[CCF] CQWW SSB OH0X(OH6KZP) SOAB(A) HP

Kim Östman kim.ostman at abo.fi
Mon Oct 26 10:04:23 EDT 2015


Kiitos OH-kusoista!

73
Kim OH6KZP


-----Original Message-----

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: OH0X
Operator(s): OH6KZP
Station: OH0X

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: Brando
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  182     9       52
   80:  521    17       85
   40:  972    35      127
   20: 1586    38      149
   15: 2472    39      151
   10:  612    35      143
------------------------------
Total: 6345   173      707  Total Score = 12,068,320

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

I went into this contest thinking I'll sleep a bit more than the 30 minutes that I usually do in my serious CQWW efforts, but instead ended up working 48h for the first time...! I credit that to a successful rhythm change during the week, as I went to bed successively earlier each evening. Going to bed at 19:30 local on Friday for a 03:00 local start on Saturday thus provided some good pre-contest rest. I guess I was able to fall asleep nicely on Friday when I had no big plans and thus no big pressure :) 

I only felt really tired a couple of times, the first time being before sunrise on Sunday and the second time being around 18z on Sunday evening. As I'm prone to extra heart beats when very tired, I took a beta blocker on Sunday for some "preventative doping," but otherwise managed to get through with just two energy drinks in the doping department. However, I did note that I became increasingly irritable as Sunday went along, which is not a good thing when already going crazy with non-stop SSB splatter everywhere around you! So that's a trait to work on.

The station worked well, including the recently repaired 3-el 40m yagi. The annoying 50-Hz hum in the SO2R monitor audio during transmission was finally completely gone after I installed ground loop isolators in the RX audio cables on Friday evening, and the audio was now a joy to listen to! Thanks to SM0W, SM5AJV, and OH6KN for the related tips. I only had some minor problems with the computer monitor intermittently shutting down and the computer keyboard not always responding while working 160m, and with the MK2R box briefly acting up on Sunday evening, saying that no keyer was installed (?). Perhaps a result of "RF".

Band conditions were nice on Saturday, although the waning of the solar cycle clearly showed on 10m through shorter openings. Anyway, it was a massive difference to the painful grind of the Scandinavian Activity Contest a couple of weeks ago :) Propagation forecasts predicted a glancing blow from a CME late Saturday, which would have resulted in an aurora-filled second half of the contest and killed the fun here in the north. Instead the particles were apparently somehow not compatible with the Earth's magnetosphere although the CME cloud arrived even earlier than expected, so no aurora materialized and the great contest show went on. Sunday's conditions were in my opinion mostly not as good as Saturday's, but the DX openings were there all the same.

The high point of the contest for me was probably a sustained 20m NA run on Saturday night, netting a lot of QSO points. The band first seemed to die down on Saturday evening, only to open up again and staying that way far into Sunday (UTC time). The low point probably came on Sunday evening when I simply was  not able to find a proper spot on which to CQ on a completely packed 20m band, and the QSO rate dropped drastically. I loathe SSB frequency fights (and did I say I loathe constant SSB splatter? :) ) and had just spent hours on 15m defending my frequency from many stations who came a kHz or less away, so I tried to avoid knowingly becoming a party to the same misery for anybody else. 

The most absurd point was probably on 15m Sunday when I asked a station to move after he came 400 Hz away from me, only to be told he had been there for the last 4 hours without any problems! I wondered if antenna directions really could have caused such a thing, but a quick check through DX cluster spots showed that he wasn't telling the truth at all... Constantly diverting transmit power to an EU antenna would be ideal, but right now we don't have a system in place for diverting only a fraction, and "losing" half of the legal limit power in a non-DX direction often feels too much.

One thing I wish the organizers would clarify is their adjudication approach towards QSOs at the band limits. Personally I'm flexible when it comes to crossing intra-band recommendations on CW/SSB/digital mode areas. They are just recommendations and plans, so when thousands of contesters as a majority temporarily need more "real estate" inside the bands I feel it's OK where national regulations allow it. However, actual regulatory band limits are a different matter altogether. So what is one to do when a juicy double mult is managing his pileup on 14349.9 kHz USB (or 21449.9 for that matter)? I didn't work him as I didn't want to end up on any black lists (such as the European 7200+ kHz list from last year), thus disadvantaging myself. How should this problem best be approached?

I'm very happy to unexpectedly lay claim on the European SOAB HP Assisted record, unless somebody else scored even higher :) A big thanks and congratulations to Tõnno ES5TV, with whom I raced on cqcontest.net. Although I was assisted and he wasn't, I was no longer able to keep up with his score after Sunday morning. He sustained his QSO rates admirably, really showing what his station's firepower can do when manned by a top-notch operator!

Thanks to the Brändö Island Group and Radio Arcala teams for all support, and to everyone for the QSOs! Some statistics can be found below.

Kim OH6KZP
-------------------------------

Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CALLSIGN: OH0X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: OH6KZP

-------------- 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     95     15      3      0    113    113    1.8
0100       0      1     45    140      1      0    187    300    4.7
0200       2      2     16    107      0      0    127    427    6.7
0300      10      7     53     12      0      0     82    509    8.0
0400      89    131      3      0      0      0    223    732   11.5
0500       1      5     89      1     44     14    154    886   14.0
0600       0      0      2      0    162     10    174   1060   16.7
0700       0      0      1      2    115     18    136   1196   18.8
0800       0      0      1      1     63    100    165   1361   21.4
0900       0      0      0     25     35     30     90   1451   22.9
1000       0      0      0      7     36    124    167   1618   25.5
1100       0      0      0      2     89     75    166   1784   28.1
1200       0      0      0     10    177      7    194   1978   31.2
1300       0      0      0      6     29    100    135   2113   33.3
1400       0      0      4      7    111     71    193   2306   36.3
1500       0      0      9      0    222      1    232   2538   40.0
1600       0      2     11     20     62      0     95   2633   41.5
1700       0      2      1    161      0      0    164   2797   44.1
1800       1      3      1    137      0      0    142   2939   46.3
1900       2      3     38     70      5      0    118   3057   48.2
2000       0     22    127      0      0      0    149   3206   50.5
2100       0    166      1      4      0      0    171   3377   53.2
2200      57      1     24      2      0      0     84   3461   54.5
2300       2      0     74     51      0      0    127   3588   56.5
0000       1      1      0    221      0      0    223   3811   60.1
0100       2      1      1    148      0      0    152   3963   62.5
0200       2      6      0     79      0      0     87   4050   63.8
0300       0      0      2    128      0      0    130   4180   65.9
0400       2      3     68     17      0      0     90   4270   67.3
0500       3     56      2      2     14      1     78   4348   68.5
0600       0      0      4      1     86      2     93   4441   70.0
0700       0      0      1      4     78      3     86   4527   71.3
0800       0      0      0      2    102      4    108   4635   73.0
0900       0      0      1      1    155      7    164   4799   75.6
1000       0      0      0     41     14     34     89   4888   77.0
1100       0      0      0      1    103      2    106   4994   78.7
1200       0      0      0      0    134      1    135   5129   80.8
1300       0      0      1      0    117      2    120   5249   82.7
1400       0      0      0      0    161      0    161   5410   85.3
1500       0      1      0      0    140      6    147   5557   87.6
1600       0      0      2      4     74      0     80   5637   88.8
1700       0      0      1      1    115      0    117   5754   90.7
1800       0      0      0     41     14      0     55   5809   91.6
1900       0      0     62      9     11      0     82   5891   92.8
2000       1      0     29    104      0      0    134   6025   95.0
2100       0      3     78      2      0      0     83   6108   96.3
2200       4     75     50      0      0      0    129   6237   98.3
2300       3     30     75      0      0      0    108   6345  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    182    521    972   1586   2472    612   6345

Gross QSOs=6410        Dupes=65        Net QSOs=6345

Unique callsigns worked = 4581

The best 60 minute rate was 259/hour from 1436 to 1535
The best 30 minute rate was 288/hour from 1437 to 1506
The best 10 minute rate was 318/hour from 1045 to 1054

The best 1 minute rates were:
 8 QSOs/minute    3 times.
 7 QSOs/minute   10 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   72 times.
 5 QSOs/minute  202 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  334 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  522 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  622 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  663 times.

There were 699 bandchanges and 300 (4.7%) 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      2     24    154   1186   1065    150   2581   40.7
South America      0      8     28     49     46     28    159    2.5
Europe           171    454    679    266    809    276   2655   41.8
Asia               6     27     79     51    487    117    767   12.1
Africa             3      8     18     15     32     28    104    1.6
Oceania            0      0     14     19     33     13     79    1.2
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total            182    521    972   1586   2472    612   6345

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        69
   4      2305
   5      2218
   6      1692
   7        15
   8        32
   9         8
  10         6

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3A               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
3DA              0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
3V               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
3W               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
4J               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
4L               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
4O               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
4X               0      2      4      3      2      5     16    0.3
5B               2      2      3      2      4      4     17    0.3
5R               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
5W               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
6Y               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
7X               0      0      1      1      0      1      3    0.0
8P               0      1      1      1      2      1      6    0.1
9A               5      4     18      4     15      2     48    0.8
9H               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
9J               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
9K               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
9M2              0      0      1      1      3      1      6    0.1
9M6              0      0      0      1      0      2      3    0.0
9V               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
9Y               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
A6               0      1      1      1      1      2      6    0.1
A7               1      2      2      2      2      1     10    0.2
A9               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
AP               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
BV               0      0      0      1      2      4      7    0.1
BY               0      0      5      1     30      4     40    0.6
C3               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
C9               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
CE               0      0      1      7      1      2     11    0.2
CM               0      0      1      2      4      1      8    0.1
CN               1      2      3      2      3      2     13    0.2
CP               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
CT               1      3      7      4      5      6     26    0.4
CT3              0      1      1      1      2      2      7    0.1
CU               1      1      2      1      3      1      9    0.1
CX               0      0      0      2      3      1      6    0.1
D2               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
D4               0      0      1      0      0      1      2    0.0
DL              30     63     93     29     84     12    311    4.9
DU               0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
E5/s             0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
E7               1      6      4      3      3      1     18    0.3
EA               5     15     29     10     42     42    143    2.3
EA6              0      0      1      1      1      3      6    0.1
EA8              0      3      5      2     12      5     27    0.4
EA9              1      1      1      2      1      1      7    0.1
EI               2      5     10      2      9      3     31    0.5
EK               0      1      2      1      2      1      7    0.1
ER               0      1      1      1      2      0      5    0.1
ES               3      9      2      5      3      3     25    0.4
EU               2     11      5      2      3      1     24    0.4
EX               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
EY               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
F                4     16     21     12     50      7    110    1.7
FG               0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
FJ               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
FM               0      0      1      4      2      1      8    0.1
FR               0      0      1      2      1      2      6    0.1
FS               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
FY               0      1      1      2      1      1      6    0.1
G                4     18     51     10     60      7    150    2.4
GI               1      0      4      2      3      0     10    0.2
GJ               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
*GM/s            0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
GM               1      2      5      2      7      1     18    0.3
GU               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
GW               1      1      1      2     10      0     15    0.2
HA               3     10     18      4     10      1     46    0.7
HB               2      5     13      3     17      1     41    0.6
HB0              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
HC               0      0      1      3      1      0      5    0.1
HI               0      1      2      4      4      1     12    0.2
HK               0      1      1      3      1      2      8    0.1
HK0/a            0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
HL               0      0      1      1      3      1      6    0.1
HP               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.0
HR               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
HS               0      0      2      2      6      5     15    0.2
HZ               0      0      1      1      2      1      5    0.1
I                2     22     70     18    100     48    260    4.1
*IG9             1      0      0      0      0      1      2    0.0
IS               0      1      2      2      3      2     10    0.2
*IT9             2      3      6      5      7      9     32    0.5
J6               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
JA               0      1     29      7    316     29    382    6.0
JT               0      1      0      1      1      1      4    0.1
JW               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
JY               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
K                1     13    114   1039    944    122   2233   35.2
KG4              0      0      1      7      2      0     10    0.2
KH0              0      0      1      1      2      1      5    0.1
KH2              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
KH6              0      0      1      3      1      0      5    0.1
KL               0      0      0      6      1      0      7    0.1
KP2              0      1      2      3      4      2     12    0.2
KP4              0      0      1      2      6      3     12    0.2
LA               1      9      4      4      4      4     26    0.4
LU               0      0      2      5      3      8     18    0.3
LX               1      2      5      1      3      1     13    0.2
LY               7     10      4      4      9      7     41    0.6
LZ               1      3      8      3      9      7     31    0.5
OA               0      0      1      2      1      1      5    0.1
OD               0      0      0      1      2      1      4    0.1
OE               0      4     11      2      5      1     23    0.4
OH              16     18     10     12     28     15     99    1.6
OH0              1      2      1      3      3      1     11    0.2
OK               6     10     16      7     12      2     53    0.8
OM               3      9      9      3      1      1     26    0.4
ON               6     10     17      5     16      3     57    0.9
OY               1      1      1      0      0      0      3    0.0
OZ               4      8      4      5      5      5     31    0.5
P4               0      1      3      3      3      2     12    0.2
PA               3     16     27     11     12      2     71    1.1
PJ2              0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
PJ4              0      1      2      2      2      2      9    0.1
PJ7              0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
PY               0      2     11     12     17      5     47    0.7
PZ               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
S0               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
S5               4     14     22      7     15      4     66    1.0
SM               4     11      6      8     10      3     42    0.7
SP              18     34     30      2     19      7    110    1.7
SU               0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.0
SV               1      2      5     11     10     14     43    0.7
SV5              0      0      1      0      0      1      2    0.0
SV9              0      0      1      3      1      1      6    0.1
T8               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
TA               0      2      3      2      1      7     15    0.2
*TA1             0      2      1      1      2      2      8    0.1
TF               1      1      2      4      6      1     15    0.2
TG               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
TI               0      0      1      2      2      1      6    0.1
TK               0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
TR               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
TY               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
UA               7     46     50     13     92     21    229    3.6
UA2              2      3      2      2      2      1     12    0.2
UA9              2     10     16     12     79     30    149    2.3
UK               0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.0
UN               0      1      2      1      9      4     17    0.3
UR               6     18     40      7     48      8    127    2.0
V2               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
V4               0      1      2      2      2      1      8    0.1
V7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
V8               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.0
VE               1      2     19     93     73      3    191    3.0
VK               0      0      4      3     14      4     25    0.4
VP2M             0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
VP2V             0      1      0      1      1      1      4    0.1
VP5              0      2      2      2      2      1      9    0.1
VP9              0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
VR               0      0      1      1      2      2      6    0.1
VU               0      1      2      2      7      5     17    0.3
XE               0      0      0      3      3      0      6    0.1
XU               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
XW               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
YB               0      0      5      1      6      2     14    0.2
YL               1      2      1      3      4      2     13    0.2
YN               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
YO               1     10     11     10     34      1     67    1.1
YS               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
YU               4      8     15      4     11      3     45    0.7
YV               0      1      3      3      9      1     17    0.3
Z3               1      0      3      1      1      1      7    0.1
*Z6              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.0
ZA               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
ZD7              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
ZF               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
ZL               0      0      1      3      8      1     13    0.2
ZP               0      0      1      2      1      1      5    0.1
ZS               0      0      1      1      5      4     11    0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total          182    521    972   1586   2472    612   6345

------------ 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     15     95    525    500    103   1240   19.5
14        73    189    306    116    347    105   1136   17.9
15        79    172    247     94    255    114    961   15.1
04         0      1     35    430    424     23    913   14.4
25         0      1     30      8    318     30    387    6.1
16        15     76     96     23    141     32    383    6.0
03         0      0      5    180     92      0    277    4.4
20         5     23     37     37     66     43    211    3.3
08         0      8     17     31     35     19    110    1.7
17         0      6     12      9     57     21    105    1.7
33         3      7     13      9     20     13     65    1.0
09         0      6     11     15     19     10     61    1.0
18         2      5      5      2     31     10     55    0.9
11         0      2     12     14     18      6     52    0.8
24         0      0      6      3     30     11     50    0.8
21         2      7     10      9     12      9     49    0.8
28         0      0      6      5     10      7     28    0.4
13         0      0      2      7      6      9     24    0.4
26         0      0      2      4      8      8     22    0.3
07         0      0      2      7      6      5     20    0.3
30         0      0      3      1     12      2     18    0.3
40         1      1      3      4      7      1     17    0.3
22         0      1      2      2      7      5     17    0.3
32         0      0      1      5      8      1     15    0.2
27         0      0      2      5      4      3     14    0.2
38         0      0      1      1      6      5     13    0.2
19         0      0      1      2      8      1     12    0.2
10         0      0      2      6      2      1     11    0.2
12         0      0      1      7      1      2     11    0.2
01         0      0      0      7      2      0      9    0.1
39         0      0      1      3      2      3      9    0.1
23         0      1      0      1      5      1      8    0.1
02         0      0      0      4      3      0      7    0.1
36         0      0      1      1      2      3      7    0.1
29         0      0      1      2      2      2      7    0.1
06         0      0      0      3      3      0      6    0.1
31         0      0      2      3      1      0      6    0.1
35         0      0      1      1      1      2      5    0.1
34         0      0      1      0      1      1      3    0.0
37         0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    182    521    972   1586   2472    612   6345

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    3462
2 bands     717
3 bands     232
4 bands     110
5 bands      47
6 bands      13

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

OH0V        DL0CS       OG6N        C4A         ED9K        LX7I        
A71CV       TF4X        PI4CC       CN2AA       DF0HQ       DP7D        
C37N        

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs     70    195    428    890   1587    292




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