[3830] CQWW CW 3B9HA(G0CKV) SOAB HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: 3B9HA
Operator(s): G0CKV
Station: 3B9HA

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Rodrigues
Operating Time (hrs): 38

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   18     9       16
   80:   89    19       50
   40:  429    31       83
   20:  805    39      102
   15: 1128    31      107
   10: 1154    29       98
------------------------------
Total: 3623   158      456  Total Score = 6,580,238

Club: Wey Valley Amateur Radio Group

Comments:

My XYL is in charge of our annual family holiday and she has taken us to 3B8 in
November for many years. Last year I negotiated a slight amendment to our
regular approach: I brought a radio and operated from our hotel as 3B8HA. That
was not successful. Noise level was awful and serious radio play is not
compatible with serious family holiday play. As my XYL returned to UK and work
I stayed on however and made a side trip to Rodrigues as 3B9HA and that was
good radio fun and also very interesting beyond radio. As I returned to 3B8
from Rodrigues a group of friends joined up and we did CQWWCW M/M in 2014 as
3B8MU from a beach house - that was also great fun.

This year I also brought radio gear but didn't bother to operate from 3B8
instead taking off alone to 3B9 after our holiday. You reach 3B9 with a 1 1/2
hour 600 km flight from Mauritius. The route is served with small turboprop
aircraft and there is a 5kg hand luggage and 15kg checked luggage limit. With a
bit of luck and plane load permitting you can check more luggage at cost. The
delta cost for this radio adventure is then some 100+ GBP for the flight plus
as much again for the radio luggage (ski box with grp poles, further case with
7mm coax, SPE 1K3 amp and such). While Mauritius is a deservedly popular
tourist destination with associated price level I stay in a simple guest house
in Rodrigues that sets me back 25 GBP per day with decent accommodation and
breakfast and a superb evening meal included. Included is also a great view
looking out over the lagoon west to east through north and a beautiful sunset
beyond Isle Coco.

My plan was to do a bit of DX-peditioning and then CQWWCW. I brought one 18m
and two 10m spiderbeam poles, parallel dipoles for 40/20, dipoles for 10 and 15
and an inverted L for 80/160, a remotely switched tuner for the inverted L,
4x30m lengths of 7mm coax, a K3 and an SPE 1.3K amp. I was going to be a few
hundred meters away from the sea so it was inverted V dipoles this year and not
the VDAs we used at 3B8MU.

There is a theory that being active keeps you young. Reality is that running
around alone setting up all these poles and wires and guys in 30 degree heat in
challenging terrain rather makes me feel old. There are some 25 lines involved
and some 50 bowline knots and it all had to be reengineered when I found out
that free-roaming goats were chewing on my guys unless they were out of reach
and those goats have a wide reach.

I brought a roll of thin pretty bright yellow wire to use for radials for
80/160. I did some 40 of them. Then it turned out that those cunning goats were
not only kicking and dragging the radials around but also chewing on them. I had
to redo the radials a couple of times per day. This drew the attention of some
of the other guests and locals. Rodrigues is francophone and most visitors come
from Reunion or Mauritius with a few from France. My french is good enough to
order a beer or two but not to explain why goats are a problem for radials in a
radio competition. My fellow guest house residents were clearly left with the
impression that the competion was between me and the goats and that the goats
were winning. I don't think they understood where radio came into the picture.

I had another animal problem. I had made up and brought the components to lay
out a bog for 160/80 towards EU/US (same direction from 3B9) but the area I had
planned to use was occupied by young bulls so I abandoned that project.

I did miserably as a DX-peditioner - only a few hundred qsos per day. There
were too many other distractions and too much human interest stuff this year.
And then I spent time helping Robert 3B9FR with little things including getting
him on to computer logging. 

No complaints about frequency fights. They are a waste of time and temper -
with the help of RBN I just move on with a smile. 

There is an issue with the DX cluster however. RBN spots are democratic and
dispersed and RBN pileups even on a likely double mult like 3B9/z39 are
normally manageable. Get a cluster spot however and all hell breaks loose with
incompetent DX-ers that 1) all call exactly on the spot fq they clicked on and
2) call incessantly without listening. The effect of that is dramatic - the
rate drops from say 3-4 qso per minute to less than one. To avoid falling into
a deep depression about the state of mind of those guys I then tend to move on.
In a non-contest environment you can try to deal with that by going split but I
don't like to do that in a contest.

I find pileups rather boring after a while and that hurts me in contests where
sticking with a good pileup helps your score big way. I like to tune around
chasing multipliers and another little pleasure I have when operating from a DX
location is responding to the unsuspecting station calling cq. That is clearly
not a winning contest strategy but it gives me a kick.

I had the benefit of the 3B8MU experience and log from 2014. Last year we had 4
radios and 5 operators in M/M so I set a target of 1/3 the number of qsos and
3/4 of the multipliers and I met that with some small margin in spite of the
shorter openings. Highlights were W3LPL and K3LR responding to my calls on 160
as if I was a local.

This is not a world-winning score but being so far away from the population
centres the average QSO distance was 11300km. I have been fortunate enough to
occasionally operate from big stations and that has been great fun. But doing
OK with simple kit like these poles and wires adds another dimension.
Experiencing propagation from new places around the world is also fun.
Conditions were down somewhat but not dramatically on last year - HF openings
were shorter this year and they are of course likely going to be even shorter
next year.

All great fun - thanks for the QSOs.

73 Olof G0CKV SM5CKV W6CKV

Contest         : CQ World Wide DX Contest
Callsign        : 3B9HA
Mode            : CW
Category        : Single Operator (SO)
Band(s)         : All bands (AB)
Class           : High Power (HP)
Zone/State/...  : 39
Operating time  : 37h54

 BAND   QSO  CQ DXC DUP  POINTS   AVG 
--------------------------------------
  160    18   9  16   0      51  2.83 
   80    89  19  50   2     251  2.82 
   40   429  31  83   7    1263  2.94 
   20   805  39 102  14    2378  2.95 
   15  1128  31 107  10    3353  2.97 
   10  1154  29  98  27    3421  2.96 
--------------------------------------
TOTAL  3623 158 456  60   10717  2.96 
======================================
       TOTAL SCORE : 6 580 238

Operators       : G0CKV

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

CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CALLSIGN: 3B9HA
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: G0CKV

-------------- 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     18     38     23      0      0     79     79    2.2
0100       0      1      0    130      0      0    131    210    5.8
0200       0      0     64     13      0      0     77    287    7.9
0300       0      0      0     96      0      0     96    383   10.6
0400       0      0      0      3    121      0    124    507   14.0
0500       0      0      0      5     95      8    108    615   17.0
0600       0      0      0      0     72     63    135    750   20.7
0700       0      0      0      0      0    153    153    903   24.9
0800       0      0      0      0      0     91     91    994   27.4
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    994   27.4
1000       0      0      0      0      0      7      7   1001   27.6
1100       0      0      0      0      3    122    125   1126   31.1
1200       1      1      3      1     97      1    104   1230   34.0
1300       0      0      3      2      1     93     99   1329   36.7
1400       0      0      1      0      0    109    110   1439   39.7
1500       0      0      0      0     48     67    115   1554   42.9
1600       0      0      0      0     73     11     84   1638   45.2
1700       0      0      0      0    129      0    129   1767   48.8
1800       1      2      0     13     37      0     53   1820   50.2
1900       0      1     29     52      1      0     83   1903   52.5
2000       1     25      0      9      2      0     37   1940   53.6
2100       5     13     41      1      0      0     60   2000   55.2
2200       4      9     31      0      0      0     44   2044   56.4
2300       2      0      0     86      0      0     88   2132   58.9
0000       2     13      7      1      0      0     23   2155   59.5
0100       0      3     69      8      0      0     80   2235   61.7
0200       0      0      0     84     16      0    100   2335   64.5
0300       0      0      0     34     36      0     70   2405   66.4
0400       0      0      0     29      2     36     67   2472   68.2
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2472   68.2
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2472   68.2
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2472   68.2
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2472   68.2
0900       0      0      0      0      0     86     86   2558   70.6
1000       0      0      0      1      1    100    102   2660   73.4
1100       0      0      0      1    109      0    110   2770   76.5
1200       0      0      0      0     69     40    109   2879   79.5
1300       0      0     27      0      1     30     58   2937   81.1
1400       0      0      6      0      0     93     99   3036   83.8
1500       0      1      0      0      6     44     51   3087   85.2
1600       0      0      0      3     67      1     71   3158   87.2
1700       0      0      0      0    137      0    137   3295   91.0
1800       0      2     14     23      0      0     39   3334   92.0
1900       0      0     47     17      1      0     65   3399   93.8
2000       0      0      0     87      4      0     91   3490   96.4
2100       2      0     17     26      0      0     45   3535   97.6
2200       0      0      6     57      0      0     63   3598   99.3
2300       0      0     24      0      0      0     24   3622  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     18     89    427    805   1128   1155   3622

Gross QSOs=3682        Dupes=60        Net QSOs=3622

Unique callsigns worked = 2592

The best 60 minute rate was 162/hour from 0710 to 0809
The best 30 minute rate was 166/hour from 0713 to 0742
The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 0500 to 0509

The best 1 minute rates were:
 5 QSOs/minute    2 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   59 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  464 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  714 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  556 times.

There were 94 bandchanges.

----------------- 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      2     14    116    512    415    195   1254   34.6
South America      0      0      4     25     12      8     49    1.4
Europe            12     47    231    146    474    809   1719   47.5
Asia               3     21     54     87    188    115    468   12.9
Africa             1      6     11     18     15     21     72    2.0
Oceania            0      1     11     17     24      7     60    1.7
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total             18     89    427    805   1128   1155   3622

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        41
   4      1648
   5      1233
   6       679
   7         4
   8        14
  10         2

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8              0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
3B9              1      1      1      1      1      1      8    0.2
3D2              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
3V               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
3W               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
4J               1      1      2      1      0      0      5    0.1
4L               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
4O               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
4S               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
4X               0      0      0      4      5     11     20    0.6
5B               0      2      1      3      2      3     11    0.3
5H               0      0      1      1      0      1      3    0.1
5R               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
6W               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.1
8P               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
8Q               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
9A               0      1      7      2      9     14     33    0.9
9H               0      1      0      0      1      1      3    0.1
9J               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
9K               0      1      0      1      0      0      2    0.1
9M2              0      0      2      2      1      1      6    0.2
9M6              0      0      1      0      3      2      6    0.2
9V               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
9X               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
A4               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
A6               0      1      1      2      2      3      9    0.2
A7               0      0      1      0      1      2      4    0.1
A9               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
BV               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
BY               0      0      5      1      6      7     19    0.5
C6               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
CE               0      0      0      4      0      0      4    0.1
CM               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
CN               0      1      1      2      1      1      6    0.2
CT               0      0      0      1      1      3      5    0.1
CT3              0      0      0      1      3      2      6    0.2
CU               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CX               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
D4               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
DL               1      1     26     11     53    136    228    6.3
DU               0      0      1      2      0      1      4    0.1
E7               0      1      1      2      2      4     10    0.3
EA               1      3      6      5     14     28     57    1.6
EA6              0      0      0      1      0      2      3    0.1
EA8              0      1      3      5      3      5     17    0.5
EA9              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
EI               0      1      2      1      3      9     16    0.4
EK               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
ER               0      0      2      0      3      3      8    0.2
ES               1      1      1      3      4      2     12    0.3
EU               0      1      4      1      7     10     23    0.6
EX               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
EY               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
F                0      2      4      2     12     33     53    1.5
FG               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
FM               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
FR               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
FY               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
G                0      1     13      3     22     57     96    2.7
GD               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
GI               0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.1
GJ               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
GM               0      1      1      0      1      3      6    0.2
*GM/s            0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
GU               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
GW               0      0      1      0      0      5      6    0.2
HA               0      1      5      5     13     13     37    1.0
HB               0      1      1      0      7      9     18    0.5
HI               0      0      0      1      3      2      6    0.2
HK               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
HL               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
HR               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HS               0      1      2      6      4      3     16    0.4
HZ               0      0      1      2      3      2      8    0.2
I                0      2      9      3      8     43     65    1.8
*IT9             0      1      2      2      2      8     15    0.4
J3               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
J6               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
JA               0      5     13     17     91     35    161    4.4
JT               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
JW               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
JY               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
K                2     13    107    465    374    180   1141   31.5
KH0              0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
KH2              0      0      0      1      2      1      4    0.1
KH6              0      0      1      2      4      1      8    0.2
KL               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
KP2              0      0      0      2      2      0      4    0.1
KP4              0      0      1      0      3      1      5    0.1
LA               0      0      0      2      3     10     15    0.4
LU               0      0      1      4      2      0      7    0.2
LX               0      1      1      0      1      2      5    0.1
LY               1      1      3      2      6      8     21    0.6
LZ               0      1      4      4     12     18     39    1.1
OE               0      0      5      0      5      5     15    0.4
OH               1      2      4      4     10     16     37    1.0
OH0              0      0      1      1      2      1      5    0.1
OK               1      1     10      2     19     24     57    1.6
OM               0      2      2      4      5      5     18    0.5
ON               0      1      2      1      4      8     16    0.4
OX               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
OZ               1      0      1      1      3      3      9    0.2
P4               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
PA               0      0      4      0     11     24     39    1.1
PJ2              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
PJ4              0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
PY               0      0      2      7      4      4     17    0.5
PZ               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
S5               1      2     13      2     12     17     47    1.3
S9               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.1
SM               1      2      3      2     12     11     31    0.9
SP               0      1     15      3     31     29     79    2.2
SU               0      0      1      1      0      1      3    0.1
SV               0      1      1      2      2      7     13    0.4
SV9              0      0      1      0      1      2      4    0.1
TA               0      1      2      0      1      1      5    0.1
*TA1             0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
TF               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.1
TK               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.1
UA               1      8     41     43     93    138    324    8.9
UA2              0      1      1      0      2      3      7    0.2
UA9              2      5     14     27     53     31    132    3.6
UK               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
UN               0      2      2     10      8      4     26    0.7
UR               1      2     16     22     48     56    145    4.0
V2               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
V3               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
VE               0      1      8     28     22     10     69    1.9
VK               0      1      3      4      5      0     13    0.4
VP2E             0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
VP2V             0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
VP9              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
VR               0      0      1      1      1      2      5    0.1
VU               0      1      3      2      3      3     12    0.3
XE               0      0      0      4      1      0      5    0.1
YB               0      0      2      4      8      2     16    0.4
YL               0      0      1      0      7      3     11    0.3
YO               1      0      4      1     15     14     35    1.0
YU               0      2     10      4      4     12     32    0.9
YV               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
Z3               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.1
ZA               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
ZD8              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
ZF               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
ZL               0      0      1      3      1      0      5    0.1
ZS               0      1      0      2      1      3      7    0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total           18     89    427    805   1128   1155   3622

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
05         2     11     66    230    241    130    680   18.8
14         4     14     66     31    148    350    613   16.9
15         5     20     92     40    146    209    512   14.1
16         2     11     62     66    154    208    503   13.9
04         0      3     43    211    139     60    456   12.6
25         0      5     13     17     92     35    162    4.5
20         1      5     13     15     38     57    129    3.6
17         1      5     10     28     31     20     95    2.6
03         0      0      6     52     16      0     74    2.0
18         1      1      6     10     26     14     58    1.6
21         1      3      6      9      7      8     34    0.9
08         0      0      1     11     17      4     33    0.9
33         0      2      5      9      7      8     31    0.9
28         0      0      5      6     12      6     29    0.8
24         0      0      7      1      7      8     23    0.6
26         0      1      3      7      5      4     20    0.6
22         0      2      4      3      5      5     19    0.5
09         0      0      1      8      6      4     19    0.5
11         0      0      2      7      4      4     17    0.5
27         0      0      2      4      3      2     11    0.3
39         1      2      2      2      2      2     11    0.3
35         0      1      1      2      2      3      9    0.2
13         0      0      1      6      2      0      9    0.2
31         0      0      1      2      4      1      8    0.2
36         0      0      1      1      3      3      8    0.2
30         0      0      1      1      5      0      7    0.2
38         0      1      0      2      1      3      7    0.2
29         0      1      2      3      0      0      6    0.2
32         0      0      2      3      1      0      6    0.2
19         0      1      1      1      2      1      6    0.2
06         0      0      0      4      1      0      5    0.1
12         0      0      0      4      0      0      4    0.1
40         0      0      0      2      0      2      4    0.1
37         0      0      1      1      0      1      3    0.1
23         0      0      0      1      0      2      3    0.1
34         0      0      1      1      0      1      3    0.1
07         0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.1
01         0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.1
02         0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     18     89    427    805   1128   1155   3622

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    1967
2 bands     370
3 bands     144
4 bands      76
5 bands      31
6 bands       4

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

W3LPL       K3LR        ES9C        ED1R        3B9FR       

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs     10     30    176    440    600    711


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