[3830] CQWW CW P40L(@P40L/P49Y) M/S HP
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Thu Dec 1 15:09:24 PST 2011
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: P40L
Operator(s): N6XI, N7MH, W6LD, W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 48.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 67 18 64
80: 427 27 95
40: 2677 35 129
20: 1204 40 139
15: 2089 38 147
10: 2369 35 146
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Total: 8833 193 720 Total Score = 23,911,470
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
We had a lot of fun again this year and are very pleased to have exceeded our
2010 results by approximately 1000 QSOs. Conditions on the 10, 15 and 40 bands
were particularly good and contributed greatly to the overall QSO and multiplier
counts.
An innovation in how we configured our run station also contributed
significantly to the improved results. The new configuration allows two
operators, each with their own computer and logging capability, to share access
to a single run transmit radio while listening on separate radios and, if
desired, different listening antennas. The two operators then work together to
maximize rate, dynamically adjusting how they go about do so depending on
conditions. Among other approaches, at times it was very effective to have one
operator listen slightly low, while the other listened slightly high. Another
effective approach was having one operator listen on an antenna pointed at USA
and JA, while the other listened on an antenna pointed to Europe, or having one
listen on the transmitting antenna, while the other listened on the beverages.
This new configuration turned out to be highly effective and lots of fun to
boot. Thanks to Ed, W0YK, who spent many hours working out and assembling the
required wiring and lock-out circuits.
Unfortunately, on this trip we were plagued by computer hardware and software
problems, including computer and logging program crashes, delayed keyboard
responses, inexplicable wandering cursor focus, loss of networking and loss of
internet access. Our apologies to those who worked us while we were contending
with any of the problems. A five second delay in the keyboard response seems
like forever in the middle of a 250 Q per hour run. I assure you that any
frustration you experienced was considerably higher on our side.
By Saturday evening (a time period that normally would be expected to be some
our best rate and mult hours), our computer problems had escalated from mere
nuisances and relatively short disruptions to a major continuous problem that
could not be solved by rebooting programs or computers. we were very fortunate
to be able to reach out to one of our local ham radio friends, Lissandro, P43L,
who on short notice, dropped everything and came to the rescue. Lissandro
managed to troubleshoot the problems and bring us up on a new network, all
while minimizing disruption to the our run station. We are very grateful.
Nevertheless, computer problems did depress our QSO rates for approximately 3.5
hours of the contest. The good news is this means that a 9000 QSO total, a goal
we thought was unattainable from this station and location as recently as last
year, is clearly possible in the future.
Outside the contest, we enjoyed multiple dinners and visits with John, W2GD
(operating with his usual call, P40W, Valerie, R5AG (operating as P40F), as
well as Jean-Pierre, P43A, and his wife, Christine, P43C.
Our congratulations to the many fine efforts in this contest, especially the
extraordinary results by the D4C and P33W multi-single teams.
As always, thanks for all the contacts!
73,
John, W6LD/P40L
Station:
Rigs: Elecraft K3s (3), P3s (2)
Amps: Alpha 86, Alpha 87A
Antennas:
C31XR at 43 feet
2 elements 10 meter at 55 feet
5 elements 15 meter at 55 feet
4 elements 20 meter at 68 feet
2 elements 40 meter at 76 feet
1 element 80 meter Sigma 80 at 64 feet
160 meter vertical at 67 feet
Receiving antennas: three 500 foot beverages and 12AVQ vertical using K9AY
switching box/preamp
Logging software: Writelog on four networked computers
DSL Internet for Packet
73,
John
W6LD/P40L
Some stastics:
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: P40L
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
OPERATORS: N6XI N7MH W0YK W6LD
-------------- 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 20 188 19 0 227 227 2.6
0100 0 0 50 188 0 0 238 465 5.3
0200 0 2 190 11 0 0 203 668 7.6
0300 0 43 215 0 0 0 258 926 10.5
0400 31 1 171 0 0 0 203 1129 12.8
0500 10 8 181 0 0 0 199 1328 15.0
0600 9 13 157 0 0 0 179 1507 17.1
0700 1 73 94 0 0 0 168 1675 19.0
0800 3 116 31 0 0 0 150 1825 20.7
0900 2 29 111 0 0 0 142 1967 22.3
1000 0 0 121 5 33 0 159 2126 24.1
1100 0 0 3 105 63 17 188 2314 26.2
1200 0 0 0 0 196 40 236 2550 28.9
1300 0 0 0 0 212 19 231 2781 31.5
1400 0 0 0 2 10 147 159 2940 33.3
1500 0 0 0 5 1 232 238 3178 36.0
1600 0 0 0 12 14 212 238 3416 38.7
1700 0 0 0 11 85 110 206 3622 41.0
1800 0 0 0 10 9 215 234 3856 43.6
1900 0 0 0 10 2 230 242 4098 46.4
2000 0 0 1 2 143 86 232 4330 49.0
2100 0 0 0 34 200 0 234 4564 51.7
2200 0 0 0 216 3 0 219 4783 54.1
2300 0 0 84 69 0 0 153 4936 55.9
0000 0 0 126 0 0 0 126 5062 57.3
0100 0 0 155 4 0 0 159 5221 59.1
0200 6 18 155 0 0 0 179 5400 61.1
0300 2 30 61 47 0 0 140 5540 62.7
0400 0 5 156 1 0 0 162 5702 64.5
0500 0 42 92 2 0 0 136 5838 66.1
0600 1 2 127 1 0 0 131 5969 67.6
0700 0 2 137 0 0 0 139 6108 69.1
0800 1 3 108 0 0 0 112 6220 70.4
0900 0 0 73 0 0 0 73 6293 71.2
1000 1 26 56 0 0 0 83 6376 72.2
1100 0 14 0 74 6 63 157 6533 74.0
1200 0 0 1 0 1 185 187 6720 76.1
1300 0 0 0 0 0 179 179 6899 78.1
1400 0 0 0 0 120 92 212 7111 80.5
1500 0 0 0 0 213 11 224 7335 83.0
1600 0 0 0 1 130 64 195 7530 85.2
1700 0 0 0 3 1 194 198 7728 87.5
1800 0 0 0 0 77 109 186 7914 89.6
1900 0 0 0 0 225 4 229 8143 92.2
2000 0 0 0 1 180 1 182 8325 94.2
2100 0 0 0 4 11 156 171 8496 96.2
2200 0 0 1 58 112 4 175 8671 98.2
2300 0 0 0 140 23 0 163 8833 100.0
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Total 67 427 2677 1204 2089 2370 8833
Gross QSOs=9082 Dupes=248 Net QSOs=8833
Unique callsigns worked = 5505
The best 60 minute rate was 271/hour from 2028 to 2127
The best 30 minute rate was 278/hour from 0323 to 0352
The best 10 minute rate was 306/hour from 1153 to 1202
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 5 times.
7 QSOs/minute 16 times.
6 QSOs/minute 98 times.
5 QSOs/minute 341 times.
4 QSOs/minute 635 times.
3 QSOs/minute 794 times.
2 QSOs/minute 591 times.
1 QSOs/minute 285 times.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 24 291 1300 794 990 1270 4669 52.9
South America 9 11 29 29 36 36 150 1.7
Europe 29 95 1039 206 905 983 3257 36.9
Asia 1 18 270 136 120 41 586 6.6
Africa 3 10 15 23 22 28 101 1.1
Oceania 1 2 24 16 16 12 71 0.8
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Total 67 427 2677 1204 2089 2370 8834
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