CQWW 160 BREAKDOWN

[Barry Martz]

WANTED: Your hourly rate breakdowns for the 1993 CQWW 160 CW contest.

We (WA8QAF,NM8R,and KI8W) worked the contest last January from NM8R and
would like to see how we did for the time we operated.  Because of lack of
planning, receive antennas and other commitments, we were only able to
operate from 6pm Friday until 2:30 am (local) Saturday.  I would like to
see how we compared with other stations at that point.  I'm actually
trying to talk the guys into doing it again this year but for the whole
contest! 

If you can help, send your breakdowns to ad196 at leo.nmc.edu.

Thanks.  Barry Martz, KI8W


>From Steve Merchant <merchant at crl.com>  Sat Dec  4 17:01:56 1993
From: Steve Merchant <merchant at crl.com> (Steve Merchant)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 09:01:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Two Contests?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9312040956.A7885-0100000 at crl.crl.com>


Dave, here's another look at the same phenomenon:


                                   Continent Statistics    
                  AG6D           Multi Single       28 Nov 1993   2359z

           
                  160     80     40     20     15     10     ALL    PCT


North America       8     27    112    140     74     15     376    15.7
South America       2      6     13     25     23     12      81     3.4
Europe              0     14     54    360     12      0     440    18.4
Asia                2    100    794    264    207      0    1367    57.2
Africa              0      5     10      9      9      3      36     1.5
Oceania             3     10     32     18     21      7      91     3.8


We don't have quite the antenna system you do, and there's no doubt we 
could have spent more time on 80/160 looking for EU, but we did a 
reasonable job from the mult stn picking up spots and s&p'ing throughout 
the contest.  20m on Sunday was very frustrating trying to work EU -- 
(5el on 50' boom @ 90') -- they all sounded like PED -- same signal level 
and frequency.  Difficult to hold much of a rate.

We just hope the JA's stick with us, especially until the cycle turns 
up again.  73, Steve N4TQO.