[3830] WPX SSB AK1W(@K5ZD) M/S HP

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Sun Mar 27 18:53:59 PDT 2011


                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD W1UJ
Station: K5ZD

Class: M/S HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   19
   80:  387
   40:  766
   20: 1436
   15: 1709
   10:   99
------------
Total: 4416  Prefixes = 1365  Total Score = 17,583,930

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

We finally got good conditions for a contest weekend!  There was more activity
than the bands could hold.  Stations were stacked 2 and 3 deep on 15 and 20
meters.  10 meters was an oasis of quiet with loud signals from the South.  40
was excellent, but 75 Khz is not enough.  No one listens split any more.

Jay did most of the operating. We did it tag team style.  Only one operator at
a time.  When one got tired we would switch and the off duty op would get some
sleep.  We did not do a good job of managing the band changes to get
multipliers.

We found the first night to be difficult.  75m working split was the only place
we could penetrate the European wall of QRM.

Couple of really great hours to start the morning on 20m, but 15m never really
seemed to get going. Band was open, but signals were weak, so hard to hold a
frequency.  Sat afternoon though the bands really came alive. Running on 15m
and having Europeans and loud JAs coming back at the same time.  For hours!

Sunday the bands were better.  Even the UA9's on 15 meters were booming in. 
Always fun to get called by a YB0 or 4S7 at an unexpected time.

The score really takes off in this contest.  Never made 17 million points in a
contest before!  :)

We chased the WW2DX guys on getscores all weekend.  Couldn't get the score
poster to work so did it manually when one of us thought about it.

Log checking could be painful.  There were many QSOs where it was difficult
enough to get the callsign, much less a QSO number. Lots of requests for
repeats (only to have the missing digit obliterated by QRM each time).

Between ARRL DX, RDXC, and now WPX, both Jay and I are contested out.  Good
thing WPX CW is 2 months away so we can recover.  Thanks to Jay for coming
over.  Thanks to everyone for helping us have so much fun.

Station Description
Radio 1 - Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200

Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G
40-2CD @ 110'
205CA @ 100' / 50'
5-el 15 @70' / 35'
160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials

Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G
6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30'
40m 1/2-wave sloper to west
80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials

Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G
TH7DXX at 40'

As always, some numbers to help tell the story.

QSOs by Continent

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    EU       3    188    250    982   1301      4    2728    61.8
    NA      16    184    430    283    216     32    1161    26.3
    SA       0      6     43     31     48     55     183     4.1
    AS       0      1     10    119    114      0     244     5.5
    OC       0      3     25     10     19      6      63     1.4
    AF       0      5      8     11     11      2      37     0.8


Rates

QSO/Pref by hour and band

Hour   160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    

0000Z  --+--   --+--    4/4   105/82   21/20   --+--  130/106   130/106 
0100Z    -       -     28/26   12/10     -       -     40/36    170/142 
0200Z    -     38/32    5/5      -       -       -     43/37    213/179 
0300Z    -     51/40    9/4      -       -       -     60/44    273/223 
0400Z    -     44/32   14/10    8/5      -       -     66/47    339/270 
0500Z    -    100/62     -       -       -       -    100/62    439/332 
0600Z    -     36/16   40/18     -       -       -     76/34    515/366 
0700Z   4/4    28/11   56/27     -       -       -     88/42    603/408 
0800Z  --+--    1/1    91/45   --+--   --+--   --+--   92/46    695/454 
0900Z   1/1    20/6    57/22    5/2      -       -     83/31    778/485 
1000Z    -       -       -    168/91     -       -    168/91    946/576 
1100Z    -       -       -     75/38   70/27     -    145/65   1091/641 
1200Z    -       -       -       -    122/46     -    122/46   1213/687 
1300Z    -       -       -      1/1    90/27     -     91/28   1304/715 
1400Z    -       -       -     29/14   59/18     -     88/32   1392/747 
1500Z    -       -       -       -    133/34     -    133/34   1525/781 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  112/36   --+--  112/36   1637/817 
1700Z    -       -       -       -     69/15    9/5    78/20   1715/837 
1800Z    -       -       -     85/16     -      2/0    87/16   1802/853 
1900Z    -       -       -     54/12   30/7      -     84/19   1886/872 
2000Z    -       -       -      1/1   129/22     -    130/23   2016/895 
2100Z    -       -       -       -    129/38     -    129/38   2145/933 
2200Z    -       -       -     10/1    56/24   43/17  109/42   2254/975 
2300Z    -       -       -     96/21    1/1     2/2    99/24   2353/999 
0000Z  --+--   --+--    3/0    59/17   19/4    --+--   81/21   2434/1020
0100Z    -       -     15/2    41/9      -       -     56/11   2490/1031
0200Z    -       -     38/9    27/9      -       -     65/18   2555/1049
0300Z    -     39/11   30/5      -       -       -     69/16   2624/1065
0400Z    -     15/3    37/6      -       -       -     52/9    2676/1074
0500Z    -      5/0    64/10     -       -       -     69/10   2745/1084
0600Z  14/0      -     51/7     6/1      -       -     71/8    2816/1092
0700Z    -      1/0    74/11     -       -       -     75/11   2891/1103
0800Z  --+--    9/1    37/4    --+--   --+--   --+--   46/5    2937/1108
0900Z    -       -     14/4    35/9      -       -     49/13   2986/1121
1000Z    -       -       -     68/10     -       -     68/10   3054/1131
1100Z    -       -       -    101/14     -       -    101/14   3155/1145
1200Z    -       -       -     47/6    57/11     -    104/17   3259/1162
1300Z    -       -       -       -    147/25     -    147/25   3406/1187
1400Z    -       -       -      1/1   132/20     -    133/21   3539/1208
1500Z    -       -       -       -     95/16     -     95/16   3634/1224
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    2/2    70/10    1/1    73/13   3707/1237
1700Z    -       -       -      3/3    64/8      -     67/11   3774/1248
1800Z    -       -       -      1/1    40/8    19/7    60/16   3834/1264
1900Z    -       -       -    119/11     -      4/4   123/15   3957/1279
2000Z    -       -       -    125/19     -      7/7   132/26   4089/1305
2100Z    -       -       -    122/15     -      3/3   125/18   4214/1323
2200Z    -       -       -     27/3    45/11    9/4    81/18   4295/1341
2300Z    -       -     99/18    3/2    19/4      -    121/24   4416/1365

Total: 19/5  387/215 766/237 1436/426 1709/432  99/50 

Two stations on 6 bands: WC6H NX5M

Five bands: F4FLQ    HG2011N  P40M     YN2ET


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