ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR
Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: EM00uf
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 0 0
SSB: 1177 87
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Total: 1177 87 Total Score = 204,798
Club:
Comments:
Station K5TR:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html
Kenwood TS-850SAT
Kenwood TS-850SAT
Ameritron AL-1500
Ameritron AL-1500
24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 60' rotatable
24' boom, 6-element Yagi @ 30' fixed NE
4-element Yagi @ 40' fixed SE
3-element Yagi @ 20' fixed W
Half wave vertical, base @ 20'
Ameritron RCS-8V antenna switches
Heil Proset HC-4
W9XT contest card
TR Log 6.78
This year's ARRL 10 Meter Contest reminded me a lot of a VHF
contest. I think as many as three-fourths of my QSOs with W/VE
stations were on Eskip. When that is the case, just like in a
VHF contest, you never know where the Eskip is going to be
favorable. Last year, Texas was probably the best place to be;
this year it looks like the north central United States had the
best propagation. Congratulations to W0SD for his huge score!
I have never had as good a start to the ARRL 10 Meter Contest as
I had this year. The Eskip was great right from the start. By
0016 UTC, I had TR Log's rate meter at 276 QSOs/hour! The 181 QSO
first first hour was the best first hour I've ever had in this
contest. By the time the band really closed on Friday night, I
had over 550 QSOs in the log, by far the most I've ever had after
the first night of the contest. I worked some DX on Friday night -
just a few QSOs with South America and the Caribbean, but some
good conditions to Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
The band was open until just after 0600 UTC.
Saturday and Sunday, unfortunately, were quite different. There
was Eskip both days, but nothing like what I got on Friday night.
Both mornings, my first QSO came much later in the day than it had
in recent years. Instead of hearing the PY/LU crowd first, the
earliest signals I copied this year on both mornings were from HK.
I worked a few Africans on both days, but never heard a European
signal. The closest I got to East Asia was hearing a YC call me,
but I was unable to pull out the call sign from the noise. On
Saturday night and Sunday, in particular, the Eskip would get very
focused, and I would work seven or eight QSOs in a row to stations
in the same multiplier. This could get frustrating, as I worked
station after station in Maryland, but never heard Delaware, then I
worked dozens of stations in Minnesota and never heard Manitoba.
One of the phone contesting skills I would like to think that I
have learned well by now is the ability to decode almost any kind
of accent, including the non-native-English varieties. On
Sunday morning, though, I came across ZX5J on the second radio,
and I swear he sounded like he was saying "Sugar Five Three Japan".
I listened for a while and eventually it got to the point where it
sounded like "Zulu Xray Five Japan" again every time. It was weird.
The K5TR station worked really well this weekend. There was more
line noise than usual, and a different kind of noise that might
have been solar noise, or something, but it seemed to move around
slowly and take out 10-15 kHz of the band wherever it was. George
put the second radio on a 10 meter vertical dipole, raised about 20
feet off the ground. I couldn't really hear well on that antenna
when the run radio was transmitting, but it was extremely useful to
have. It worked really, really well, and the omni-directionality
helped me find a few nice stations and openings earlier than I
otherwise would have found them. I made lots of second radio QSOs,
and only a few times had to switch to the Yagis to complete a QSO or
bust a pileup with the higher gain antennas.
It was frustrating on Saturday to work P40K and receive a serial
number 500 lower than my QSO total at the time, only to hear her
slowly catch up to and then surpass my number over the next several
hours. I think northern South America must have had really good
propagation into W/VE this year.
I missed Delaware and Alaska in the United States, and several
Canadian provinces and territories, including Manitoba and
Saskatchewan. The only two DX multipliers heard but not worked
were a YC who called me, but whose call I could not entirely get
out of the noise, and FM5AN, who must have had a packet pileup by
the time I found him - I went back four or five times to try to
get him, he always had multiple stations calling, and I never
heard him call a station west of the Mississippi.
One highlight of the contest included working ZL6QH in the 1800 UTC
hour, which seems very early to me - they gave me a very respectable
QSO number, right in line with PJ2T and ZX5J at the time. Also
on Saturday, a VA7 station called in and told me he was working
me on a 10 meter HT! I only had one jammer this contest, who told
me to "shut the ---- up", but he wasn't very loud or persistent.
Thanks again to George for hosting me at his station this weekend.
HR 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE
-- ------ ------ --------- -----
0 181/25 181/25 181/25 0.01M
1 120/15 120/15 301/40 0.02M
2 107/3 107/3 408/43 0.04M
3 77/1 77/1 485/44 0.04M
4 43/1 43/1 528/45 0.05M
5 26/0 26/0 554/45 0.05M
6 3/0 3/0 557/45 0.05M
7 --- --- 557/45 0.05M
8 --- --- 557/45 0.05M
9 --- --- 557/45 0.05M
10 --- --- 557/45 0.05M
11 --- --- 557/45 0.05M
12 1/1 1/1 558/46 0.05M
13 11/3 11/3 569/49 0.06M
14 52/14 52/14 621/63 0.08M
15 27/7 27/7 648/70 0.09M
16 13/2 13/2 661/72 0.10M
17 29/6 29/6 690/78 0.11M
18 44/1 44/1 734/79 0.12M
19 58/0 58/0 792/79 0.13M
20 36/0 36/0 828/79 0.13M
21 12/1 12/1 840/80 0.13M
22 22/0 22/0 862/80 0.14M
23 7/1 7/1 869/81 0.14M
0 13/0 13/0 882/81 0.14M
1 13/0 13/0 895/81 0.14M
2 22/0 22/0 917/81 0.15M
3 6/0 6/0 923/81 0.15M
4 2/0 2/0 925/81 0.15M
5 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
6 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
7 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
8 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
9 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
10 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
11 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
12 --- --- 925/81 0.15M
13 1/0 1/0 926/81 0.15M
14 4/0 4/0 930/81 0.15M
15 16/2 16/2 946/83 0.16M
16 46/2 46/2 992/85 0.17M
17 18/0 18/0 1010/85 0.17M
18 45/0 45/0 1055/85 0.18M
19 36/1 36/1 1091/86 0.19M
20 23/0 23/0 1114/86 0.19M
21 9/1 9/1 1123/87 0.20M
22 27/0 27/0 1150/87 0.20M
23 27/0 27/0 1177/87 0.20M
D1 869/81 869/81
D2 308/6 308/6
TO 1177/87 1177/87
Continental Distribution
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USA calls = 960
VE calls = 46
N.A. calls = 40
S.A. calls = 72
Euro calls = 0
Afrc calls = 7
Asia calls = 0
JA calls = 0
Ocen calls = 52
Total calls = 1177
Multiplier Distribution
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1. Ca 182
2. Tx 82
3. Az 57
4. Wa 57
5. Fl 51
6. Or 48
7. Mn 43
8. Co 32
9. Oh 28
10. Il 28
11. Wi 26
12. Mi 26
13. VK 26
14. PY 26
15. LU 26
16. Md 23
17. Va 22
18. Bc 20
19. Mo 19
20. ZL 17
21. Ia 15
22. Nv 15
23. Tn 13
24. Nc 13
25. Ma 13
26. In 12
27. Al 12
28. XE 12
29. Ga 12
30. Nm 12
31. Pa 11
32. Ne 10
33. Ks 10
34. Me 10
35. On 10
36. Ut 8
37. KP4 8
38. Id 7
39. Wy 6
40. Ar 6
41. Nh 6
42. Ns 6
43. Ky 5
44. Ok 5
45. Ms 5
46. Ab 5
47. Hi 5
48. HK 5
49. Ct 5
50. Sd 4
51. Mt 4
52. Wv 4
53. Nj 4
54. HP 4
55. ZS 4
56. KP2 3
57. Qc 3
58. YV 3
59. TI 3
60. CX 3
61. CE 3
62. Nd 2
63. OA 2
64. P4 2
65. HI 2
66. Ny 2
67. 8P 2
68. Vt 2
69. Dc 2
70. PJ2 1
71. E5 1
72. VK9N 1
73. VP5 1
74. Ri 1
75. Sc 1
76. 6Y 1
77. 3X 1
78. HC 1
79. Pe 1
80. D4 1
81. A3 1
82. FK 1
83. TG 1
84. V5 1
85. VP9 1
86. Nb 1
87. La 1
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