[SCCC] N6WIN 2012 ARRL CW DX SOAB(A) HP
Timothy Coker
n6win73 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 20:12:10 PST 2012
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N6WIN
Operator(s): N6WIN
Station: N6WIN
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: ORG
Operating Time (hrs): 30.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 16 9
80: 68 33
40: 332 90
20: 416 91
15: 433 104
10: 166 57
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Total: 1431 384 Total Score = 1,643,904
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
This became a see if I could beat last year's 1,050,000 point finish after
our
family camping trip plans were cancelled. The previous year's score was
broken
before taking a nice, long, break Saturday evening with the family.
Apparently
I missed out on a great over the pole opening at that point.
Friday night was hot. Saturday morning was open to EU on 20-10 after the
morning 80/40 JA runs. The EU opening Saturday morning was great. Sunday
stunk
and I was glad that I had put in a lot of time on Sat/Fri.
This was my first time operating with a broken antenna. Something is wrong
with
my C31XR's 15m feed line or balun and I didn't devote the time before hand
to
fix it. This was identified as a problem last weekend during the CQ WPX
RTTY. I
thought to use my XM240 as an alternate antenna. The ACOM 2000A control unit
measured 1KW forward and 100W reflected. It worked much better than I could
have expected and produced my best band numbers.
SCCC Thoughts: Craig's antennas at work are the pits... I can't get in
front of him during a pileup. Kurt needs a better 80m/160m setup, if I
can't work him there then he needs to invest lots of time and money on
someone else's foreign property. N6BV kept beating the snot out of me... I
kept wondering how the heck Bill was working me so bad as a SOLP entry...
then after the contest I remembered that N6RV isn't N6BV (the M/M call this
year at N6RO). Lastly N6QQ beat me enough times that I think he was guest
op-ing again... if he did all that from home then I might go to the recycle
yard with some extra aluminum.
Operating equipment:
Elecraft K3
Acom 2000A
Elecraft K3
Alpha 78
LM354HD 54' Tower
Force 12 C31XR
Cushcraft XM240 (also my 15m antenna this time due to 15m yagi failure)
80m inverted-v
160m inverted-L
N1MM latest version
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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0000 0 0 0 11 0 4 15 15 1.0
0100 0 0 0 13 58 3 74 89 6.2
0200 0 0 5 53 0 0 58 147 10.3
0300 0 2 26 0 0 0 28 175 12.2
0400 1 7 22 2 0 0 32 207 14.5
0500 0 3 47 0 0 0 50 257 18.0
0600 1 4 35 4 0 0 44 301 21.0
0700 3 8 21 0 0 0 32 333 23.3
0800 1 5 24 0 0 0 30 363 25.4
0900 0 4 12 0 0 0 16 379 26.5
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 379 26.5
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 379 26.5
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 379 26.5
1300 2 8 26 8 0 0 44 423 29.6
1400 0 3 17 20 0 18 58 481 33.6
1500 0 0 0 29 60 0 89 570 39.8
1600 0 0 0 18 59 1 78 648 45.3
1700 0 0 0 39 38 7 84 732 51.2
1800 0 0 0 31 16 3 50 782 54.6
1900 0 0 0 25 5 6 36 818 57.2
2000 0 0 0 19 5 10 34 852 59.5
2100 0 0 0 8 6 0 14 866 60.5
2200 0 0 0 12 10 29 51 917 64.1
2300 0 0 0 9 29 15 53 970 67.8
0000 0 0 7 3 26 12 48 1018 71.1
0100 0 0 0 0 10 5 15 1033 72.2
0200 0 0 1 23 12 5 41 1074 75.1
0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1074 75.1
0400 1 4 6 22 0 0 33 1107 77.4
0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 77.4
1100 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1108 77.4
1200 1 13 23 0 0 0 37 1145 80.0
1300 5 3 29 0 0 0 37 1182 82.6
1400 1 3 27 0 0 0 31 1213 84.8
1500 0 0 2 12 1 8 23 1236 86.4
1600 0 0 2 1 16 6 25 1261 88.1
1700 0 0 0 8 28 3 39 1300 90.8
1800 0 0 0 6 11 6 23 1323 92.5
1900 0 0 0 1 2 7 10 1333 93.2
2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1333 93.2
2100 0 0 0 26 4 2 32 1365 95.4
2200 0 0 0 5 18 6 29 1394 97.4
2300 0 0 0 8 19 10 37 1431 100.0
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Total 16 68 332 416 433 166 1431
Gross QSOs=1440 Dupes=9 Net QSOs=1431
Unique callsigns worked = 784
The best 60 minute rate was 98/hour from 1721 to 1820
The best 30 minute rate was 108/hour from 1535 to 1604
The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 1535 to 1544
The best 1 minute rates were:
3 QSOs/minute 37 times.
2 QSOs/minute 288 times.
1 QSOs/minute 744 times.
There were 239 bandchanges and 50 (3.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 5 19 33 37 36 32 162 11.3
South America 1 7 17 29 30 52 136 9.5
Europe 0 3 96 201 178 9 487 34.0
Asia 7 33 157 120 151 48 516 36.1
Africa 0 2 11 11 17 8 49 3.4
Oceania 3 3 17 17 20 16 76 5.3
??? 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.3
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Total 16 68 332 416 433 166 1431
73,
Tim / N6WIN.
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