CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: NT5C
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 4
80: 29
40: 514
20: 1026
15: 922
10: 82
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Total: 2577 Prefixes = 771 Total Score = 4,505,724
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
GM all. A very exhausted N3BB operated with John Warren's NT5C call again this
year. Thanks John!
The bands were pretty good, and no real surprises. My comments on the contest
and on conditions follow:
1. 20 opened in late afternoon and stayed open all night. The band is zapped
with high absor[tion from about 11 AM to 4 PM locally at any place in the world.
It had peak propagation in the 02-11Z range as it opened to the summer daylight
regions. I could glance up at the Geochron and tell where I was going to be
heard on 20.
2. 10 was closed to DX other than South America, and the band did not open well
to SA at all on Sunday. There was a neat E-skip opening to SE up to NE (W4 thru
VE3) on Sunday, but it was hard to justify being there for the 1 pointers and
few mults. I did go there for 15-20 minutes and had a blast. It was like the
puffy 6 meter openings in the VHF contest that people described at the recent
CTDXCC meeting.
3. 40 was very tough to EU, even though it was open. It's simply extremely
difficult to work the "basic EU station" with 100W and a wire antenna over the
magnetic zone that far. The "basic stations," who use 100W, a tribander on
10-20, and wires on 40/80 are the second level and the high volume of people who
are worked in any contest. The QRPer or guy with an indoor noodle are the third
level station. When conditions are good, one can run the 2nd level. When
conditions are great, one can run the 3rd level stations. If we were in W1, it
would be a routine to run the 2nd level station on 40. Reverse that for JAs: we
can do it but the NE can't. 40 meters was spectacular to JA, even though the
dark-dark path is only about two or three hours long. With no storms this year,
40 was outstanding to JA. The band was quiet and the QRP JAs were S8-S9. I
worked out to YB and 4W as well. It was a "3rd level opening" Saturday night.
4. 15 was the little engine that never would quit. It never really opened
great, but it never went away. At one point, I was on 21027 or thereabouts for
ten hours straight! The rates hovered at 60-70 an hour, with 50 of the total
being 3 pointers from DX. I have never worked so many signals that were
S-zero-minus! There were hundreds of EUs who were only a faint, faint whisper.
It would take several overs to get the number or call on the QSB waves, but the
band opened at 11Z and closed at 00Z to EU. On the other hand, it was not great
to JA at all. Unfortunately, some very bad raspy line noise has developed to JA
in my neighborhood, so I was not able to hear towards JA, so maybe there were
JAs there, but for me the band was jnot successful. I had to transmit on my
stack but listen on the KT34A beaming to the Caribbean to hear the lite JAs!
Not a great combo. Fortunately I have a very quiet direction to EU so that
saved me. I must find and fix the noise source to JA or I am doomed.
5. 80 meters actually was worth some brief run time to JA this year. Not
really, but I did it any way. Worked ten or fifteen as a lark. It's clear that
the LF bands were better than last year and the HF bands are waning as the cycle
continues.
6. This year, the mults (for me) were down on approximately the same number of
QSOs. I found that the active stations would would be worked on 40-15 and
sometimes on 10-80 but it was mainly filling in the same stations on other bands
so the "onsey-twosey" casual PX guys were not out as much this year. They did
get on some but not as much as I had hoped for. I had the "show station" field
set on my NA software, and the same stations kept getting worked on all the
bands.
7. For the numbers people, I had 242 six point QSOs (non NA QSOs on 40 and 80)!
That's a lot, and reflects both my strategy and the fantastic 40 meter antenna
and location here. It was hard to do that but it helped the score. The 10Z
hour both days were the highest point hours of the whole contest with the JAs at
six points apiece. The rates were reasonable, but being on 40 and not on 20 was
the right strategy.
I never heard Dennis, NT5TU, who responded he would be on. So I probably was
the only or at least primary NT5. BTW, I didn't work NT5 as a mult!
Here are the numbers.
band QSOs points
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160 4 4
80 29 83
40 514 1781
20 1026 2075
15 922 1758
10 82 143
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TOTAL 2577 5844 X 771 multipliers = 4,505,724
Club or Team Name: Central TX DX & Contest Club
QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS
UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total
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00Z 0 0 0 46 50 0 96 96
01Z 0 0 12 100 0 0 112 208
02Z 0 0 14 94 0 0 108 316
03Z 0 0 8 80 0 0 88 404
04Z 0 0 30 51 0 0 81 485
05Z 0 0 11 67 0 0 78 563
06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 563
07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 563
08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 563
09Z 0 0 24 0 0 0 24 587
10Z 0 1 60 13 0 0 74 661
11Z 0 1 59 6 0 0 66 727
12Z 0 0 1 88 19 0 108 835
13Z 0 0 0 41 53 0 94 929
14Z 0 0 0 11 75 0 86 1015
15Z 0 0 0 5 79 0 84 1099
16Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1100
17Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1100
18Z 0 0 0 0 0 15 15 1115
19Z 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 1125
20Z 0 0 0 12 7 0 19 1144
21Z 0 0 0 38 16 10 64 1208
22Z 0 0 0 17 60 0 77 1285
23Z 0 0 0 30 22 0 52 1337
00Z 0 0 21 25 6 0 52 1389
01Z 0 0 0 4 59 0 63 1452
02Z 0 0 27 16 11 0 54 1506
03Z 0 0 43 6 0 0 49 1555
04Z 0 0 56 11 0 0 67 1622
05Z 0 0 0 78 0 0 78 1700
06Z 0 0 0 65 0 0 65 1765
07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1765
08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1765
09Z 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 1805
10Z 0 9 57 1 0 0 67 1872
11Z 0 14 30 0 0 0 44 1916
12Z 0 0 17 6 30 0 53 1969
13Z 0 0 0 19 53 0 72 2041
14Z 0 0 0 4 58 0 62 2103
15Z 0 0 0 2 26 39 67 2170
16Z 0 0 1 4 65 7 77 2247
17Z 4 4 3 0 18 1 30 2277
18Z 0 0 0 0 11 1 12 2289
19Z 0 0 0 5 63 0 68 2357
20Z 0 0 0 2 71 0 73 2430
21Z 0 0 0 10 42 0 52 2482
22Z 0 0 0 13 22 0 35 2517
23Z 0 0 0 56 3 1 60 2577
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tot 4 29 514 1026 922 82 ---- 2577
SO2R MAIN AND ALTERNATE RADIO BREAKDOWNS
UTC Main Alt rate total
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00Z 70 26 96 96
01Z 102 10 112 208
02Z 94 14 108 316
03Z 80 8 88 404
04Z 77 4 81 485
05Z 68 10 78 563
06Z 0 0 0 563
07Z 0 0 0 563
08Z 0 0 0 563
09Z 24 0 24 587
10Z 60 14 74 661
11Z 59 7 66 727
2Z 89 19 108 835
13Z 65 29 94 929
14Z 75 11 86 1015
15Z 79 5 84 1099
16Z 1 0 1 1100
17Z 0 0 0 1100
18Z 15 0 15 1115
19Z 9 1 10 1125
20Z 12 7 19 1144
21Z 37 27 64 1208
22Z 62 15 77 1285
23Z 35 17 52 1337
00Z 49 3 52 1389
01Z 59 4 63 1452
02Z 43 11 54 1506
03Z 49 0 49 1555
04Z 66 1 67 1622
05Z 78 0 78 1700
06Z 65 0 65 1765
07Z 0 0 0 1765
08Z 0 0 0 1765
09Z 40 0 40 1805
10Z 64 3 67 1872
11Z 42 2 44 1916
12Z 47 6 53 1969
13Z 69 3 72 2041
14Z 58 4 62 2103
15Z 65 2 67 2170
16Z 74 3 77 2247
17Z 29 1 30 2277
18Z 11 1 12 2289
19Z 63 5 68 2357
20Z 71 2 73 2430
21Z 42 10 52 2482
22Z 23 12 35 2517
23Z 57 3 60 2577
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tot 2277 300 ---- 2577
QSO POINTS BREAKDOWN
UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total
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00Z 0 0 0 93 70 0 163 163
01Z 0 0 47 165 0 0 212 375
02Z 0 0 65 174 0 0 239 614
03Z 0 0 26 167 0 0 193 807
04Z 0 0 69 109 0 0 178 985
05Z 0 0 24 154 0 0 178 1163
06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1163
07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1163
08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1163
09Z 0 0 107 0 0 0 107 1270
10Z 0 1 254 25 0 0 280 1550
11Z 0 1 234 12 0 0 247 1797
12Z 0 0 1 182 45 0 228 2025
13Z 0 0 0 68 89 0 157 2182
14Z 0 0 0 16 117 0 133 2315
15Z 0 0 0 7 125 0 132 2447
16Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2448
17Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2448
18Z 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 2488
19Z 0 0 0 0 2 22 24 2512
20Z 0 0 0 14 12 0 26 2538
21Z 0 0 0 54 37 28 119 2657
22Z 0 0 0 26 102 0 128 2785
23Z 0 0 0 62 34 0 96 2881
00Z 0 0 61 38 6 0 105 2986
01Z 0 0 0 6 90 0 96 3082
02Z 0 0 74 21 28 0 123 3205
03Z 0 0 150 11 0 0 161 3366
04Z 0 0 97 31 0 0 128 3494
05Z 0 0 0 215 0 0 215 3709
06Z 0 0 0 174 0 0 174 3883
07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3883
08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3883
09Z 0 0 182 0 0 0 182 4065
10Z 0 30 233 3 0 0 266 4331
11Z 0 47 103 0 0 0 150 4481
12Z 0 0 50 12 51 0 113 4594
13Z 0 0 0 49 119 0 168 4762
14Z 0 0 0 8 118 0 126 4888
15Z 0 0 0 2 59 42 103 4991
16Z 0 0 1 4 139 8 152 5143
17Z 4 4 3 0 38 1 50 5193
18Z 0 0 0 0 18 1 19 5212
19Z 0 0 0 11 145 0 156 5368
20Z 0 0 0 4 171 0 175 5543
21Z 0 0 0 23 91 0 114 5657
22Z 0 0 0 31 44 0 75 5732
23Z 0 0 0 104 7 1 112 5844
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tot 4 83 1781 2075 1758 143 ----- 5844
1 point QSOs: 1260
2 point QSOs: 130
3 point QSOs: 908
4 point QSOs: 37
6 point QSOs: 242
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