[3830] ARRLDX SSB KH7M(NA2U) SOAB HP
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Tue Mar 4 22:59:31 EST 2014
ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: KH7M
Operator(s): NA2U
Station: KH7M
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: HI
Operating Time (hrs): 37
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 20 13
80: 372 49
40: 757 58
20: 1132 58
15: 1120 57
10: 2360 60
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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
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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
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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
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QSOs 4 106 303 455 405 1439
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