[3830] CQWW CW P44W(W2GD) SO(A)AB HP
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Tue Nov 30 03:32:49 EST 2021
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: P44W
Operator(s): W2GD
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 336 18 59
80: 836 22 81
40: 1412 32 114
20: 1112 34 109
15: 1604 32 108
10: 903 20 62
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Total: 6203 158 533 Total Score = 12,650,828
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
STATION - Sincere thanks to John P40L/W6LD and Andy P49Y/AE6Y for providing the
opportunity to pilot their station again this week. I really had a super time.
Note: All of the P40L/P49Y towers are on a small 100 x 100 foot lot:
Rohn 45 tower (66’): Single boom 2-element shortened 40m interlaced with
4-element 20m (68’) (JK2040, long-boom version); 80m Inverted-V (65’); 160m
Double-L center-fed vertical dipole (65’)
North Rohn 25 tower (56’): Single boom 5-element 15 interlaced with
6-element
10 (58’) (JK1015 configured for dual feed)
South Rohn 25 tower (45.5’): Tri -bander (JK Mid-tri)
Beverages: 4 beverages controlled by K9AY switchbox: West-US (800’), East US
(500’),
EU (800’)and East-West (AF and OC) (350’)
Rig: Elecraft K3/P3 + Alpha 91B 900 to 1000 watts
Logging software: Win-test 4.28
COMPETITION COMMENTS
Isn't it wonderful to have some sunspots again- after many years of suffering?
Had multiplier gains on every band this time with the much improved propagation.
Total multiplier in 2020 was just 629 compared a huge leap to 691 counters this
year. There were more contest DXpeditions active this year than last, but
travel constraints are still keeping many at home. I find working DX is still a
big part of enjoying the game.
No significant station preparations required this trip following my visit just
three weeks ago. It was fun to do some casual operating. Tuesday I installed an
80m vertical dipole to see how it might compare to the inverted V. Results are
still pending but not encouraging. Spent Wednesday helping Art, N3DXX/P40XX @
P49V with getting things working on all bands. Goofed off completely the two
days before CQWW CW.
Part of preparing is reviewing prior year's logs and developing (or refining) a
personal operating plan which includes setting band goals. Doing well depends
upon skillful execution, or in many situations adjusting on the fly to meet the
current conditions. Fortunately there were no big propagation surprises this
year, but being human the tendency to repeat prior mistakes is always a
possibility. My personal addiction to 160 meter operation is something
I've yet to successfully master and it is telling in my Friday night
performance.
Opened on 40 meters with 224 and 217 hours which really got me pumped. Stations
were loud from everywhere and the pileups were deep. I found sending my call
after every contact kept things somewhat more disciplined but so many stations
are zerobeat and calling without end slowed everyone down. Please - SPREAD OUT.
At 0200, went to 160 where I found the band quiet and full of EU stations. This
is where my 160 addiction comes into play. For the sake of the rate/score I
should have QSYed to 80 meters after just 15 or 20 minutes - not stay a full
hour (actually 1:20). In my defense I put sixty multipliers in the log - but at
the price of perhaps 300K points lost in score. Unfortunately I again did
alsmost the same thing in portions of the 0400 and 0500 hours but rate to the US
helped limit the score damage somewhat. Hey ... this is supposed to be fun,
right?
Debated with myself on whether I needed to take a full 1.5 hour sleep cycle
sometime before local sunrise, given I had screwed up pretty badly with too much
time on 160 meters. Ultimately laid down for 40 minutes - it seemed enough time
having slept nearly six hours Friday just prior to the contest. This was
thankfully a rare CQWW contest during which I never suffered that involuntary
urge to sleep.
Made up some ground with decent early morning rate on 80 and 40 before starting
a very productive 217 hour at 1200 on 20 meters. But by 1320z found 15 meters
fully open and made the move for to take advantage of early EU and AS
propagation. Looking back, the 104 rate in the 1400 hour seems terrible, but
the log shows over 50 mults were added during an extended S/P binge on 15 and 20
meters that hour.
The saga of ten meters on the first day started about 1600 and would last just a
little over two hours. There were little mini-runs of EU callers embedded within
the run but for the most part the action was dominated by NA callers. USA
signals were LOUD and plentiful. But the good propagation to EU we enjoyed
during CQWW PH on ten never materialized.
Finished out the first 24 hours with with a line score of 3650q 134z 426c for 6
million points. Envisioned the possibility of a finish around 13 million but I'd
later come up somewhat short.
Perhaps one of the most exciting moments in the contest occurred at 2 a.m. local
time Sunday morning. I'd been running on 80 meters and saw a few spots on 15
meters from Asia which didn't seem possible at that hour. Much to my surprise
there were signals - and zones 19 and 26 were logged on one call each. As
mentioned earlier, working DX is big part of the fun.
Started to suffer mild hallucinations in the 0600 hour and decided on a full
three hour break from 0700 to 1000 z. My last QSO before sleeping was KH7M
(N6TJ), a double mult for me on 160 meters. Went to sleep instantly and felt
relatively refreshed with morning coffee as the sun appeared. Overnight there
had been two heavy rain showers, the noise form the rain pounding on the metal
roof made copying code impossible. Fortunately they passed quickly.
At 1200, left 40 and started a productive mult sweep on 20 and 15. When I got to
10 meters at 1220 I found the band open to EU - then felt like I had hit the
mother load logging more than 30 multipliers within an hour. EU signals ranged
from a faint whisper to 20 over 9. It was all very brief ... over in just 70
minutes. EU was never heard again on 10. At 1700 had a decent NA run and later
in the afternoon picked up the ZL and VK double mults. Conditions (and catching
the EU opening) had allowed me to double the multiplier count on day two.
Played out 15 for a few hours of average Sunday rate, mostly NA callers. Had
saved the expected 20 meter NA run for the very end. My first CQ must have lit
up the mult needed light on everyone's logging program. The pileup was
immedicate, DEEP and very unrulely. I used every trick I could muster to pick
out callsigns from the bubbling hoard of callers. It easily took 30+ minutes to
work it down to something manageable. One of the station owners, W6LD,
mentioned today he was there particating and it had taken him ~30 calls (over
six minutes) from W6YX to make the contact ... he found it entertaining (in a
good way) that his station was so loud ... and popular. At 45 hours into the
contest - for me it was more of a challenge than I'd hoped.
With 20 meters having closed early, spent the last hour on 40 and 80 meters
mixing running and clicking, picking up six additional multipliers (three in the
last ten minutes). And then it was time to turn it off. The claimed score is
300K better than a year prior - I call it a success. Special thanks to the 81
of you who made it into the log on six bands, and another 133 on five. This
doesn't happen by accident. VFB!
Congratulations to those operators who are using advanced 2SBIQ and SO2R/SO2V
techniques to earn amazing scores (N6MJ, KL9A, AA3B, CT1ILT, EA8RM, and N5DX to
list several). I am in complete awe of what you are doing. The nice thing
about contesting and particularly those contests sponsored by CQ Magazine, there
are entry class opportunities to fit the competitive abilities of all
participants, both young and "older". I personally play a less
intense version of this game now, but enjoy every minute, particularly the high
rate hours, the in and out pileups, and the simple thrill of being able to
communicate with someone on the other side of the world ... wirelessly. ILTHRS.
Hope to be back for this one again next fall. CQWW CW will always be the BIG
ONE for me.
73,
John, W2GD
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
PROVIDED here with the assistance of K8IA.
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CALLSIGN: P44W
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP ASSISTED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: W2GD
-------------- 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 0 224 0 0 0 224 224 3.6
0100 0 0 217 0 0 0 217 441 7.1
0200 103 0 14 0 0 0 117 558 9.0
0300 53 106 0 0 0 0 159 717 11.6
0400 100 35 0 0 0 0 135 852 13.7
0500 26 76 0 0 0 0 102 954 15.4
0600 0 146 0 0 0 0 146 1100 17.7
0700 0 52 85 0 0 0 137 1237 19.9
0800 0 7 114 0 0 0 121 1358 21.9
0900 2 6 34 0 0 0 42 1400 22.6
1000 17 67 0 0 0 0 84 1484 23.9
1100 0 5 69 59 0 0 133 1617 26.1
1200 0 0 0 216 0 0 216 1833 29.6
1300 0 0 0 21 149 0 170 2003 32.3
1400 0 0 0 0 99 7 106 2109 34.0
1500 0 0 0 0 166 18 184 2293 37.0
1600 0 0 0 0 0 227 227 2520 40.6
1700 0 0 0 11 1 165 177 2697 43.5
1800 0 0 0 0 146 0 146 2843 45.8
1900 0 0 0 0 237 0 237 3080 49.7
2000 0 0 0 0 136 1 137 3217 51.9
2100 0 0 0 3 151 1 155 3372 54.4
2200 0 0 0 160 0 0 160 3532 56.9
2300 0 0 8 94 0 0 102 3634 58.6
0000 0 0 103 3 0 0 106 3740 60.3
0100 0 0 154 0 0 0 154 3894 62.8
0200 30 3 98 0 0 0 131 4025 64.9
0300 1 69 37 5 0 0 112 4137 66.7
0400 2 92 1 4 0 0 99 4236 68.3
0500 1 67 2 3 2 0 75 4311 69.5
0600 0 56 60 1 1 0 118 4429 71.4
0700 1 0 8 1 0 0 10 4439 71.6
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4439 71.6
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4439 71.6
1000 0 23 0 0 0 0 23 4462 71.9
1100 0 25 133 0 0 0 158 4620 74.5
1200 0 0 0 16 4 97 117 4737 76.4
1300 0 0 0 0 4 120 124 4861 78.4
1400 0 0 0 0 141 2 143 5004 80.7
1500 0 0 0 2 9 85 96 5100 82.2
1600 0 0 0 0 145 3 148 5248 84.6
1700 0 0 0 0 48 121 169 5417 87.3
1800 0 0 0 3 3 53 59 5476 88.3
1900 0 0 0 0 161 2 163 5639 90.9
2000 0 0 0 179 0 0 179 5818 93.8
2100 0 0 0 182 1 1 184 6002 96.8
2200 0 0 2 122 0 0 124 6126 98.8
2300 0 1 49 27 0 0 77 6203 100.0
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Total 336 836 1412 1112 1604 903 6203
Gross QSOs=6305 Dupes=102 Net QSOs=6203
Unique callsigns worked = 3502
The best 60 minute rate was 242/hour from 1827 to 1926
The best 30 minute rate was 258/hour from 1650 to 1719
The best 10 minute rate was 276/hour from 0012 to 0021
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 17 times.
5 QSOs/minute 159 times.
4 QSOs/minute 493 times.
3 QSOs/minute 707 times.
2 QSOs/minute 436 times.
1 QSOs/minute 341 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 209 468 787 800 996 632 3892 62.7
South America 10 13 18 28 43 32 144 2.3
Europe 112 322 515 230 531 231 1941 31.3
Asia 2 28 74 38 9 1 152 2.5
Africa 2 2 8 7 16 5 40 0.6
Oceania 1 3 10 9 9 2 34 0.5
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Total 336 836 1412 1112 1604 903 6203
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 34
4 3329
5 1969
6 851
7 9
8 10
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
3D2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
3V 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
4J 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4L 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
4O 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
*4U1V 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
4X 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.1
5B 2 1 2 1 1 1 8 0.1
5Z 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.0
9A 5 6 8 4 12 4 39 0.6
9G 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
9H 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
9K 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9V 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
9X 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
9Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
A6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
BY 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.0
C5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
C6 1 1 2 2 0 0 6 0.1
CE 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
CM 1 2 5 3 1 0 12 0.2
CN 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
CT 1 1 1 2 4 1 10 0.2
CT3 2 1 3 2 2 3 13 0.2
CU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
CX 0 0 1 3 2 1 7 0.1
DL 15 69 85 37 96 46 348 5.6
DU 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
E7 1 2 5 2 4 1 15 0.2
EA 2 9 16 4 20 21 72 1.2
EA6 0 2 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
EA8 0 1 1 1 3 1 7 0.1
EA9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
EI 0 1 1 1 4 2 9 0.1
EL 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
ER 0 2 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
ES 1 1 2 1 2 1 8 0.1
EU 3 3 5 5 6 2 24 0.4
EY 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
F 5 16 15 6 39 24 105 1.7
FK 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
FM 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
FR 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
FS 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
G 2 9 21 7 59 14 112 1.8
GD 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.1
GI 0 1 1 1 3 0 6 0.1
GJ 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.0
GM 0 4 4 1 12 3 24 0.4
GU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
GW 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.1
HA 6 11 17 8 15 4 61 1.0
HB 0 6 5 2 8 3 24 0.4
HB0 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
HC 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
HI 1 4 2 0 0 0 7 0.1
HK 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.1
HL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HP 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
HR 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
HS 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
HZ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
I 1 22 37 5 49 16 130 2.1
IS 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
*IT9 0 3 3 1 4 2 13 0.2
JA 0 19 48 19 2 0 88 1.4
K 179 414 706 721 922 565 3507 56.5
KG4 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.1
KH2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KH6 1 3 2 2 5 1 14 0.2
KL 0 1 1 2 2 0 6 0.1
KP2 1 1 3 1 0 1 7 0.1
KP4 2 2 4 2 2 0 12 0.2
LA 2 3 2 2 3 1 13 0.2
LU 1 1 1 1 5 6 15 0.2
LX 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
LY 4 10 10 4 11 6 45 0.7
LZ 3 4 9 4 4 3 27 0.4
OA 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
OE 0 3 3 2 5 2 15 0.2
OH 7 16 7 8 7 1 46 0.7
OH0 1 3 1 1 1 1 8 0.1
OK 5 16 25 6 17 13 82 1.3
OM 2 4 11 5 5 6 33 0.5
ON 1 4 7 3 7 2 24 0.4
OX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OZ 2 4 5 2 5 1 19 0.3
P4 2 2 2 2 3 2 13 0.2
PA 1 7 14 12 20 7 61 1.0
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ4 2 1 1 2 2 1 9 0.1
PJ7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
PY 1 4 2 10 23 14 54 0.9
PZ 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
S5 2 2 12 5 8 4 33 0.5
SM 2 6 8 6 7 2 31 0.5
SP 9 20 32 21 21 13 116 1.9
SV 0 2 4 2 3 1 12 0.2
SV5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
SV9 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
TA 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
*TA1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
TF 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0.0
TG 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.0
TI 1 1 1 2 1 1 7 0.1
TK 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 0.1
UA 14 25 47 34 14 8 142 2.3
UA2 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1
UA9 0 5 12 6 1 0 24 0.4
UK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
UN 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.0
UR 7 7 38 7 16 6 81 1.3
V2 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
V3 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
V4 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
VE 13 32 48 53 52 59 257 4.1
VK 0 0 3 2 1 0 6 0.1
VK9N 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
VU 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
XE 1 1 2 2 4 3 13 0.2
YB 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
YL 3 6 3 2 3 1 18 0.3
YO 1 2 14 1 7 0 25 0.4
YS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YU 2 4 13 2 9 5 35 0.6
YV 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0
Z3 0 0 6 1 1 1 9 0.1
ZA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
ZD7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZF 2 1 2 2 2 2 11 0.2
ZL 0 0 2 1 1 1 5 0.1
ZP 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 336 836 1412 1112 1604 903 6203
------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
05 116 250 399 359 468 348 1940 31.3
04 67 147 274 286 319 260 1353 21.8
14 33 144 191 93 297 129 887 14.3
15 50 131 202 83 181 82 729 11.8
03 9 49 80 129 186 14 467 7.5
16 24 38 94 46 38 16 256 4.1
25 0 19 48 20 2 0 89 1.4
20 6 12 35 11 19 5 88 1.4
08 11 14 23 13 8 4 73 1.2
11 1 4 3 11 24 16 59 1.0
09 7 6 10 10 8 5 46 0.7
07 4 5 5 6 5 1 26 0.4
33 2 2 5 3 8 4 24 0.4
13 1 1 2 4 7 8 23 0.4
17 0 2 5 6 1 0 14 0.2
06 1 1 2 2 4 3 13 0.2
31 1 3 2 2 4 1 13 0.2
02 1 2 3 2 2 2 12 0.2
10 1 2 2 2 2 1 10 0.2
32 0 0 4 3 2 1 10 0.2
21 0 1 4 2 1 0 8 0.1
18 0 0 7 1 0 0 8 0.1
01 0 1 1 2 2 0 6 0.1
30 0 0 3 2 1 0 6 0.1
12 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.1
35 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.1
39 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.1
40 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 0.1
19 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0.0
24 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.0
28 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.0
22 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
36 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.0
37 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.0
27 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
26 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
29 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 336 836 1412 1112 1604 903 6203
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2231
2 bands 558
3 bands 291
4 bands 208
5 bands 133
6 bands 81
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
N4RV KC1XX W3KB W3MA NJ3I TM6M
K3NM K9CT NY3A W3FV EW5A ZF1A
K1AR K1IR K1RX KQ3F E7DX N3RS
NF3R K3OO TK0C NW3Y K5EK KA2K
WJ2D ES9C N5RZ K2AX W3LPL K9NW
NY6DX K5NA K0ZR W1RM K3LR K1TTT
N2RC AA1K K4XL SK3W AB3CX W2AA
NX6T W2MKM N2AJ XE2X K5UR PJ2T
NR4M SO4M N4TZ W9RE K0OO ED1R
K3PP K5TR KU2C VE3EJ VE3RZ NU4E
PJ4K N3QE N2SR TO7A LZ9W TI7W
K3IE ND7K K5ZD N1DG KS1J K3AJ
N4QS VA2UR FY5KE K9IMM NS3T K1ZZ
NA8V W1GD K3TN
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