[3830] NAQP CW W6YX(N7MH) Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - August

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N7MH
Station: W6YX

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   18     9
   80:   51    14
   40:  232    52
   20:  318    56
   15:  420    51
   10:   21     6
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Total: 1060   188  Total Score = 199,280

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Team: NCCC #1

Comments:

I got off to a slow start using one radio on 10 meters until I found the
unplugged cable that was preventing me from hearing on the second radio.  8
QSOs in the first 14 minutes until I finally got 15 meters going.

N6DB's K3 and P3 were still set up next to the main console after our NAQP RTTY
effort so I watched 10 meters on the P3 while I was on 15 and 20.  Late in the
day I eventually noticed that the center frequency on the P3 was still set at
28080 and the bandwidth was not wide enough to include NAQP CW activity.  The
P3 and VGA monitor were far enough out of my view so that I probably would have
missed seeing any signals even if it had been set to the right center
frequency.

As I was tuning my second radio I was surprised to hear someone send W6YX on a
frequency that I was tuning across.  I then got a call from N0TA on the run
radio and focused my attention there for a few Q's.  When I got back to the
second radio I discovered that it was N0TA running on the frequency that I'd
heard my call.  I'm guessing he hit the wrong key while waiting to call me
which caused him to send my callsign on his run frequency.

The low bands were all noisy in the evening and I mostly listened on beverages,
even on 40.  I may have missed a few callers from the north as we don't have a
beverage in that direction.

AF6RR was operating in the UHF contest in an adjacent room at the shack and had
several radios on speakers at high volume.  This added to my challenge of
copying SO2R CW whenever someone broke the squelch on one of these UHF radios.

I started my last break at 0448 when the rate on 40 was slowing, almost no one
could hear me on 80, and I assumed 160 was still useless.  I probably should
have taken this break a half hour earlier as all of the mults that I heard but
couldn't work earlier on 80 were gone by the time I got back on the air.

I attempted a few moves, none of which were successful.  Thanks for trying
anyway.  I heard N9RV on a couple of bands where Pat would have been a new mult
but he was calling other stations when I heard him.


Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: W6YX
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: NAQP-CW
OPERATORS: N7MH

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1800       0      0      0      4     98      9    111    111   10.5
1900       0      0      0     22    102      7    131    242   22.8
2000       0      0      0      0     24      4     28    270   25.5
2100       0      0      0     38     54      0     92    362   34.2
2200       0      0      0     44     51      0     95    457   43.1
2300       0      0      0     59     32      0     91    548   51.7
0000       0      0      0     33     46      1     80    628   59.2
0100       0      0      9     36     13      0     58    686   64.7
0200       0      0     53     54      0      0    107    793   74.8
0300       0      2     81     28      0      0    111    904   85.3
0400       0     20     79      0      0      0     99   1003   94.6
0500      18     29     10      0      0      0     57   1060  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     18     51    232    318    420     21   1060

Gross QSOs=1068        Dupes=8        Net QSOs=1060

Unique callsigns worked = 636

The best 60 minute rate was 144/hour from 1836 to 1935
The best 30 minute rate was 156/hour from 1906 to 1935
The best 10 minute rate was 174/hour from 1903 to 1912

The best 1 minute rates were:
 5 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   26 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  114 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  210 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  184 times.

There were 429 bandchanges and 233 (22.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

-Mike, N7MH


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