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Subject: [3830] W9RE (N9RV op.) CQWW CW SOAB
From: pbarkey@gw.bsu.edu (Patrick Barkey)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:31:40 -0500
      Call: W9RE (N9RV, opr.)      Country:  United States
      Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


      160       26       58     2.23     11      19      vert
       80      162      434     2.68     20      64      bobtail, v
beam, dipoles
       40     1057     2962     2.80     31     101      3 el @ 170'  

       20      900     2591     2.88     36     105      5/5/5 @
175/115/55
       15      954     2789     2.92     33      97      4/4/4/4 @
160/120/80/40
       10      898     2637     2.94     27      87      5/5 @ 90/45
     ---------------------------------------------------

     Totals   3997    11471     2.87    158     473  =>  7,238,201

Subject to minor changes to note cockpit errors in recording band
changes properly.

Comments::

Now I know what it must be like to get out like K1AR does every
contest!

Wow, what a contest.  This was a 48 hour sprint, from beginning to
end.  Rates were so good that there were times when I thought I only
made a "few" QSOs on a band, only to look up and see that I had worked
more than a hundred.

I've never heard 40 this good.  Mike's high antenna really performed
well at EU sunrise.  Another dominant band for me was 15 -- Mike's 4
high stack is just a killer.

My favorite time was running Asians on 20 meters between 01 and 0300
on Saturday night.  The band sounded quiet, and I felt like I was the
only guy running on the band.  Things were so good to Asia that I
didn't really settle in to CQ on 40 until 0400z or so.

Its an amazing thing about the CQ WW -- there were stations on, going
full bore, that I never heard or worked.  Guys like C4A, VU2WAP, and
many others.

My operating really suffered from too long of a layoff from SOAB.  I
lacked the good decision making instincts that are needed to get a
good multiplier in this contest.  Lots of bonehead mistakes, like only
working HC8N on two bands.

160 and 80 were lousy here.  Lots of man-made QRN.  There's been about
10,000 new homes built in W9RE's township in the last 5 years, and
what used to be farmland is now suburbia.

Thanks to Mike for use of his world class station.  Its dreams of
conditions like these that motivate us all to put all this hardware up
in the first place.

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  W9RE  CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST  Single Operator

HOUR      160      80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT 
CUM TOT  

   0    .....    .....    40/25    46/29    14/4     .....   100/58 
100/58 
   1      .       9/8     74/11     7/4       .        .      90/23 
190/81 
   2      .       5/5     85/7      5/3       .        .      95/15 
285/96 
   3     4/4     13/6     63/5       .        .        .      80/15 
365/111
   4     3/3     10/7     50/4       .        .        .      63/14 
428/125
   5     3/2     46/10     4/1       .        .        .      53/13 
481/138
   6     8/5      9/4     51/3       .        .        .      68/12 
549/150
   7      .       6/4     62/2      5/3       .        .      73/9  
622/159
   8     2/1      1/1     58/3      5/2     .....    .....    66/7  
688/166
   9      .       3/1     44/3      2/2       .        .      49/6  
737/172
  10     1/0      3/1     44/11      .        .        .      48/12 
785/184
  11     1/0      2/1     20/3     18/3       .        .      41/7  
826/191
  12      .       1/0       .      83/9     54/17      .     138/26 
964/217
  13      .        .        .        .      81/7     86/27   167/34
1131/251
  14      .        .        .        .        .     178/13   178/13
1309/264
  15      .        .        .      16/4       .     118/4    134/8 
1443/272
  16    .....    .....    .....     1/0    125/11     8/3    134/14
1577/286
  17      .        .        .       1/0     88/6     24/14   113/20
1690/306
  18      .        .        .      22/4     77/4       .      99/8 
1789/314
  19      .        .        .      77/8     21/4      2/2    100/14
1889/328
  20      .        .        .      90/5     10/9      8/5    108/19
1997/347
  21      .        .        .      96/2     10/3       .     106/5 
2103/352
  22      .       1/1      1/1      1/1     22/5     61/8     86/16
2189/368
  23      .        .        .       5/4     54/1     33/0     92/5 
2281/373
   0    .....    .....    10/0      6/3     57/3     .....    73/6 
2354/379
   1      .       2/0     23/1     39/2      3/1       .      67/4 
2421/383
   2     2/2      4/1      1/0     69/1       .        .      76/4 
2497/387
   3      .      24/5      4/1     18/2       .        .      46/8 
2543/395
   4      .       8/2     47/0       .        .        .      55/2 
2598/397
   5      .       4/2     65/2       .        .        .      69/4 
2667/401
   6     1/1      3/0     58/3       .        .        .      62/4 
2729/405
   7     1/1      3/1     75/1       .        .        .      79/3 
2808/408
   8    .....    .....    45/1     22/2     .....    .....    67/3 
2875/411
   9      .        .       2/0      1/0       .        .       3/0 
2878/411
  10      .        .      38/1       .        .        .      38/1 
2916/412
  11      .       5/4     28/4      8/0       .        .      41/8 
2957/420
  12      .        .       5/3     55/0      2/1       .      62/4 
3019/424
  13      .        .        .       5/0     90/4     41/2    136/6 
3155/430
  14      .        .        .       4/1       .     140/2    144/3 
3299/433
  15      .        .        .        .      13/1    107/0    120/1 
3419/434
  16    .....    .....    .....     8/0     16/1     75/1     99/2 
3518/436
  17      .        .        .       2/2    111/1       .     113/3 
3631/439
  18      .        .        .      52/0     54/1       .     106/1 
3737/440
  19      .        .        .      57/1      1/0      5/3     63/4 
3800/444
  20      .        .        .      27/3      9/8      8/2     44/13
3844/457
  21      .        .       2/1     17/0      7/3      4/1     30/5 
3874/462
  22      .        .      36/3      5/1     20/1       .      61/5 
3935/467
  23      .        .      22/1     25/4     15/1       .      62/6 
3997/473
DAY1    22/15   109/49   596/79   480/83   556/71   518/76    .....
2281/373
DAY2     4/4     53/15   461/22   420/22   398/26   380/11      .  
1716/100
TOT     26/19   162/64 1057/101  900/105   954/97   898/87      .  
3997/473


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