CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: N4TZ/9
Operator(s): N4TZ
Station: N4TZ
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 41.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
------------------------------
160: 23 8 12
80: 108 17 54
40: 168 24 72
20: 289 26 90
15: 315 32 95
10: 675 28 103
------------------------------
Total: 1578 135 426 Total Score = 2,508,792
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
OPERATING TIME: 41:29:08
CQ COUNTER: 1179
RUN/SEARCH: 293/1296 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 1082
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones
__________________________________________________________
160SSB 23 23 43 12 8
80SSB 109 108 274 54 17
40SSB 170 168 475 72 24
20SSB 293 289 827 90 26
15SSB 317 315 892 95 32
10SSB 677 675 1961 103 28
__________________________________________________________
Totals 1589 1578 4472 426 135
Final Score = 2508792 points.
Continent List
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL
--- --- --- --- --- --- ---
USA calls = 3 1 1 1 2 2 10
Canada calls = 10 27 9 7 16 17 86
NA calls = 7 21 17 30 32 42 149
SA calls = 2 5 9 44 42 51 153
Euro calls = 0 48 111 184 171 497 1011
African calls = 1 6 7 12 10 13 49
Asian calls = 0 0 3 14 7 14 38
Japan calls = 0 0 6 0 26 30 62
Ocean calls = 0 1 7 1 11 11 31
Total calls = 23 109 170 293 317 677 1589
Guess we had a double peak on this sunspot cycle. Too bad I
didn't fully use the great conditions. The second day was
relatively disappointing here due to some hardware problems.
The first hardware problem I knew about before the contest.
During the ARRL CW contest I found that one of the Orion's
would have a very temporary power output problem - one
fellow said it sounded like the amplifier relay wasn't
picking up - but of course I'm barefoot here. I found that
after several hours of heating the problem would start to
appear fairly reliably on cw. Didn't seem to appear on SSB
so operated the ARRL SSB and WPX SSB with no aparent problem.
Of course, the power varies all the time with voice, so
it's harder to see on the 'scope.
Well, the problem started to show after only an hour or so
the first night out, so basically down to one radio. I
could find stations to work on the bad radio and use the
swap radio function in TR4W to put the good radio on the
desired station, but couldn't cq while s&ping using that
technique, so of limited use here.
The second hardware problem wasn't anticipated. I found
out Saturday aftenoon that the prop pitch rotor turning
the top 20 and 40 wouldn't turn. FOrtunately it was
stuck on Europe. I used the lower 20/40 on the ring
rotor at 61' to try to fill in the other directions, but
to Asia and the Pacific the lower antenna is quite a
step down in performance, especially on 40. To make
things worse, I forgot to park that antenna back to
Europe when finished with 40 to JA on Sunday morning.
A gust of wind caused the ring to sit in a spot that
I couldn't turn from. I didn't notice this until late
Sunday afternoon when I went to turn the antenna to work
South and found that the antenna was pointed NW. Several
trips to the back yard and I had it going again and
pointing in the desired direction,
Monday I found that the problem with the prop pitch rotor
was a loose wire in a junction box at the base of the
tower. My wires and cables to the tower all lie on the
ground and I have to move them back and forth each week
to mow. I guess the movement (coupled with yanking to
get things to lay back in place when finishing mowing)
had pulled out one of the multiple DC return lines.
The remaining return line was just barely good enough
to turn things sometimes, but not other times, due to the
time-out feature of the controller.
My QSOs were all made with TR4W's DVP feature. One
fellow broke out laughing, kindly, upon hearing his callsign
generated by the computer. The 293 QSOs made when I was
calling CQ would not havve been possible without that feature.
History shows that W9RE generally scores 4 times as high
as I do in this contest when conditions are poor (low
sunspot activity) and about 3 times as high when
conditions are good, so I guess I shouldn't be too
disappointed with my score.
I will swap out the troubled Orion for the Omni VI backup
this week for the CW contests, where SO2R is a bigger
factor for low-power folks.
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|