[3830] ARRLDX SSB KH7M(NA2U) SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: KH7M
Operator(s): NA2U
Station: KH7M

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: HI
Operating Time (hrs): 37

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   20    13
   80:  372    49
   40:  757    58
   20: 1132    58
   15: 1120    57
   10: 2360    60
-------------------
Total: 5761   295  Total Score = 5,097,600

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

First, I have to thank my hosts, Max and Kathy, for their splendid hospitality. 
This includes a Spam sandwich on white bread with Dijon mustard for Saturday
lunch! (There's an inside joke about the sandwich) And, Max's station really
ROCKS!!!

I've flown many flights over many years and I have never missed a flight.  The
pilots for my Phoenix to Honolulu flight showed up about 15 minutes after
scheduled take-off time delaying take off by about 45 minutes.  Then we faced
125 MPH head-winds.  Flight attendant said it was the longest flight he had
ever experienced on that route.  I had scheduled a 2-hour lay-over in Honolulu
before my flight to Hilo on the big island.  I missed it.  Got another flight
in half and hour but I was hoping it was not a bad omen for what would be.

I have always preferred CW contests to phone contests.  That is until this one.
 This was my second trip to KH6, the first was CQWW CW last November.  That was
my first single-op DX effort.  I had a great time then but did not experience
the high rates I got on phone.  I didn't know I could talk that fast at all,
let alone for so many hours.  It didn't get to look at the N1MM rates often but
at one point it was 437 or 473 for the last 10 Qs!  This was personal high for
me in any contest:  first time at rates this high, first time over 1K Qs on
three bands, first time over 2K Qs on any band, first time over 5 Meg.  It
almost leaves me breathless thinking about it.

When I broke for sleep at about 1220 UTC Saturday my voice was still strong. 
When I took time to scarf down my dinner around 0400 UTC Sunday my voice was
still strong.  But not long after dinner my voice started to crack and steadily
declined until I decided to take my sleep break an hour early around 1100 UTC. 
At that point I needed to rest my voice almost as much as I needed sleep, 
although I would have stayed in the chair a while longer if I could have
talked.  As soon as I woke up the first thing I did was speak out-loud to see
if I had any voice left.  It was there but not really strong.  I hadn't been
using my "outside voice" or even my usual aggressive phone-contesting
voice but with as much talking as I had already done I needed to tone it down. 
Fortunately, the rig has great audio so I adjusted it so I needed little effort
to get adequate ALC level.  This saved me and my voice actually got a little
stronger as the day progressed.  At least I had recorded CQ and call sign
messages to use!

At the high rates I was trying to ID every 3 or 4 Qs, sometimes more often. 
IDing after every Q is out of the question at rates like that.  To all who
found they couldn't wait for me to ID:  Move on if you can't wait a few
seconds.

At one point I all of a sudden started getting a string of dupes.  It turned
out that at some point I was spotted as KH6M by mistake.  Then when I was
spotted as KH7M some stations already worked came back again.  Not a problem
for me because I work all the dupes, but....

Many have already commented on low band (or top band, depending on your point
of view) conditions.  I was equally surprised.  Lots of CQing at the top of
hours.  Worked stations I could hear except for K3LR who was very strong but
couldn't copy me calling them or when they called me after I was spotted.  Yet,
a station from Nova Scotia answered my CQ nearly blowing me out of the chair.  I
don't what happened to everyone between me and NS.  The 160m setup was good but
conditions were not.  This is where I failed to get enough mults for sure.

My initial goal was 5,000 Qs.  Late Sunday I began thinking that I might
actually make 6,000.  Close but no cigar.  I did not know what to expect
mult-wise but my flexible goal became 300.  I almost made it.  Rates like this
were never in my wildest dreams.  I couldn't do this with my tower and yagis
back in NJ and it's not even on the radar with my ground-mounted screwdriver in
my HOA  
home it AZ.

Thanks to all I worked.  It was a really a hoot working guys I know from the DX
side.  

Thanks again, Max!

Let's contest!!!

73 and aloha,

Fred/NA2U at KH7M


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

CALLSIGN: KH7M
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: NA2U

-------------- 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      0      0      0    224      0    224    224    3.9
0100       0      0      0      0    261      0    261    485    8.4
0200       0      0      0    138      0      0    138    623   10.8
0300       0      0      2    208      0      0    210    833   14.5
0400       0      0     22    159      0      0    181   1014   17.6
0500       0      0      0    198      0      0    198   1212   21.0
0600       2    108      2      0      0      0    112   1324   23.0
0700       0     59     61      0      0      0    120   1444   25.1
0800       0      0    151      0      0      0    151   1595   27.7
0900       0      0     90      0      0      0     90   1685   29.2
1000       1     47      0      0      0      0     48   1733   30.1
1100       2     12      0      0      0      0     14   1747   30.3
1200       0     10      1      0      0      0     11   1758   30.5
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1758   30.5
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1758   30.5
1500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1758   30.5
1600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1758   30.5
1700       0      0      0      0      8    102    110   1868   32.4
1800       0      0      0      0      0    250    250   2118   36.8
1900       0      0      0      0      0    262    262   2380   41.3
2000       0      0      0      0      0    232    232   2612   45.3
2100       0      0      0      0      0    241    241   2853   49.5
2200       0      0      0      0     45     69    114   2967   51.5
2300       0      0      0      0      0    198    198   3165   54.9
0000       0      0      0      0    163     11    174   3339   58.0
0100       0      0      0     18    158      0    176   3515   61.0
0200       0      0      0    217      0      0    217   3732   64.8
0300       0      0      0    194      0      0    194   3926   68.1
0400       0      2     73      0      0      0     75   4001   69.4
0500       0      4    143      0      0      0    147   4148   72.0
0600       0      0    151      0      0      0    151   4299   74.6
0700       0     54     59      0      0      0    113   4412   76.6
0800       7     39      0      0      0      0     46   4458   77.4
0900       8      0      0      0      0      0      8   4466   77.5
1000       0     37      0      0      0      0     37   4503   78.2
1100       0      0      2      0      0      0      2   4505   78.2
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   4505   78.2
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   4505   78.2
1400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   4505   78.2
1500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   4505   78.2
1600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   4505   78.2
1700       0      0      0      0     80      0     80   4585   79.6
1800       0      0      0      0      3    203    206   4791   83.2
1900       0      0      0      0      0    234    234   5025   87.2
2000       0      0      0      0      0    225    225   5250   91.1
2100       0      0      0      0     28    112    140   5390   93.6
2200       0      0      0      0    150     28    178   5568   96.6
2300       0      0      0      0      0    193    193   5761  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     20    372    757   1132   1120   2360   5761

Gross QSOs=5872        Dupes=111        Net QSOs=5761

Unique callsigns worked = 3856

The best 60 minute rate was 289/hour from 0041 to 0140
The best 30 minute rate was 306/hour from 0047 to 0116
The best 10 minute rate was 330/hour from 0048 to 0057

The best 1 minute rates were:
 8 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 7 QSOs/minute   23 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   99 times.
 5 QSOs/minute  287 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  394 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  379 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  285 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  272 times.

There were 28 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) 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     20    371    757   1132   1120   2360   5760  100.0
South America      0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0
Europe             0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0
Asia               0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0
Africa             0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0
Oceania            0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total             20    372    757   1132   1120   2360   5761

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         1
   4      2185
   5      2341
   6      1215
   7         6
   8         9
   9         4

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
K               19    360    730   1063   1070   2222   5464   94.8
KG4              0      0      1      2      1      3      7    0.1
VE               1     11     26     67     49    135    289    5.0
ZL               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total           20    372    757   1132   1120   2360   5761

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
K         19    360    730   1063   1070   2222   5464   94.8
VE         1     11     26     67     49    135    289    5.0
KG4        0      0      1      2      1      3      7    0.1
ZL         0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     20    372    757   1132   1120   2360   5761

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    2712
2 bands     657
3 bands     288
4 bands     134
5 bands      55
6 bands      10

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

W2PV        W3LPL       W1TJL       W4RM        W6DR        W6WB        
N0IJ        N5DO        N6AA        N6RO        

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      4    106    303    455    405   1439


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