K1KI: ARRL CW M/M (long)
frenaye at pcnet.com
frenaye at pcnet.com
Mon Feb 20 04:07:01 EST 1995
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: K1KI Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi Multi
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 1st day
QSO mult
160 97 288 3.0 44 64 38
80 507 1509 3.0 81 279 68
40 1429 4275 3.0 114 908 95
20 1753 5256 3.0 124 1115 106
15 1159 3477 3.0 104 691 88
10 95 282 3.0 42 55 26
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3112 421
Totals 5040 15087 3.0 509 = 7,679,283
Operator List: K1KI K1TO K1CC KC1SJ W1OD W1RM WB1HBB KB1GW
K2SX KJ4KB
Equipment Description:
160: Ground plane w/raised radials
80: Dipole and 4-square
40: 2/2 @ 120/80'
20: 5/4/4 @ 130/99/66, 4L south
15: 5/5 @ 60/105, TH6
10: 5/5 @ 65/95, TH6, 4L south
Xcvr: TS850/TS850/TS940/TS930
Amps: Alpha86/Titan/AL1200/Alpha76A
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Continent Statistics:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America 25 32 37 38 28 23 183 3.6
South America 3 5 16 39 27 34 124 2.5
Europe 66 452 1261 1408 1003 24 4214 83.3
Asia 2 5 65 233 72 0 377 7.4
Africa 3 8 27 21 23 13 95 1.9
Oceania 0 7 29 16 10 2 64 1.3
160 - Didn't spend enough time here, had problems with 80M signal
getting into beverages.
80 - New 4 square works better than the inverted Vee array we used
last Fall, still have more work to do though. Reports from
Europe say we're getting competitive here now. Someone spent
several hours harassing us Saturday evening, and even called on
the telephone once. JH1AEP sounded good Sunday morning, he
didn't hear us though.
40 - Only missed one multiplier we heard, can't remember what it was
though. Seemed like we owned the band, had 121 the first hour.
Had HL9HH, 9M2AX and ST2AA call us in the last hour or so. No
luck on cw calling the ZL7 on 7068 ssb. EA3DKR called in at
least ten times...
20 - Unlike CQWWCW when the top 20M beam was always best, we often
found the 66' 4L beam or the 66/99 combination was better to
Europe. Worked 4S0AA longpath 0214Z Friday night.
15 - The first 4 hours on 15 on Saturday morning were like the good
old days with rates of 103 136 120 and 122! What a rush!
Wonder what the next sunspot peak will be like?
10 - Beams co-located with 15M on the same tower, bad decision...
Will have to change that this summer! 15M signal overloaded us
on 10, plus the powerline noise was a pain - will have to use
some additional leverage on the power company, this has gone on
too long now.
Packet - Had problems with outgoing Talk and DX messages being
truncated using CT9.13. Might relate to having a
PacketCluster node here now and this was the first time the
node had ever been in contest mode. It's hard to believe how
many busted calls were in the packet spots, enjoyed hearing
that K2VV had a couple of false WPX alarms. Especially
appreciated the 18/24 Mhz and SSB spots, including ET3YU (or
XT3YU) every 30 minutes or so the second day. Even so, every
new one helped us out! We'd rather filter them on our end than
not have them at all.
Other stuff
It was 6:15 PM Friday night before any operators arrived, and about
7:15 when stations #3 and #4 were on the air. Still need to learn
how to schedule operators better, we ended up short Saturday night
(sleep needed) and at the end. For a change, most of the planned/
necessary antenna work was completed before the day of the contest,
at least what could be done in the wintertime. Even so, the last two
radials for each 4-square (eight in all) were attached as the sun
set.
Four stations weren't enough to cover all of the open bands around
sunset. Between 21Z and 00Z we needed coverage on 160 to 10 and
didn't have it. Having two non-computer controlled radios made it
tougher to QSY quickly.
We sure had an interesting time comparing notes with the K1AR M/2
crew on the second day. We compared QSOs/mults at the end of the
first day and we were up by 73 QSOs and sixteen multipliers. During
the second day it was really a dogfight (woof!) and they caught up
with us - it ended up in a dead heat (about one multiplier is the
difference!).
2nd day: K1AR was down by 26 QSOs and 5 mults at 0728Z
44 8 0848
67 9 0955
67 9 1130
51 10 1230
48 11 1240
27 5 1720
23 4 1900
30 7 2000
42 5 2030
18 5 2100
13 4 2130
2 5 2200
up by 2 down by 3 2300
up by 14 down by 3 0000
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K1KI ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 39/18 121/27 55/25 1/1 ..... 216/71 216/71
1 10/9 22/7 73/13 26/3 . . 131/32 347/103
2 9/3 18/7 46/14 10/5 . . 83/29 430/132
3 9/6 15/4 37/4 6/1 . . 67/15 497/147
4 6/6 27/4 57/4 2/1 . . 92/15 589/162
5 9/5 25/11 54/7 8/2 . . 96/25 685/187
6 7/2 38/1 53/5 16/9 . . 114/17 799/204
7 8/5 26/5 31/2 11/4 . . 76/16 875/220
8 ..... 8/4 28/1 10/4 ..... ..... 46/9 921/229
9 . 3/3 26/1 7/3 . . 36/7 957/236
10 . 3/1 11/2 24/4 . . 38/7 995/243
11 . 3/1 12/1 135/10 27/19 . 177/31 1172/274
12 . 1/0 10/5 127/6 103/13 . 241/24 1413/298
13 . . 3/0 94/7 136/16 3/2 236/25 1649/323
14 . . . 74/4 120/8 10/8 204/20 1853/343
15 . . . 80/3 122/2 11/8 213/13 2066/356
16 ..... ..... ..... 73/1 57/10 11/1 141/12 2207/368
17 . . . 87/4 36/5 6/3 129/12 2336/380
18 . . 8/0 69/1 26/4 3/1 106/6 2442/386
19 . . 10/0 57/0 9/3 3/2 79/5 2521/391
20 . . 68/2 37/3 6/4 4/1 115/10 2636/401
21 . 1/0 89/0 40/3 6/1 4/0 140/4 2776/405
22 . 21/1 100/5 40/2 21/1 . 182/9 2958/414
23 6/2 27/1 75/2 33/2 15/1 . 156/8 3114/422
0 12/1 45/1 42/0 43/2 ..... ..... 142/4 3256/426
1 3/1 24/0 28/1 4/0 . . 59/2 3315/428
2 4/0 24/2 7/0 4/0 . . 39/2 3354/430
3 1/0 10/2 8/1 1/1 . . 20/4 3374/434
4 1/1 30/1 6/1 . . . 37/3 3411/437
5 4/0 37/1 10/2 . . . 51/3 3462/440
6 2/1 34/2 31/0 . . . 67/3 3529/443
7 2/1 10/1 56/1 . . . 68/3 3597/446
8 ..... 6/1 59/2 1/0 ..... ..... 66/3 3663/449
9 . 4/1 51/0 . . . 55/1 3718/450
10 . . 16/1 14/0 . . 30/1 3748/451
11 . . 10/2 83/2 4/0 . 97/4 3845/455
12 . . 4/0 68/1 106/1 . 178/2 4023/457
13 . . . 49/0 83/2 5/2 137/4 4160/461
14 . . . 45/1 57/0 10/5 112/6 4272/467
15 . . . 44/1 66/3 15/6 125/10 4397/477
16 ..... ..... ..... 49/5 56/1 5/1 110/7 4507/484
17 . . . 50/1 35/3 2/1 87/5 4594/489
18 . . 2/0 62/0 20/0 2/0 86/0 4680/489
19 . . 13/1 50/0 10/3 . 73/4 4753/493
20 . . 38/0 27/0 5/2 . 70/2 4823/495
21 . . 55/2 13/0 3/1 1/1 72/4 4895/499
22 . . 55/2 18/1 26/0 . 99/3 4994/502
23 4/1 6/1 26/3 7/1 3/0 . 46/6 5040/508
DAY1 64/38 277/68 912/95 1121/107 685/88 55/26 ..... 3114/422
DAY2 33/6 230/13 517/19 632/16 474/16 40/16 . 1926/86
TOT 97/44 507/81 1429/114 1753/123 1159/104 95/42 . 5040/508
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E-mail: frenaye at pcnet.com
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093
Phone: 203-668-5444
>From Joe Fitzgerald KM1P <74734.2670 at compuserve.com> Wed Feb 22 16:27:53 1995
From: Joe Fitzgerald KM1P <74734.2670 at compuserve.com> (Joe Fitzgerald KM1P)
Date: 22 Feb 95 11:27:53 EST
Subject: Results, ARRL DX CW from W1YK
Message-ID: <950222162753_74734.2670_EHL157-1 at CompuServe.COM>
Here are the results from W1YK Single Operator, Unlimited, KM1P
opr.
160 1 1
80 36 30
40 127 45
20 480 87
15 371 82
10 28 22
TOTAL 1043 267 834,642
Points go to the Yankee Clipper Contest Club.
My operation was somewhat limited on Saturday due to a 24 hour flu,
so I was not able to meet my goal of 1M pts. I was also humbled
a bit in my first single op in a few years ... it's a lot tougher
worrying about multipliers on 6 bands instead of only one! I had
great fun operating from the club station of may alma matter
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) again after about 8 years of
contesting elsewhere. All of the graduate students who had
projects that used to be RFI'd during contests have since left the
campus, and so far, no problems with current projects, although I
heard stories on Monday about some people in a laboratory two
floors below me enduring some strange problems with an oscilloscope
over the weekend. I didn't volunteer any solutions!
Performance of the station on the high bands was great, 40 OK, but
80 and especially 160 was dismal, mostly due to noise. If I do any
contest work from there again, I will have to get creative for some
low noise antennas. Either a clandestine beverage in the park
across the street, or one of these magical "ewes" that everyone is
talking about. I will also investigate ways of changing bands more
quickly. The station is located in the roof access penthouse of
a 4 story, wood framed laboratory building built in 1888. Rumor
has it that Robert Goddard once did his early rocket experiments
in the same room, until he blew it up and got thrown off campus.
A 60' tower rises above the building and supports the 4 el 20M and
5 el 15M antennas at 130' and 135' respectively. The apex of the
160M and 80M inverted vee's are supported about 10' below the 20
M beam. A 2 el 40 M beam sits at 90' AGL, as does a 6 el 10M
yagi, on separate supports. The rig used was my trusty TS-930S
helped along by a TL-922.
I had to borrow a laptop at the last minute because the computer
that I had planned to use for the contest began acting a bit too
cranky, CT version 9.15 worked OK for me, but the laptop's
function keys were a bit too close to the number keys, and I
managed to crash the program a half dozen times when trying to
change the CW speed.
de KM1P Joe Fitzgerald 74734,2670 at compuserve.com
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