CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: KS9K
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 31
80: 220
40: 293
20: 405
15: 54
10: 2
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Total: 1005 Prefixes = 509 Total Score = 1,297,441
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
OPERATING TIME: 35:44:38
CQ COUNTER: 2356
RUN/SEARCH: 215/792 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 757
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.77.0 http://www.tr4w.net
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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160SSB 31 31 64 15
80SSB 220 220 595 102
40SSB 294 293 755 142
20SSB 406 405 974 225
15SSB 54 54 155 25
10SSB 2 2 6 0
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Totals 1007 1005 2549 509
Final Score = 1297441 points.
2019 CQ-WPX-SSB KS9K
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
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USA calls = 22 133 188 105 0 0 448
Canada calls = 6 28 27 18 0 0 79
NA calls = 0 2 7 15 7 0 31
SA calls = 2 3 15 38 46 2 106
Euro calls = 0 47 43 207 0 0 297
African calls = 1 6 7 10 1 0 25
Asian calls = 0 0 2 8 0 0 10
Japan calls = 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Ocean calls = 0 1 5 2 0 0 8
Unknown calls = 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Total calls = 31 220 294 406 54 2 1007
Unknowns on 20 = 4U1A
This WPX contest was a learning experience. Steady rain on
Saturday afternoon was accompanied by heavy precipitation
static on the top antennas on all bands. I have noticed this
before, but the ICOM 7610 seemed to magnify the problem.
It is interesting that the full size 40 meter beam at the top
of the tower does not provide any noise reduction to the
top 15 meter beam 20 feet below it.
The atmospheric noise continued to worsen as the rain changed
over to wet snow later Saturday aftenoon. Then close-by
lightning forced me to QRT for an unplanned hour break.
When I sat back down at 0055Z both 160 meter antennas had
very high SWR, as did several of my new fixed tribanders. The
10-40 meter monobanders seemed ok. The YCCC receiving array
seemed just as noisy (S/N wise) as the 4 square and 160 meter
wires.
At this time the QRN was so high that the ICOM 7610 was
unusable even with the maximum 45 dB attenuation, IPO+ on,
and Digi-Sel on the 40 meter beam. The Yaesu was usable with
the DNR set at 8, and no other changes necessary except
tolerance of some hash.
By daybreak Sunday 2 inches of very wet snow had fallen,
and I could plainly see the guy ropes of my 80 meter
4 square 400 feet from the kitchen window, as well as
the 160m wires coated with the now-frozen wet snow.
My wife was unable to open the doors to leave the house
until Monday morning when I went out the back and chiseled
the ice from the front doors.
The snow melted from the wires and ropes and tribanders
by Tuesday and everything seems back to normal. All the
affected antennas are non-moveable. The yagis which rotate
didn't seem to have the problems. I guess I moved them
frequently enough to keep them clean!
So, relatively little low band activity was possible here
the second night (and Sunday night) which definitely hurt the
score here, but I guess it was not in the cards to
catch N9NB. My score was flat from last year, while the
number of QSOs was down 15 percent and the mults down a
few, too. Go figure that!
While thunderstorm timeouts are unfortunately common here
in the CQ WPX CW contest, at least I won't have to worry
about freezing precipitation detuning the antennas.
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