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
     --------------------------------------               ---------
                                                           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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