[3830] ARRLDX SSB N5AW SOAB LP
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ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 41
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 19 15
80: 68 44
40: 206 62
20: 384 82
15: 551 89
10: 935 94
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Total: 2163 386 Total Score = 2,504,754
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
I may have accomplished something that I was not sure I would ever do - beating
N5TJ's 5th call area low power record set back in 1999. If so it should be
"starred" as technology has changed so much that it is not really
equivalent - I'm sure if Jeff had been operating this year he would have done
even better.
His record is 2.33 million. My best best score going into this contest was 1.4
million so I would have to operate on another plane if I was to come close. The
most amazing thing about his score is the multipliers - 430 with over 100 on 20,
15, and 10. In all of my efforts in the ARRL Phone contests I have worked at
least 100 countries on one band only once - 105 on 10 meters back in 2001. In
fact if add up my best individual multipliers for each band going back to the
1970's it only totals 434. Jeff (who won WRTC three times before
"retiring") has uncanny two radio skills (I think he must have a
"split brain"). Undoubtedly that was a big contributor to his huge
multiplier total. SO2R skills are probably my weakest area. So if I was ever to
beat Jeff's score it had to be by making more contacts, not multipliers. He made
1855 contacts in setting his record. My best effort in ARRL Phone was only 1419
set back in 2002. However in the last CQWW Phone contest I had 2132 so I felt I
could certainly do better. In fact if I could repeat that QSO number I could
beat Jeff's score with only 380 multipliers - 20 more than my best previous
effort. Still - it seemed like an impossible hill to climb.
Somehow it worked out - thanks to some great (for me) runs on all three high
bands. The first day I had 3 clock hours over 100 and one with 97. One of those
100+ hours and the 97 one were in the middle of the night on 20 meters - a band
it is very difficult to run on with low power from Texas. Although I got off to
a good start, going into the second day I still had to have another great day to
break his record. After two hours over 120 Sunday morning I knew there was a
chance. With three hours to go I equaled Jeff's raw score. The last three hours
were pretty slow but hopefully I added enough points to survive the log checking
- I'm sure my score reduction will be bigger than his.
That being said, my hat is still off to N5TJ. His 3830 post talks about noisy
conditions on the low bands the first night and poor conditions to Europe the
second day. The low bands were very quiet both nights here and conditions to
Europe were fantastic both days. Since 1999 the 80 and 40 meter phone bands
have been expanded making a big difference there. The wider use of spotting has
made running much easier for low power stations and equipment has improved
across the board. On top of that my antennas are almost certainly better than
Jeff's back in 1999. Despite all this I may have just barely beaten his
record.
One other interesting note. My 2010 WRTC partner N4TZ and I are always have
amazingly close scores in this contest. This year Terry was not able to put in
a full effort but his Indiana neighbor W9RE entered as low power for a change.
Our scores are very close with Mike edging me out thanks to more multipliers
(again better SO2R skills).
Radios: Tentec Orion, Elecraft K3 �" 100 watts
Antennas:
160m: 42m tower with 6 elevated radials @ 22m
80m: 5 sloping dipole array from 41m tower
Delta Loop on EMS tower top @~210 feet
40m: Moxon @ 42m, Lazy H @ 40m NW-SE (also used on 80)
20m: 4L @ 35m and 24m fixed NE, 204BA @ 17m fixed NW
15M: 6L OWA @ 29m, 6L OWA @ 19m fixed NE
10m: 5L @ 15m fixed NE
10/15/20m: 3L SteppIR @ 41m
4L SteppIR @ 23m
TH3jr @ 13m fixed SE
Beverages: 230m NE, 160m NW & SE
Other: Homebrew SO2R box, TR4W log
Below are some statistics for those interested.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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0000 0 0 0 0 15 60 75 75 3.4
0100 0 0 0 0 13 40 53 128 2.4
0200 0 0 0 32 27 0 59 187 2.7
0300 0 0 50 1 2 0 53 240 2.4
0400 3 7 3 21 6 0 40 280 1.8
0500 0 23 0 14 0 0 37 317 1.7
0600 5 0 0 106 0 0 111 428 5.1
0700 2 5 7 83 0 0 97 525 4.4
0800 1 5 25 5 0 0 36 561 1.6
0900 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 562 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 562 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 562 0.0
1200 0 2 18 10 0 0 30 592 1.4
1300 0 3 0 0 48 29 80 672 3.7
1400 0 0 0 0 0 130 130 802 6.0
1500 0 0 0 0 0 134 134 936 6.1
1600 0 0 0 0 36 28 64 1000 2.9
1700 0 0 0 0 56 1 57 1057 2.6
1800 0 0 0 0 0 39 39 1096 1.8
1900 0 0 0 0 10 24 34 1130 1.6
2000 0 0 0 0 14 22 36 1166 1.6
2100 0 0 0 20 16 2 38 1204 1.7
2200 0 0 0 22 0 38 60 1264 2.7
2300 0 0 0 0 0 43 43 1307 2.0
0000 0 0 0 0 20 13 33 1340 1.5
0100 0 0 0 6 54 0 60 1400 2.7
0200 1 0 16 7 0 0 24 1424 1.1
0300 0 0 0 6 4 0 10 1434 0.5
0400 1 3 0 18 0 0 22 1456 1.0
0500 2 9 13 3 0 0 27 1483 1.2
0600 2 9 21 0 0 0 32 1515 1.5
0700 2 1 21 2 0 0 26 1541 1.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1541 0.0
1100 0 0 3 13 0 0 16 1557 0.7
1200 0 0 29 1 19 0 49 1606 2.2
1300 0 0 0 0 119 0 119 1725 5.5
1400 0 0 0 0 19 24 43 1768 2.0
1500 0 0 0 0 2 121 123 1891 5.6
1600 0 0 0 0 0 76 76 1967 3.5
1700 0 0 0 0 3 60 63 2030 2.9
1800 0 0 0 0 6 28 34 2064 1.6
1900 0 0 0 0 17 5 22 2086 1.0
2000 0 0 0 0 14 4 18 2104 0.8
2100 0 0 0 3 7 10 20 2124 0.9
2200 0 0 0 3 11 4 18 2142 0.8
2300 0 0 0 8 13 0 21 2163 1.0
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Total 19 68 206 384 551 935 2163
Gross QSO's=2183 Dupes=20 Net QSO's=2163
Unique callsigns worked = 1500
The best 60 minute rate was 169/hour from 1437 to 1536
The best 30 minute rate was 176/hour from 1439 to 1508
The best 10 minute rate was 210/hour from 0617 to 0626
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 2 times.
4 QSO's/minute 46 times.
3 QSO's/minute 126 times.
2 QSO's/minute 366 times.
1 QSO's/minute 859 times.
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
VP5H P40L PJ4G HK1NA TI8M PJ2T
V26M 8P5A P40P C6ANA
----- 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 4 8 67 168 247 641
2014 ARRL-DX-SSB N5AW
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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NA calls = 13 22 23 28 40 36 162
SA calls = 5 9 15 29 48 86 192
Euro calls = 1 29 103 234 355 662 1384
African calls = 0 1 3 4 6 8 22
Asian calls = 0 1 2 12 8 7 30
Japan calls = 0 3 53 62 82 127 327
Ocean calls = 0 3 10 19 16 18 66
Total calls = 19 68 209 388 555 944 2183
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