[3830] WPX CW WC1M SOAB HP
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Sun May 27 19:05:26 PDT 2012
CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: WC1M
Operator(s): WC1M
Station: WC1M
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 684
20: 1185
15: 1389
10: 31
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Total: 3289 Prefixes = 1050 Total Score = 10,807,605
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I haven’t seen scores from K0DQ and KC3R, but I’m assuming congrats are in
order. Can’t wait to see who won the battle of the super stations. Those two
were well ahead of me late in the contest, so I have little doubt that one or
both of them went over 11 million points. And you never know who else might be
a contending single-op in this contest!
The explosion in WPX participation over the last few years is simply
mind-boggling, and we probably haven’t seen the best propagation of this
cycle. How high can the scores go? If you had told me a few years ago that a
score over 10 million points wouldn’t be good enough to win USA SOAB HP in
WPX CW, I wouldn’t have believed it. But it’s going to happen this year. In
fact, I’m wondering if it will be good enough for top five! I’ve already
seen four scores that topped the record set in 2009 by Alex LZ4AX @ KC3R, and
I’m sure there will be several more. Wouldn’t be amazing if the entire top
ten beat the record? Has that ever happened?
It was a great contest, with every corner of the world coming in at one time or
another. Had some good JA runs in both the mornings and afternoons, mostly on
15, and those prefixes really helped to pad the total. It was a pleasure to
finally have 15 wide open for more than half the day, with rates better than
20. 10 wasn’t there, but did provide some nice mults. 10 and 80 really
aren’t a factor in this contest anyway. The only disappointment was 40, which
is usually my go-to band. I really missed the six-pointers this year. I shudder
to think how high the scores would have gone had 40 been fully open to Europe.
As the rate sheet shows, the rate stayed high through most of the first 24
hours and was unusually good the second day, too. The pileups were never huge,
but it wasn't hard to keep the meter over 100/hr most of the time.
I’ve done a serious effort in this contest every year since 2000, and I must
say that this year might have been the most fun of all. Definitely top three.
It was a huge kick pushing hard to make the numbers roll over and realizing
that the new record would top 10 million points.
Thanks for all the QSOs, especially from our European friends who really make
these DX contests special.
See you next year!
73, Dick WC1M
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 113/97 3/2 --+-- --+-- 116/99 116/99
D1-0100Z - - 98/73 13/11 - - 111/84 227/183
D1-0200Z - - 89/48 22/14 - - 111/62 338/245
D1-0300Z - - 94/50 17/12 - - 111/62 449/307
D1-0400Z - - 71/35 24/16 - - 95/51 544/358
D1-0500Z - - 9/4 121/50 - - 130/54 674/412
D1-0600Z - - 20/17 70/21 - - 90/38 764/450
D1-0700Z - - 6/2 44/14 1/1 - 51/17 815/467
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 815/467
D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 815/467
D1-1000Z - - - 34/10 - - 34/10 849/477
D1-1100Z - - - 47/27 69/21 - 116/48 965/525
D1-1200Z - - - - 146/30 - 146/30 1111/555
D1-1300Z - - - 1/0 130/30 - 131/30 1242/585
D1-1400Z - - - 5/2 98/25 - 103/27 1345/612
D1-1500Z - - - - 107/35 - 107/35 1452/647
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 5/1 95/35 --+-- 100/36 1552/683
D1-1700Z - - - 5/1 67/18 - 72/19 1624/702
D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1624/702
D1-1900Z - - - 70/16 7/3 - 77/19 1701/721
D1-2000Z - - - 86/14 11/7 - 97/21 1798/742
D1-2100Z - - - 80/14 18/10 - 98/24 1896/766
D1-2200Z - - - 88/12 14/10 - 102/22 1998/788
D1-2300Z - - 33/13 46/8 - - 79/21 2077/809
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 66/8 2/1 17/17 --+-- 85/26 2162/835
D2-0100Z - - 47/12 21/4 - - 68/16 2230/851
D2-0200Z - - 22/9 64/11 - - 86/20 2316/871
D2-0300Z - - 11/6 35/5 - - 46/11 2362/882
D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 2362/882
D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 2362/882
D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 2362/882
D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2362/882
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2362/882
D2-0900Z - - 5/3 11/5 - - 16/8 2378/890
D2-1000Z - - - 43/8 13/2 - 56/10 2434/900
D2-1100Z - - - 3/0 102/14 - 105/14 2539/914
D2-1200Z - - - 3/1 87/9 6/3 96/13 2635/927
D2-1300Z - - - - 87/7 10/7 97/14 2732/941
D2-1400Z - - - 11/4 81/14 - 92/18 2824/959
D2-1500Z - - - 3/2 59/14 3/2 65/18 2889/977
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/3 43/7 --+-- 57/10 2946/987
D2-1700Z - - - 1/0 20/3 - 21/3 2967/990
D2-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 2967/990
D2-1900Z - - - 43/1 19/5 - 62/6 3029/996
D2-2000Z - - - 36/6 4/1 9/2 49/9 3078/1005
D2-2100Z - - - 67/14 9/4 - 76/18 3154/1023
D2-2200Z - - - 37/6 17/4 3/1 57/11 3211/1034
D2-2300Z - - - 10/1 68/15 - 78/16 3289/1050
Total: 0/0 0/0 684/3771185/3171389/341 31/15
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 0 0 179 206 227 8 620 18.9
EU 0 0 481 889 991 0 2361 71.8
AS 0 0 7 64 136 0 207 6.3
AF 0 0 3 5 9 0 17 0.5
SA 0 0 10 15 22 23 70 2.1
OC 0 0 4 6 4 0 14 0.4
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3V 1 1
4J 1 1
4L 1 1 2 4
4O 1 1
4U1I 1 1
4X 1 3 4 8
5B 1 1 2 4
6W 1 1
6Y 1 1
9A 13 18 18 49
9K 1 1
A6 1 1 2
A7 1 1
BV 1 1
BY 4 4
CE 1 4 2 7
CM 1 2 3
CN 1 1
CT 1 1 2 4
CT3 2 1 3
CU 1 1
CX 2 3 1 6
D2 1 1
DL 76 143 170 389
DU 1 1
E7 4 7 7 18
EA 10 18 29 57
EA6 1 1 2
EA8 1 2 5 8
EI 2 1 6 9
ER 3 2 3 8
ES 2 6 5 13
EU 8 18 16 42
EX 1 1
F 10 15 24 49
FG 1 1
FM 1 1 2 1 5
G 24 42 42 108
GD 1 1 2
GI 1 3 1 5
GJ 1 1
GM 4 7 9 20
GM/s 1 1
GW 1 1
HA 14 25 24 63
HB 4 9 12 25
HK 1 1 1 1 4
HP 1 1 2
HZ 2 1 3
I 16 36 38 90
IS 1 1 2
IT9 3 5 6 14
J3 1 1
JA 18 78 96
JT 1 1
K 148 179 202 2 531
KH6 1 1
KL 1 1 2
KP2 2 2 1 5
KP4 1 1 1 3
LA 4 6 6 16
LU 2 3 2 5 12
LX 1 1 2
LY 12 15 16 43
LZ 9 20 21 50
OA 1 1
OE 2 10 7 19
OH 4 15 22 41
OH0 1 1 2 4
OK 32 47 54 133
OM 15 24 21 60
ON 6 14 12 32
OX 1 1
OY 1 1
OZ 5 9 9 23
P4 2 1 3 6
PA 8 22 33 63
PJ2 1 1 2
PJ4 1 1 2
PY 4 4 6 11 25
PZ 1 1 2
S5 20 19 28 67
SM 13 21 17 51
SP 17 36 43 96
SV 5 6 9 20
SV9 1 1 2 4
TA 2 3 1 6
TF 2 2
TK 1 1 2
UA 43 124 135 302
UA2 1 3 2 6
UA9 1 25 31 57
UN 6 6 12
UR 51 73 77 201
V2 1 1 1 3
V3 1 1
VE 26 17 14 57
VK 2 5 7
VK9L 1 1
VU 2 2 4
XE 1 2 3
XU 1 1
YB 3 3
YL 4 8 7 19
YO 11 23 27 61
YS 1 1
YU 16 27 19 62
YV 1 1 2
Z3 1 3 2 6
ZL 1 1
ZP 1 1
ZS 1 1 2
Antennas:
160M - trapped vee @90' (not working)
80M - delta loop @75, trapped vee @90' (not working)
40M - Cal-Av 2D-40A @110', 4-square
20M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72'
15M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50'
10M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50'. 6-el @115'
Tower#1: Force 12 EF-610, Cal-AV 2D-40A, 4-el SteppIRs, 160/80 trapped vee
(not working)
770-MDP: Force-12 EF-420
AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515
AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E
Delta loop hung from a tree
dual 580' beverage aimed 20/220 degrees
Equipment:
Elecraft K3 + Alpha 87A, Elecraft K3 + LP-PAN + Acom 2000A, Writelog,
LP-BRIDGE, PowerSDR-IF, YCCC SO2R Box, homebrew Windows antenna
switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), K1XM MOAS II USB Switch, TopTen
and KK1L SO2R switches, Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam
Stack Switch and StackMax
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