CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: VU2PTT
Operator(s): VU2PTT
Station: VU2PTT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Bangalore MK82tx
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 1 1 1
80: 45 12 25
40: 408 24 75
20: 808 32 94
15: 962 30 103
10: 1126 24 89
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Total: 3350 123 387 Total Score = 4,753,710
Club: VU Contest Group
Comments:
Rig: IC-746PRO x 2
Amp: SB-200 X 2 (Tnx VU2LBW for 2nd radio amp loan)
Ant: 20-15-10m Force12 C3S @ 60', 40m Inv-Vee
Ant: 80m Spiderpole Vertical, 10m PVC-Pipe GP
Other: SO2R YCCC Box, ICE-419 x 2 BPF Filters, TopTen Band Decoder x 2
Other: KK1L 2x6 Switch + Band Decoder, N1MM Logger, Athena Statistics
This story began last year when I decided to put in some full efforts at least
in CQWW CW as family time was cutting in heavily into most of the other
contests. This also lead me to drop out of the WRTC team leader race for AS#4
region.
The days before the contest was not too good hearing and reading about the CME
that was expected to have a big effect on the WW weekend. I was hoping this
would work the other way round and provide some interesting propagation too :)
I had the SO2R station going, a second SB-200 on loan from VU2LBW went on the
second radio and things were set until the morning before the start of the
contest when the tuning pot on the low band 160/80m N6RK loop decided to go
bad. No time to go and buy one and i was very suspicious if the same Alps 50K
linear pot would be readily available. A bit of scrounging around found me a
10K pot from an old Norcal-20 kit saved the day and the loop was up running
finally - but on peaks it was giving me a lot of noise. The 80m quarter-wave
vertical with the attenuator switched in seemed to receive better, so left the
loop to troubleshoot another day and decided to get a few hours of sleep
considering I would be doing the iron man routine of the full 48 hours at the
chair - I guess its still OK at age 48 :)
The contest started at 5.30 AM here and as expected the first 2 hours was spent
going around picking up mults on both radios on 80, 40, 20m. Moved to 20m for a
small run and checking on the 2nd radio showed 15m was hopping with signals, so
made the QSY there.
Any run over 100/hour in this part of the world is quite good. Small runs on
15m peaked to a 133 hour between 0600-0700 when the 2nd radio showed 10m come
alive. The 0700 hour was spent there on 10m with a great 178 hour and this
continued with 100+ per hour runs on 10 and 15 until 1300.
1500 - 1900z gave another 3 hours of solid 140+ rate hours on 20m and after the
first 24 hours the log had around 2,100 QSOs - nearly the same number as the
entire 48 hours delivered in the 2011 edition of the contest.
The late nights are not the best out here due to running just a inverted-vee on
40m and a full size 80m vertical with insufficient ground plane. These two
points have to be addressed by next year maybe with a shortened 2-el 40m beam
and finding more ground plane for the 80 m antenna made of wire on a 18m
Spiderpole and mounted on top of the 2nd floor roof of the house.
Day 2 certainly was not that great as I saw only 4 hours of 100+ rates and a
few hours with rates under 100/hour. There was a noticeable auroral type of
flutter on signals in the evening and seemed to have been affected by the CME
or could be my perception after many hours of sleep deprivation :) I could not
turn my bean as the rotator is still not functional but there seemed to be both
long and short paths open on many signals including EU.
Had a lot of fun as my only strategy this time round was run, run and then run
some more whenever possible. Many of the pileups were deep and zero-beat, I had
to hunt around the edges of the pile many times to keep the rate up and increase
speed to 38-40 wpm.
I was keeping a sharp ear out and it was terrific to hear the rare mults call
into my pile up, too many to list all but they played a big part in my score
including ZF1A, EL2A, C5A, 6V7V, JW5E, ED9Z, TO7A and others. I even owe ZD8W a
few beers for moves to 3 bands ;-)
Thanks guys for using your 2nd radios so well unlike mine - I had only about 22
real mults on the 2nd radio when last year I had only 9, that's a 300% increase
;-) Hopefully will make it better next year, but the 2nd radio was invaluable
in checking the other bands and finding a clear spot to QSY on to the next run
band.
The only additional weapon I used to motivate myself was a copy of Athena
running real time statistics graphs on a large 42" monitor showing my progress
on each band against VU2PAI's log from last year when he made close to 3000
QSOs - looks like the tool played its part well and kept me form sleeping at
the desk. I did manage to do this 2 times for half hour or so each :)
Hope to see you all next year - it was great fun and thanks to all the guys who
go around the world to make this great show happen for us house-bound types.
CBS Stats are below and the SH5 Stats are at this link:
http://www.qsl.net/vu2ptt/CQWW/2012/index.htm
If anyone has a recording of my pile up I would be happy to receive it.
73 de Prasad VU2PTT
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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 1 8 18 0 0 0 27 27 0.8
0100 0 0 38 11 0 0 49 76 2.3
0200 0 0 4 9 0 6 19 95 2.8
0300 0 0 0 47 1 5 53 148 4.4
0400 0 0 0 8 44 4 56 204 6.1
0500 0 0 0 7 84 0 91 295 8.8
0600 0 0 0 0 133 4 137 432 12.9
0700 0 0 0 0 0 178 178 610 18.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 129 129 739 22.1
0900 0 0 0 0 138 1 139 878 26.2
1000 0 0 0 0 17 116 133 1011 30.2
1100 0 0 0 0 0 138 138 1149 34.3
1200 0 0 0 0 0 119 119 1268 37.9
1300 0 0 1 0 38 9 48 1316 39.3
1400 0 0 0 1 78 5 84 1400 41.8
1500 0 0 0 140 0 1 141 1541 46.0
1600 0 0 0 142 0 0 142 1683 50.2
1700 0 0 0 142 0 0 142 1825 54.5
1800 0 0 0 14 0 0 14 1839 54.9
1900 0 0 0 34 6 2 42 1881 56.1
2000 0 0 95 2 0 0 97 1978 59.0
2100 0 0 75 1 0 0 76 2054 61.3
2200 0 2 3 1 0 0 6 2060 61.5
2300 0 4 22 0 0 0 26 2086 62.3
0000 0 6 12 0 0 0 18 2104 62.8
0100 0 5 0 32 0 0 37 2141 63.9
0200 0 0 4 1 0 2 7 2148 64.1
0300 0 0 0 0 8 0 8 2156 64.4
0400 0 0 0 0 43 0 43 2199 65.6
0500 0 0 0 0 0 22 22 2221 66.3
0600 0 0 0 0 98 2 100 2321 69.3
0700 0 0 0 0 0 120 120 2441 72.9
0800 0 0 0 0 0 105 105 2546 76.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 92 92 2638 78.7
1000 0 0 0 0 9 62 71 2709 80.9
1100 0 0 0 0 121 0 121 2830 84.5
1200 0 0 0 0 126 0 126 2956 88.2
1300 0 0 1 30 13 0 44 3000 89.6
1400 0 0 0 68 0 0 68 3068 91.6
1500 0 0 0 82 0 0 82 3150 94.0
1600 0 0 6 1 0 1 8 3158 94.3
1700 0 0 16 1 4 3 24 3182 95.0
1800 0 0 1 19 1 0 21 3203 95.6
1900 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 3218 96.1
2000 0 3 18 13 0 0 34 3252 97.1
2100 0 0 75 0 0 0 75 3327 99.3
2200 0 2 10 2 0 0 14 3341 99.7
2300 0 0 9 0 0 0 9 3350 100.0
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Total 1 45 408 808 962 1126 3350
Gross QSOs=3378 Dupes=28 Net QSOs=3350
Unique callsigns worked = 2436
The best 60 minute rate was 179/hour from 0659 to 0758
The best 30 minute rate was 192/hour from 0708 to 0737
The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 0728 to 0737
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 8 times.
4 QSOs/minute 100 times.
3 QSOs/minute 361 times.
2 QSOs/minute 560 times.
1 QSOs/minute 707 times.
There were 107 bandchanges and 28 (0.8%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 27
4 1109
5 1392
6 799
7 4
8 11
9 5
10 3
------------------ 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 1 0 4 2 7 0.2
4J 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
4L 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
4O 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
4S 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
4U1I 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
4X 0 0 3 1 3 6 13 0.4
5B 0 1 2 1 2 1 7 0.2
5H 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
5T 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
5X 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
6W 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
6Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
7P 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
8P 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
9A 0 2 6 7 9 13 37 1.1
9H 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
9M2 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 0.2
9M6 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1
9V 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
A4 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1
A5 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
A6 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 0.1
A7 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
BV 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1
BY 0 0 2 0 6 6 14 0.4
C5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
C6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
CE 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
CN 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
CT 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 0.1
CT3 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 0.1
CU 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
CX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
D4 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
DL 0 2 50 65 106 158 381 11.4
DU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
E7 0 1 2 6 4 2 15 0.4
EA 0 0 10 6 12 22 50 1.5
EA6 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0.1
EA8 0 0 1 2 2 2 7 0.2
EA9 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.1
EI 0 0 2 4 3 2 11 0.3
EK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
EL 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
ER 0 0 3 4 5 6 18 0.5
ES 0 1 3 5 4 7 20 0.6
EU 0 0 3 11 10 14 38 1.1
EX 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
EY 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
F 0 0 2 16 20 23 61 1.8
FG 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FM 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1
FY 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
G 0 0 4 20 14 23 61 1.8
GI 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
GM 0 0 0 4 4 5 13 0.4
GU 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
GW 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0.1
HA 0 1 10 19 22 19 71 2.1
HB 0 0 2 5 4 6 17 0.5
HC 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
HK 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
HL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HS 0 1 0 4 8 4 17 0.5
HZ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
I 0 0 12 17 28 27 84 2.5
*IG9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
IS 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1
*IT9 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 0.2
JA 0 2 10 1 32 11 56 1.7
JT 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
JW 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
K 0 0 13 146 66 0 225 6.7
KH2 0 0 1 1 0 3 5 0.1
KH6 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
KL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KP2 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.1
KP4 0 0 1 2 0 2 5 0.1
LA 0 0 0 2 6 3 11 0.3
LU 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
LX 0 0 0 3 0 2 5 0.1
LY 0 0 3 10 13 14 40 1.2
LZ 0 0 10 13 12 18 53 1.6
OA 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OE 0 0 5 6 4 6 21 0.6
OH 0 0 6 10 20 17 53 1.6
OH0 0 1 2 0 3 1 7 0.2
OK 0 3 16 27 43 41 130 3.9
OM 0 1 8 11 15 15 50 1.5
ON 0 0 8 9 10 9 36 1.1
OZ 0 0 2 3 3 7 15 0.4
P4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
PA 0 0 6 12 14 15 47 1.4
PJ2 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
PJ4 0 0 2 1 1 1 5 0.1
PY 0 0 2 8 3 3 16 0.5
PZ 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
S5 0 0 16 16 15 20 67 2.0
SM 0 0 4 13 15 20 52 1.6
SP 0 2 14 23 43 42 124 3.7
SV 0 0 2 3 8 5 18 0.5
SV9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
T8 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
TA 0 1 2 1 1 2 7 0.2
*TA1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TK 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
TR 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
UA 0 9 42 111 134 210 506 15.1
UA2 0 0 0 3 1 3 7 0.2
UA9 0 3 12 27 49 63 154 4.6
UK 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0.1
UN 0 3 4 4 6 5 22 0.7
UR 0 2 43 49 67 128 289 8.6
V2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
V5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
V6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VE 0 0 2 12 5 0 19 0.6
VK 0 1 2 2 5 5 15 0.4
VP2V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
VR 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
VU 1 2 4 3 3 2 15 0.4
XW 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1
YA 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
YB 0 1 0 1 4 2 8 0.2
YL 0 0 2 3 6 12 23 0.7
YO 0 1 11 11 16 30 69 2.1
YU 0 1 7 14 12 11 45 1.3
YV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
Z3 0 0 1 4 1 2 8 0.2
*Z6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZC4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZD8 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
ZF 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
ZL 0 0 1 2 0 1 4 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 1 45 408 808 962 1126 3350
------------ 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 11 93 180 212 361 857 25.6
15 0 13 115 184 249 259 820 24.5
14 0 2 93 165 217 304 781 23.3
05 0 0 15 106 57 0 178 5.3
20 0 3 32 30 43 62 170 5.1
17 0 4 8 19 39 40 110 3.3
18 0 2 6 7 16 29 60 1.8
25 0 2 10 1 33 11 57 1.7
04 0 0 0 33 14 0 47 1.4
08 0 0 4 12 6 4 26 0.8
26 0 1 1 4 13 7 26 0.8
28 0 1 2 2 9 5 19 0.6
22 1 2 4 3 5 3 18 0.5
09 0 0 3 6 5 4 18 0.5
24 0 0 2 0 7 9 18 0.5
03 0 0 0 18 0 0 18 0.5
21 0 3 5 5 3 2 18 0.5
33 0 0 5 5 3 4 17 0.5
11 0 0 2 8 3 3 16 0.5
35 0 0 0 4 4 5 13 0.4
27 0 0 1 2 2 4 9 0.3
30 0 0 1 1 3 4 9 0.3
29 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.2
19 0 0 0 0 6 0 6 0.2
32 0 0 1 3 0 1 5 0.1
36 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 0.1
38 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1
10 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 0.1
13 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1
23 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
37 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
31 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
01 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
40 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
02 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
12 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
07 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 1 45 408 808 962 1126 3350
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1833
2 bands 370
3 bands 162
4 bands 64
5 bands 7
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 15 169 415 526 708
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