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[3830] WP2Z CQWW CW 1997 (Long)

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Subject: [3830] WP2Z CQWW CW 1997 (Long)
From: k4fxn@classic.msn.com (Dan Downard)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 97 19:59:52 UT
                               CQ WW SUMMARY SHEET
    Callsign Used : WP2Z (Island Villa Contest Club)
         Operator : K4FXN
         Category : SINGLE OPERATOR ALL BAND LOW POWER

    BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Countries   Zones
 ___________________________________________________________

  160CW      139         137        280        16         9
   80CW      194         191        431        45        11
   40CW      700         689       1748        73        23
   20CW     1014         990       2499        84        31
   15CW     1216        1194       3193        87        26
   10CW      350         344        870        47        18
 ___________________________________________________________

 Totals     3613        3545       9021       352       118

        Final Score = 4239870 points.
        
        FT-1000D
        TR LOG VER 6.16 w/IBM PS-2 Computer
        160M     DIPOLE @ 30'
         80M     FULL SLOPER (NE)
         40M     C-4 
               402CD @ 20'(FIXED-EU)
         20M-10M C-4 @ 30'
               A-3 @ 10'(FIXED-US)
        ALL ANTENNAS ON THE NORTH EDGE OF 900' HIGH RIDGE

                    Minutes / Rate Summary  WP2Z CQWW CW 1997

HR     160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT   CUM TOTAL
--   ------   ------   ------   ------   ------   ------  ------   ---------
 0    ùùùù     ùùùù    59/118    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   59/118     59/118
 1    ùùùù     ùùùù    60/129    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/129    119/124
 2    ùùùù     ùùùù    60/101    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/101    179/116
 3    ùùùù    25/62    35/139    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/107    239/114
 4   34/104   26/39     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/76     299/106
 5    ùùùù    23/26     ùùùù     6/40     ùùùù     ùùùù   29/29     328/99
 6    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    328/99
 7    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    328/99
 8    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    328/99
 9    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    328/99
10    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    31/139    ùùùù     ùùùù   31/139    359/103
11    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    52/133    8/120    ùùùù   60/131    419/107
12    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    60/152    ùùùù   60/152    479/112
13    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    60/84     ùùùù   60/84     539/109
14    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    56/133    4/120  60/132    599/112
15    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    49/99    11/22   60/85     659/109
16    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    53/166    7/189  60/169    719/114
17    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    13/138   10/54    37/165  60/141    779/116
18    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    26/162    6/70     7/43   39/126    818/117
19    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    45/140   12/45     1/60   58/119    876/117
20    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    13/157   15/24     ùùùù   28/86     904/116
21    ùùùù     ùùùù     6/30    53/182    ùùùù     1/60   60/165    964/119
22    ùùùù     ùùùù    35/115    9/47     4/75     ùùùù   48/99    1012/118
23   11/22    19/41     3/60     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   33/36    1045/115
 0    2/30    15/160   21/37    22/33     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/66    1105/113
 1   23/138   37/123    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   60/129   1165/114
 2    8/120    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    8/120   1173/114
 3    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 4    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 5    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 6    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 7    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 8    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   1173/114
 9    6/20    13/18    25/26     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù   44/23    1217/110
10    ùùùù     3/20     1/60    56/114    ùùùù     ùùùù   60/108   1277/110
11    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    22/79    38/118    ùùùù   60/104   1337/110
12    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    12/125   48/141  60/138   1397/111
13    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    44/93    16/56   60/83    1457/110
14    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    48/109   12/10   60/89    1517/109
15    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù     9/47    20/129   31/124  60/114   1577/109
16    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    33/100   26/129    1/60   60/112   1637/109
17    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    19/13    34/192    7/17   60/115   1697/110
18    ùùùù     ùùùù     ùùùù    33/60    27/180    ùùùù   60/114   1757/110
19    ùùùù     ùùùù     7/34    24/38    12/35     6/40   49/37    1806/108
20    ùùùù     ùùùù    13/28    33/149    ùùùù     ùùùù   46/115   1852/108
21    ùùùù     ùùùù    43/56    15/24     2/30     ùùùù   60/47    1912/106
22    ùùùù     3/20    50/95     3/40     4/15     ùùùù   60/83    1972/105
23    2/60     9/20    26/81    20/123    3/20     ùùùù   60/82    2032/105
D1  0.8/84   1.5/43   4.3/116  4.1/145  5.6/115  1.1/126           17.4/115
D2  0.7/108  1.3/94   3.1/61   4.8/81   4.5/123  2.0/100           16.5/93
TO  1.4/96   2.9/66   7.4/93   8.9/111 10.1/119  3.2/109           33.9/105

      Continent List  WP2Z CQWW CW 1997

                   160    80    40    20    15    10    ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    ---
  USA calls   =    117   121   284   429   362   138   1451
  VE calls    =      6     5    16    24    15    13     79
  N.A. calls  =      8    16    19    16    12     8     79
  S.A. calls  =      2     6     7    12    16    10     53
  Euro calls  =      2    43   346   431   761   167   1750
  Afrc calls  =      2     0     5     7    13     6     33
  Asia calls  =      0     0    10    31     9     1     51
  JA calls    =      0     0     1    29     0     0     30
  Ocen calls  =      0     0     1    11     6     1     19

  Unknowns    =      0     0     0     0     0     0      0

  Total calls =    137   191   689   990  1194   344   3545

First of all, let me thank all who have made Windwood a reality, especially 
Larry Reader, KE2VB and Lorrin Woodman.  This was my first attempt at 
operating from a DX location and it was a blast.  It has been a dream since I 
was a novice.  St Croix is a beautiful island with all of the comforts of 
home, good restaurants, beaches, shopping and a functional competitive contest 
station.  The photos I saw before the trip did not adequately describe the 
location.  You are on the very top of a 900 foot hill with a 360 deg. view of 
the water, the highest house on the island.  The house is beautiful with all 
of the conveniences and probably one the best views in the entire Caribbean.  
I made a checklist of things to take on the trip, and can say now that I 
didn't need anything that wasn't already there.  In fact, I didn't use all of 
the equipment there, such as a backup IC-751.

I set a goal of 4.2MM points using the formula 4200 Qs X 2.45 Pt/Q X 310 C X 
105 Z.  I used WinCap to predict the MUF and planned to operate around 40 
hours.  I beamed Europe when possible.  Last minute reality said that I could 
not stay awake that long and I scaled things back to around 4000 Qs.  I 
figured around 1000 Qs each on 40 thru 15.  As you can see my goals were met 
through a different mix of Qs and mults thanks to a good 10M opening.  In 
retrospect I should have operated more than 34 hours, especially Saturday 
night on 160-40.  I spent a lot of time multiplier hunting due to the lack of 
a second radio, but would do it again.  I would do a quick sweep of the band 
for multipliers whenever a band change was evident.  WinCap missed the 10M 
openings by an hour or so, but was right on on the other bands.  I'll figure 
that out some other time.

Low power operation, even from KP2, presents a different challenge.  On the 
lower bands (160-40) I had trouble maintaining a clear run frequency.  Several 
times I was adjacent to one of the high power boys, and my rate really 
suffered.  I had to move higher in the band.  At the same time the high bands 
were great.  The pileups never died out.  Packet spots are clearly noticeable, 
especially on the East Coast clusters.  It seems like immediately after a spot 
everyone had a 1, or a 3, call. I found it unusual that I had trouble copying 
some of the other Carribean stations, especially on 20-10M.

The high point of the contest for me was sometime on Saturday afternoon.  I 
believe I was on 15M when my wife Judy heated up some hot dogs.  I was eating 
a hot dog and potato chips with my left hand, keying the rig and typing with 
my right hand, and maintaining a last 10 rate on TR of 192 to 234 per hour.  
Credit this endeavor to the excellent NCJ article by W6ISQ a few years back 
about contest food.  Judy read it and is in tune with the proper diet.

Thing that went great:
When running low power follow the MUF.
Run Europe whenever possible.
When changing bands do a quick mult sweep.
Have a plan and stick to it!

Things I would do different next time:
Arrive a few days early instead of the day before the contest. 
Improve the 80 and 160 meter antennas (See previous comment).
Higher goals.
Don't miss easy mults e.g. KP4 on 160M, KP2 on several bands.

Thanks to all who have posted contest commentaries on the various reflectors 
for keeping me from re-inventing the wheel.

Dan K4FXN
k4fxn@msn.com

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