K7FD SS Phone Results...
John D. Nicholson
jnichols at ednet1.osl.or.gov
Mon Nov 20 10:59:38 EST 1995
Never did work all them precedents (Did anyone ever
find Calvin Coolidge?) but had a lotta fun trying...
Final: 77 Q's, 77 Sections ...hey I have a bad case
of bronchitis so decided to keep Q's to a minimum...
Hi-Lite: Final Section Mississippi at 20:04 Sat...
Rig: IC775DSP, Quad on 20/15/10, Dipole 80/40...
73, John K7FD
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>From peterj at netcom.com (Peter Jennings) Mon Nov 20 19:29:02 1995
From: peterj at netcom.com (Peter Jennings) (Peter Jennings)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:29:02 -0800
Subject: Anyone in SF
Message-ID: <199511201929.LAA17666 at netcom21.netcom.com>
N7IXG asked:
>
> LOW-point: Does anyone REAL live in NFL?? or SF?? missing sweep by 2...
Well many of the people living in SF are interesting, and REAL
may not be the operative description, but there seemed to be a shortage
of contesting hams this weekend.
I have counted on N6RA calling me on backscatter in every contest
needing SF for about the last 5 years, and he was sorely missed this
year. I guess I got spoiled.
On Sunday afternoon, with 76 down and 1 to go, I tuned up and down
the bands listening only to weak backscatter signals until I finally
found AA6YX calling CQ with no takers. The first try, he gave up on me
as unreadable after several minutes of callsign and exchange guessing <sigh>,
but about 5 minutes later, I peaked his signal with the beam southeast
(he is due north from here), and managed to get through after several
more repeats. Thanks to everyone who was not calling him and thanks to
him for his patience.
It did give me the opportunity to try CQing a while on 10 meters in
hope of finding a SF tech up there, so I got 8 Qs with locals in
the 1 digit serial number range, and 3 east coast stations
who were also foolish enough to be on 10. There were lots of signals
from South America, though.
Other than that exercise and the usual debates over frequency
homesteading, it was a fun weekend and I made my goal of 2,000 Qs
combined CW and Phone.
AB6WM S/O B 1090 x 77 for 167,860 (18.3 hr)
FT-1000D, Alpha 87A. 10/15/20: 3 el Quad 55ft, 80/40: 60m vertical loop
Peter
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http://mall.turnpike.net/~jc/v31dx.html
>From Chad Kurszewski WE9V <kurscj at oampc12.csg.mot.com> Mon Nov 20 19:32:21 1995
From: Chad Kurszewski WE9V <kurscj at oampc12.csg.mot.com> (Chad Kurszewski WE9V)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:32:21 -0600
Subject: WE9V SS Phone 95 + analysis (VERY long)
Message-ID: <199511201932.NAA15358 at OAMPC12.csg.mot.com>
For Jim/ZXA:
Call: WE9V (at KS9K)
Class: B
Section: WI
Score: 285,670
Q's 1855
Multi's 77
Hours Wrkd 24
For everyone else:
SWEEPSTAKES SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : WE9V
STATION USED : KS9K
Category : S/O High Power, UNassisted
Team/Club : Society of Midwest Contesters
BAND QSOs
__________________
Two new FT-1000MPs, four homebrew monoband amps
80SSB 981 2el @ 168' Ummm....did I do that?
40SSB 307 3/3 @ 84/168' SE, 2el @ 110' SW
20SSB 360 5/5/5 SE, 5el @ 165' SSW
15SSB 207 5/5/5 W, 5el @ 135' SE
__________________
Totals 1855 77
Final Score = 285670 points.
Comments:
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New Wisconsin record. #2 W9 record....only 60 Q's away. Watch out W9RE!
That PINS program must REALLY be helping.
First few hours rate: 103, 128 (15M), 90, 75, 101 (80M)
Can't believe almost a kilo-Q on 80M. Has that ever been done before
on 80M for SS?
The beverages on 80 were a godsend. I can't believe how directive they
are for being as short as they are (~600'). I'm not sure I would have
had half as many Qs on 80 without them. The 2el beam is a great antenna,
but it sure takes a lot of time rotating it. This weekend I touched
the rotator a TOTAL of TWO times...west late sat and back east sun morn.
ALL equipment worked flawlessly. I guess we're finally getting the bugs
ironed out. Maybe it's to to rebuild the station?
Big thanks to my host, KS9K, for control over the mega-station. I think
its about time to change my station address to KS9K's QTH :)
Massive analysis:
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First, some info that is needed to qualify this data. 95.2% of my QSOs
were from CQing. Only 88 QSOs were S&P style.
Power Usage:
of of of of of of of of of
all tot 80M tot 80 40M tot 40 20M tot 20 15M tot 15
QSOs 1855 981 53% 307 17% 360 19% 207 11%
A power 1251 67% 620 50% 63% 234 19% 76% 251 20% 70% 148 12% 71%
B power 548 30% 334 61% 34% 63 11% 21% 102 19% 28% 49 9% 24%
Q power 56 3% 27 48% 3% 11 20% 4% 8 14% 2% 10 18% 5%
This table is a little busy, but it has a lot of data. "of tot" is the
percentage of total QSOs for that line. "of 80" means the percentage
of the QSOs on 80. So, for A power, I worked 50% (620) of all my A power
contacts (1251) on 80M. Of the QSOs on 80M (981), 63% (620) used low
power.
So, 67% use low power and a measly 30% use the amp, or so they say :).
Does it surprise anyone that 80M has the highest percentage of amp users
and the lowest percentage of 100 watters?
How about those people seeking PINS?
#1's received 69 4% of total Qs
<#50 received 756 41%
<#100 received 1193 64%
<#200 received 1563 84%
Okay, now for some section data:
(some things to keep in mind is my section, WI, and most of my Qs were on 80)
10 Most abundant sections: 10 (or so) least worked sections:
Rank Section # wkd Rank Section # wkd
1 OH 83 67 WTX 7
2 VA 81 68 MS 7
3 EPA 71 69 SD 6
4 MDC 71 70 DE 6
5 MI 71 71 ND 5
6 WNY 66 72 MB 4
7 IL 59 73 PAC 4
8 NNJ 53 74 SK 4
9 WWA 50 75 VI 3
10 ENY 50 76 PR 2
77 NWT 1
Last 5 Sections worked:
# SEC Time worked Total # finally wrkd
73 ND 03:19z 5
74 ME 03:20 11
75 SK 03:40 4
76 IN (!) 05:41 20
77 DE 06:42 6
Usually difficult sections to work:
Section Station Time Hrs into Test Total Wrkd
NWT VY1JA 2322 2:22 1 Tnx Bruce (& Jay)
PR WP4Q 2341 2:41 2 (+KP4BZ on 75M)
VI KP2/KE2VB 0225 5:25 3 Tnx Larry
MAR VE9ZL 0141 4:41 8
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Chad Kurszewski, WE9V e-mail: Chad_Kurszewski at csg.mot.com
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