 17 17 41 38 122
Euro calls = 21 82 335 318 529 0 1285
Afrc calls = 0 2 4 6 8 3 23
Asia calls = 0 3 18 35 16 0 72
JA calls = 2 15 112 59 160 2 350
Ocen calls = 4 5 18 14 19 11 71
Total calls = 45 129 531 476 799 66 2046
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The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
KH6J KH6LC JA3YBK PJ4X TX4T V31RR
PJ2T YN2WW KP2M J38XX V31TP P49V
P40L
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Rates: QSOs and Multipliers ARRL DX 2010 CW N5AW
HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL
SCORE
-- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------
-----
0 --- --- --- --- 18/6 17/6 35/12 35/12
0.00M
1 --- --- --- 34/13 15/6 --- 49/19 84/31
0.01M
2 --- --- 41/21 29/0 --- --- 70/21 154/52
0.02M
3 --- --- 47/20 4/2 --- --- 51/22 205/74
0.05M
4 --- 27/23 --- 2/1 --- --- 29/24 234/98
0.07M
5 11/9 25/9 --- --- --- --- 36/18 270/116
0.09M
6 1/1 --- 58/11 --- --- --- 59/12 329/128
0.13M
7 7/2 11/6 7/2 --- --- --- 25/10 354/138
0.15M
8 --- 2/1 74/5 --- --- --- 76/6 430/144
0.19M
9 --- 9/4 22/1 --- --- --- 31/5 461/149
0.21M
10 1/1 --- 13/3 20/13 --- --- 34/17 495/166
0.25M
11 --- --- 9/3 14/5 --- --- 23/8 518/174
0.27M
12 --- --- --- 19/8 --- --- 19/8 537/182
0.29M
13 2/2 5/1 --- 25/7 27/19 --- 59/29 596/211
0.38M
14 --- --- --- --- 120/19 --- 120/19 716/230
0.49M
15 --- --- --- --- 72/3 6/5 78/8 794/238
0.57M
16 --- --- --- --- 61/5 7/2 68/7 862/245
0.63M
17 --- --- --- --- 69/8 1/1 70/9 932/254
0.71M
18 --- --- --- 33/6 3/1 13/5 49/12 981/266
0.78M
19 --- --- --- 32/1 --- 3/2 35/3 1016/269
0.82M
20 --- --- --- 19/2 --- --- 19/2 1035/271
0.84M
21 --- --- --- 1/0 31/7 3/0 35/7 1070/278
0.89M
22 --- --- --- --- 32/2 --- 32/2 1102/280
0.93M
23 --- --- --- --- 59/1 --- 59/1 1161/281
0.98M
0 1/0 5/2 --- 11/2 5/1 --- 22/5 1183/286
1.02M
1 --- --- 19/4 8/0 17/0 --- 44/4 1227/290
1.07M
2 --- --- 36/2 2/1 --- --- 38/3 1265/293
1.11M
3 --- --- 25/2 5/0 --- --- 30/2 1295/295
1.15M
4 9/7 17/1 1/1 --- --- --- 27/9 1322/304
1.21M
5 8/4 18/3 --- --- --- --- 26/7 1348/311
1.26M
6 3/3 --- 39/0 --- --- --- 42/3 1390/314
1.31M
7 1/1 1/0 32/1 --- --- --- 34/2 1424/316
1.35M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1424/316
1.35M
9 --- 4/1 --- --- --- --- 4/1 1428/317
1.36M
10 --- 1/0 65/2 --- --- --- 66/2 1494/319
1.43M
11 1/0 4/0 36/3 --- --- --- 41/3 1535/322
1.48M
12 --- --- 7/0 31/2 --- --- 38/2 1573/324
1.53M
13 --- --- --- 81/8 --- --- 81/8 1654/332
1.65M
14 --- --- --- 36/2 24/0 --- 60/2 1714/334
1.72M
15 --- --- --- --- 57/3 --- 57/3 1771/337
1.79M
16 --- --- --- --- 49/2 1/1 50/3 1821/340
1.86M
17 --- --- --- --- 69/3 2/0 71/3 1892/343
1.95M
18 --- --- --- 16/1 4/1 2/0 22/2 1914/345
1.98M
19 --- --- --- 20/2 --- --- 20/2 1934/347
2.01M
20 --- --- --- 6/2 6/5 5/1 17/8 1951/355
2.08M
21 --- --- --- --- 19/3 4/0 23/3 1974/358
2.12M
22 --- --- --- 26/2 --- 2/1 28/3 2002/361
2.17M
23 --- --- --- 2/1 42/1 --- 44/2 2046/363
2.23M
D1 22/15 79/44 271/66 232/58 507/77 50/21 1161/281
D2 23/15 50/7 260/15 244/23 292/19 16/3 885/82
TO 45/30 129/51 531/81 476/81 799/96 66/24 2046/363
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