[3830] CQWW CW 3B9HA(G0CKV) SOAB HP
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Fri Dec 4 13:42:18 EST 2015
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
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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
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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
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TOTAL 3623 158 456 60 10717 2.96
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TOTAL SCORE : 6 580 238
Operators : G0CKV
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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
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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
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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
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QSOs 10 30 176 440 600 711
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