[3830] ARRL 10 K5TR SO SSB HP

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                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2020

Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR

Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW:           
  SSB: 1913    78
-------------------
Total: 1913    78  Total Score = 298,428

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

I started building my station at this location in 2001 and WM5R has
operated every 10 meter contest from here since 2019 with the
exception of one year.  That year no one did 10 meters from this
station.  Since he was to coming to the station this year I decided to
get on and give the contest a go.  I have not done the ARRL 10 meter
contest since before 2001. It was always one of my favorite contests
and I have done well in the SSB only category from a number of
different locations over the years.  The first contest I ever entered
was the 1977 ARRL 10 meter contest.  I entered as WB5VZL/T as an all
CW entry as a tech (we did not have phone on 10m in 1977).  I made 22
contacts.  My station was a Kenwood TS-520 to an indoor dipole strung
down the hall of our ground floor apartment.  I then did some multiops
from various stations including mine in Temple when I finally got a
beam up.  These were with WD5BIK(sk) and KE5C. In the 1980s and early
1990s I did the contest from the N5AU station in Rockwall Texas. And I
did well with the step up in antennas.  When W5KFT and I put up some
antennas on his family ranch in 1993 I started doing the contest from
that station and also did well. Sometimes conditions are world wide
and other times it is like doing a VHF contest and a few years we were
lucky to manage 400 contacts for 36 hours of CQing on the band.

This year I was expecting more of a VHF contest - and that is pretty
much what it was but Friday night was very different than any other
10m contest I can recall - even in all the years that WM5R was coming
here.  Normally Friday night you get an hour or two of propagation and
then the rate falls off and you work some locals and go to sleep even
at the peak of the sunspot cycle.  What you hope for is some Eskip so
that you can get some contacts in the log on Friday to add to the rest
of the weekend and maybe you will get some Eskip that others miss
because the band dies and then an hour later it is open for 2 or 3
hours of good Eskip.  The best I can recall is having 300-400 contacts
on Friday night.  400 would be a really good start to the contest and
you would be very happy.  This past weekend was the best start ever.
The band was not very good at the start and I was not getting much in
the way of answers - and was even doing some S&P to try to work folks
but then it started to open with a bit of Eskip and then it got better
and better and it was still open to places past midnight local time.
I think I ran out of folks to work before the band died.  When I went
to bed on Friday night / Saturday morning I had a bit over 950
contacts in the log and I had worked all the US states except for AK
HI MT and WA.  I never did hear or work AK or HI but did pick up MT
and WA over the weekend.  The rate was crazy good with two hours over
200/hr.  That was great fun.  The rest of the weekend was more like a
normal 10m contest at this point in the cycle.  I did not work much
DX.  No Asia or Europe was heard or worked from here.  I didn't work
anyone in the last 2.5 hours so that made for a slow drag to the
finish.

One thing that seemed to be around all weekend and was even bad on
Friday night was some very fast QSB.  Sometimes it would make copying
stations really hard.  When W3IP called in it took forever for me to
understand his call sign the QSB was so fast it was making his signal
hard to understand even though the peaks were not that weak.  It was
weird. Sunday the wind started blowing hard and kicked up the line
noise a lot and that made things harder at times but over all it was a
great weekend on the radio.

I am sorry that WM5R missed out on a great Friday but I am glad I
got to get on the radio and have fun and experience the great start.

Congratulations to NR5M and W5PR on great scores.  Looking forward to
the next one - and I am already building some larger antennas.




   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   Countries   
 ______________________________________________________________

   10SSB    1956        1913       3826      60        18 
 ______________________________________________________________

 Totals     1956        1913       3826      60        18 

 Final Score = 298428 points.

Station:
http://www.k5tr.net/
Elecraft K3 radios (tnx k5ot)
Alpha 87A
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10  - 6 element yagi at 60'
    - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE
    - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE
    - 6 element yagi at 120'

CALLSIGN: K5TR
CONTEST: ARRL-10
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: K5TR

-------------- 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      0     66     66     66    3.5
0100       0      0      0      0      0    153    153    219   11.4
0200       0      0      0      0      0    226    226    445   23.3
0300       0      0      0      0      0    253    253    698   36.5
0400       0      0      0      0      0    166    166    864   45.2
0500       0      0      0      0      0     72     72    936   48.9
0600       0      0      0      0      0     12     12    948   49.6
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    948   49.6
1300       0      0      0      0      0     20     20    968   50.6
1400       0      0      0      0      0     57     57   1025   53.6
1500       0      0      0      0      0     73     73   1098   57.4
1600       0      0      0      0      0    120    120   1218   63.7
1700       0      0      0      0      0    129    129   1347   70.4
1800       0      0      0      0      0    111    111   1458   76.2
1900       0      0      0      0      0     60     60   1518   79.4
2000       0      0      0      0      0     37     37   1555   81.3
2100       0      0      0      0      0     41     41   1596   83.4
2200       0      0      0      0      0     22     22   1618   84.6
2300       0      0      0      0      0      4      4   1622   84.8
0000       0      0      0      0      0      4      4   1626   85.0
0100       0      0      0      0      0     12     12   1638   85.6
0200       0      0      0      0      0      3      3   1641   85.8
0300       0      0      0      0      0      5      5   1646   86.0
0400       0      0      0      0      0      1      1   1647   86.1
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1647   86.1
1300       0      0      0      0      0      2      2   1649   86.2
1400       0      0      0      0      0      5      5   1654   86.5
1500       0      0      0      0      0     16     16   1670   87.3
1600       0      0      0      0      0     39     39   1709   89.3
1700       0      0      0      0      0     93     93   1802   94.2
1800       0      0      0      0      0     52     52   1854   96.9
1900       0      0      0      0      0     47     47   1901   99.4
2000       0      0      0      0      0      4      4   1905   99.6
2100       0      0      0      0      0      8      8   1913  100.0
2200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1913  100.0
2300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1913  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0      0      0      0      0   1913   1913

Gross QSOs=1956        Dupes=43        Net QSOs=1913

Unique callsigns worked = 1913

The best 60 minute rate was 257/hour from 0251 to 0350
The best 30 minute rate was 270/hour from 0300 to 0329
The best 10 minute rate was 294/hour from 0338 to 0347

The best 1 minute rates were:
 7 QSOs/minute    6 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   16 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   43 times.
 4 QSOs/minute   80 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  141 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  204 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  409 times.

----------------- 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      0      0      0      0   1804   1804   94.3
South America      0      0      0      0      0     94     94    4.9
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      2      2    0.1
Oceania            0      0      0      0      0     13     13    0.7
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total              0      0      0      0      0   1913   1913

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   4       489
   5       847
   6       574
   8         2
   9         1

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
CE               0      0      0      0      0      5      5    0.3
CM               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
CX               0      0      0      0      0      5      5    0.3
FK               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
FY               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
HI               0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
J7               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
K                0      0      0      0      0   1709   1709   89.3
KG4              0      0      0      0      0      7      7    0.4
KL               0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
KP2              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
KP4              0      0      0      0      0     15     15    0.8
LU               0      0      0      0      0     27     27    1.4
PJ4              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
PY               0      0      0      0      0     53     53    2.8
TI               0      0      0      0      0      5      5    0.3
V5               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
VE               0      0      0      0      0     55     55    2.9
VK               0      0      0      0      0     11     11    0.6
XE               0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
YV               0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.1
ZL               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
ZS               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total            0      0      0      0      0   1913   1913

------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
Il        0      0      0      0      0    163    163    8.5
Oh        0      0      0      0      0    139    139    7.3
Mi        0      0      0      0      0    127    127    6.6
Wi        0      0      0      0      0     96     96    5.0
Ca        0      0      0      0      0     88     88    4.6
Mn        0      0      0      0      0     82     82    4.3
Tn        0      0      0      0      0     78     78    4.1
In        0      0      0      0      0     73     73    3.8
Tx        0      0      0      0      0     68     68    3.6
Nc        0      0      0      0      0     68     68    3.6
Fl        0      0      0      0      0     57     57    3.0
Az        0      0      0      0      0     55     55    2.9
Ky        0      0      0      0      0     53     53    2.8
Va        0      0      0      0      0     49     49    2.6
Ga        0      0      0      0      0     48     48    2.5
Co        0      0      0      0      0     47     47    2.5
Pa        0      0      0      0      0     40     40    2.1
Mo        0      0      0      0      0     40     40    2.1
On        0      0      0      0      0     35     35    1.8
Sc        0      0      0      0      0     33     33    1.7
Ia        0      0      0      0      0     30     30    1.6
Ny        0      0      0      0      0     27     27    1.4
Md        0      0      0      0      0     27     27    1.4
Ma        0      0      0      0      0     25     25    1.3
Ne        0      0      0      0      0     23     23    1.2
Al        0      0      0      0      0     22     22    1.2
Wv        0      0      0      0      0     20     20    1.0
Ct        0      0      0      0      0     16     16    0.8
Wy        0      0      0      0      0     14     14    0.7
Nj        0      0      0      0      0     13     13    0.7
Ks        0      0      0      0      0     13     13    0.7
Qc        0      0      0      0      0     10     10    0.5
Ar        0      0      0      0      0     10     10    0.5
Ut        0      0      0      0      0     10     10    0.5
Sd        0      0      0      0      0      8      8    0.4
Nv        0      0      0      0      0      7      7    0.4
Nd        0      0      0      0      0      6      6    0.3
Nh        0      0      0      0      0      5      5    0.3
Ms        0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
La        0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
De        0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
Id        0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
Wa        0      0      0      0      0      4      4    0.2
Vt        0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
Ok        0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
Me        0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
Mb        0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.2
Chh       0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.1
Bc        0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.1
Nb        0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.1
Dc        0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.1
Gto       0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Sk        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1  
Ri        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Or        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Pe        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Ns        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Mt        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
Ab        0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0      0      0      0      0   1913   1913

U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area    QSOs     Pct
--------------------
   0     239    12.5
   1      86     4.5
   2      73     3.8
   3      91     4.8
   4     318    16.6
   5      94     4.9
   6      99     5.2
   7      95     5.0
   8     279    14.6
   9     335    17.5
--------------------
Total   1709    89.3


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