IARU SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 11-Jul-98, 12-Jul-98
Callsign Used : K5TR
Station Used : W5KFT - Ranch
Catagory : Single Op SSB Only
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Zones
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160SSB 25 25 59 2 5
80SSB 57 57 147 3 10
40SSB 117 117 371 14 21
20SSB 859 843 2935 19 42
15SSB 871 848 3466 21 33
10SSB 86 85 315 4 15
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Totals 2015 1975 7293 63 126
Final Score = 1378377 points.
It was fun to do a single op contest from this station. Now if
I could just talk W5KFT into letting me do this in CQ WW SSB.
160m -- lots of noise - I am sorry if you called me and I never
heard you. I promise to get the beverages up before the
fall contest season.
80m -- lots of noise and not much activity that I could hear.
40m -- Kind of a non-band on SSB when comparied to the CW
totals that I have seen so far. I went down just
before sunset and worked all sorts of HQ stations
in Europe - they had great signals and I was getting
them all quickly. For awhile I had more HQ mults
than Zones on this band. I kept trying to move a
ZL to 40m for the mult and they kept telling me
that they did not do that band!. at 08:20Z
ZL1AW calls in on 20m and tells me he is new to
HF and asks about his ITU zone etc. We work and then
I ask him about 40m and he tells me that he has never
made a contact on that band to the states but he is
willing to try. So he goes and I work him. :-)
It was fun being his first QSO on 40m.
20m -- This band was great - it was open all night long and
really saved me from 40m and a poor score. It was great
being able to work all the EU stations at their
sunrise.
15m -- This was the "best" band for me and I even worked more Europe
on this band than I did stateside. It was still open to
europe very late - but there were not very many stations on.
CT1BOH said I was the only guy other than HC8A coming in at
2350Z and that I was quite loud. The path to JA was not as
good and I did not work very many stations in Japan.
10m -- Did not produce much - the south pacific was good and I worked
just about everyone I could move from 15 m. I tried and tried
to work some EU stations but the path just was not there.
I can almost always work a JA on scatter over the pacific but
I had no luck this time.
6m -- Oh....no that was last month.
I used this contest to work on my two radio skills and even
stayed up late rigging up some relays to swich the mic with
the logging program so that it would work more like the
two radio stuff does on CW. I was very glad I did all the work
and now I am wondering why I waited so long to do it - it made
two radios work much better than ever. I made more than 200
QSOs as a result of having a second rig running and it made the
contest much more intresting. I made 342 band changes also.
The only real trouble was that there were long periods of time
when there was only one band that had much on it so the second
rig was not as useful as it could have been.
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 23 44 58 461 261 35 882
VE calls = 2 7 5 52 26 2 94
N.A. calls = 0 4 5 14 11 7 41
S.A. calls = 0 1 4 12 13 33 63
Euro calls = 0 0 18 142 448 0 608
Afrc calls = 0 0 1 14 11 1 27
Asia calls = 0 0 0 31 12 0 43
JA calls = 0 0 17 74 44 0 135
Ocen calls = 0 1 9 44 23 7 84
Total calls = 25 57 117 844 849 85 1977
HOUR 160SSB 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
12 0 0 0 131 12 0 143 143
13 0 0 0 17 115 0 132 275
14 0 0 0 7 126 2 135 410
15 0 0 0 5 126 0 131 541
16 0 0 0 4 101 9 114 655
17 0 0 0 0 93 14 107 762
18 0 0 0 6 47 23 76 838
19 0 0 0 6 100 4 110 948
20 0 0 0 72 17 2 91 1039
21 0 0 0 20 51 4 75 1114
22 0 0 0 3 45 27 75 1189
23 0 0 0 62 12 0 74 1263
0 0 0 0 70 3 0 73 1336
1 0 1 20 29 0 0 50 1386
2 0 3 3 66 0 0 72 1458
3 0 1 3 68 0 0 72 1530
4 2 2 0 108 0 0 112 1642
5 4 4 0 49 0 0 57 1699
6 7 0 6 74 0 0 87 1786
7 0 6 30 9 0 0 45 1831
8 3 18 22 5 0 0 48 1879
9 7 17 15 3 0 0 42 1921
10 2 4 9 8 0 0 23 1944
11 0 1 9 21 0 0 31 1975
TOTAL 25 57 117 843 848 85
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QSO counts by Zone
1. 08 474
2. 28 293
3. 06 235
4. 07 161
5. 45 135
6. 27 133
7. 29 70
8. 37 43
9. 04 36
10. 14 30
11. 18 29
12. 02 28
13. 11 25
14. 55 20
15. 39 18
16. 09 17
17. 59 17
18. 50 15
19. 61 14
20. 03 12
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George Fremin III "I'm talkin' 'bout that outlaw X
Austin, Texas It's cuttin' through the air.... "
K5TR (ex.WB5VZL)
512/416-7010 -- "Heard it on the X"
geoiii@kkn.net -- ZZ Top
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
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