ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N6BV
Operator(s): N6BV
Station: N6RO
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: East Bay, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 12 10
80: 98 32
40: 344 55
20: 471 85
15: 474 62
10: 12 5
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Total: 1411 249 Total Score = 1,050,282
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Wow, 166 in the first hour on 15, mainly JAs, of course. This is going to be
fun, I thought. Who needs sunspots?
I worked the last JA Friday night 5 minutes into the second hour. Even 20
meters folded about 03 UTC. Wow, this is not going to be fun. And there's only
45 hours left?
Although I really did put a full-bore effort into this contest, I think this is
the lowest score I've had in about 30 years. OK, Mr. Sun. You win: No sunspots,
no fun for almost everyone -- but really, really no fun for W6s. Whine, whine,
whine. There I got that out of my system.
I want to thank my dear friend and gracious host, Ken Keeler, N6RO, who let me
use his magnificent station. Ken also gave me encouragement throughout the
contest, helping keep me in the chair, even if I was wondering why I was
torturing this old body!
There were some fun moments, of course. The N6RO station really does get out
very well and it was great sport to blast through some pretty nasty pileups.
I perfected my S&P and my SO2R skills some, since even from N6RO it was pretty
rare that I could get a real run going, especially on that delightful zoo we
call 20 meters. There are way too few clear spots on 20 when 15 and 10 are not
producing because of lack of sunspots. And what was that loud broadband noise
around 14.233 to 14.235 MHz? Some slow-scan guy putting white noise into his
microphone input to shoo off pesky contesters?
I attach, for your fun and amusement, my continental breakdown. For example, I
worked only 19 Europeans on 15 meters, all S&P. I heard the East Coast working
Europeans on 20 and 15 that were not even ESP here.
Now I'm sure the guys on the East Coast had the same problem working JAs during
this contest. But there are about 10 times more active Europeans than JAs. Yes,
from my ten years back in New England in the 1990s I dearly miss all those
lovely Europeans. Don't get me wrong, JAs are delightful to work, but there's
just not enough of them anymore.)
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N6BV ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... 3/3 166/11 ..... 169/14 169/14
1 . . 3/3 80/16 12/0 . 95/19 264/33
2 . . 18/13 37/1 . . 55/14 319/47
3 . . 15/9 2/0 . . 17/9 336/56
4 . 17/13 . . . . 17/13 353/69
5 3/3 6/3 9/4 . . . 18/10 371/79
6 4/2 7/5 11/1 . . . 22/8 393/87
7 1/1 2/1 60/2 . . . 63/4 456/91
8 ..... ..... 67/3 ..... ..... ..... 67/3 523/94
9 . 5/4 56/3 . . . 61/7 584/101
10 . 8/0 32/1 . . . 40/1 624/102
11 . 10/1 5/0 . . . 15/1 639/103
12 . . . . . . . 639/103
13 . . . . . . . 639/103
14 . . . 19/12 . . 19/12 658/115
15 . . . 48/11 7/7 . 55/18 713/133
16 ..... ..... ..... 14/3 11/6 ..... 25/9 738/142
17 . . . 6/3 22/11 2/1 30/15 768/157
18 . . . 11/4 14/4 1/0 26/8 794/165
19 . . . 24/6 . . 24/6 818/171
20 . . . 14/4 7/4 . 21/8 839/179
21 . . . 33/3 4/1 . 37/4 876/183
22 . . . 26/1 4/0 . 30/1 906/184
23 . . . 12/2 35/1 . 47/3 953/187
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... 108/6 ..... 108/6 1061/193
1 . . 5/3 30/3 19/0 . 54/6 1115/199
2 . . 5/2 12/1 . . 17/3 1132/202
3 1/1 . 3/1 . . . 4/2 1136/204
4 . . 7/4 . . . 7/4 1143/208
5 1/1 2/2 14/5 . . . 17/8 1160/216
6 2/2 . . . . . 2/2 1162/218
7 . . . . . . . 1162/218
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1162/218
9 . . 26/0 . . . 26/0 1188/218
10 . 33/2 3/0 . . . 36/2 1224/220
11 . 8/1 5/1 . . . 13/2 1237/222
12 . . . . . . . 1237/222
13 . . . . . . . 1237/222
14 . . . 19/5 . . 19/5 1256/227
15 . . . 19/2 4/3 . 23/5 1279/232
16 ..... ..... ..... 8/1 9/4 ..... 17/5 1296/237
17 . . . 12/1 3/0 . 15/1 1311/238
18 . . . 10/0 4/0 . 14/0 1325/238
19 . . . 3/0 1/0 . 4/0 1329/238
20 . . . 9/0 8/2 5/3 22/5 1351/243
21 . . . 4/0 13/2 2/0 19/2 1370/245
22 . . . 9/3 7/0 2/1 18/4 1388/249
23 . . . 7/0 16/0 . 23/0 1411/249
DAY1 8/6 55/27 276/39 329/69 282/45 3/1 ..... 953/187
DAY2 4/4 43/5 68/16 142/16 192/17 9/4 . 458/62
TOT 12/10 98/32 344/55 471/85 474/62 12/5 . 1411/249
Continent Statistics
N6BV ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator 4 Mar 2007
2358z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
SSB
North America SSB 8 25 18 46 48 0 145 10.1
South America SSB 3 8 12 41 51 11 126 8.8
Europe SSB 0 2 38 180 19 0 239 16.6
Asia SSB 0 52 218 187 331 0 788 54.7
Africa SSB 0 0 6 4 3 0 13 0.9
Oceania SSB 1 12 55 28 31 2 129 9.0
N6RO antennas:
160 meters: wire Four Square
80 meters: Two 2-ele. wire quads at 130'; wire Four Square
40 meters: Stacked 4L40 M2 at 130'/70'; wire Four Square
20 meters: Stacked 5L20s at 130'/90'/45'
15 meters: Stacked 6L15s at 130'/85' plus stacked 5L15 at 50'
10 meters: Stacked 5L10s at 105'/54' plus stacked 6L10 at 27'
Beverages: Various
Thankfully, the human organism forgets pain pretty quickly. So I'll probably do
this madness again next year. Hope springs eternal in the contest ham's heart!
73, Dean, N6BV
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