[3830] WRTC R39M
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Fri Jul 16 20:44:17 PDT 2010
World Radiosport Team Championship
Call: R39M
Operator(s): N2IC, N6TV
Station: R39M
Class: M/S LP
QTH: 303
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries HQ Mults
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80: 393 19 31 25
40: 538 96 48 33
20: 928 502 68 41
15: 385 181 45 31
10: 111 12 14 15
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Total: 2355 810 206 145 Total Score = 3,394,521
Club:
Comments:
First, a big THANK YOU to RA3AUU and all of the WRTC organizers, volunteers,
judges, referees, and financial supporters for putting on such a hugely
successful event. I would especially like to thank Victor, RK3BX, who helped
so many teams get their radio equipment through Customs at the DME airport. We
just could not have done it without him.
Thanks also to the fine team of volunteers who put together our station at
field site 303: Stan US0SZ, who came all the way from the Ukraine, Vlad
RN3DLL, young Evgeniy RD3ARX and his brother, Anton.
You can see pictures of our site 303 and our tent here:
http://us0hz.ucoz.ua/index/wrtc_2010/0-26
Everything was all ready to go as soon as we arrived. We just had to arrange
the tables and set up our station. The generator never quit.
Thanks also to N2IC for picking me as his teammate. This was my third WRTC and
definitely the most exciting. I previously operated with K7SS for WRTC-96 in
San Francisco and with K3NA for WRTC-2000 in Slovenia.
The contest started slowly for us, but we finished strong. About 70 minutes
after the start, a big thunderstorm rolled through, and the lightning hits just
got too close. You can hear the static crashes and corona noises (?) that drove
us out of our tent and into a nearby vehicle, here:
http://bit.ly/R39M_lightning (2 MB mp3 file)
N2IC is operating 20m SSB in the left channel, and I'm operating 15 CW in the
right channel. What you can't hear is the loud thunder that immediately
followed the static crashes, indicating that the strikes were getting very
close.
After 8 minutes off the air we returned to the tent, but left it once again a
few minutes later after another nearby hit and more scary noises in the radios.
In total we had about 23 minutes off the air due to fear of getting hit by
lightning. At our request, our easy-going referee, Vitaly, RN4WA called HQ to
ask if the contest was being suspended for safety, but it was not, so we lost
ground quickly and fell to 41st place (we found out later).
By the end of the contest, Steve and I finally got the hang of interleaving
QSOs smoothly between us (only one rig is allowed to transmit at a time). We
had great rates on Phone and CW, and in the last two hours alone moved up 8
spots from 26th place to finish in 18th place.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1200 0 0 0 131 12 7 150 150 4.7
1300 0 0 0 32 27 1 60 210 1.9
1400 0 0 0 110 18 0 128 338 4.0
1500 0 0 2 88 13 6 109 447 3.4
1600 0 0 9 161 4 0 174 621 5.4
1700 0 0 129 37 0 0 166 787 5.2
1800 0 12 143 14 3 0 172 959 5.3
1900 0 88 48 2 7 0 145 1104 4.5
2000 0 41 72 4 0 0 117 1221 3.6
2100 0 57 75 0 0 0 132 1353 4.1
2200 0 112 26 0 0 0 138 1491 4.3
2300 0 62 21 0 0 0 83 1574 2.6
0000 0 17 35 8 0 0 60 1634 1.9
0100 0 23 30 33 0 0 86 1720 2.7
0200 0 0 41 89 0 0 130 1850 4.0
0300 0 0 2 133 9 5 149 1999 4.6
0400 0 0 0 80 14 4 98 2097 3.0
0500 0 0 0 60 56 0 116 2213 3.6
0600 0 0 0 100 18 14 132 2345 4.1
0700 0 0 0 13 117 4 134 2479 4.2
0800 0 0 0 23 65 66 154 2633 4.8
0900 0 0 0 34 136 0 170 2803 5.3
1000 0 0 0 161 23 15 199 3002 6.2
1100 0 0 1 117 44 1 163 3165 5.1
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Total 0 412 634 1430 566 123 3165
Gross QSO's=3223 Dupes=58 Net QSO's=3165
Unique callsigns worked = 1776
The best 60 minute rate was 206/hour from 0947 to 1046
The best 30 minute rate was 236/hour from 1017 to 1046
The best 10 minute rate was 276/hour from 1030 to 1039
Congratulations to the top scorers; I look forward to seeing your posts so that
we can compare notes.
Radios: Elecraft K3 (2) w/firmware rev 4.03
Software: Win-Test 4.5.0-beta 2
Computers: IBM model X40 1 GHz laptop w/Windows XP
Lenovo X200s 2.3 GHz laptop w/Windows 7
BP Filters: Dunestar (2) with Top Ten Band Decoders
Auto-Tuners: LDG AT-200Pro
CW Keyers: Internal K3
CW Keying: Via K3 COM port DTR line (Win-Test)
Paddles: Bencher HexKey + Standard Bencher
Voice Keyer: K3DVR Internal Voice Keyer, software activated
Lockout Circuit: http://bit.ly/K3lockout (but without the priority switch)
Audio recorder: Olympus DM-420 powered by 2 AA batteries
Power Supply: Samlex SEC-1235
No sound cards were used.
No Six Pak -- left rig handled 80 and 20, right rig 40, 15, and 10.
None of the above gave us any problems despite the high heat and humidity.
Fortunately mosquitoes were not a big problem at our location.
K5WA loaned us a spare K3 for backup, but we did not need it -- thanks Bob!
N2IC built a diplexer that allowed us to share the tribander between 20m on one
radio and 10 or 15m on the other. It worked great.
Overall, WRTC-2010 set a new standard for fairness and a level playing field,
quite literally. I can't wait until the next one.
73,
Bob, N6TV
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