ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG +PACKET
Station: N4KG
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 29
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 34 27
80: 98 61
40: 151 76
20: 314 90
15: 272 82
10: 42 12
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Total: 911 348 Total Score = 951,084
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
I think I enjoy RTTY more than SSB. Phone? UGH!
I picked SO Unlimited because SOAB-Assisted was NOT in the List.
Conditions from Alabama for this contest ranged from Fair to Poor and were
Highly Variable over the weekend. Propagation on 10,15, and 160M were No Where
Near as good as during the CW Weekend and the openings were Way Shorter. 20M was
STRANGE. The South Americans were weak Friday Night, but there was a fair
opening to the Far East. Saturday night, pileups on South Americans were HUGE.
The Pacific and Far East were still coming in at 0300Z. Propagation was So Poor
Sunday morning that I took a 90 minute Nap in the middle of the morning! The
BIG Disappointment was the short and weak opening to Europe on 15M. Only 3
good hours Saturday (vs. 6 on CW) and a Late Opening on Sunday that many
Europeans seemed to have missed after giving up when there was NO propagation
earlier in the day. I had NO answers to CQ's on 15M Sunday but had a decent
run (my only one) late Saturday morning on 21440 of all places. A few
Europeans were worked on 160M Friday night. Saturday night they were Very Weak
and not hearing me.
In the Cudda, Shoulda, Woulda department, I suppose if I had stayed in the
chair a bit longer and tried CQing on 20M (I get a Headache just thinking about
that), I Cudda broken 1000 Q's, 350 Mults, and 1 Million Points. Oh Well, it
was PHONE Contest.
With ALL of my Monobanders out of commission, I was amazed at the results from
my TH7 at 40 ft and Wires / GP on the Low Bands. I left my High Dipoles tuned
for 40M where they performed amazingly well and used my simple Elevated GP (40
ft tower top loaded by TH7 plus 8 radials at 15 ft on 75M). Even with a 6 dB
null to the South (due to another tower acting as a reflector), I still worked
everything I heard, including RT0C across the border from BY4.
SO1R with Icom 746, cascaded 2.4 kHz filters + VBT cranked down.
B and W PT2500 (1000 to 1200W out with 100W drive).
Tom N4KG in North Alabama
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06g) by K5KA
Contest: ARRL-DX-SSB
Callsign: N4KG
Operators: N4KG + Packet
Category: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL Bands HIGH Power SSB
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 21 10 0 31 31 3.4
0100 0 0 24 15 0 0 39 70 4.3
0200 0 0 26 0 0 0 26 96 2.8
0300 8 26 0 0 0 0 34 130 3.7
0400 1 29 0 0 0 0 30 160 3.3
0500 10 0 17 0 0 0 27 187 2.9
0600 6 11 13 0 0 0 30 217 3.3
0700 1 5 5 0 0 0 11 228 1.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 228 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 228 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 228 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 228 0.0
1200 0 4 10 57 0 0 71 299 7.8
1300 0 0 0 18 43 0 61 360 6.7
1400 0 0 0 0 53 0 53 413 5.8
1500 0 0 0 0 49 0 49 462 5.3
1600 0 0 0 22 22 0 44 506 4.8
1700 0 0 0 30 0 0 30 536 3.3
1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 536 0.0
1900 0 0 0 0 14 1 15 551 1.6
2000 0 0 0 14 1 0 15 566 1.6
2100 0 0 0 6 8 13 27 593 2.9
2200 0 0 10 9 0 0 19 612 2.1
2300 0 0 6 9 10 11 36 648 3.9
0000 0 0 0 19 0 0 19 667 2.1
0100 0 0 7 16 0 0 23 690 2.5
0200 0 5 5 0 0 0 10 700 1.1
0300 1 8 0 5 0 0 14 714 1.5
0400 1 8 13 0 0 0 22 736 2.4
0500 6 1 0 0 0 0 7 743 0.8
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743 0.0
1200 0 1 2 15 0 0 18 761 2.0
1300 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 768 0.8
1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 768 0.0
1500 0 0 0 2 8 0 10 778 1.1
1600 0 0 0 0 9 0 9 787 1.0
1700 0 0 0 26 0 0 26 813 2.8
1800 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 818 0.5
1900 0 0 0 0 8 11 19 837 2.1
2000 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 839 0.2
2100 0 0 5 6 9 1 21 860 2.3
2200 0 0 1 9 7 3 20 880 2.2
2300 0 0 7 7 17 0 31 911 3.4
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Total 34 98 151 314 272 42 911
Gross QSO's=916 Dupes=5 Net QSO's=911
Unique callsigns worked = 593
The best 60 minute rate was 78/hour from 1225 to 1324
The best 30 minute rate was 98/hour from 1222 to 1251
The best 10 minute rate was 126/hour from 1550 to 1559
The best 1 minute rates were:
3 QSO's/minute 8 times. 90 percent Search and Pounce.
2 QSO's/minute 101 times.
1 QSO's/minute 685 times.
There were 61 bandchanges.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 22
4 362
5 301
6 209
7 11
8 4
9 1
10 1
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Multi-band QSO's
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1 bands 449
2 bands 57
3 bands 32
4 bands 26
5 bands 26
6 bands 3
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
TI5N 8P5A PJ2T
Many Europeans were worked on 4 or 5 Bands.
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 4 27 48 189 160 21
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