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Subject: NK7U CQWW SSB M/S
From: stuthill@micron.net (stuthill@micron.net)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 96 21:37 MST
                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996


      Call: NK7U                     Country:  United States
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Multi Single

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


      160       57       70     1.23     11      15
       80      123      305     2.48     19      45
       40      178      499     2.80     26      59
       20      842     2265     2.69     34     119
       15       93      251     2.70     18      47
       10        0        0     0.00      0       0
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   1293     3390     2.62    108     285  =>  1,332,270

Operator List: NK7U, W7ZRC, AB7CZ, N7BZ, AA7TF

Equipment Description:
160M: 1/4 wave elevated ground plane with 3 elevated radials. 
      The feed point is elevated 15' up. (Yes this is an 
      elevated antenna, not a ground mounted vertical.)
 80M: Joe's famous 3 element beam at 180', also a rotatable
      dipole at 200'
 40M: 4/4 KLMs at 190/92' on TIC rings -- the big ones for AB105.
 20M: 5/5/5/5 with top one around 185' fixed EU. 6/6 at about 
      134/67' on TIC rings.
 15M: 6 el at about 65' sidemounted
 10M: Nothing

Rigs: 2 * TS-950S, 1 TS-950SDX
Amps: An Alpha and an Amp Supply (plus an Amp Supply that 
      died.)
 S/W: CT 9.27 which worked great in a 3 station loop network
PC's: An old Northgate, Compaq, and Clone. All 386's with 
      8-10MB of RAM. (Thanks to AB7CZ who works for Micron.)

This antenna setup is pretty impressive considering 1 week before 
the contest the only antennas completely up and wired were the 80M 
beam and the 6/6 20M stacks. The 15M antenna came on line about 
23:50 UTC Friday. Joe is still working on getting his station 
rebuilt from his move 3 years ago -- but there is light at the end 
of the tunnel. All four towers are up and the 40M and 80M antennas 
are basically complete. On 160M Joe is contemplating replacing the 
ground plane with a 4 square and is in the process of building a 
Force 12 rotating dipole that will go up at 190'. (Can't wait to 
try this in the upcoming 160M contests!) Still to come are fixed 
10 and 15 4 stacks on EU and JA and a rotating 3 stack for each 
band. Also, a third 6 el 20 will be added for a 6/6/6 all on TIC 
rings.

This was the first time in recent memory that we ran M/S for SSB. 
With only 4 operators for most of the contest our usual M/M would 
be a little silly. Also, 1 hour before the contest started one of 
the 3 amps we had suffered a fatal heart attack really only giving 
us two stations. This event turned out to be just the beginning of 
a series of problems we had during the weekend from foot switches 
that broke, to extremely high winds all day Saturday that made it 
hard to turn the antennas, to a broken rotator on the 80M dipole, 
to ... well I am just whining now but you get the idea.

All in all though fun was had by all. Reading other's posting made 
us feel bad we missed some fun 15M and 10M opening enjoyed by 
those farther south and east. Though we did not have an antenna up 
on 10M we hooked a spare receiver to the 80M dipole and had it 
scan 28300-28500 all day Sunday.  Not once did anyone hear 
anything but white noise coming out of the speaker. There sure did 
not seem to be any 10M propagation into the northwest. The new 20M 
4 stack was fun to play with and by all comments received we were 
VERY LOUD in Europe. But other than for a short period on Saturday 
morning we could not keep a EU run going for more than 2-4 Q's. On 
Sunday the propogation seemed just enough poorer that we could not 
hear the 2nd and 3rd tier stations we are sure were replying 
to our CQ's. As others have said it will be good for the spots to 
return and spread the stations out across the bands again. The 6/6 
20M aimed at JA was a blast. We had great runs going and several 
times broke 200/hr on the last 10 rate meter. It was also fun to
aim it at the VR6MW pileup and get through on the first call. 
(If I remember NK7U should be in their log right after KM9P!)
Similarly we were often one of the few west coast stations breaking
though the pileups buzzing around the Africa stations. Though the 
40M stack was up for its first test we seemed to have more trouble making 
Q's than we did during the ARRL when just the top one was up. We 
had more than double the 40M Q's in ARRL. Though I also echo the 
comments of others that 40M seems to be getting worse in terms of 
how low stations operate and much out of band QRM by US stations I 
came across. The term "Total Anarchy" is beginning to come to 
mind. (By the way did any others out there notice the comment by 
one of our JA friends about 10M S9+ QRM they are experiencing from 
Chinese cab drivers! And I was so looking forward to 10M 
propogation returning to JA.) The 80M beam worked great again. Joe 
had some great JA runs with it just before our sunrise. The 
highlight though was Joe working HS1AZ on it about 45 minutes after 
our sunrise Sunday morning. Joe was talking about it all the rest
of the day.

If you would like to see photos and more info on the NK7U super 
station drop by the NK7U Home Page at: 
netnow.micron.net/~jcullum/html/nk7u.htm

Following are our rate sheets and other stats.. 

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  NK7U  CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST  Multi Single

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT  

   0    .....    .....    .....    54/11     4/4     .....    58/15   58/15 
   1      .        .      19/16    35/5       .        .      54/21  112/36 
   2      .        .      12/7      4/0       .        .      16/7   128/43 
   3      .        .       7/4       .        .        .       7/4   135/47 
   4      .       2/2      1/1      7/1       .        .      10/4   145/51 
   5      .        .       5/1     11/3       .        .      16/4   161/55 
   6      .       9/8      6/2       .        .        .      15/10  176/65 
   7    11/10    21/13     4/4       .        .        .      36/27  212/92 
   8    .....     4/2      3/3     .....    .....    .....     7/5   219/97 
   9      .        .      36/1       .        .        .      36/1   255/98 
  10      .       1/1     15/4       .        .        .      16/5   271/103
  11      .       3/1     13/0       .        .        .      16/1   287/104
  12      .       4/1     14/1       .        .        .      18/2   305/106
  13      .       3/1     12/1       .        .        .      15/2   320/108
  14      .       2/0       .       8/8       .        .      10/8   330/116
  15      .        .        .      30/15      .        .      30/15  360/131
  16    .....    .....    .....    63/12    .....    .....    63/12  423/143
  17      .        .        .      42/7      9/9       .      51/16  474/159
  18      .        .        .      25/8      4/4       .      29/12  503/171
  19      .        .        .      38/2      5/4       .      43/6   546/177
  20      .        .        .      42/3      4/4       .      46/7   592/184
  21      .        .        .      15/10    20/5       .      35/15  627/199
  22      .        .        .      77/8      5/2       .      82/10  709/209
  23      .        .       1/1     77/8      2/0       .      80/9   789/218
   0    .....    .....     1/2    104/1      1/1     .....   106/4   895/222
   1      .       2/2      1/1     53/0       .        .      56/3   951/225
   2      .       3/1     10/6       .        .        .      13/7   964/232
   3     5/1       .       2/1       .        .        .       7/2   971/234
   4     6/0      3/2      1/1       .        .        .      10/3   981/237
   5     2/2      3/1      3/1       .        .        .       8/4   989/241
   6     1/1       .       5/1       .        .        .       6/2   995/243
   7     1/1       .       4/0       .        .        .       5/1  1000/244
   8    .....    11/2     .....    .....    .....    .....    11/2  1011/246
   9     1/1      2/2       .        .        .        .       3/3  1014/249
  10     2/1       .        .        .        .        .       2/1  1016/250
  11    27/1       .       1/1       .        .        .      28/2  1044/252
  12      .       4/1       .        .        .        .       4/1  1048/253
  13     1/0     33/3      1/1       .        .        .      35/4  1083/257
  14      .      13/4       .      14/4       .        .      27/8  1110/265
  15      .        .       1/1     21/3      1/1       .      23/5  1133/270
  16    .....    .....    .....    24/5      2/2     .....    26/7  1159/277
  17      .        .        .      20/4      5/5       .      25/9  1184/286
  18      .        .        .       9/0      9/1       .      18/1  1202/287
  19      .        .        .      13/1      1/1       .      14/2  1216/289
  20      .        .        .      19/0       .        .      19/0  1235/289
  21      .        .        .       8/2      6/0       .      14/2  1249/291
  22      .        .        .      12/2      5/2       .      17/4  1266/295
  23      .        .        .      17/1     10/3       .      27/4  1293/299
DAY1    11/10    49/29   148/46  528/101    53/32    .....    .....  789/218
DAY2    46/8     74/18    30/16   314/23    40/16      .        .    504/81 
TOT     57/18   123/47   178/62  842/124    93/48      .        .   1293/299


                             Continent Statistics
     NK7U   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST    Multi Single     27 Oct 
1996  1659z

                     160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America   SSB   49   56   44  143   22    0  314    23.6
South America   SSB    4   14   29   36   42    0  125     9.4
Europe          SSB    0    0    7  265    1    0  273    20.6
Asia            SSB    0   42   88  369    8    0  507    38.2
Africa          SSB    0    4    4   20    7    0   35     2.6
Oceania         SSB    4    9   18   28   15    0   74     5.6


  QSO Counts By Band-Country

     NK7U   CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST    Multi Single     27 Oct 
1996  1659z

 PRFX    160     80      40      20      15     10  
   DL                            32                 
   DU             2       1       8       1         
   EA                            21                 
    F                            15                 
    G                            15                 
   HL                            14                 
    I                     1      24                 
   JA            38      84     326       8        
   LU             1       7      10      18         
   OH                            24                 
   VE    15      27      11      34       1         
   VK                     4       3       4         
   XE     2       2       3      11       1         


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Scott Tuthill/AA7TF   stuthill@micron.net


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