[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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QSOs 0 5 116 551 395 57
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