[3830] CQ WW RTTY P49X(W0YK) SOAB LP
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Mon Oct 1 13:37:07 EDT 2018
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 36:03
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 352 44 48 15
40: 765 51 66 21
20: 1055 55 59 22
15: 623 52 47 18
10: 42 13 8 7
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Total: 2837 215 228 83 Total Score = 4,447,856
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
It was a lot of fun operating the WW again and I look forward to the CW and SSB
events coming up. That we are at the bottom of the current solar cycle was
abundantly clear this weekend. I amplified that fact by choosing to operate
with 100 watts! Now, I know what the LP entrants deal with. I can’t imagine
operating QRP; my hat is off to those stalwart folks.
Knowing that propagation would be poor and the difficulty I have being
physically effective for 48 straight hours, I opted to get a few hours sleep
each night. This was a trade-off to make the operating hours more pleasant, not
having to fight extreme fatigue and drowsiness. I also considered either a 40
meter single-band or the Classic overlay. But, each of these would be SO1R and
that wasn’t too interesting to me, especially on the RTTY mode.
The Low Power decision came earlier in the week when I had consistent high
inter-station RFI between 20-10, 40-20 and 80-40. The lower band transmission
raised the noise floor on the 2x higher band several S-units to the point of
making copy of all but the very strongest signals impossible. Sometimes this
noise instantly disappears, but I didn’t want to risk the entire weekend’s
operating being relegated to a single radio. This is some kind of non-linearity
external to the station so filters and stubs have no effect. It is actual
re-radiated RF coming in the antenna port.
Plus, I was curious what a Low Power effort would be like. Unless my operating
this weekend was extremely failed, though, I think we need better propagation
and 10 meters before the LP record of 2001 can be challenged.
Despite enjoying the operating as always, the score is, by far, my lowest ever
in this contest. I only managed to average 79 QSOs/hour compared to typically
130-140. And the high-rate hours were far below what I usually experience. I
wonder if this is more related to lower overall activity than band conditions or
my 100-watt transmitters.
I was struck with how low the total QSO count is. The final score was lowered
significantly more due to far lower mults of all three types. Of course, a lack
of 10 meters was a key factor but even on 20 and 40, I thought the mults should
have been higher. Though 40 meters seemed to perform well, I still had much
less QSOs than I expected.
There were excellent 10-meter openings, albeit short, late afternoon both days
that unfortunately very few people participated in. From here, signals were
strong all the way from Texas up to Ontario and all points east. We just needed
many more stations to be there. Interestingly, 15 meters was almost dead during
the 10-meter openings.
Low-band noise was higher on Saturday here than on Sunday. Still, the signal
strengths on 40 and 80 were substantial enough for mostly good copy. I was
impressed with how well 100 watts did on 40 and 80, though it clearly would have
been easier with 1500. At times, there were S9+20 signals on the open band(s)
and it occurred on both EU and NA signals. On Sunday there were a few periods
of only about a minute each when some local man-made noise was switched on and
literally rendered all high bands, 10-20, unusable. We’ve had this for
extended periods in the past and I’m glad it was short-lived this time.
There were far few Jas and only on 20 meters for me. On the other hand, the YBs
were out in force this weekend, but I had great difficulty getting them to hear
me. While they were reasonably strong for me, I’m sure the EUs and other
areas they were running had much stronger signals than mine. 1500 watts would
have solved that as would have turning an antenna in their direction.
DC was added as a mult in this year’s rules, distinct from MD, but I didn’t
encounter one until late Sunday. It was fun to work that new mult for the first
time in the contest.
Other than the horrendous interstation RFI, the station played well. The East
US Beverage was dead and I haven’t had time to troubleshoot. Late Friday
night shortly before I was about to take a break due to low rates, one of the
Rttyrite instances in the right-side WriteLog crashed and the right-side PC lost
connection with the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Frenzied troubleshooting
could not revive the Bluetooth devices so I installed USB devices and operated
the rest of the contest.
Thanks to all the stations who moved to my other active band. Rates were so
slow that I did a lot of moves that weren’t a new mult, but one more QSO in
the log! Despite only 42 QSOs on 10 meters, 15 stations worked me on 5 bands.
And, thanks as always to John W6LD/P40L and Andy AE6Y/P49Y for sharing this fun
station.
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Rigs: Elecraft K3s (2), with P3s (2)
Amps: Alpha 86, Alpha 91B
Logging software: WriteLog 11.33b on three networked PCs, one for each SO2R
radio and one master as backup.
Tower 1: 4 elements 20 meter at 68 feet; 2 elements 40 meter at 76 feet; 1
element 80 meter Sigma 80 at 64 feet; 160 meter "Double L" vertical at
67 feet
Tower 2: 2 (yes, two!) elements on 10 meter interlaced with 5 elements on 15
meter at 55 feet
Tower 3: C31XR at 43 feet
RX antennas: four 400-500 foot beverages using K9AY switching box/preamp
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WW-RTTY
OPERATORS: W0YK
--> 4U1A has an unknown country prefix.
[Note: This valid Vienna entity was not in the older cty.dat file
I used to run this analysis.]
-------------- 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 3 69 24 0 0 96 96 3.4
0100 0 36 60 0 0 0 96 192 6.8
0200 0 31 48 0 0 0 79 271 9.6
0300 0 47 88 0 0 0 135 406 14.3
0400 0 27 33 0 0 0 60 466 16.4
0500 0 36 32 0 0 0 68 534 18.8
0600 0 19 1 0 0 0 20 554 19.5
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 554 19.5
0800 0 7 11 0 0 0 18 572 20.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 572 20.2
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 572 20.2
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 572 20.2
1200 0 0 0 12 17 0 29 601 21.2
1300 0 0 0 70 68 0 138 739 26.0
1400 0 0 0 50 78 0 128 867 30.6
1500 0 0 0 37 28 0 65 932 32.9
1600 0 0 0 54 6 0 60 992 35.0
1700 0 0 0 70 20 0 90 1082 38.1
1800 0 0 0 28 14 2 44 1126 39.7
1900 0 0 0 58 27 7 92 1218 42.9
2000 0 0 0 90 65 0 155 1373 48.4
2100 0 0 0 48 28 21 97 1470 51.8
2200 0 0 38 73 6 0 117 1587 55.9
2300 0 0 47 62 0 0 109 1696 59.8
0000 0 16 43 12 0 0 71 1767 62.3
0100 0 22 59 0 0 0 81 1848 65.1
0200 0 37 57 0 0 0 94 1942 68.5
0300 0 25 68 0 0 0 93 2035 71.7
0400 0 37 41 0 0 0 78 2113 74.5
0500 0 8 10 0 0 0 18 2131 75.1
0600 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 2134 75.2
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2134 75.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2134 75.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2134 75.2
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2134 75.2
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2134 75.2
1200 0 0 0 23 2 0 25 2159 76.1
1300 0 0 0 15 23 0 38 2197 77.4
1400 0 0 0 23 26 0 49 2246 79.2
1500 0 0 0 19 19 0 38 2284 80.5
1600 0 0 0 21 49 0 70 2354 83.0
1700 0 0 0 19 52 0 71 2425 85.5
1800 0 0 0 33 25 0 58 2483 87.5
1900 0 0 0 39 36 0 75 2558 90.2
2000 0 0 0 60 31 0 91 2649 93.4
2100 0 0 1 25 3 11 40 2689 94.8
2200 0 0 22 55 0 1 78 2767 97.5
2300 0 0 35 35 0 0 70 2837 100.0
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Total 0 352 765 1055 623 42 2837
Gross QSOs=2900 Dupes=63 Net QSOs=2837
Unique callsigns worked = 1621
The best 60 minute rate was 162/hour from 2003 to 2102
The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 1945 to 2014
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 2005 to 2014
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 2 times.
5 QSOs/minute 10 times.
4 QSOs/minute 79 times.
3 QSOs/minute 226 times.
2 QSOs/minute 508 times.
1 QSOs/minute 765 times.
There were 1393 bandchanges and 802 (28.3%) 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 0 244 498 792 504 29 2067 72.9
South America 0 3 10 8 20 13 54 1.9
Europe 0 96 242 237 92 0 667 23.5
Asia 0 4 6 15 1 0 26 0.9
Africa 0 4 4 2 4 0 14 0.5
Oceania 0 1 5 1 2 0 9 0.3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 352 765 1055 623 42 2837
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 13
4 1261
5 1075
6 469
7 5
8 12
9 2
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
4J 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
4O 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
4X 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
5B 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
9A 0 3 3 5 3 0 14 0.5
A4 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
C3 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
CE 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.2
CM 0 4 8 9 6 0 27 1.0
CT 0 2 1 1 1 0 5 0.2
CT3 0 2 1 1 2 0 6 0.2
CX 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0.1
DL 0 16 40 54 18 0 128 4.5
E7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
EA 0 5 5 3 2 0 15 0.5
EA8 0 2 3 1 2 0 8 0.3
EI 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1
ER 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
ES 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
EU 0 2 5 4 0 0 11 0.4
F 0 6 9 7 11 0 33 1.2
G 0 1 13 10 8 0 32 1.1
GI 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
GM 0 1 3 3 3 0 10 0.4
GW 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HA 0 5 7 4 2 0 18 0.6
HB 0 1 2 3 1 0 7 0.2
HB0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HC 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
HI 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
HK 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
HP 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
HZ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
I 0 6 24 23 14 0 67 2.4
IS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
*IT9 0 3 4 4 3 0 14 0.5
J3 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1
JA 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 0.3
K 0 219 440 717 449 27 1852 65.3
KG4 0 1 2 1 2 0 6 0.2
KH6 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.2
KL 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
KP2 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.2
KP4 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.2
LA 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
LU 0 0 4 2 5 6 17 0.6
LX 0 2 2 2 1 0 7 0.2
LY 0 2 4 3 3 0 12 0.4
LZ 0 1 6 4 2 0 13 0.5
OE 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.2
OH 0 2 4 10 0 0 16 0.6
OK 0 7 9 6 1 0 23 0.8
OM 0 3 5 3 1 0 12 0.4
ON 0 0 4 5 0 0 9 0.3
OZ 0 3 1 4 0 0 8 0.3
P4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
PA 0 4 9 14 2 0 29 1.0
PY 0 0 1 3 9 3 16 0.6
PZ 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
S5 0 4 9 6 3 0 22 0.8
SM 0 1 0 4 1 0 6 0.2
SP 0 8 18 12 3 0 41 1.4
SV 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.1
TA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TG 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
TK 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
UA 0 1 16 6 0 0 23 0.8
UA9 0 2 1 7 0 0 10 0.4
UR 0 3 18 18 1 0 40 1.4
V3 0 2 1 1 1 0 5 0.2
VE 0 12 39 54 37 2 144 5.1
VP2V 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
XE 0 1 2 3 6 0 12 0.4
YB 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
YL 0 1 2 3 0 0 6 0.2
YO 0 0 5 2 2 0 9 0.3
YU 0 1 3 2 1 0 7 0.2
YV 0 2 2 0 0 1 5 0.2
ZL 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
??? 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 352 765 1055 623 42 2837
------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
04 0 86 220 319 212 9 846 29.8
05 0 116 186 287 226 19 834 29.4
03 0 30 75 164 48 1 318 11.2
14 0 43 92 115 48 0 298 10.5
15 0 46 96 86 38 0 266 9.4
16 0 7 41 29 1 0 78 2.7
08 0 9 13 15 8 0 45 1.6
20 0 2 15 7 6 0 30 1.1
13 0 0 4 2 8 7 21 0.7
11 0 1 1 3 9 3 17 0.6
33 0 4 4 2 4 0 14 0.5
06 0 1 2 3 6 0 12 0.4
09 0 3 3 0 2 2 10 0.4
07 0 2 2 2 2 0 8 0.3
25 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 0.3
12 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.2
21 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.1
31 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.1
19 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1
18 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.1
32 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
10 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
02 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
01 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
28 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
45 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
81 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
17 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 0 352 765 1055 623 42 2837
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 915
2 bands 361
3 bands 195
4 bands 135
5 bands 15
6 bands 0
------- 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 0 79 261 430 137 8
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