CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VU2PTT
Operator(s): VU2PTT
Station: VU2PTT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Bangalore MK82tx
Operating Time (hrs): 43
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 0 0 0
80: 16 10 13
40: 300 24 72
20: 629 30 88
15: 703 33 100
10: 685 26 82
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Total: 2333 123 355 Total Score = 2,901,591
Club: VU Contest Group
Comments:
Equipment:
2 x IC-746PRO
2 x ICE 419 Bandpass FIlters
2 x Top Ten Band Decoders for FIlter Selection
YCCC SO2R+ Box
KK1L 2 x 6 Pack Antenna Switch
KK1L Band Decoder for Antenna Selection
SB-200 Amp (mostly running at LP levels)
12V Car Battery (the most important player)
Antennas:
Force12 C3S (20-15-10m) @ 60'
Inverted-Vee (40m) @ 55'
18m Spiderpole (80m) 1/4 wave full size vertical
As always this contest was a blast Murphy notwithstanding and I had my highest
score in CQWW CW ever. The plan was to target atleast 3,500 QSOs and do well
for this area in the SOAB HP category.
But Mr. Murphy had other plans. During the contest weekend we had a quite a
number of power outages and low voltage right through - the amp would give out
100 watts but did not want to fry the tubes completely, so ran barefoot much of
the time. I ended up by really using around 200 watts on 40/80m for about 4
hours of the contest. The rest of the time I was running 100 Watts barefoot
from the rig after dumping the amp and for at least 8 hours of the contest at
peak times I was running with about 50 Watts during frequent power outages from
Mr. Car Battery floating on the DC line of Radio 1. So mine is a SOAB HP entry
although I was mostly LP. Many of my small runs were from the car battery @ 50
watts!!!
It all started well, but 80m where I started did not sound very good - just a
few QSOs and I was off to 40m to pick up NA mults like VY2ZM, K0DQ and a string
of Europeans. Around 0100 I went back to 80m to pick up VY2ZM and I knew the new
18m Spiderpole was working. Back to 40m to work more NA and EU while chekcing
20m on the 2nd radio and working a few NA.
Finally around 0130 started a run for over 3 hours around 14008 to NA and EU
while using the 2nd radio on 40m for NA.EU and 15m to pick up East Asian mults
- my first baby steps in SO2R and it was quite and experience.
Around 0400 found 10m to be opening up an dmoved there to run until 0600 when I
moved to 15m and started a run there. All this time the 2nd radio was active but
not very many QSOs I must admit but I was getting the hang of SO2R. Years of
reading about it and planning for it - well the real thing was a great
experience and hope to keep practicing.
Back to run on 10m at 0800 and with a few 2nd radio QSOs interleaved it was
suddenly 1200z and time to start thinking about 40m sunset openings and 20m as
well. Was around 1000 QSOs at the 13z mark andw as feeling good about hitting
the target of 3500. But within a couple of hours our friend Mr. Murphuy struck
with constant power outages and low voltage, The next 12 hours brought in only
around 500 Qs and 80m was not good through the night with just a handful of EU
stations and a few other mults from Asia.
Around 23z was when the Carribean, African and NA started coming through on 20m
and I was going around picking up mults on both radios which may not have been
the best thing to do. 40m was food till 0200z when I moved to run on 20m and
usning the 2nd radio on 15m tp pick up more Asian And Pacific mult slike the
previous day. maybe I should have changed strategy on the second day and
strated running on 15m. - I strted up pon 15m only around 0400z and then moved
to 10m at 0600z. Around 0800z I was back to run on 15m which was one long one -
close to 300 Qs but with Mr. Murphy still playing his part making the amp
unusable most of the time and having to run @ 50 watts many times things were
taking its toll on the QSO counts and score.
11-12z was back on 10m but never had the long 10m opening that VU2PAI on the
west coast enjoyed - the final difference was that he had about 500 QSOs more
on 10m than me. It was back to picking up mults and and few short runs as Mr.
Murphy was active after sunset and finally ended the contest with a felling I
had under achieved. The second radio brought in only about 38 mults but that
was a start at least.
After the CQWW SSB at K9RS I was really smashed to work teo of my mate sform
that operation during the CW led - VP2V/N3DXX and W2ID - that was really cool
:)
Some more automation of the station left to do and maybe try to get hold of a
second C3S to stack and pull out for mults - a new amp may not be in the budget
for now but I will certainly be back next year with more SO2R experience :)
73 all and see you on many bands given the great propagation. This was the
first contest I heard intermod artifacts on the radio for mthe close in rock
crushing signals! Congrats to VU2PAI for another terrifc score from out here
and hope to get closer to that.
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: VU2PTT
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW
OPERATORS: VU2PTT
-------------- 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 6 12 0 0 0 18 18 0.8
0100 0 1 17 66 0 0 84 102 4.4
0200 0 0 2 63 2 0 67 169 7.2
0300 0 0 0 51 5 1 57 226 9.7
0400 0 0 0 0 3 42 45 271 11.6
0500 0 0 0 0 5 72 77 348 14.9
0600 0 0 0 0 123 0 123 471 20.2
0700 0 0 0 1 59 18 78 549 23.5
0800 0 0 0 0 2 129 131 680 29.1
0900 0 0 0 0 3 133 136 816 35.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 74 74 890 38.1
1100 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 902 38.7
1200 0 0 6 4 12 5 27 929 39.8
1300 0 0 0 52 33 0 85 1014 43.5
1400 0 0 0 35 0 0 35 1049 45.0
1500 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 1053 45.1
1600 0 0 0 1 19 4 24 1077 46.2
1700 0 0 0 17 1 6 24 1101 47.2
1800 0 0 0 10 4 0 14 1115 47.8
1900 0 0 0 49 0 0 49 1164 49.9
2000 0 1 1 45 0 0 47 1211 51.9
2100 0 0 89 0 0 0 89 1300 55.7
2200 0 0 28 5 0 0 33 1333 57.1
2300 0 2 15 2 0 0 19 1352 58.0
0000 0 1 8 0 0 0 9 1361 58.3
0100 0 0 43 0 0 0 43 1404 60.2
0200 0 0 4 17 4 0 25 1429 61.3
0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1429 61.3
0400 0 0 0 0 47 0 47 1476 63.3
0500 0 0 0 0 31 30 61 1537 65.9
0600 0 0 0 0 2 35 37 1574 67.5
0700 0 0 0 0 0 77 77 1651 70.8
0800 0 0 0 11 19 10 40 1691 72.5
0900 0 0 0 0 125 0 125 1816 77.8
1000 0 0 0 0 130 0 130 1946 83.4
1100 0 0 0 0 20 26 46 1992 85.4
1200 0 0 9 15 0 4 28 2020 86.6
1300 0 0 0 0 31 0 31 2051 87.9
1400 0 0 1 34 0 6 41 2092 89.7
1500 0 0 2 52 0 0 54 2146 92.0
1600 0 0 0 27 0 0 27 2173 93.1
1700 0 0 0 42 0 0 42 2215 94.9
1800 0 0 0 15 20 0 35 2250 96.4
1900 0 2 0 3 0 0 5 2255 96.7
2000 0 0 6 3 0 0 9 2264 97.0
2100 0 2 17 0 0 0 19 2283 97.9
2200 0 1 15 9 0 0 25 2308 98.9
2300 0 0 25 0 0 0 25 2333 100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 16 300 629 703 685 2333
Gross QSOs=2345 Dupes=12 Net QSOs=2333
Unique callsigns worked = 1829
The best 60 minute rate was 143/hour from 0811 to 0910
The best 30 minute rate was 158/hour from 0811 to 0840
The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 0616 to 0625
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 2 times.
4 QSOs/minute 44 times.
3 QSOs/minute 192 times.
2 QSOs/minute 408 times.
1 QSOs/minute 755 times.
There were 124 bandchanges and 35 (1.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 22
4 838
5 941
6 510
7 3
8 17
10 2
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3W 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.1
4J 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4O 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
4X 0 0 2 3 2 3 10 0.4
5B 0 0 1 1 1 2 5 0.2
5H 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
5X 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
5Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
8Q 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
9A 0 1 4 4 5 3 17 0.7
9H 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9K 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9M2 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.3
9M6 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 0.2
9N 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
9V 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
A4 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 0.2
A6 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.3
A7 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2
A9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
BV 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
BY 0 0 4 8 13 8 33 1.4
C5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
C6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
C9 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
CN 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
CT 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
CT3 0 0 2 2 3 1 8 0.3
CU 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
CX 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1
D4 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
DL 0 0 23 27 59 66 175 7.5
DU 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0.1
E7 0 0 1 1 3 2 7 0.3
EA 0 0 7 5 5 8 25 1.1
EA6 0 0 1 1 2 1 5 0.2
EA8 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
EA9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
EI 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 0.2
EK 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
EL 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
ER 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.3
ES 0 0 0 2 2 3 7 0.3
EU 0 0 5 3 10 4 22 0.9
EY 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.1
F 0 0 3 2 6 3 14 0.6
FM 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
FO 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
G 0 0 4 6 6 14 30 1.3
GD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
GM 0 0 0 1 4 5 10 0.4
GW 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
HA 0 0 11 9 16 12 48 2.1
HB 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 0.2
HC 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HK 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
HL 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.1
HS 0 0 0 6 3 0 9 0.4
HZ 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.1
I 0 0 5 7 20 19 51 2.2
*IG9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
IS 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
*IT9 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0.1
J2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
JA 0 0 6 5 51 88 150 6.4
JT 0 1 1 0 1 2 5 0.2
K 0 0 30 189 45 1 265 11.4
KH0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
KH2 0 0 1 1 3 3 8 0.3
KH6 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0.1
KL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
KP2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
KP4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
LA 0 0 2 2 5 3 12 0.5
LU 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
LX 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
LY 0 0 4 9 9 13 35 1.5
LZ 0 0 4 3 11 8 26 1.1
OE 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 0.3
OH 0 0 6 9 18 12 45 1.9
OH0 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.2
OK 0 0 11 12 22 24 69 3.0
OM 0 0 5 3 10 7 25 1.1
ON 0 0 3 1 4 4 12 0.5
OZ 0 0 1 0 3 5 9 0.4
P4 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
PA 0 0 2 3 5 7 17 0.7
PJ2 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
PJ4 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
PY 0 0 0 2 3 9 14 0.6
PZ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
S5 0 0 11 6 8 12 37 1.6
SM 0 0 5 5 8 7 25 1.1
SP 0 0 11 11 22 21 65 2.8
ST 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
SV 0 0 1 1 6 3 11 0.5
SV5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
SV9 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
T8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
TA 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
TF 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TK 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0.2
UA 0 2 31 84 105 109 331 14.2
UA2 0 0 1 0 2 3 6 0.3
UA9 0 2 11 43 40 46 142 6.1
UK 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
UN 0 0 3 8 6 9 26 1.1
UR 0 0 23 56 56 53 188 8.1
VE 0 1 4 15 4 0 24 1.0
VK 0 0 1 3 6 8 18 0.8
VP2M 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VP2V 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VP5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VP9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VQ9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VR 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
VU 0 2 3 4 1 0 10 0.4
XU 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
XW 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
YA 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
YB 0 0 3 2 1 4 10 0.4
YL 0 0 2 2 4 4 12 0.5
YO 0 0 4 11 9 9 33 1.4
YU 0 0 7 5 9 7 28 1.2
YV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
Z3 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0.2
ZC4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZF 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
ZK2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZL 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 0 16 300 629 703 685 2333
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
16 0 2 61 147 177 173 560 24.0
15 0 1 80 81 161 154 477 20.4
14 0 0 55 56 108 134 353 15.1
05 0 1 28 92 35 1 157 6.7
25 0 0 6 5 53 89 153 6.6
17 0 2 9 32 28 29 100 4.3
20 0 0 13 20 33 26 92 3.9
04 0 0 6 63 9 0 78 3.3
18 0 1 4 17 13 20 55 2.4
03 0 0 0 50 5 0 55 2.4
24 0 0 4 10 14 10 38 1.6
21 0 3 3 6 10 4 26 1.1
28 0 1 5 3 5 7 21 0.9
22 0 3 4 6 3 2 18 0.8
26 0 0 2 7 6 1 16 0.7
33 0 0 5 3 6 2 16 0.7
27 0 1 3 2 5 4 15 0.6
11 0 0 0 2 3 9 14 0.6
08 0 0 1 6 5 0 12 0.5
09 0 0 3 6 1 1 11 0.5
30 0 0 1 2 4 3 10 0.4
29 0 0 0 1 2 5 8 0.3
35 0 0 1 3 2 2 8 0.3
37 0 0 2 2 2 1 7 0.3
13 0 0 2 1 1 2 6 0.3
23 0 1 1 0 2 2 6 0.3
32 0 0 0 2 2 1 5 0.2
19 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.2
38 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.2
31 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0.1
40 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
34 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
39 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
10 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
01 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 0 16 300 629 703 685 2333
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 1460
2 bands 262
3 bands 81
4 bands 24
5 bands 2
6 bands 0
------- 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 0 3 123 399 441 494
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