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Subject: K1KI M/M CQWW CW
From: frenaye@pcnet.com (frenaye@pcnet.com)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 02:04:20 PST
Lots of fun again, looks like we're getting better at multipliers and worse 
at keeping up with the Jones' on QSO totals.  

Murphy visited early when the CT network didn't stabilize...  Important 
lesson (that should have been learned on the SSB weekend) is to make sure 
the station is assembled and tested before the contest starts. 

Troubleshooting network problems is 1000% harder when people are on the air 
and using the software!  The telling sign was 35 minutes into the contest 
when K1TO was concerned his rate was terrible.  Turns out a flakey serial 
port (or IRQ setting) on one PC was causing the clock to run at double speed 
and it looked like it an hour had passed.  It looks funny when the seconds 
count away at twice the normal speed... on all PCs.  

The other major problem was the inability of Northeast Utilities to fix 
powerline noise problems.  Nothing like S-9 noise all day long towards the 
Caribbean and South America on 10m.  It's hard to believe we did as well as 
we did on 10m.  This is the third year NU has promised to solve the problems 
and not come through.  The 50 year old metal towers holding the 65kv lines 
aren't easy to fix though.  Even though they are 1.3 miles away they are 
very loud (replacing insulators helped but it is corroded metal tower joints 
that seems to be the problem). NU claims to have a project on the books to 
rebuild the several miles of 65kv distribution lines near me next year (and 
that's only because they have to have reliable power coming in from 
Massachusetts because all of their nuclear plants have been shut down).
Otherwise, the nearest powerline is more than a half mile away from the 
antennas!

My pre-contest goals (deliberately high) were 6000 QSOs, 174 zones and 635 
countries - we pretty much hit two of them on the nose - not bad!  Congrats 
to the super stations that finished ahead of us!!!

                73 Tom


                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996

      Call: K1KI                     Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Multi Multi

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES

      160      313      810     2.59     20      76
       80      551     1518     2.75     24     100
       40     1372     3946     2.88     37     144
       20     1651     4788     2.90     40     156
       15     1123     3257     2.90     33     128
       10       62      138     2.23     16      35
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   5072    14457     2.85    170     639  =>  11,695,713

Operator List: K1KI K1PI K1RM K1TO KA1TAF W1OD W1RM K2KQ W2EQ

Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
 
Continent Stats
                160   80   40   20   15   10  ALL   percent

North America    80   93  120  122   94   24  533    10.1
South America     5   13   31   55   60   25  189     3.6
Europe          230  439 1165 1258  925    4 4021    76.4
Asia              1    4   66  227   20    1  319     6.1
Africa            5   12   37   34   27    8  123     2.3
Oceania           3    5   25   23   21    1   78     1.5
 
QSO Counts By Band-Country (minimum of 10 on at least one band)

 PRFX    160         80          40          20          15          10

   9A     3           7          18          15          10
   DL    38          61         213         216         188
   EA     4          13          48          45          56           2
   EU     1           4           9          10           3
    F    10          14          89          68          79
    G    34          28          75          82         103           1
   HA    11          21          59          41          27
   HB     1           3          25          22          18
    I     4          16          83          72          62
   JA                            37         169           6
    K    25          27          30          36          16          12
   LA     1           7           6          18          10
   LU                 4           8          18          17          12
   LY     2          14           9          23          10
   LZ     2           6          20          12          14
   OE                 3          15          13          13
   OH     6          13          20          40          36
   OK    16          26          78          81          59
   OM    12           7          17          17           7
   ON     5           5          13          22          22
   OZ     5           5          11          19          11
   PA     9           6          20          28          16
   PY                             9          16          25           2
   S5     6          13          36          34          23
   SM    16          15          22          32          18
   SP     9          25          53          50          40
   UA     1          23          46          70          16
  UA9                            11          28
   UR     3          34          69          73          14
   VE    25          30          35          41          29           2
   VK                 2          12          10           5
   YO     1           4          12          12           4
   YU     4          16          34          32          10
 
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults (we had some clock problems so this isn't perfect)

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT  CUM TOT

   0    19/16    21/15    83/29    21/12    .....    .....   144/72  144/72
   1    35/14    47/13    58/21     9/4       .        .     149/52  293/124
   2    16/4     48/15    45/32    10/3       .        .     119/54  412/178
   3    29/8     27/8     53/6     14/5       .        .     123/27  535/205
   4    28/5     25/12    36/5     16/3       .        .     105/25  640/230
   5    16/2     38/13    25/6      7/3       .        .      86/24  726/254
   6    34/8     19/5     31/4      7/4       .        .      91/21  817/275
   7    10/5     29/6     25/2      3/1       .        .      67/14  884/289
   8     6/3     14/1     21/7      2/1     .....    .....    43/12  927/301
   9     4/2      3/0     32/3      1/1       .        .      40/6   967/307
  10     2/1      2/0     16/2     19/13      .        .      39/16 1006/323
  11     5/1      7/2      9/5     75/22    13/13      .     109/43 1115/366
  12     1/0      1/1     14/2    136/15   116/26      .     268/44 1383/410
  13      .        .       9/0    115/12   167/10      .     291/22 1674/432
  14      .        .        .     112/4    162/13     1/1    275/18 1949/450
  15      .        .        .     114/3     97/19     2/2    213/24 2162/474
  16    .....    .....    .....    50/2     69/13     3/3    122/18 2284/492
  17      .        .       6/0     46/3     21/6       .      73/9  2357/501
  18      .        .      38/5     39/5     16/3      8/3    101/16 2458/517
  19      .        .      61/2     38/8     12/5      5/1    116/16 2574/533
  20      .        .      74/2     22/4     15/2      1/0    112/8  2686/541
  21     2/1      8/1     55/0     26/5     10/2       .     101/9  2787/550
  22    11/0      7/0     53/2     22/2      4/0       .      97/4  2884/554
  23     7/1     19/2     35/1      5/1       .        .      66/5  2950/559
   0     2/0     21/1     21/1     18/4     .....    .....    62/6  3012/565
   1    13/2     18/2     28/1     15/2       .        .      74/7  3086/572
   2    29/1     47/0     16/1      6/2      1/0       .      99/4  3185/576
   3     8/0     24/1     12/2      5/1       .        .      49/4  3234/580
   4     6/2     29/1     35/1      9/0       .        .      79/4  3313/584
   5     3/0     14/1     60/1       .        .        .      77/2  3390/586
   6    10/2     21/1     56/0      2/1       .        .      89/4  3479/590
   7     3/0     13/0     36/1      2/1       .        .      54/2  3533/592
   8    .....     5/0     29/0     .....    .....    .....    34/0  3567/592
   9     2/1      2/0      7/0       .        .        .      11/1  3578/593
  10      .       1/0      1/0     14/1      2/0       .      18/1  3596/594
  11      .       6/1      1/0     67/0     11/3       .      85/4  3681/598
  12     1/0       .       8/1     87/1     41/3      1/1    138/6  3819/604
  13      .       1/0      4/0     61/3     99/0      8/6    173/9  3992/613
  14      .        .       2/0     60/1     86/4      6/6    154/11 4146/624
  15      .        .        .      76/3     71/2     10/7    157/12 4303/636
  16    .....    .....    .....    84/2     36/4      7/4    127/10 4430/646
  17      .        .       1/0     41/0     25/1      2/0     69/1  4499/647
  18      .        .       1/0     25/1     15/1       .      41/2  4540/649
  19      .        .      45/1     27/0     13/1      5/1     90/3  4630/652
  20     1/0       .      53/1     15/1      8/1      2/1     79/4  4709/656
  21      .       7/0     83/1     28/1      9/1      1/1    128/4  4837/660
  22     6/0     17/1     52/1     51/0      1/0       .     127/2  4964/662
  23     4/0     10/1     42/1     49/1      3/0       .     108/3  5072/665
DAY1   225/71   315/94  779/136  909/136  702/112    20/10    ..... 2950/559
DAY2    88/8    236/10   593/14   742/26   421/21    42/27      .   2122/106
TOT    313/79  551/104 1372/150 1651/162 1123/133    62/37      .   5072/665

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