Not enough interest in a full multi-multi this time. Planned to do multi-2
until the last minute, then decided we didn't want to track band changes per
hour and did want to maximize points and operating time. Just had three
stations running, though much of the contest only two of them had (or
needed) operators. Two operators were here full time, four were half time,
not quite enough time for much sleep.
The only equipment problem was that the 15m stack stopped working Saturday
at 11z because of a bad cable or switch on the tower (or both). Used a TH6
until the problem was bypassed so we could use the top beam around 13z. Only
having one beam at 105' was a problem - we needed a lower one for much of
the day.
Made mental notes to get voice keyers, as we noted after every other SSB
contest in the last several years. Still unmotivated (anyone want to sell a
working K1EA DVK?).
Frustrating that 10m didn't open to Europe, only a few scatter QSOs on
Saturday, nothing on Sunday. Conditions to South America were great though!
Didn't spend enough time working stations in Spanish.
Nice conditions Sunday afternoon to Japan on 15m, and 9M6BG was loud. Hard
to find a spot to squeeze in, even heard stations running above 21.447, too
close to the band edge on USB... What was that weird broadband noise on
15m on Sunday morning (11z)? It was S-9 and covered everything from 21.200
to 21.225 for at least an hour or so.
Already have two e-mail messages from people who felt we were too low on 20m
at times. While we were no lower than 14.150.4, I suspect the OO cards will
arrive in a few days also. It was amazing to hear how loud some European
stations were with 100w, while the next one would be at ESP level with the
same 100w - big differences in antennas!
Nothing special about 40m, conditions about average. Nice signals from
JA1JRK and JH5FXP on 75m before sunrise Sunday. It was painful listening to
the Caribbean stations struggle with QRN on 160. Seemed like everyone there
had some big thunderstorms in their neighborhood!
No big QSO hours - only had three of them with more than 100/hour - but
pretty steady except for the usual slowdown from 08-10z.
73 Tom
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1998
Call: K1KI Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Multi (Multi-3...)
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
160 69 201 2.9 42
75 370 1107 3.0 77
40 421 1263 3.0 93
20 2146 6390 3.0 142
15 1371 4086 3.0 135
10 212 624 2.9 50
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Totals 4589 13671 3.0 539 = 7,368,669
Operator List: K1KI K1CC K1PI KM1P K2KQ W2XX
Equipment Description:
20/160: FT1000mp/Alpha77
40/10: TS850/Titan
80/15: TS850/Alpha86
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Continent Statistics
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 20 32 33 68 64 44 261 5.5
South America SSB 5 9 16 63 66 148 307 6.5
Europe SSB 45 324 329 1654 1067 3 3422 72.5
Asia SSB 0 4 24 370 118 0 516 10.9
Africa SSB 2 5 8 37 43 17 112 2.4
Oceania SSB 0 3 23 30 42 2 100 2.1
QSO Counts By Band-Country (min 5 on one band)
PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10
4X 1 10 5
9A 4 8 10 26 10
CE 1 1 4 5
CT 1 3 2 8 10 1
CX 3 2 15
DL 3 48 35 234 208
EA 6 19 38 70 62 1
EA8 1 5 5 1
EI 1 3 14 5
ES 6 3
EU 2 10 4
F 1 17 26 103 74 1
G 5 21 25 158 100
GI 2 1 9 2
GM 7 4 27 9
GW 1 7 4 10 8
HA 1 6 11 24 13
HB 1 4 1 23 22
HL 6 1
I 6 41 61 222 150
JA 2 15 271 88
KH6 3 4 3 12 1
KL 1 2 7 3
KP4 3 3 3 7 10 7
LA 3 4 18 5
LU 1 4 18 27 77
LX 1 4 2 10 10
LY 5 3 15 7
LZ 5 2 12 3
OE 4 2 25 19
OH 1 3 3 37 14
OK 1 22 4 42 26
OM 3 3 8 7
ON 1 9 10 53 43
OZ 1 3 6 24 21
P4 2 2 3 4 6 3
PA 2 5 7 53 38
PY 1 2 19 7 28
S5 1 12 6 29 16
SM 1 6 8 36 20
SP 1 12 6 47 30
SV 1 4 18 12
T9 6 2
TA 1 2 7 7
UA 13 9 142 40
UA2 1 2 4 4 5
UA9 2 46 4
UN 1 7 1
UR 7 6 60 20
VK 11 16 14
XE 2 5 6 6 8 7
YL 1 1 4 6
YO 2 3 13 6
YU 2 9 7 25 18
YV 1 1 1 3 4 8
Z3 1 2 3 5 5
ZL 5 3 3
ZS 1 4 7 9
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... 13/11 54/27 49/9 35/19 ..... 151/66 151/66
1 . 58/27 25/11 34/7 . . 117/45 268/111
2 2/1 25/4 33/12 36/15 . . 96/32 364/143
3 7/5 17/4 13/4 14/5 . . 51/18 415/161
4 12/6 14/4 6/5 1/0 . . 33/15 448/176
5 13/10 22/3 11/1 . . . 46/14 494/190
6 11/4 20/2 19/9 . . . 50/15 544/205
7 1/0 12/4 42/5 . . . 55/9 599/214
8 1/1 3/2 8/2 ..... ..... ..... 12/5 611/219
9 2/2 . 11/3 . . . 13/5 624/224
10 . 3/2 11/2 28/11 . . 42/15 666/239
11 . . 3/1 99/24 7/5 . 109/30 775/269
12 . . 1/1 106/12 20/13 4/4 131/30 906/299
13 . . . 92/8 51/24 13/6 156/38 1062/337
14 . . . 83/3 77/14 28/2 188/19 1250/356
15 . . . 73/4 103/10 29/16 205/30 1455/386
16 ..... ..... ..... 74/2 89/3 25/8 188/13 1643/399
17 . . . 67/3 67/2 16/2 150/7 1793/406
18 . . . 55/7 56/4 9/1 120/12 1913/418
19 . . . 63/1 36/5 10/2 109/8 2022/426
20 . . . 85/4 30/5 10/1 125/10 2147/436
21 . . 6/0 77/1 21/3 6/1 110/5 2257/441
22 . . 8/0 52/4 20/2 . 80/6 2337/447
23 . 45/2 11/1 70/5 7/0 . 133/8 2470/455
0 ..... 21/1 23/3 41/0 ..... ..... 85/4 2555/459
1 . 26/1 15/2 34/1 . . 75/4 2630/463
2 . 16/1 9/1 13/0 . . 38/2 2668/465
3 3/2 7/0 8/0 9/0 . . 27/2 2695/467
4 14/8 16/0 3/0 . . . 33/8 2728/475
5 2/2 26/1 3/0 1/0 . . 32/3 2760/478
6 . 14/1 10/0 1/0 . . 25/1 2785/479
7 1/1 3/3 3/0 . . . 7/4 2792/483
8 ..... ..... 6/0 ..... ..... ..... 6/0 2798/483
9 . 7/4 9/0 . . . 16/4 2814/487
10 . 2/0 3/0 22/0 . . 27/0 2841/487
11 . . 9/0 52/2 58/3 . 119/5 2960/492
12 . . . 82/4 120/3 . 202/7 3162/499
13 . . . 81/2 91/2 4/0 176/4 3338/503
14 . . . 96/0 71/2 6/0 173/2 3511/505
15 . . . 79/0 81/1 12/0 172/1 3683/506
16 ..... ..... ..... 64/1 87/1 3/2 154/4 3837/510
17 . . . 82/0 73/1 4/2 159/3 3996/513
18 . . . 79/1 45/5 8/0 132/6 4128/519
19 . . . 67/1 17/2 11/1 95/4 4223/523
20 . . . 67/4 17/2 9/0 93/6 4316/529
21 . . 9/1 74/1 22/1 4/1 109/4 4425/533
22 . . 30/2 23/0 32/1 1/1 86/4 4511/537
23 . . 19/0 21/0 38/2 . 78/2 4589/539
DAY1 49/29 232/65 262/84 1158/125 619/109 150/43 ..... 2470/455
DAY2 20/13 138/12 159/9 988/17 752/26 62/7 . 2119/84
TOT 69/42 370/77 421/93 2146/142 1371/135 212/50 . 4589/539
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E-mail: frenaye@pcnet.com
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box 386, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444
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