[3830] SS SSB K5NA(WM5R) Single Op HP
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Tue Nov 23 20:25:00 PST 2010
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K5NA
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5NA
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 191
40: 525
20: 1013
15: 52
10: 0
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Total: 1781 Sections = 80 Total Score = 284,960
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
The Station at K5NA:
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10 Meters
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 152', rotatable
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 115', fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 78', fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 100', fixed NW
15 Meters
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 170', rotatable
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 86' fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 44', rotatable from 315 to 140 degrees
20 Meters
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 190', rotatable
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 70' fixed NE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 45' fixed SE
5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 104' fixed NW
40 Meters
2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 200', rotatable
2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 128' fixed NE
2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 70' fixed NW
Inverted Vee @ 35'.
80 Meters
NE - Two element phased vertical array
NW - Two element phased vertical array
SW - Sloping dipole @ 170'
Inverted Vee @ 150'
160 Meters
Full sized Rohn 25G vertical with insulator at 30' and raised radials
Receiving Antennas
Nine Beverages: SW, W, NW, NNW, N, NNE, E, SE
Radios:
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Radio 1: Elecraft K3, Acom 2000A
Radio 2: Elecraft K3, Acom 2000A
SO2R Controller: microHAM MK2R+
Headset: Heil Proset HC4
Software: WriteLog V10.80F
Many thanks to Richard K5NA and Susan K5DU for letting me come over to their
little farm for Sweepstakes this year. It was interesting to operate the
contest from a different station than I have been operating from in recent
years. I operated at the K5NA multi-op for the CQ World Wide, Phone and I
came out to the station the weekend before the Sweepstakes to get familiar
with the single operator arrangements. Unfortunately, the morning of the
Sweepstakes, Richard discovered that the microHAM MK2R+ controller wasn't
routing the microphone audio correctly. He tried building a workaround,
but it didn't work.
I got off to a rocky start this year. I listened to the siren song of 15
meters and really wanted it to work out, but the band was just too long
for it to work out and I had to bail to 20 meters after half an hour. 20
meters was also long, and I wasn't able to stay there as long as I wanted.
I then had possibly the two worst hours on 40 meters I've had in the contest
in many years. I started pulling it together in the 0200 UTC hour, but the
damage was done by then.
Sunday was a long slog with only one radio. I could listen on the second
radio, but to QSY to make a QSO, I had to plug in one cable and unplug another
cable, make the contact, and then plug and unplug to go back to the run radio.
And of course if I got beaten out in the pileup, or the timing broke down
because someone called in on the run radio, I had to try it all again.
I only did that for four 15 meter contacts for needed multipliers I found
on Sunday morning while running on 20 meters.
Sweepstakes was the contest that got me into HF contesting. It draws you in
and seduces you, but it is very unforgiving. There's no time to recover
when you make mistakes.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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2100 0 0 0 65 47 0 112 112 6.2
2200 0 0 0 130 0 0 130 242 7.2
2300 0 0 0 126 0 0 126 368 7.0
0000 0 0 30 66 0 0 96 464 5.3
0100 0 0 54 0 0 0 54 518 3.0
0200 0 1 69 0 0 0 70 588 3.9
0300 0 0 97 0 0 0 97 685 5.4
0400 0 12 63 0 0 0 75 760 4.1
0500 0 74 1 0 0 0 75 835 4.1
0600 0 29 50 0 0 0 79 914 4.4
0700 0 20 40 0 0 0 60 974 3.3
0800 0 48 7 0 0 0 55 1029 3.0
0900 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 1036 0.4
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1036 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1036 0.0
1200 0 0 21 0 0 0 21 1057 1.2
1300 0 0 40 25 0 0 65 1122 3.6
1400 0 0 0 83 0 0 83 1205 4.6
1500 0 0 0 75 1 0 76 1281 4.2
1600 0 0 0 72 3 0 75 1356 4.1
1700 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 1428 4.0
1800 0 0 0 55 1 0 56 1484 3.1
1900 0 0 0 62 0 0 62 1546 3.4
2000 0 0 0 47 0 0 47 1593 2.6
2100 0 0 0 22 0 0 22 1615 1.2
2200 0 0 0 48 0 0 48 1663 2.7
2300 0 0 0 63 0 0 63 1726 3.5
0000 0 0 10 2 0 0 12 1738 0.7
0100 0 0 43 0 0 0 43 1781 2.4
0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1781 0.0
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Total 0 191 525 1013 52 0 1781
Gross QSO's=1808 Dupes=27 Net QSO's=1781
Unique callsigns worked = 1781
The best 60 minute rate was 143/hour from 2138 to 2237
The best 30 minute rate was 150/hour from 2145 to 2214
The best 10 minute rate was 168/hour from 2200 to 2209
The best 1 minute rates were:
4 QSO's/minute 9 times.
3 QSO's/minute 121 times.
2 QSO's/minute 396 times.
1 QSO's/minute 590 times.
There were 24 bandchanges and 7 (0.4%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 1
4 686
5 720
6 371
7 2
8 1
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
VA 0 6 39 49 0 0 94 5.2
IL 0 15 26 38 0 0 79 4.4
MDC 0 6 25 45 0 0 76 4.2
MI 0 3 27 42 0 0 72 4.0
OH 0 4 23 45 0 0 72 4.0
NC 0 4 17 38 0 0 59 3.3
MN 0 10 16 32 0 0 58 3.2
WWA 0 2 7 38 4 0 51 2.8
SCV 0 7 10 28 2 0 47 2.6
IN 0 5 21 20 0 0 46 2.5
EPA 0 4 19 19 2 0 44 2.4
NNJ 0 2 9 24 4 0 39 2.2
SV 0 2 6 25 4 0 37 2.0
WI 0 3 6 27 0 0 36 2.0
ENY 0 1 16 17 1 0 35 1.9
WPA 0 3 10 22 0 0 35 1.9
AZ 0 3 7 21 0 0 31 1.7
WNY 0 1 14 16 0 0 31 1.7
EB 0 0 7 17 6 0 30 1.7
OR 0 2 5 23 0 0 30 1.7
CO 0 3 2 24 0 0 29 1.6
GA 0 4 5 19 0 0 28 1.5
EMA 0 2 7 15 3 0 27 1.5
LAX 0 3 9 15 0 0 27 1.5
SJV 0 0 6 18 2 0 26 1.4
TN 0 8 8 10 0 0 26 1.4
CT 0 2 8 12 2 0 24 1.3
NLI 0 1 6 17 0 0 24 1.3
WCF 0 2 5 16 0 0 23 1.3
SFL 0 1 10 12 0 0 23 1.3
ORG 0 1 4 16 0 0 21 1.2
NV 0 1 7 13 0 0 21 1.2
ON 0 0 9 9 2 0 20 1.1
NFL 0 3 6 10 0 0 19 1.1
EWA 0 3 3 13 0 0 19 1.1
SDG 0 2 9 8 0 0 19 1.1
AL 0 7 6 6 0 0 19 1.1
SNJ 0 1 6 10 1 0 18 1.0
UT 0 1 1 16 0 0 18 1.0
NH 0 1 8 6 2 0 17 0.9
ID 0 0 6 10 1 0 17 0.9
SF 0 2 2 11 1 0 16 0.9
WV 0 0 7 8 0 0 15 0.8
SB 0 1 3 10 0 0 14 0.8
MO 0 7 5 2 0 0 14 0.8
MT 0 3 7 4 0 0 14 0.8
DE 0 0 4 8 1 0 13 0.7
WMA 0 1 5 6 1 0 13 0.7
SC 0 0 3 9 0 0 12 0.7
KY 0 3 4 5 0 0 12 0.7
BC 0 1 1 7 2 0 11 0.6
IA 0 3 4 4 0 0 11 0.6
NTX 0 10 0 1 0 0 11 0.6
ME 0 2 0 9 0 0 11 0.6
RI 0 1 2 6 1 0 10 0.6
STX 0 2 2 4 1 0 9 0.5
NE 0 1 3 5 0 0 9 0.5
WY 0 1 1 7 0 0 9 0.5
AB 0 2 4 3 0 0 9 0.5
MAR 0 0 2 7 0 0 9 0.5
NM 0 4 2 3 0 0 9 0.5
VT 0 0 2 4 1 0 7 0.4
SD 0 2 3 2 0 0 7 0.4
QC 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.3
AK 0 0 1 5 0 0 6 0.3
LA 0 4 2 0 0 0 6 0.3
OK 0 5 0 1 0 0 6 0.3
NNY 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.3
ND 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 0.3
KS 0 1 2 2 0 0 5 0.3
SK 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0.2
PAC 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.2
MB 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2
MS 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0.2
WTX 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2
NT 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
AR 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
VI 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.1
NL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
PR 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1
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Total 0 191 525 1013 52 0 1781
Sweepstakes Checks
Check QSOs Pct
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00 23 1.3
01 12 0.7
02 19 1.1
03 30 1.7
04 26 1.5
05 23 1.3
06 24 1.3
07 41 2.3
08 60 3.4
09 63 3.5
10 33 1.9
11 0 0.0
12 0 0.0
13 0 0.0
14 0 0.0
15 0 0.0
16 1 0.1
17 0 0.0
18 0 0.0
19 1 0.1
20 0 0.0
21 0 0.0
22 2 0.1
23 0 0.0
24 1 0.1
25 0 0.0
26 0 0.0
27 1 0.1
28 0 0.0
29 0 0.0
30 1 0.1
31 1 0.1
32 2 0.1
33 1 0.1
34 1 0.1
35 1 0.1
36 0 0.0
37 1 0.1
38 1 0.1
39 2 0.1
40 2 0.1
41 1 0.1
42 0 0.0
43 0 0.0
44 1 0.1
45 1 0.1
46 2 0.1
47 5 0.3
48 4 0.2
49 3 0.2
50 6 0.3
51 9 0.5
52 15 0.8
53 17 1.0
54 26 1.5
55 29 1.6
56 25 1.4
57 50 2.8
58 47 2.6
59 42 2.4
60 38 2.1
61 41 2.3
62 31 1.7
63 48 2.7
64 28 1.6
65 31 1.7
66 28 1.6
67 25 1.4
68 33 1.9
69 35 2.0
70 27 1.5
71 31 1.7
72 33 1.9
73 31 1.7
74 25 1.4
75 36 2.0
76 52 2.9
77 45 2.5
78 31 1.7
79 28 1.6
80 19 1.1
81 18 1.0
82 17 1.0
83 19 1.1
84 13 0.7
85 12 0.7
86 19 1.1
87 12 0.7
88 20 1.1
89 25 1.4
90 32 1.8
91 33 1.9
92 36 2.0
93 31 1.7
94 40 2.2
95 17 1.0
96 25 1.4
97 21 1.2
98 25 1.4
99 14 0.8
Callareas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
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0 151 8.5
1 136 7.6
2 200 11.2
3 188 10.6
4 256 14.4
5 61 3.4
6 252 14.1
7 198 11.1
8 168 9.4
9 171 9.6
Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent QSOs Pct
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A 991 55.6
B 324 18.2
Q 50 2.8
M 116 6.5
U 285 16.0
S 15 0.8
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