[RSM] KE0A ARRL DX Result (Rod)

Mon Feb 20 19:54:56 EST 2017

Call: KE0A
Operator(s): KE0A
Station: KE0A

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: ND
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:
   80:
   40:   15    12
   20:  178    67
   15:   56    33
   10:   17     9
-------------------
Total:  266   121  Total Score = 96,558

Club: Radiosport Manitoba

As has been pointed out by others, conditions weren't too bad on Saturday 
but not so much on Sunday.
Did a lot of band-fill contacts for the "big guys" in the Caribbean which I 
was happy to do.  Definitely
an on-again, off-again effort.  Very busy weekend.  73, Rod

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Today's Topics:

   1. W6NF ARRL DX CW Result (Jack)
   2. VE4VT arrl dx cw result (Ed)
   3. ARRL DX CW - VE6SV - SO 160M (Gord Kosmenko)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:54:38 -0600
From: Jack <vhfplus at gmail.com>
To: rsm at contesting.com
Subject: [RSM] W6NF ARRL DX CW Result
Message-ID: <7d9f7676-1359-5270-11e1-d3971f7b859e at gmail.com>
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>                      ARRL DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: W6NF
> Operator(s): W6NF
> Station: W6NF
>
> Class: SOAB LP
> QTH: MN
> Operating Time (hrs): 7.4
>
> Summary:
>   Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>    160:
>     80:
>     40:    4     3
>     20:   96    53
>     15:   46    32
>     10:    3     3
> -------------------
> Total:  149    91  Total Score = 40,667
>
> Club: Radiosport Manitoba
>
> Comments:
>
> 20, to EU, was quite good Saturday morning and poor Sunday morning. 20 got 
> a bit
> better Sunday afternoon but only to southern EU. 15 was never very good. 
> 10 just
> barely opened and I worked what I could but quite a few stations, 
> especially
> those in SA who were S7-9, here were not hearing me. 40 was uniformly poor 
> for
> me. Working D4C on only one band is almost unheard of! The solar wind must 
> know
> when a contest weekend hits. :<(
>
>
> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:51:01 -0600
From: "Ed" <ed_richardson at shaw.ca>
To: <rsm at contesting.com>
Subject: [RSM] VE4VT arrl dx cw result
Message-ID: <02fb01d28b88$c2097ae0$461c70a0$@shaw.ca>
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Call: VE4VT <http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=VE4VT>
Class: SO Unlimited HP
Summary:

Band

QSOs

Mults

160:

5

4

80:

42

28

40:

147

67

20:

273

91

15:

141

62

10:

13

9

Total:

621

261

Total Score

486,243

A lot of disappointment and Murphy with this contest. I was planning a major
effort but for the second weekend in a row that didn't occur.

Friday night I was distracted early on dealing with family matters. Got on
later to work a few EU on 40 and even 80m.  I have seen the sunrise peak
effect on 80m when it has been my sunrise, but this was the first time I
heard it from the west side of the link. Just before or during the European
sunrise, several EU stations appeared out of the noise and were suddenly
workable on 80.Since my noise is S9, the signals were quite loud.

Missed most of Sunday morning dealing with work emergency. I guess the
melting conditions are causing havoc with old underground wiring.

Other observations

1.      15m to Europe was badly skewed. Instead of aiming at 40-50 degrees
azimuth, best signals were found aiming 90-140 degrees. The skewed path
signals were weak but if aimed direct, they were not copyable.

2.      No 10m at all on Saturday, some weak openings on Sunday.

3.      Worked a pile of Europe on Saturday afternoon local time on 40m.
Starting about 3 hours before sunset, it appears that the auroral oval is
not quite obscuring the path and signals are weak but workable. It also has
the advantage that the east coast is still busy working the higher bands so
there is less competition for their ears and they can pull our weak signals
out.

4.      It was neat working a 4X4 on 40m at 9 AM local time.

5.      The strange 20m path to JA around noon local time was back. A short
period where signals from Japan arrive over the pole  very strong and free
of any flutter.

6.      How can stations be 20/9 and they can't hear you and the next
station is sub ESP level and they get a perfect copy first time?

7.      This was 100% S&P. I only worked 1 QRP station at 5 watts.

8.      Didn't quite get DXCC in a weekend, ended with 99 unique DXCC.

I am not sure if it was a lack of participation or just conditions, but
there wasn't a lot of exotic DX to be heard.

The SSB event in a couple weeks promised to be a real QRM fest with the
whole world stuck on 20m and no place to run.

73 Ed

Prefix

1.8

3.5

7

14

21

28

Tot

4X

1

1

5B

1

1

5R

1

1

6Y

1

2

1

1

5

8P

1

1

1

1

4

9A

4

6

1

11

A3

1

1

C6

2

3

5

CE

1

1

2

3

2

9

CE9

2

2

CM

1

3

4

2

10

CN

1

1

1

3

CT

2

2

1

5

CT3

2

1

1

2

6

CX

1

1

5

1

8

D4

1

1

1

1

4

DL

6

17

3

26

E5/S

1

1

1

3

E7

1

1

2

EA

7

10

9

26

EA6

1

3

1

5

EA8

3

4

1

8

EI

1

1

1

3

ES

1

1

EU

1

1

F

2

4

6

3

15

FK

1

1

2

FM

1

1

2

2

6

FY

1

1

2

G

2

9

1

12

GD

1

1

2

GI

1

1

GM

1

3

4

GU

1

1

GW

1

1

HA

6

12

18

HB

1

2

3

HC

1

1

1

1

4

HI

1

3

1

5

HK

1

1

2

HK0/A

1

1

1

3

HP

1

1

2

I

1

10

16

2

29

IS

1

1

1

3

J3

1

1

J7

1

1

1

1

4

JA

2

13

1

16

KG4

1

1

1

3

KH2

1

1

2

4

KH6

5

5

6

6

1

23

KL

1

1

5

1

8

KP2

2

4

3

3

3

15

KP4

2

4

4

5

15

LU

6

10

1

17

LX

1

1

1

3

LY

2

2

LZ

2

2

OE

1

1

OH

3

3

OH0

1

1

OK

2

9

1

12

OM

4

3

7

ON

1

5

1

7

OZ

2

2

P4

3

3

3

4

3

16

PA

5

5

PJ2

1

1

1

1

1

5

PJ4

1

1

1

1

1

5

PJ5

1

1

PJ7

1

1

PY

1

4

9

20

1

35

PY0F

1

1

S5

10

12

2

24

SM

2

2

SP

2

3

5

SV

1

1

TA

1

1

TI

1

2

2

1

2

8

TZ

1

1

2

UA

4

2

6

UA2

1

1

UA9

1

1

2

UR

1

3

4

V2

1

1

1

3

V3

2

2

3

3

10

V4

1

1

1

1

4

VK

2

1

3

VP2M

1

1

1

1

4

VP5

2

1

2

2

7

VP9

1

1

1

1

4

XE

1

4

4

9

YL

2

2

YO

1

1

YU

3

3

6

YV

1

1

2

2

6

Z3

1

1

2

ZF

1

1

2

2

2

1

9

ZL

1

4

2

5

12

ZS

1

2

3

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:10:27 -0700
From: Gord Kosmenko <gord.kosmenko at gmail.com>
To: rsm at contesting.com
Subject: [RSM] ARRL DX CW - VE6SV - SO 160M
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Hello RSM Folks,

VE6SV himself was active for ARRL DX CW 160M only.

Mainly to "smoke test" the repairs to station one's amp.
The repairs included a design change to the screen bias
switching circuits.

All hardware performed to their respective tasks.

    Qs - 111     DX 31

Heard but could not capture in the log:  HA8MA, D4C, S01WS, DU7ET, HL5

Number of SA stations were not hearing well that resulted in a number of
SA multis not making into the log.

We had wet snow for the weekend and this sure "quieted" the local noise
sources. So much so the TX vertical was my best RX antenna at times.

The next multi-op effort at VE6SV is WPX SSB March 25-26 as a Multi-One
entry.
The station door is always to newcomers to the team.

This spring and summer the station will undergo some major antennas (mostly
on
tower 1) to improve 20M and 40M. As these bands will be the "money" bands
for
the next few years.

Also some changes to antenna selection switching to "de-bottle neck" a
couple of
selection issues that occur on the low bands.

Repairs to the tower 4 40M yagi - element bracket let loose.

ENnoy ham radio!

73, Gord VE6SV

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