[SCCC] ARRL DX SSB VP9I M/S LP
Timothy Coker
n6win73 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 14:42:46 PST 2012
Thanks to ALL SCCC members who worked us and of course to those of you
running assisted that spotted us. It was amazingly difficult to get
something going as a LP station in this SSB contest without the spots. Kurt
wrote in a past 3830 that he believes most casual operators were point and
clicking in this contest... this is something I also feel strong about now.
The following SCCC stations were worked on 4 bands:
AA6PW K6NA N6ED N6QQ N6WS NX6T WN6K
A special note that only FOUR stations from California were worked on 80m
(None on 160m) of which K6NA and N6QQ made the long haul on 80m.
I want to mention that the 19 rate first hour was entirely due to my
inexperience in local propagation. I knew that the one who runs the most
would win, but I just couldn't get ANYTHING started on 40 or 80. I felt
nearly helpless and did some S&P just to ensure that RF was flowing out of
the antennas. In retrospect a trip to 20m should have been in my mental
list of options. I now understand what it is to be a LP station among a
hoard of HP power houses.
More thoughts to follow as my workload allows.
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 4 15 0 0 0 19 19 0.4
0100 0 0 140 0 0 0 140 159 3.1
0200 0 1 125 0 0 0 126 285 5.6
0300 0 0 107 1 0 0 108 393 7.7
0400 0 51 0 23 0 0 74 467 9.2
0500 28 19 21 1 0 0 69 536 10.6
0600 1 0 72 2 0 0 75 611 12.0
0700 11 36 0 0 0 0 47 658 13.0
0800 1 8 57 0 0 0 66 724 14.3
0900 14 18 34 0 0 0 66 790 15.6
1000 9 0 75 0 0 0 84 874 17.2
1100 0 0 44 12 0 0 56 930 18.3
1200 0 0 0 80 24 0 104 1034 20.4
1300 0 0 0 190 0 0 190 1224 24.1
1400 0 0 0 82 9 0 91 1315 25.9
1500 0 0 0 44 73 4 121 1436 28.3
1600 0 0 0 0 0 126 126 1562 30.8
1700 0 0 0 0 28 90 118 1680 33.1
1800 0 0 0 0 218 1 219 1899 37.4
1900 0 0 0 0 192 0 192 2091 41.2
2000 0 0 0 135 16 0 151 2242 44.2
2100 0 0 0 177 1 0 178 2420 47.7
2200 0 0 0 205 0 0 205 2625 51.8
2300 0 0 0 171 0 0 171 2796 55.1
0000 15 0 57 2 1 0 75 2871 56.6
0100 17 144 0 0 0 0 161 3032 59.8
0200 61 51 0 0 0 0 112 3144 62.0
0300 68 31 0 0 0 0 99 3243 64.0
0400 5 1 126 0 0 0 132 3375 66.6
0500 26 0 55 0 0 0 81 3456 68.2
0600 10 33 0 0 0 0 43 3499 69.0
0700 14 0 35 0 0 0 49 3548 70.0
0800 2 3 12 0 0 0 17 3565 70.3
0900 14 11 28 0 0 0 53 3618 71.3
1000 0 37 24 0 0 0 61 3679 72.5
1100 0 0 49 3 0 0 52 3731 73.6
1200 0 0 2 97 1 0 100 3831 75.5
1300 0 0 0 115 0 0 115 3946 77.8
1400 0 0 0 21 73 0 94 4040 79.7
1500 0 0 0 1 87 0 88 4128 81.4
1600 0 0 0 0 116 0 116 4244 83.7
1700 0 0 0 2 49 3 54 4298 84.8
1800 0 0 0 45 3 10 58 4356 85.9
1900 0 0 0 4 66 0 70 4426 87.3
2000 0 0 0 49 56 1 106 4532 89.4
2100 0 0 0 219 0 1 220 4752 93.7
2200 0 0 0 153 0 0 153 4905 96.7
2300 0 0 0 165 0 0 165 5070 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 296 448 1078 2000 1013 236 5071
Gross QSOs=5132 Dupes=61 Net QSOs=5071
Unique callsigns worked = 3215
The best 60 minute rate was 228/hour from 2049 to 2148
The best 30 minute rate was 266/hour from 2119 to 2148
The best 10 minute rate was 306/hour from 2203 to 2212
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 1 times.
7 QSOs/minute 4 times.
6 QSOs/minute 37 times.
5 QSOs/minute 116 times.
4 QSOs/minute 278 times.
3 QSOs/minute 386 times.
2 QSOs/minute 610 times.
1 QSOs/minute 742 times.
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2210
2 bands 521
3 bands 248
4 bands 132
5 bands 77
6 bands 27
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
K1LZ WG3J K3LR W3LPL W2YC K2AX
W0AIH N0IJ WA3F W3OA N2QT K3MD
K0RF KB1H K9CT K3XC K1KI KF2O
WE3C K5EK N4ZC W4RM K4IKM N3ZA
N3RS N4RA N5AA
73,
Tim / N6WIN.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:20 PM, <W6ph at aol.com> wrote:
> ARRL DX Contest, SSB
>
> Call: VP9I
> Operator(s): W6PH N6WIN
> Station: VP9I
>
> Class: M/S LP
> QTH: Bermuda
> Operating Time (hrs): 48
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Mults
> -------------------
> 160: 296 40
> 80: 448 50
> 40: 1078 58
> 20: 2000 61
> 15: 1013 55
> 10: 236 36
> -------------------
> Total: 5071 300 Total Score = 4,563,900
>
> Comments:
>
> Radio: K3 N1MM Logger
>
> Antennas: 160m Inv L (40 ft vertical)
> 80m Double G5RV dipole
> 40m KA Dipole
> 20m-10m Cushcraft A4S
>
> I had originally planned a SO as I have for the last 11 years. Tim,
> N6WIN, had
> operated with us at our K6Z County Expedition (Cal QSO Party) and
> mentioned that
> he would like to go on a contest expedition. One thing led to another and
> we
> decided to team up for the ARRL DX Phone under M/S splitting our operating
> time
> 50/50. Tim made up a schedule which allowed us to operate the same times
> on one
> day or the other. We used four or six hour operating times and it worked
> out
> very well.
>
> Last year I started on 40m and had a 200 hour. So we thought that would
> be a
> good start. But we didn't know how bad the lower bands were going to be
> and we
> were 300 contacts behind my last year operation at sunrise on Saturday.
> The low
> bands were just noisy and weak. Saturday night was much different and the
> low
> bands seemed normal which allowed us to work many stations in the west
> that we
> hadn't been able to work on Friday night. In retrospect we should have
> started
> on 20 meters.
>
> Despite being behind on Saturday morning, the high bands were very
> productive
> during the day on Saturday and we were able to work most of the US on 10m
> except for the southeast (W4 land) and the northwest. W1, W2, and W3 were
> workable but not as strong as the Caribbean stations experienced. After
> the
> first 24 hours we were back up to only 100 contacts behind. As a single
> op, I
> usually sleep from 04 UTC until 09 UTC. Tim had that shift and we were
> 200
> contacts ahead by sunrise. However, band conditions on the upper bands
> had
> deteriorated and we only worked about 15 stations on 10m on Sunday due to
> the
> poor propagation. I had originally set a goal of 5000 Qs and Tim had
> said
> 6000. With only 3 hours to go it looked like we were both wrong as we
> only had
> about 4500 Qs. From past experience I knew that the closing hours could
> be very
> productive on 20m and we had our best consecutive three hours on 20m. I
> was in
> the seat. At 22 UTC, I grabbed Tim and told him to operate the next hour
> so he
> could see how well we were doing. I finished up the last hour with 160
> contacts.
>
> The big signals that I remember were those of K6NA, NX6T, N6QQ, N6WS, and
> AA6PW. And it was good to get the low power guys in the log, WN6K,
> KI6QDH,
> and KQ6ES to name a few. Tim had a better idea of Who's Who on this.
>
> The QTH of VP9GE is on a rise about 150 feet above sea level and the
> antennas
> are roughly 20 to 30 feet high and the sea is about 400 meters away. It
> is a
> very good location for low power (the permitted power limit in VP9).
>
> We don't have the propagation that the Caribbean stations have which is a
> handicap. We have better propagation on 160 and 80 because of our
> proximity to
> the US but never get the volume of contacts to offset the Caribbean
> advantage on
> 15 and 10 meters.
>
> Tim was a great partner and has great contesting skills. Our numbers were
> pretty much equal in all respects. This was my first shot at a small
> multi
> operation and I thought it was very successful, especially letting me get
> some
> rest!
>
> This was my 12th year operating the ARRL DX Contests from VP9GE. Ed has
> been a
> great host and just an exceptional person all the way around. Ask anyone
> who
> has ever been there.
>
> 73, Kurt, W6PH
>
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