[WWYC] WPX SSB WM5R (@ K5TR) SOSB10 HP
Kenneth E. Harker
kharker@cs.utexas.edu
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:21:27 -0600
2001 CQWW WPX - SSB
Call: WM5R
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR
Class: SOSB10 HP Unassisted
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Prefixes
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10: 1549
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Total: 1549 x 643 = 2,149,549
Club: Central Texas DX & Contest Club (CTDXCC)
Comments:
Station:
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Kenwood TS-850SAT
Ameritron AL-1500
4-element Cushcraft 10M monobander @ 60'
TR Log
W9XT Contest Card
Heil Proset
A couple weeks before the contest, George K5TR invited me to come
operate the WPX phone contest at his new station. The operating room is
part of a new two-car garage that George and his wife began building a little
over a year ago, with the help of their family and friends. While there is
still some finish work remaining, the operating room is mostly complete. It
features its own small bathroom with a shower, a walk-in closet, wall-to-wall
carpeting, climate control, ceiling fan, lots of electrical outlets for both
110VAC and 220VAC, and is wired for ethernet and telephone.
Now that he has a shack, George has recently begun raising towers, of
which there will initially be five, ranging from 30 feet to 120 feet high.
To test the station out, he put a four-element Cushcraft 10M monobander on
a 60' tower. One objective of the weekend was to smoke out any potential
RFI problems in the house and new garage while operating high power.
I had some previous commitments, so I was unable to operate the entire
contest. I basically missed all of Friday night and had to stop operating
about five hours before the end of the contest on Sunday, so I was on for
just about 23 hours of operating time. My favorite time in the contest
was Saturday night local, running mostly Japanese stations. It was a very
good opening, and I've always enjoyed running JAs more than Europeans. I
thought the Saturday morning local opening to Europe wasn't as good as it
was on Sunday morning local.
I tried to exercise the limits of my foreign language abilities
when I thought it would be useful, and there were a few QSOs where using
Spanish numerals helped to complete the exchange. There were two exceptions
to this, one was an Argentine station, obviously not participating in the
contest, who decided that I must speak Spanish and began to converse upon
something, at great length. It took me a while to extricate myself from
that one. Another time was when I was struggling to complete an exchange
with a very weak low power Spanish station, and some uppity east coaster
decided to inform me that his Spanish was much better than mine. Anyway,
I'll probably try to brush up on both my Spanish and my Japanese before the
next one...
Although not the point of the contest, I worked some interesting
DX. An Botswana (EX) station called in (twice,) I worked multiple stations
in Kyrgystan (EX,) and stations in Djibouti (J28,) Svalbard (JW,) Jordan (JY,)
Egypt (SU,) Turkey (TA,) Central African Republic (TL,) and Kazakhstan (UP.)
One U.S. station informed me that his serial number was "Seven hundred twenty
dollars and fifty cents."
It was a lot of fun, and even as simple as it sounds, this station is
a vast improvement over my usual "home" station, N5XU, the club station at
the University of Texas. The location at K5TR is superb. When George puts up
his stacks of monobanders, it will be even better.
2001 CQ WPX Phone - WM5R (@ K5TR)
HOUR 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
3 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
5 0 0 0
6 0 0 0
7 0 0 0
8 0 0 0
9 0 0 0
10 0 0 0
11 0 0 0
12 12 12 12
13 59 59 71
14 76 76 147
15 75 75 222
16 76 76 298
17 93 93 391
18 112 112 503
19 70 70 573
20 38 38 611
21 87 87 698
22 90 90 788
23 111 111 899
0 100 100 999
1 69 69 1068
2 25 25 1093
3 3 3 1096
4 0 0 1096
5 0 0 1096
6 0 0 1096
7 0 0 1096
8 0 0 1096
9 0 0 1096
10 0 0 1096
11 0 0 1096
12 13 13 1109
13 65 65 1174
14 88 88 1262
15 67 67 1329
16 68 68 1397
17 70 70 1467
18 78 78 1545
19 4 4 1549
20 0 0 1549
21 0 0 1549
22 0 0 1549
23 0 0 1549
(Keep in mind that the numbers below reflect two openings into Europe, but
only one into Japan/East Asia/Pacific.)
Continent List 2001 CQ WPX Phone - WM5R (@ K5TR)
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 598 0 0 0 598
VE calls = 0 0 0 0 0 86 0 0 0 86
N.A. calls = 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 23
S.A. calls = 0 0 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 56
Euro calls = 0 0 0 0 0 476 0 0 0 476
Afrc calls = 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 11
Asia calls = 0 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 25
JA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 261 0 0 0 261
Ocen calls = 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 13
Total calls = 0 0 0 0 0 1549 0 0 0 1549
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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