[3830] ARRLDX CW OH8X(OH6KZP) SOAB HP

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Mon Feb 20 10:05:52 PST 2012


                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: OH8X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH8X

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Arkala
Operating Time (hrs): 38
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:   28    13
   40:  454    52
   20: 1153    59
   15:  931    59
   10:  185    40
-------------------
Total: 2751   223  Total Score = 1,841,757

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Well, what can I say. It's like I said to a couple of coworkers today that
contesting allows a person to experience an enormous range of feelings by just
sitting down for a weekend :) Exhilaration and euphoria through long pileups
and strategic successes, desperation and "what's the point" disbelief through
fatigue and aurora-destroyed bands. 

The high bands produced some very nice rates (mostly on Saturday), with 8 hours
of >100Q and 12 in total of >90Q, and the best clock hour being 166Q. Ten meters
was a disappointment during the daytime opening both days, but I kept watch
later in the evening and was happy to see a very nice opening for a few hours
around local midnight on Saturday. Signals were quite strong and much higher
rates could have been had there and on 15m, which I was running on
simultaneously, but there didn't seem to be enough people around beaming over
the pole at that hour. The 10m opening reoccurred on Sunday evening, but was
considerably weaker then. NQ4I was one of the band openers on both days.

On the flip-side, 160m and 80m were a catastrophy. The OH-W/VE path runs
near/through the polar region, and although armed with the trademark lowband
yagis of OH8X, I was not able to get anything going. In fact I didn't hear a
single W/VE on 160m the entire weekend, although for example TI5W further down
south came in fine and JAs could be heard in the afternoon. 80m was also noisy
and tough, with no QSOs there after the first morning (and hardly any W/VE
heard after that). Mother Nature apparently demanded some respect from us
arctic people for the solar wind stream that arrived Saturday night.

KM1W and others had been a solid 599+ for a while on 40m that night as I kept
monitoring the band for a possible move, but I decided to stay on the high
bands since they were producing nice rates. Then the flutter began on 10m&15m,
and when I checked 40m, the East Coast powerhouses had been reduced to weak
signals with echos. So there went that band too... :) Coupled with no 80/160, I
simply had to kiss goodbye to the targeted 3000Q/300mult record.

Anyway, it was great fun once again. Especially the high-band runs were
invigorating. It was downright exciting to watch for and listen to those tricky
10m openings and to add one multiplier after another there from the seemingly
noiseless band. A "kid in the candy store" feeling. Like others I also noticed
the increased occurrence of zero-beating in my pileups, resulting from callers
clicking Skimmer/cluster spots and arriving on the exact same frequency. That
made things a bit more challenging, but fortunately some ops were strategic
enough to move a little to the side when calling. I also worked further on SO2R
intra-QSO interleaving which can bring the rate up nicely, although it is quite
taxing on the brain.

Many thanks to the Radio Arcala team for this opportunity and particularly to
Veijo OH6KN and Juha OH8NC for their help! 

Some statistics below.

73
Kim
---------------------

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

CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CALLSIGN: OH8X
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH 
OPERATORS: OH6KZP

-------------- 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      7      1    135      0      0    143    143    5.2
0100       0      3     80     56      0      0    139    282   10.3
0200       0      0    104      7      0      0    111    393   14.3
0300       0      3     77      1      0      0     81    474   17.2
0400       0      2     59      0      0      0     61    535   19.4
0500       0      4     54      0      0      0     58    593   21.6
0600       0      8     42      0      0      0     50    643   23.4
0700       0      0     22      0      0      0     22    665   24.2
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    665   24.2
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    665   24.2
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    665   24.2
1100       0      0      0     16      9      0     25    690   25.1
1200       0      0      0      1     47      7     55    745   27.1
1300       0      0      0      0    110     14    124    869   31.6
1400       0      0      0      0    140     10    150   1019   37.0
1500       0      0      0     26     26     13     65   1084   39.4
1600       0      0      0     24     59      0     83   1167   42.4
1700       0      0      0     38     22      0     60   1227   44.6
1800       0      0      0     21     69      0     90   1317   47.9
1900       0      0      0     78     34      0    112   1429   51.9
2000       0      0      0    142     22      0    164   1593   57.9
2100       0      0      0     45     57     10    112   1705   62.0
2200       0      0      0      0     47     50     97   1802   65.5
2300       0      0      0      0     26     66     92   1894   68.8
0000       0      0      0      0     58     11     69   1963   71.4
0100       0      0      0     33     38      1     72   2035   74.0
0200       0      0      0     82     14      0     96   2131   77.5
0300       0      0      0     13      0      1     14   2145   78.0
0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2145   78.0
0500       0      0      6      9      0      0     15   2160   78.5
0600       0      0      1      2      0      0      3   2163   78.6
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2163   78.6
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2163   78.6
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2163   78.6
1000       0      0      2      0      0      0      2   2165   78.7
1100       0      0      0      7      0      0      7   2172   79.0
1200       0      0      0     40      5      0     45   2217   80.6
1300       0      0      0     22     14      0     36   2253   81.9
1400       0      0      0      9     25      0     34   2287   83.1
1500       0      0      0     52      2      1     55   2342   85.1
1600       0      0      0     27      1      0     28   2370   86.2
1700       0      0      0     17     12      0     29   2399   87.2
1800       0      0      0     23     12      0     35   2434   88.5
1900       0      0      0     25      5      0     30   2464   89.6
2000       0      0      1     53     11      0     65   2529   91.9
2100       0      0      0     46     44      2     92   2621   95.3
2200       0      0      4     21     19      0     44   2665   96.9
2300       0      0      1     82      3      0     86   2751  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0     27    454   1153    931    186   2751

Gross QSOs=2805        Dupes=54        Net QSOs=2751

Unique callsigns worked = 1780

The best 60 minute rate was 166/hour from 1351 to 1450
The best 30 minute rate was 178/hour from 1354 to 1423
The best 10 minute rate was 210/hour from 2003 to 2012

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    1 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   12 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   84 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  278 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  430 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  655 times.

There were 511 bandchanges and 242 (8.8%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         2
   4      1706
   5       829
   6       202
   7         7
   8         4
   9         1

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
K                0     26    423   1068    859    178   2554   92.8
KG4              0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
VE               0      1     31     84     71      8    195    7.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total            0     27    454   1153    931    186   2751

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
CA         0      0     25    106     71     38    240    8.7
PA         0      4     29     72     44      4    153    5.6
TX         0      0     21     56     59      8    144    5.2
NY         0      3     23     60     44      2    132    4.8
FL         0      2     24     54     33     13    126    4.6
MA         0      5     22     45     28      2    102    3.7
WA         0      0     12     37     40     10     99    3.6
OH         0      1     21     42     30      3     97    3.5
MN         0      0     16     39     29      4     88    3.2
MD         0      2     19     35     30      2     88    3.2
VA         0      1     14     41     25      5     86    3.1
IL         0      1     12     34     35      1     83    3.0
NJ         0      0     16     41     23      2     82    3.0
NC         0      0     12     29     28      5     74    2.7
AZ         0      0     12     23     23     15     73    2.7
ON         0      0     12     31     26      0     69    2.5
TN         0      0      9     23     31      2     65    2.4
WI         0      0     16     24     17      2     59    2.1
OR         0      0      7     20     19     11     57    2.1
CT         0      1     12     24     19      0     56    2.0
MI         0      0     11     24     21      0     56    2.0
AL         0      0     10     18     20      5     53    1.9
NH         0      4     11     20     13      2     50    1.8
BC         0      0      8     18     16      7     49    1.8
CO         0      0      5     16     17      6     44    1.6
GA         0      1      6     17     12      4     40    1.5
IN         0      0      4     11     13      0     28    1.0
MO         0      0      4     12     11      1     28    1.0
IA         0      0      3     10     11      3     27    1.0
NM         0      0      6      9      6      4     25    0.9
NV         0      0      1      9      6      8     24    0.9
KY         0      0      1     10     11      1     23    0.8
KS         0      0      2     11      9      0     22    0.8
SC         0      0      2      7     12      0     21    0.8
UT         0      0      0      9      9      2     20    0.7
AR         0      0      4      7      8      1     20    0.7
AB         0      0      5     10      5      0     20    0.7
OK         0      0      2     11      6      1     20    0.7
MT         0      0      6      6      5      2     19    0.7
QC         0      0      2      9      7      0     18    0.7
LA         0      0      7      6      2      1     16    0.6
ID         0      0      1      7      7      1     16    0.6
ME         0      1      2      6      4      2     15    0.5
NS         0      0      2      7      5      0     14    0.5
WV         0      0      2      6      3      1     12    0.4
RI         0      0      4      5      3      0     12    0.4
WY         0      0      0      4      6      1     11    0.4
NE         0      0      0      3      5      2     10    0.4
VT         0      0      1      5      2      0      8    0.3
DC         0      0      1      3      3      1      8    0.3
DE         0      0      2      3      2      0      7    0.3
MS         0      0      2      3      2      0      7    0.3
SK         0      0      1      2      3      1      7    0.3
NB         0      0      1      2      3      0      6    0.2
PEI        0      1      0      2      3      0      6    0.2
ND         0      0      0      4      2      0      6    0.2
SD         0      0      1      2      1      0      4    0.1
MB         0      0      0      2      2      0      4    0.1
NF         0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0     27    454   1153    931    186   2751

U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area    QSOs     Pct
--------------------
   0     506    18.4
   1     528    19.2
   2     540    19.6
   3     534    19.4
   4     760    27.6
   5     446    16.2
   6     486    17.7
   7     562    20.4
   8     360    13.1
   9     386    14.0
--------------------
Total   5108   185.7

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1124
2 bands     409
3 bands     189
4 bands      48
5 bands      10
6 bands       0

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      0      5    116    551    395     57


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