[3830] ARRLDX SSB N4KG SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG +PACKET
Station: N4KG

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 29

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   34    27
   80:   98    61
   40:  151    76
   20:  314    90
   15:  272    82
   10:   42    12
-------------------
Total:  911   348  Total Score = 951,084

Club: Alabama Contest Group

Comments:

I think I enjoy RTTY more than SSB.  Phone?  UGH!

I picked SO Unlimited because SOAB-Assisted was NOT in the List.

Conditions from Alabama for this contest ranged from Fair to Poor and were
Highly Variable over the weekend.  Propagation on 10,15, and 160M were No Where
Near as good as during the CW Weekend and the openings were Way Shorter. 20M was
STRANGE.  The South Americans were weak Friday Night, but there was a fair
opening to the Far East.  Saturday night, pileups on South Americans were HUGE.
The Pacific and Far East were still coming in at 0300Z. Propagation was So Poor
Sunday morning that I took a 90 minute Nap in the middle of the morning!  The
BIG Disappointment was the short and weak opening to Europe on 15M.  Only 3
good hours Saturday (vs. 6 on CW) and a Late Opening on Sunday that many
Europeans seemed to have missed after giving up when there was NO propagation
earlier in the day.  I had NO answers to CQ's on 15M Sunday but had a decent
run (my only one) late Saturday morning on 21440 of all places.  A few
Europeans were worked on 160M Friday night.  Saturday night they were Very Weak
and not hearing me.

In the Cudda, Shoulda, Woulda department, I suppose if I had stayed in the
chair a bit longer and tried CQing on 20M (I get a Headache just thinking about
that), I Cudda broken 1000 Q's, 350 Mults, and 1 Million Points.  Oh Well, it
was PHONE Contest.

With ALL of my Monobanders out of commission, I was amazed at the results from
my TH7 at 40 ft and Wires / GP on the Low Bands.  I left my High Dipoles tuned
for 40M where they performed amazingly well and used my simple Elevated GP (40
ft tower top loaded by TH7 plus 8 radials at 15 ft on 75M).  Even with a 6 dB
null to the South (due to another tower acting as a reflector), I still worked
everything I heard, including RT0C across the border from BY4. 

SO1R with Icom 746, cascaded 2.4 kHz filters + VBT cranked down.
B and W PT2500 (1000 to 1200W out with 100W drive).

Tom  N4KG in North Alabama

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Cabrillo Statistics      (Version 06g)         by K5KA

Contest: ARRL-DX-SSB
Callsign: N4KG
Operators: N4KG + Packet
Category: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED  ALL Bands  HIGH Power  SSB

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y -------------------
Hour   160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
------------------------------------------------------------------
0000     0      0      0     21     10      0     31     31    3.4
0100     0      0     24     15      0      0     39     70    4.3
0200     0      0     26      0      0      0     26     96    2.8
0300     8     26      0      0      0      0     34    130    3.7
0400     1     29      0      0      0      0     30    160    3.3
0500    10      0     17      0      0      0     27    187    2.9
0600     6     11     13      0      0      0     30    217    3.3
0700     1      5      5      0      0      0     11    228    1.2
0800     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    228    0.0
0900     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    228    0.0
1000     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    228    0.0
1100     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    228    0.0
1200     0      4     10     57      0      0     71    299    7.8
1300     0      0      0     18     43      0     61    360    6.7
1400     0      0      0      0     53      0     53    413    5.8
1500     0      0      0      0     49      0     49    462    5.3
1600     0      0      0     22     22      0     44    506    4.8
1700     0      0      0     30      0      0     30    536    3.3
1800     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    536    0.0
1900     0      0      0      0     14      1     15    551    1.6
2000     0      0      0     14      1      0     15    566    1.6
2100     0      0      0      6      8     13     27    593    2.9
2200     0      0     10      9      0      0     19    612    2.1
2300     0      0      6      9     10     11     36    648    3.9
0000     0      0      0     19      0      0     19    667    2.1
0100     0      0      7     16      0      0     23    690    2.5
0200     0      5      5      0      0      0     10    700    1.1
0300     1      8      0      5      0      0     14    714    1.5
0400     1      8     13      0      0      0     22    736    2.4
0500     6      1      0      0      0      0      7    743    0.8
0600     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
0700     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
0800     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
0900     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
1000     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
1100     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    743    0.0
1200     0      1      2     15      0      0     18    761    2.0
1300     0      0      0      7      0      0      7    768    0.8
1400     0      0      0      0      0      0      0    768    0.0
1500     0      0      0      2      8      0     10    778    1.1
1600     0      0      0      0      9      0      9    787    1.0
1700     0      0      0     26      0      0     26    813    2.8
1800     0      0      0      0      3      2      5    818    0.5
1900     0      0      0      0      8     11     19    837    2.1
2000     0      0      0      1      1      0      2    839    0.2
2100     0      0      5      6      9      1     21    860    2.3
2200     0      0      1      9      7      3     20    880    2.2
2300     0      0      7      7     17      0     31    911    3.4
------------------------------------------------------
Total   34     98    151    314    272     42    911

Gross QSO's=916        Dupes=5        Net QSO's=911

Unique callsigns worked = 593

The best 60 minute rate was 78/hour from 1225 to 1324
The best 30 minute rate was 98/hour from 1222 to 1251
The best 10 minute rate was 126/hour from 1550 to 1559

The best 1 minute rates were:
 3 QSO's/minute    8 times.  90 percent Search and Pounce.
 2 QSO's/minute  101 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  685 times.

There were 61 bandchanges.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        22
   4       362
   5       301
   6       209
   7        11
   8         4
   9         1
  10         1

-----------------
Multi-band QSO's
-----------------
1 bands     449
2 bands      57
3 bands      32
4 bands      26
5 bands      26
6 bands       3

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

TI5N        8P5A        PJ2T        

Many Europeans were worked on 4 or 5 Bands.

----- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O ' s  -----
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      4     27     48    189    160     21


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