[3830] CQWW CW WC1M SOSB/10 HP

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Sun Nov 25 21:56:18 EST 2012


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: WC1M
Operator(s): WC1M
Station: WC1M

Class: SOSB/10 HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 18.75

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:                    
   80:                    
   40:                    
   20:                    
   15:                    
   10:  952    29      113
------------------------------
Total:  952    29      113  Total Score = 382,974

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

A full SOAB HP effort was not to be this weekend, so I did SOSB 10 â€" and
enjoyed it a lot! 

Something new.

It’s a long story, with a combination of factors leading to the single-band
effort: two stress-filled months of work, a visiting relative I hadn’t seen
in years, my turn to make Thanksgiving dinner, being the least prepared I’ve
ever been for CW WW CW, and a nasty solar flare. After 90 minutes of futility
on 40, 80 and 160 Friday night, and feeling like it would be really nice to go
to bed early, I decided to hang it up and start a single-band 10 in the
morning.

I once did a single-band effort on 20 (I think it was ARRL DX), and absolutely
hated the grind. Not this time! 10 meters is the ideal band for SOSB: sunrise
to sunset is less than 12 hours, plenty of time to spend with family, plenty of
time to sleep, high rates (on Sunday, at least) and tons of interesting mults.
The only problems were terrible conditions on Saturday and no over-the-pole
propagation either day. No zone 17, 18 or 19, and a general dearth of Russians
and other Easter Europeans. Worked two or three JAs, just barely, and I’m
sure they were big stations running high power. Virtually no other Asians.
Oceania was pretty good, and even managed zone 29. But the band didn’t stay
open long enough to grab much JA and Asia.

Ended the first day with only 328 Qs (sans dupes.) Second day was much better:
624, with most of that being in a continuous five-hour stretch of running.

All in all, though, it was a real pleasure to spend a stress-free, mellow and
easy weekend on 10, the most friendly band â€" when it’s open. I have no idea
how I did, but it probably wasn’t a very competitive effort. No matter, it was
heck of a lot of fun.

And I can’t end without saying… There’s no meters like 10 meters!

Hope to back to SOAB HP in ARRL DX CW.

[Log submitted 30 minutes after the contest â€" probably a record for me. Would
have been faster, but had to manually edit the claimed score and the first try
got bounced for a 599 that had turned into a 9.]

73, Dick WC1M

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm

D1-1100Z    -       -       -       -       -      1/2     1/2       1/2
D1-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -     15/23   15/23     16/25  
D1-1300Z    -       -       -       -       -     19/16   19/16     35/41  
D1-1400Z    -       -       -       -       -     90/20   90/20    125/61  
D1-1500Z    -       -       -       -       -     98/13   98/13    223/74  
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   39/10   39/10    262/84  
D1-1700Z    -       -       -       -       -      8/9     8/9     270/93
D1-1800Z    -       -       -       -       -     23/8    23/8     293/101 
D1-1900Z    -       -       -       -       -     17/4    17/4     310/10
D1-2000Z    -       -       -       -       -      3/1     3/1     313/106
D1-2100Z    -       -       -       -       -      8/6     8/6     321/112 
D1-2200Z    -       -       -       -       -      7/4     7/4     328/11Z
D1-2300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     328/116
D2-0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0400Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     328/116
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-1100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     328/116
D2-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -     65/4    65/4     393/120
D2-1300Z    -       -       -       -       -    161/5   161/5     554/125 
D2-1400Z    -       -       -       -       -    136/4   136/4     690/129 
D2-1500Z    -       -       -       -       -    102/3   102/3     792/132 
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   82/4    82/4     874/136 
D2-1700Z    -       -       -       -       -     39/3    39/3     913/139 
D2-1800Z    -       -       -       -       -     21/1    21/1     934/140 
D2-1900Z    -       -       -       -       -      1/0     1/0     935/140
D2-2000Z    -       -       -       -       -      1/1     1/1     936/141
D2-2100Z    -       -       -       -       -      9/1     9/1     945/142 
D2-2200Z    -       -       -       -       -      6/0     6/0     951/142 
D2-2300Z    -       -       -       -       -      1/0     1/0     952/142 

Total:     0/0     0/0     0/0     0/0     0/0   952/142

         160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    SA       0      0      0      0      0     60      60     6.3
    AF       0      0      0      0      0     22      22     2.3
    NA       0      0      0      0      0     91      91     9.6
    EU       0      0      0      0      0    756     756    79.4
    AS       0      0      0      0      0      5       5     0.5
    OC       0      0      0      0      0     18      18     1.9

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total

  4U1I                                          1       1
    5B                                          1       1
    6W                                          1       1
    6Y                                          1       1
    7P                                          1       1
    8P                                          1       1
    9A                                         17      17
    9H                                          1       1
    9J                                          1       1
    C5                                          1       1
    C6                                          1       1
    CE                                          7       7
    CM                                          3       3
    CN                                          1       1
    CT                                          3       3
   CT3                                          4       4
    CU                                          1       1
    CX                                          3       3
    D2                                          1       1
    D4                                          1       1
    DL                                        156     156
    E7                                          2       2
    EA                                         47      47
   EA6                                          1       1
   EA8                                          6       6
    EI                                          9       9
    EL                                          1       1
    ER                                          1       1
    EU                                          4       4
     F                                         41      41
    FM                                          1       1
    FS                                          1       1
    FY                                          1       1
     G                                         81      81
    GD                                          1       1
    GI                                          3       3
    GJ                                          2       2
    GM                                          7       7
  GM/s                                          1       1
    GU                                          2       2
    GW                                          5       5
    HA                                         17      17
    HB                                          8       8
    HC                                          1       1
    HI                                          2       2
    HK                                          1       1
    HP                                          1       1
    HR                                          1       1
     I                                         65      65
    IS                                          1       1
   IT9                                          2       2
    J3                                          1       1
    J7                                          1       1
    JA                                          3       3
     K                                         34      34
   KH0                                          1       1
   KH2                                          3       3
   KH6                                          3       3
    KL                                          2       2
   KP2                                          2       2
   KP4                                          3       3
    LA                                          5       5
    LU                                         11      11
    LY                                          3       3
    LZ                                         16      16
    OE                                          6       6
    OH                                          2       2
   OH0                                          2       2
    OK                                         36      36
    OM                                         13      13
    ON                                         18      18
    OZ                                          8       8
    P4                                          3       3
    PA                                         40      40
   PJ2                                          1       1
   PJ4                                          1       1
   PJ7                                          1       1
    PY                                         28      28
    PZ                                          1       1
    S5                                         27      27
    SM                                          5       5
    SP                                         27      27
    SV                                          3       3
    T7                                          1       1
    TF                                          2       2
    TG                                          1       1
    TI                                          2       2
    TK                                          1       1
    UA                                         11      11
    UR                                         20      20
    V2                                          1       1
    V3                                          1       1
    V6                                          1       1
    VE                                         22      22
    VK                                          3       3
  VK9L                                          1       1
  VP2M                                          1       1
  VP2V                                          1       1
   VP5                                          1       1
    VU                                          1       1
    XE                                          4       4
    YL                                          1       1
    YO                                         16      16
    YU                                         10      10
    YV                                          1       1
    Z3                                          2       2
    ZA                                          1       1
    ZB                                          1       1
   ZD8                                          1       1
    ZF                                          1       1
    ZL                                          6       6
    ZP                                          1       1
    ZS                                          3       3

Antennas:

160M  -  trapped vee @90'
 80M  -  delta loop @75, trapped vee @90'  
 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
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 (not working?)

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"), iPad running iDisplay for
touch-screen "button box", 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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