[3830] WPX SSB KT5J(K5TR) SOAB Unassisted HP
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Mon Mar 28 16:08:44 EDT 2022
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2022
Call: KT5J
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Unassisted
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 36
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 14
40: 1475
20: 1053
15: 1642
10: 39
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Total: 4223 Prefixes = 1134 Total Score = 11,013,408
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
In the month leading up to this contest I was just not feeling very
excited about it even though it is always a rate fest. My son was
going on a backpacking trip over the weekend and I need to take him to
the drop off point at 2300z. The drop off was not far from my house
in town but is about 40 minutes from my station. I was not sure I
would be on at the start or not - I was at the mercy of Friday traffic
- but with 12 hours of offtime I figured it did not matter too much.
I mainly wanted to get on the radio and have fun. As truns out I was
able to get to the station by about 23:45 and start warming up the
equipment and hooking up antennas, switches and rotators. I quick
look outside to make sure all the antennas were still up and to
confirm they were all pointed in the directions the rotator
controllers were showing on the inside.
I set up the computer and got water and some food nearby and was able
to make my first contact just before the end of the first minute of
one time. Success!
As I said I was not all that fired up for this contest - and I was
unsure what I wanted to get out of it - had I really thought about it
before the start I might have done a 24 hour classic effort. I knew I
did not want to use assistance - so maybe that I what I should have
done from the start but later in the contest when I would remember
there was a 24 hour classic category - I had already used the 2nd
radio for a few contacts / band changes - so fulltime it would be.
In 2020, with everyone freshly at home during the start of pandemic, I
did this cotnest and the opening hours were huge - in fact the whole
weeekend proved to be very good with activity and a the end I had
regretted not just trying to go for QSO totals and not worry about the
score - but I did not. This year I was kind of going back and forth
on what I was trying to do beyond having fun. But I figured that rate
is fun so for many hours I did that instead of the smart thing of
grinding out 6 point contacts on 40 meters - and I even went to sleep
for almost 2 hours the first night. I was tired and I knew that I
wanted to be on during the daytime as much as possible for more rate.
But by doing this I gave up some of those much needed low band
points. But, hey, I was trying to have fun.
The math is easy:
250 hour of one pointers = 250 points
42 hour of six pointers = 252 points
Even when you feel like you are crawling along at 30 an hour - those
points make up for it in a big way.
The only band were you can make 6 point contacts in any real volume
from here in Texas is 40 meters - and the QRM below 7200 is just
painful. And as far as I can tell getting folks to answer you split
is just about impossible - so into the din you must go.
Too bad there is only one band to do this on from here.
Anyway, back to the start - I was going to go for rate - at least at
first if not for most of the weekend. I was hoping to have hours like
the 2020 event (a 343 first hour). I started on 20m where I was sure
to have the best rate of all the bands - and things started quick but
the frequency was not great and it got worse. After 11 minutes and 55
contacts I moved to 15 meters and the rate was really poor and I was
not getting many JA stations calling to offset the loss in rate - so
by minute 14 I was back on 20 meters on a newer, better frequecy. I
stayed on 20 meters for the first 90 minutes (except for the few on
15m) and then I went to 40 meters - but once a again I opted for rate
staying well above 7200. I went to 20 a few times but mainly stayed on
40m working the USA until about 05z when I decided I really should get
a few points to go with the mults I had and also pick up some EU
mults. I found a frequency that was better than most and found the
band in good shape. I seemed to be loud in Europe and they were loud
here and I would stay on 40m (except for my nap) until about 12z when
I went to 20m. I was mostly not doing any real two radio stuff - I
was just having a good time running stations - a theme that would
continue for the rest of the contest. But that did mean that I was
giving up some mults - between not using the second radio much and not
using spotting assistance - I was mostly only getting only what called
me.
I had a good time this weekend.
It sure it nice to have sun spots. 15 meters was good to EU and JA.
I was working JA stations on 15 meters with good signals after 9:30 pm
local time and that was pretty cool to be doing again. The numbers of
them is not anywhere near the mid to late 1980's but I still love
hearing all of the Japanese stations on the band.
The other issue that I with respect to planning my offtimes (if you
can call it planning) was that my son was getting back from the
camping trip in the 20z to 21z pm time on Sunday - so I knew I would
be working ending contest early - I ended up taking almost all of the
last 5 hours off. I did get some sleep for three hours - again in the
middle of the night/morning when I should have been trying to work six
pointers. Again not the best for score - but it was how things were
going to work this year. Maybe next year I will do a better, more
planned effort and even take a nap on Friday before it all starts.
:-)
Great to work everyone and I am looking forward to the next contest.
Great score by NN1C at KC1XX and ND7K out west with a big score!
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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80SSB 14 14 22 0
40SSB 1512 1475 4531 399
20SSB 1073 1053 1518 346
15SSB 1656 1642 3542 370
10SSB 39 39 99 19
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Totals 4294 4223 9712 1134
Final Score = 11013408 points.
Station: http://www.k5tr.net/
2x Elecraft K3 radios (tnx k5ot)
2x Alpha 87A
trlinux - http://kkn.net/trlinux
160 - Half wave sloping dipoles sloped east and west from 125'
- SAL-30 RX array
- NE, SE beverages ~500' long
80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 125'
- SAL-30 RX array
- NE, SE beverages ~500' long
40 - 4 element yagi at 125'
- Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87'
20 - Stack of three 6 element yagis at 135' / 85' / 45'
- 6 element yagi at 80'
- 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE
15 - 6 element yagi at 70'
- 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE
- 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE
10 - 7 element yagi 48 ft boom at 60'
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 145'
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 45' fixed SE
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 30' fixed NE
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 0 12 823 773 628 6 2242
VE calls = 0 1 74 77 104 0 256
N.A. calls = 0 0 29 18 24 6 77
S.A. calls = 0 1 18 10 29 18 76
Euro calls = 0 0 187 139 619 6 951
Afrc calls = 0 0 4 1 8 3 16
Asia calls = 0 0 9 5 6 0 20
JA calls = 0 0 210 11 210 0 431
Ocen calls = 0 0 121 19 13 0 153
Total calls = 0 14 1475 1053 1642 39 4223
HR 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE
-- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- -----
0 --- --- 254/168 6/6 --- 260/174 260/174 0.06M
1 --- 120/39 103/40 1/1 --- 224/80 484/254 0.17M
2 --- 131/30 38/16 --- --- 169/46 653/300 0.27M
3 --- 165/41 7/3 --- --- 172/44 825/344 0.39M
4 --- 124/24 6/0 --- --- 130/24 955/368 0.49M
5 --- 110/49 3/2 --- --- 113/51 1068/419 0.71M
6 --- 100/51 --- --- --- 100/51 1168/470 1.00M
7 --- 40/16 --- --- --- 40/16 1208/486 1.11M
8 --- --- --- --- --- --- 1208/486 1.11M
9 --- 32/11 --- --- --- 32/11 1240/497 1.21M
10 --- 101/44 --- --- --- 101/44 1341/541 1.56M
11 --- 36/8 13/6 --- --- 49/14 1390/555 1.69M
12 --- 4/3 108/44 4/1 --- 116/48 1506/603 1.99M
13 --- --- 95/24 18/9 --- 113/33 1619/636 2.23M
14 --- --- --- 148/51 --- 148/51 1767/687 2.67M
15 --- --- --- 186/60 --- 186/60 1953/747 3.23M
16 --- --- --- 116/28 4/2 120/30 2073/777 3.60M
17 --- --- --- 70/15 6/1 76/16 2149/793 3.82M
18 --- --- --- 88/16 6/5 94/21 2243/814 4.07M
19 --- --- --- 11/2 --- 11/2 2254/816 4.09M
20 --- --- --- 111/24 --- 111/24 2365/840 4.39M
21 --- --- --- 138/25 --- 138/25 2503/865 4.72M
22 --- --- 2/0 159/23 --- 161/23 2664/888 5.10M
23 --- --- 1/1 124/25 --- 125/26 2789/914 5.45M
0 --- --- 99/14 35/6 --- 134/20 2923/934 5.78M
1 --- --- --- 98/18 --- 98/18 3021/952 6.11M
2 --- 43/6 3/0 48/3 --- 94/9 3115/961 6.40M
3 --- 65/8 --- --- --- 65/8 3180/969 6.63M
4 --- --- --- --- --- --- 3180/969 6.63M
5 --- --- --- --- --- --- 3180/969 6.63M
6 --- 20/4 --- --- --- 20/4 3200/973 6.74M
7 --- 61/17 --- --- --- 61/17 3261/990 7.10M
8 --- 8/1 --- --- --- 8/1 3269/991 7.14M
9 --- 41/7 --- --- --- 41/7 3310/998 7.37M
10 14/0 103/19 --- --- --- 117/19 3427/1017 8.01M
11 --- 88/11 --- --- --- 88/11 3515/1028 8.46M
12 --- 63/8 1/0 --- --- 64/8 3579/1036 8.85M
13 --- 20/2 79/5 --- --- 99/7 3678/1043 9.13M
14 --- --- 52/8 55/15 2/1 109/24 3787/1067 9.56M
15 --- --- --- 122/21 4/0 126/21 3913/1088 10.05M
16 --- --- 11/1 65/11 4/1 80/13 3993/1101 10.36M
17 --- --- 122/9 --- --- 122/9 4115/1110 10.59M
18 --- --- 56/5 23/5 6/4 85/14 4200/1124 10.85M
19 --- --- --- 16/5 7/5 23/10 4223/1134 11.01M
D1 0/0 963/316 630/304 1180/286 16/8 2789/914
D2 14/0 512/83 423/42 462/84 23/11 1434/220
TO 14/0 1475/399 1053/346 1642/370 39/19 4223/1134
CALLSIGN: KT5J
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
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
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0000 0 0 0 254 6 0 260 260 6.2
0100 0 0 120 103 1 0 224 484 11.5
0200 0 0 131 38 0 0 169 653 15.5
0300 0 0 165 7 0 0 172 825 19.5
0400 0 0 124 6 0 0 130 955 22.6
0500 0 0 110 3 0 0 113 1068 25.3
0600 0 0 100 0 0 0 100 1168 27.7
0700 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 1208 28.6
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1208 28.6
0900 0 0 32 0 0 0 32 1240 29.4
1000 0 0 101 0 0 0 101 1341 31.8
1100 0 0 36 13 0 0 49 1390 32.9
1200 0 0 4 108 4 0 116 1506 35.7
1300 0 0 0 95 18 0 113 1619 38.3
1400 0 0 0 0 148 0 148 1767 41.8
1500 0 0 0 0 186 0 186 1953 46.2
1600 0 0 0 0 116 4 120 2073 49.1
1700 0 0 0 0 70 6 76 2149 50.9
1800 0 0 0 0 88 6 94 2243 53.1
1900 0 0 0 0 11 0 11 2254 53.4
2000 0 0 0 0 111 0 111 2365 56.0
2100 0 0 0 0 138 0 138 2503 59.3
2200 0 0 0 2 159 0 161 2664 63.1
2300 0 0 0 1 124 0 125 2789 66.0
0000 0 0 0 99 35 0 134 2923 69.2
0100 0 0 0 0 98 0 98 3021 71.5
0200 0 0 43 3 48 0 94 3115 73.8
0300 0 0 65 0 0 0 65 3180 75.3
0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3180 75.3
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3180 75.3
0600 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 3200 75.8
0700 0 0 61 0 0 0 61 3261 77.2
0800 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 3269 77.4
0900 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 3310 78.4
1000 0 14 103 0 0 0 117 3427 81.2
1100 0 0 88 0 0 0 88 3515 83.2
1200 0 0 63 1 0 0 64 3579 84.8
1300 0 0 20 79 0 0 99 3678 87.1
1400 0 0 0 52 55 2 109 3787 89.7
1500 0 0 0 0 122 4 126 3913 92.7
1600 0 0 0 11 65 4 80 3993 94.6
1700 0 0 0 122 0 0 122 4115 97.4
1800 0 0 0 56 23 6 85 4200 99.5
1900 0 0 0 0 16 7 23 4223 100.0
2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4223 100.0
2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4223 100.0
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4223 100.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4223 100.0
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Total 0 14 1475 1053 1642 39 4223
Gross QSOs=4294 Dupes=71 Net QSOs=4223
Unique callsigns worked = 3298
The best 60 minute rate was 265/hour from 0019 to 0118
The best 30 minute rate was 282/hour from 0019 to 0048
The best 10 minute rate was 318/hour from 0036 to 0045
The best 1 minute rates were:
7 QSOs/minute 3 times.
6 QSOs/minute 18 times.
5 QSOs/minute 72 times.
4 QSOs/minute 199 times.
3 QSOs/minute 403 times.
2 QSOs/minute 573 times.
1 QSOs/minute 583 times.
There were 165 bandchanges and 78 (1.8%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 23
4 1190
5 1527
6 1459
7 5
8 15
9 3
10 1
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 2573
2 bands 532
3 bands 186
4 bands 7
5 bands 0
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 2 882 564 1101 24
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