This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------8DF5E749C0D3BD8AFCCF8A6F
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="------------5603CE365ADECF1FFD1B90C7"
--------------5603CE365ADECF1FFD1B90C7
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In the evenings after 0000Z us guys in Texas get a chance to play "catch
up" wityh the East Coast by making scads of Q's while the band is closed
on the East Coast. If we have some good openings, we can try to negate
the Right Coast's advantage into Europe. I'm not sure how well they Did
into Europe, but I only had 32 Q's the first evening. Things started
off right though, with the first Q with JH6SQI who I was waiting to
"pounce" on.
The LU's cranked right in with LU2FA as the second Q. I was able to
snag the JA and VK mults in addition to 4 South American countries. My
last Q Fri evening was JA2ZOH right at 0100Z.
The next morning greeted me with S-6 noise from some activity due to a
small flare, I suppose. (I have no man-made noise sources. Whoopee!)
The noise was apparent from about 80 degrees to 140 degrees-just where I
would like to beam in the mornings. This noise lasted until 1730 here.
I turned south and worked the LU's! My first Q Sat morning was the ever
loud LU6ETB at 1338Z. I picked up EA8ZS at 1400Z and ZS6BBP as my first
ZS at 1428. He must have been pretty loud to make it through the
noise. I pointed the 6 element at about 60 degrees, hoping for Europe
and kept working South America and the Carribbean on the low 5 el fixed
at 130 degrees. I finally tuned across EA7BA and worked him at 1557Z.
At that point, I had barely 50 Q's in the bag for Sat Morning! I
frantically found a frequency and began CQ'ing toward Europe and managed
to "catch" CT98AHU and CT1BH but no more on Saturday.
Prior to the contest, Martin, ZL1ANJ and I had discussed the early ZL
openind and how much trouble they have working us because the beams in
the US are all pointing east. He told me he was going to come to 10 at
about 1900Z. Remembering that and being only on Q number 141 at 1915, I
turned to the Pacific and was immediately greeted by KH7R at 1919. I
then worked ZL2RR at 1928, ZL7DK at 1937, 5W1PC at 1943 and VR6TY at
1949! Things were looking up to the Pacific! At 221 Don, KH8/N5OLS
said I was his first State Side contact. I was especially glad to have
9M6BG call in at 2357 and K4AU/WH1 at 0015. My last Q on Sat night was
with ZL1AGO at 0210.
On Sunday morning the noise was gone, but boy was it slow. Could I have
really worked ALL the LU's?? Well, no, but maybe most of them? I spent
hours CQ'ing to no avail, puncuated by spins up and down the dial
looking for the few new ones. My first Q was at 1357Z with LU2JCW and I
had only worked 15 Q's when, at 1553, I fell across the loud EM1HO in
Antartica (a country I need on 10!) Well he was loud on the 75 foot
high 6-el and tough copy on the 40 foot high 5-el. That woke me up, but
the going was still slow. GD3AHV called on skew path at 1830 while I
was pointing East. He graciously stayed while I verified he was peaking
to the east, however, I worked no more Europeans on Sunday, probably due
to the lateness of the hour.
At 1925 I had only worked 42 stations! That's less than an 8 per hour
average! Talk about slow! Well heck, it worked yesterday lets turn to
the Pacific. I was CQ'ing while the beam was turning and FO5QB called
before I got all the way around! Yeeesss!! Managed to get 3 KL7's
with KL7Y the first at 2004Z. V73AT called at 2131 as well as a
sprinkling of JA's mixed with South America and the Carribbean. My last
Q at 2359 was VK3GEE.
When the dust settled, I had worked 349 QSO's and 60 countries for
62,640 points. I had 95 LU's and, th show the propagation is getting
better, 51 VK's and 13 JA's.
My country totals and rate sheet follow:
--------------5603CE365ADECF1FFD1B90C7
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<HTML>
<TT><FONT SIZE=+1>In the evenings after 0000Z us guys in Texas get a chance
to play "catch up" wityh the East Coast by making scads of Q's while the
band is closed on the East Coast. If we have some good openings,
we can try to negate the Right Coast's advantage into Europe. I'm
not sure how well they Did into Europe, but I only had 32 Q's the first
evening. Things started off right though, with the first Q with JH6SQI
who I was waiting to "pounce" on.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>The LU's cranked right in with LU2FA as the second
Q. I was able to snag the JA and VK mults in addition to 4 South
American countries. My last Q Fri evening was JA2ZOH right at
0100Z.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>The next morning greeted me with S-6 noise from some
activity due to a small flare, I suppose. (I have no man-made noise
sources. Whoopee!)</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>The noise was apparent from about 80 degrees to 140
degrees-just where I would like to beam in the mornings. This noise
lasted until 1730 here. I turned south and worked the LU's!
My first Q Sat morning was the ever loud LU6ETB at 1338Z. I picked
up EA8ZS at 1400Z and ZS6BBP as my first ZS at 1428. He must have
been pretty loud to make it through the noise. I pointed the 6 element
at about 60 degrees, hoping for Europe and kept working South America and
the Carribbean on the low 5 el fixed at 130 degrees. I finally tuned
across EA7BA and worked him at 1557Z. At that point, I had barely
50 Q's in the bag for Sat Morning! I frantically found a frequency
and began CQ'ing toward Europe and managed to "catch" CT98AHU and CT1BH
but no more on Saturday.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>Prior to the contest, Martin, ZL1ANJ and I had discussed
the early ZL openind and how much trouble they have working us because
the beams in the US are all pointing east. He told me he was going
to come to 10 at about 1900Z. Remembering that and being only on
Q number 141 at 1915, I turned to the Pacific and was immediately greeted
by KH7R at 1919. I then worked ZL2RR at 1928, ZL7DK at 1937, 5W1PC
at 1943 and VR6TY at 1949! Things were looking up to the Pacific!
At 221 Don, KH8/N5OLS said I was his first State Side contact. I
was especially glad to have 9M6BG call in at 2357 and K4AU/WH1 at 0015.
My last Q on Sat night was with ZL1AGO at 0210.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT
SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>On Sunday morning the noise was gone, but boy was
it slow. Could I have really worked ALL the LU's?? Well, no,
but maybe most of them? I spent hours CQ'ing to no avail, puncuated
by spins up and down the dial looking for the few new ones. My first
Q was at 1357Z with LU2JCW and I had only worked 15 Q's when, at 1553,
I fell across the loud EM1HO in Antartica (a country I need on 10!)
Well he was loud on the 75 foot high 6-el and tough copy on the 40 foot
high 5-el. That woke me up, but the going was still slow. GD3AHV
called on skew path at 1830 while I was pointing East. He graciously
stayed while I verified he was peaking to the east, however, I worked no
more Europeans on Sunday, probably due to the lateness of the
hour.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>At 1925 I had only worked 42 stations! That's
less than an 8 per hour average! Talk about slow! Well heck,
it worked yesterday lets turn to the Pacific. I was CQ'ing while
the beam was turning and FO5QB called before I got all the way around!
Yeeesss!! Managed to get 3 KL7's with KL7Y the first
at 2004Z. V73AT called at 2131 as well as a sprinkling of JA's mixed
with South America and the Carribbean. My last Q at 2359 was
VK3GEE.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>When the dust settled, I had worked 349 QSO's and
60 countries for 62,640 points. I had 95 LU's and, th show the propagation
is getting better, 51 VK's and 13 JA's.</FONT></TT><TT><FONT
SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<P><TT><FONT SIZE=+1>My country totals and rate sheet follow:</FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT>
<BR><TT><FONT SIZE=+1></FONT></TT> </HTML>
--------------5603CE365ADECF1FFD1B90C7--
--------------8DF5E749C0D3BD8AFCCF8A6F
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Arrlph98.con"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Arrlph98.con"
Continent Statistics
KZ5MM ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST
Single Operator Single Band 8 Mar 1998 1659z
10 ALL percent
North America SSB 50 50 13.7
South America SSB 185 185 50.8
Europe SSB 4 4 1.1
Asia SSB 13 13 3.6
Africa SSB 19 19 5.2
Oceania SSB 93 93 25.5
--------------8DF5E749C0D3BD8AFCCF8A6F
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Arrlph98.cnt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Arrlph98.cnt"
QSO Counts By Band-Country
KZ5MM ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator Single Band 8
Mar 1998 1659z
PRFX 10
5W 1
5X 1
6W 1
8P 2
9J 1
9M6 1
9X 1
A3 1
CE 5
CE9 1
CP 2
CT 2
CT3 1
CX 15
EA 1
EA8 1
FG 1
FJ 1
FM 1
FO 1
GD 1
HH 1
HK 2
HP 2
J3 1
JA 13
KH1 1
KH6 18
KH8 1
KL 3
KP2 2
KP4 24
LU 95
OA 2
P4 3
PJ2 2
PJ7 1
PY 41
TI 1
TT 1
V2 1
V4 1
V5 1
V6 1
V7 2
VK 51
VP2V 1
VP5 1
VP8 1
VP9 1
VR6 1
XE 3
YS 1
YV 9
ZD7 1
ZD8 1
ZL 13
ZL7 1
ZP 7
ZS 9
--------------8DF5E749C0D3BD8AFCCF8A6F
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Arrlph98.brk"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Arrlph98.brk"
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KZ5MM ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator
Single Band
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 31/6 31/6 31/6
1 . . . . . 1/0 1/0 32/6
2 . . . . . . . 32/6
3 . . . . . . . 32/6
4 . . . . . . . 32/6
5 . . . . . . . 32/6
6 . . . . . . . 32/6
7 . . . . . . . 32/6
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 32/6
9 . . . . . . . 32/6
10 . . . . . . . 32/6
11 . . . . . . . 32/6
12 . . . . . . . 32/6
13 . . . . . 6/0 6/0 38/6
14 . . . . . 18/7 18/7 56/13
15 . . . . . 29/16 29/16 85/29
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 14/3 14/3 99/32
17 . . . . . 16/3 16/3 115/35
18 . . . . . 21/3 21/3 136/38
19 . . . . . 16/7 16/7 152/45
20 . . . . . 11/1 11/1 163/46
21 . . . . . 10/0 10/0 173/46
22 . . . . . 21/1 21/1 194/47
23 . . . . . 19/1 19/1 213/48
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 21/2 21/2 234/50
1 . . . . . 18/2 18/2 252/52
2 . . . . . 4/0 4/0 256/52
3 . . . . . . . 256/52
4 . . . . . . . 256/52
5 . . . . . . . 256/52
6 . . . . . . . 256/52
7 . . . . . . . 256/52
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 256/52
9 . . . . . . . 256/52
10 . . . . . . . 256/52
11 . . . . . . . 256/52
12 . . . . . . . 256/52
13 . . . . . 1/0 1/0 257/52
14 . . . . . 5/0 5/0 262/52
15 . . . . . 10/1 10/1 272/53
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 7/1 7/1 279/54
17 . . . . . 4/0 4/0 283/54
18 . . . . . 4/1 4/1 287/55
19 . . . . . 14/1 14/1 301/56
20 . . . . . 10/3 10/3 311/59
21 . . . . . 14/1 14/1 325/60
22 . . . . . 10/0 10/0 335/60
23 . . . . . 14/0 14/0 349/60
DAY1 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 213/48 ..... 213/48
DAY2 . . . . . 136/12 . 136/12
TOT . . . . . 349/60 . 349/60
--------------8DF5E749C0D3BD8AFCCF8A6F--
--
FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/3830faq.html
Submissions: 3830@contesting.com
Administrative requests: 3830-REQUEST@contesting.com
Problems: owner-3830@contesting.com
|