[3830] RTTY Roundup P49X(W0YK) Single Op HP

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                    ARRL RTTY Roundup

Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
   80:  207
   40:  533
   20:  675
   15: 1271
   10:  821
------------
Total: 3507  State/Prov = 56  Countries = 69  Total Score = 438,375

Club: Loma Prieta Contest Club

Comments:

Thanks for all the participation!  With the SFI at 140 and quiet conditions for
the weekend, this was very different than the last six years of Round-Up.  Not
as spectacular as WW RTTY last fall when the SFI peaked at 193 and the MUF was
so high that 20m blacked out during the day.  This was a little more balanced
between the high and low bands.

My peak QSO rates were down from the past, especially in the first four hours,
but the average of 146 for the 24 hours is a personal best (previously 135,
last year).  I started on 15/20 and worked down as the 15, then 20, rate
dropped.  That's also how I decide my time-off, and it came at 0630z, about the
median time over the last seven Round-Ups.  I started up again at 1146z when 10
was runnable to Europe.  That left 44 minutes for a second break, in case of
station problems, which I almost needed on two occasions!  Thus, my 24 hours
was up at 2314z.  That was fortunate because the last three hours were
relatively slow.

Didn't use 10 until Sunday when the entire 11.5 hours was spent on 10 and 15
only, with 800+ QSOs on each band.  The JAs were excited to be working P4 on 10
and 15 RTTY Sunday afternoon (Monday morning in Japan.)  In fact, when a JA
would move from 15 to 10 for me, they were often louder on 10.

I'm still down in mults, though, and need to work on that.  The plan was to
tune each run band on the second receiver.  I set up SO4V (SO2V on two radios)
for this purpose and it works superbly well on RTTY with a decoder window on
the second receiver.  WriteLog integrates the K3 nicely in this configuration. 
However, I need a lot more practice to use it effectively at these run rates.  I
actually found new mults, but didn't get them worked before they QSY'd, due to
being fully occupied serving callers on the two run receivers.

I brought P3 bandscopes down with the K3s and it was well worth it for getting
a sense of band activity and signal levels, plus where to operate.  They were
instrumental in making SO4V work effectively as each signal on the waterfall
could be examined with the second receiver decoder window.

At one point Sunday afternoon, it seemed that 15 was dropping off while 10 was
still strong.  I jumped the 15 radio to 20 between QSOs for a peak at what that
band looked like and 20 was hopping with strong activity.  But, back on 15 it
looked dead ... well is was dead, locally, because something was open in the
feedline.  I suspect the 15m position on that side of the SixPak, but haven't
diagnosed it yet.  We had probems on that port last Setember.  I swapped radios
between 10 and 15 while maintaining the runs, so I didn't have to take a break. 
Then, an hour or so later one of my Writelog computers froze up and again I
avoided a break by continuing to run on 15 while pulling the battery and power
cord from the frozen computer to get it going again. 

Thanks again to everyone for the contacts.  There were 29 five-banders and many
people moved between 10<-->15 on Sunday for me, to keep the rate up.  I'll get
the pre-contest log on LotW today and the contest log will go up after the
deadline.  Thanks also to John and Andy for sharing their cottage station with
me.

Ed - P49X (W0YK)

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

CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY
OPERATORS: P49X

-------------- 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     66     84      0    150    150    4.3
1900       0      0      0     87     60      0    147    297    8.5
2000       0      0      0     78     86      0    164    461   13.1
2100       0      0      0     78     94      0    172    633   18.0
2200       0      0      0     93     91      0    184    817   23.3
2300       0      0     18     89     58      0    165    982   28.0
0000       0      0     80     62      0      0    142   1124   32.1
0100       0      0     84     76      0      0    160   1284   36.6
0200       0      4     72     46      0      0    122   1406   40.1
0300       0     53     79      0      0      0    132   1538   43.9
0400       0     67     86      0      0      0    153   1691   48.2
0500       0     59     83      0      0      0    142   1833   52.3
0600       0     24     31      0      0      0     55   1888   53.8
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1888   53.8
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1888   53.8
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1888   53.8
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1888   53.8
1100       0      0      0      0     20     20     40   1928   55.0
1200       0      0      0      0     95     53    148   2076   59.2
1300       0      0      0      0     88     78    166   2242   63.9
1400       0      0      0      0     83     77    160   2402   68.5
1500       0      0      0      0     83     83    166   2568   73.2
1600       0      0      0      0     79     65    144   2712   77.3
1700       0      0      0      0     73     90    163   2875   82.0
1800       0      0      0      0     58     99    157   3032   86.5
1900       0      0      0      0     46     87    133   3165   90.2
2000       0      0      0      0     50     56    106   3271   93.3
2100       0      0      0      0     43     63    106   3377   96.3
2200       0      0      0      0     69     48    117   3494   99.6
2300       0      0      0      0     11      2     13   3507  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    207    533    675   1271    821   3507

Gross QSOs=3539        Dupes=32        Net QSOs=3507

Unique callsigns worked = 2054

The best 60 minute rate was 198/hour from 2130 to 2229
The best 30 minute rate was 200/hour from 2131 to 2200
The best 10 minute rate was 222/hour from 1715 to 1724

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    4 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   35 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  222 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  434 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  439 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  240 times.

There were 2247 bandchanges and 1508 (43.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

----------------- 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      0    162    412    563    913    666   2716   77.4
South America      0      2      4      3     15     12     36    1.0
Europe             0     43    115     73    262    123    616   17.6
Asia               0      0      2     27     71     14    114    3.3
Africa             0      0      0      4      4      4     12    0.3
Oceania            0      0      0      5      6      2     13    0.4
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total              0    207    533    675   1271    821   3507

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         1
   4      1357
   5      1398
   6       722
   7        17
   8        11
   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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
5B               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
9A               0      1      1      1      2      0      5    0.1
CM               0      0      4      1      2      0      7    0.2
CT               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
CX               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.1
DL               0      7      8      8     31     20     74    2.1
E7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
EA               0      1      9      9     16      3     38    1.1
EA8              0      0      0      3      3      1      7    0.2
EI               0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
ER               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
EU               0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.1
F                0      3      3      8     12      4     30    0.9
FM               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
G                0      0      4     10     17      3     34    1.0
GI               0      0      2      2      1      1      6    0.2
GM               0      0      1      3      4      2     10    0.3
GU               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
GW               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
HA               0      2      4      2      8      4     20    0.6
HB               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
HI               0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.1
HL               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
HZ               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
I                0      4      5     14     27      9     59    1.7
JA               0      0      0     21     57     11     89    2.5
K                0    155    386    535    854    614   2544   72.5
KG4              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
KL               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.1
KP4              0      0      1      0      1      2      4    0.1
LA               0      0      0      1      5      1      7    0.2
LU               0      1      0      1      5      4     11    0.3
LY               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
LZ               0      1      1      0      0      3      5    0.1
OE               0      0      1      0      0      1      2    0.1
OH               0      2      1      0      5      1      9    0.3
OK               0      5      6      1      8     11     31    0.9
OM               0      0      1      0      3      1      5    0.1
ON               0      1      2      2      5      2     12    0.3
OZ               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.1
P4               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
PA               0      1      5      2     11     10     29    0.8
PJ2              0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
PY               0      0      0      0      7      3     10    0.3
S5               0      2      5      1      2      3     13    0.4
SM               0      1      3      1     10      5     20    0.6
SP               0      2      6      1     16      8     33    0.9
SV               0      0      0      0      2      1      3    0.1
*TA1             0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
TF               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
TG               0      0      0      0      1      2      3    0.1
TK               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
UA               0      6     13      0     29      8     56    1.6
UA2              0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
UA9              0      0      1      4     10      1     16    0.5
UN               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
UR               0      3     24      2     26     10     65    1.9
V5               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.1
VE               0      7     19     24     49     40    139    4.0
VK               0      0      0      3      2      0      5    0.1
VP8              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
VP9              0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
VU               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
XE               0      0      2      0      1      4      7    0.2
YB               0      0      0      2      4      1      7    0.2
YL               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.1
YO               0      0      3      0      6      1     10    0.3
YU               0      1      1      0      5      2      9    0.3
YV               0      0      2      1      1      2      6    0.2
ZC4              0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
ZL               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
ZS               0      0      0      0      1      2      3    0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total            0    207    533    675   1271    821   3507

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
-DX-       0     45    128    115    367    166    821   23.4
CA         0     13     37     49     74     63    236    6.7
VA         0     10     27     42     41     35    155    4.4
NY         0      7     27     24     41     43    142    4.0
TX         0      8     22     27     40     28    125    3.6
PA         0      8     18     20     33     30    109    3.1
MN         0     10     16     23     45     12    106    3.0
OH         0      9     18     15     31     30    103    2.9
WA         0      5     11     18     35     27     96    2.7
IL         0      5     14     21     33     20     93    2.7
NC         0      7     14     15     28     23     87    2.5
ON         0      4      9     17     30     27     87    2.5
MI         0      2     12     17     24     21     76    2.2
TN         0      5     10     20     21     19     75    2.1
MA         0      6      6     17     22     23     74    2.1
FL         0      3     14     14     34      7     72    2.1
NJ         0      3      8     10     27     21     69    2.0
MD         0      7      8     12     20     15     62    1.8
OR         0      1      2     10     23     20     56    1.6
GA         0      3     10     11     15     15     54    1.5
AZ         0      4     10     10     22      6     52    1.5
WI         0      1     10     11     20      9     51    1.5
CO         0      3     10     15     15      7     50    1.4
AL         0      2      8      9     19     10     48    1.4
MO         0      2      5     13     20      8     48    1.4
IN         0      3      4      8     11     12     38    1.1
NH         0      1      2      9     13     12     37    1.1
KY         0      2      3      5     14     11     35    1.0
KS         0      1      6      6     14      8     35    1.0
SC         0      4      3      9     10      6     32    0.9
IA         0      4      6      8     10      3     31    0.9
OK         0      3      5      6     11      5     30    0.9
NV         0      3      5      4      9      7     28    0.8
CT         0      0      3      7      7      8     25    0.7
WV         0      1      4      5      5      8     23    0.7
ID         0      0      3      4      8      5     20    0.6
LA         0      1      2      3      7      7     20    0.6
RI         0      0      3      3      5      6     17    0.5
MT         0      1      2      5      5      4     17    0.5
BC         0      1      3      1      5      7     17    0.5
DE         0      0      2      3      5      5     15    0.4
MS         0      1      2      5      4      3     15    0.4
AR         0      2      2      4      4      3     15    0.4
QC         0      1      2      2      6      3     14    0.4
SD         0      0      3      3      6      2     14    0.4
ME         0      1      2      3      5      2     13    0.4
NM         0      2      3      5      3      0     13    0.4
UT         0      1      2      2      4      2     11    0.3
VT         0      0      1      3      3      1      8    0.2
SK         0      0      3      2      2      1      8    0.2
WY         0      0      1      3      2      0      6    0.2
AB         0      0      1      1      3      1      6    0.2
NE         0      0      0      0      4      1      5    0.1
MB         0      1      1      0      2      1      5    0.1
DC         0      0      0      0      2      1      3    0.1
NS         0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
ND         0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    207    533    675   1271    821   3507

U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area    QSOs     Pct
--------------------
   0     290     8.3
   1     196     5.6
   2     252     7.2
   3     206     5.9
   4     465    13.3
   5     211     6.0
   6     249     7.1
   7     251     7.2
   8     221     6.3
   9     203     5.8
--------------------
Total   2544    72.5

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1133
2 bands     547
3 bands     245
4 bands     100
5 bands      29
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     47    148    209    499    230


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