ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: FK52al
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 440
40: 737
20: 983
15: 1028
10: 301
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Total: 3489 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 66 Total Score = 429,147
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was a lot of fun, thanks to all the participants! In fact, I enjoyed it so
much that I operated until the end of the 30 hour contest period, even though
this was about 30 minutes past my 24�"hour scoring period. (For those
who may be puzzled by this statement, you can always operate past any time
limit. The time limit only applies to scoring the log. However, it is vital
that every QSO made in the contest is left in the log, even if cannot be
included in the score. If QSOs are removed, then the other stations will get
lose credit, plus possible penalty reductions, in their score.)
From Aruba, 80/40/20 were in great shape. Signals were strong and clear.
Although rate dropped off, 80 and 40 were still performing great when I knocked
off at 0730z. At 0600z, 6% more QSOs were logged than my prior personal best.
Hourly rates stayed above 200 for the first 4 hours for the first time, with a
new personal best hour of 240. This exhilaration is what keeps getting me back
here. Of course, high rates can’t happen without great operating on the other
side of the QSO where exchanges are kept reasonably short.
15 was OK, but not great. It seemed great Saturday afternoon during the
initial rate fest, but the truth emerged Sunday morning when 15 didn’t open
sufficiently until late morning to Europe and then NA. And, the Sunday rates
were down from just a few years ago. The nice lead I had at the half-way mark
eroded back to a 4th place high QSO count in my 13-year string. The multiplier
count was also 4th highest, resulting in a raw score that is 6th place among the
13.
When I went to 10 early Sunday afternoon, the bandscope suggested the band was
dead, but it was only dead from lack of activity�"no one was
transmitting! Once I started CQing, there was a steady stream of callers from
all states and provinces throughout the afternoon. But, there was no pileup
and some experienced deep QSB. I might have made more QSOs on 20 during that
time, but the people on 10 seemed to enjoy it and so did I. By late afternoon,
10m looked “active” on the bandscope. This was probably not the same
picture in the northern latitudes.
This is the first year I had a period of time (first thing Sunday morning)
where I couldn’t run well on 2 bands. Before 15 opened, I had no choice but
to be on 40 for a few minutes at much lower rates. This is new, and
frustrating, to me at this QTH. During the solar maximums, 15 (followed
shortly by 10) open strongly to Europe rapidly after local sunrise. So a 5-6
hour off-time works well to bridge time when rate falls off on 80/40 to when
20/15 are wide open.
Thanks to everyone who called in and especially those who did so on multiple
bands when there is no multiplier credit for additional QSOs. There were 62
stations that worked P49X on all 5 bands. More stats are in the CBS analysis
below. And, thanks to John P40L/W6LD and Andy P49Y/AE6Y for sharing their
station with me.
Ed P49X/W0YK
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Rigs: Elecraft K3 (2), K-Pod (2), P3 (2)
Amps: Alpha 86, Alpha 91B
FilterMax III low power band pass filters (2)
4O3A high power band pass filters
SixPak, StackMatch (2), BandMaster III decoder (2)
Tower 1: C31XR at 43 feet
Tower 2: 2 elements on 10 meters / 5 elements 15 meters at 55 feet
Tower 3: 4 elements 20 meter at 68 feet
2 elements 40 meter at 76 feet
1 element 80 meter Sigma 80 at 64 feet
160 meter \"Double L\" vertical at 67 feet
Four 400-500 foot beverages using K9AY switching box/preamp (JA/W6, W1, EU and
Africa/VK-ZL)
Logging software: WriteLog 12.12C on three networked PCs
RTTY Decoders (each K3): MMTTY, 2Tone (2), Hal DXP-38 on main receiver
MMTTY, 2Tone on second receiver
(setting both receivers on same frequency yields
6 parallel decoders)
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY
OPERATORS: P49X
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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1800 0 0 0 100 117 0 217 217 6.2
1900 0 0 0 116 115 0 231 448 12.8
2000 0 0 0 103 112 0 215 663 19.0
2100 0 0 0 102 103 0 205 868 24.9
2200 0 0 72 97 11 0 180 1048 30.0
2300 0 0 86 85 0 0 171 1219 34.9
0000 0 28 83 16 0 0 127 1346 38.6
0100 0 71 108 0 0 0 179 1525 43.7
0200 0 45 91 0 0 0 136 1661 47.6
0300 0 79 47 0 0 0 126 1787 51.2
0400 0 85 66 0 0 0 151 1938 55.5
0500 0 71 58 0 0 0 129 2067 59.2
0600 0 55 43 0 0 0 98 2165 62.1
0700 0 6 29 0 0 0 35 2200 63.1
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2200 63.1
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2200 63.1
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2200 63.1
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2200 63.1
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2200 63.1
1300 0 0 6 57 20 0 83 2283 65.4
1400 0 0 0 69 80 0 149 2432 69.7
1500 0 0 0 67 88 0 155 2587 74.1
1600 0 0 0 53 89 2 144 2731 78.3
1700 0 0 0 0 71 63 134 2865 82.1
1800 0 0 0 0 55 58 113 2978 85.4
1900 0 0 0 0 47 39 86 3064 87.8
2000 0 0 0 0 51 75 126 3190 91.4
2100 0 0 0 6 43 64 113 3303 94.7
2200 0 0 26 81 26 0 133 3436 98.5
2300 0 0 22 31 0 0 53 3489 100.0
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Total 0 440 737 983 1028 301 3489
Gross QSOs=3549 Dupes=60 Net QSOs=3489
Unique callsigns worked = 1763
The best 60 minute rate was 240/hour from 1824 to 1923
The best 30 minute rate was 254/hour from 1843 to 1912
The best 10 minute rate was 282/hour from 1844 to 1853
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 9 times.
5 QSOs/minute 77 times.
4 QSOs/minute 210 times.
3 QSOs/minute 360 times.
2 QSOs/minute 433 times.
1 QSOs/minute 264 times.
There were 2239 bandchanges and 1506 (43.2%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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North America 0 373 593 862 949 294 3071 88.0
South America 0 2 5 3 9 6 25 0.7
Europe 0 64 130 66 66 0 326 9.3
Asia 0 1 5 49 0 0 55 1.6
Africa 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.1
Oceania 0 0 3 1 2 1 7 0.2
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Total 0 440 737 983 1028 301 3489
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 7
4 1518
5 1336
6 617
7 3
8 5
9 2
10 1
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
5B 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
9A 0 1 3 1 0 0 5 0.1
CM 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
CT 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
CX 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
DL 0 11 11 12 13 0 47 1.3
E7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
EA 0 3 8 5 4 0 20 0.6
EA8 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
EI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ER 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
EU 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.1
F 0 6 10 8 14 0 38 1.1
FM 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
G 0 2 8 2 4 0 16 0.5
GI 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
GM 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
GW 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
HA 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 0.1
HB 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
HC 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HI 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1
HK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
I 0 2 18 6 10 0 36 1.0
*IT9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
JA 0 0 4 47 0 0 51 1.5
K 0 354 562 811 886 279 2892 82.9
KG4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
KH6 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.1
KL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KP2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KP4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
LA 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1
LU 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1
LX 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
LY 0 2 3 1 0 0 6 0.2
LZ 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1
OA 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
OE 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OH 0 3 3 4 0 0 10 0.3
OK 0 1 7 3 3 0 14 0.4
OM 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
ON 0 1 2 3 0 0 6 0.2
OZ 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
PA 0 2 4 3 2 0 11 0.3
PY 0 0 2 0 5 2 9 0.3
S5 0 2 4 2 1 0 9 0.3
SM 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1
SP 0 5 8 2 3 0 18 0.5
SV 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.1
TF 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
TG 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1
TK 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
TR 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
UA 0 4 4 2 0 0 10 0.3
UA9 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1
UR 0 1 12 1 0 0 14 0.4
VE 0 17 27 46 55 13 158 4.5
VK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
XE 0 1 0 2 2 2 7 0.2
YB 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
YL 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 0.1
YO 0 1 3 2 2 0 8 0.2
YU 0 2 1 1 2 0 6 0.2
YV 0 2 2 1 1 1 7 0.2
ZB 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
ZL 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 0 440 737 983 1028 301 3489
------------ 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
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-DX- 0 69 147 125 87 9 437 12.5
CA 0 33 48 62 78 19 240 6.9
IL 0 26 37 50 41 22 176 5.0
TX 0 15 34 39 52 20 160 4.6
VA 0 21 27 50 50 10 158 4.5
PA 0 16 32 44 41 11 144 4.1
OH 0 15 26 34 38 18 131 3.8
NY 0 16 27 38 37 9 127 3.6
NC 0 15 23 36 40 10 124 3.6
MN 0 13 22 33 39 12 119 3.4
FL 0 9 14 33 34 11 101 2.9
ON 0 12 17 23 30 7 89 2.6
WA 0 10 11 25 33 10 89 2.6
AZ 0 13 19 27 26 2 87 2.5
NJ 0 11 15 25 28 2 81 2.3
TN 0 8 14 22 19 14 77 2.2
MA 0 6 17 21 24 6 74 2.1
MD 0 10 17 21 23 3 74 2.1
AL 0 7 14 18 22 10 71 2.0
CO 0 6 13 18 22 7 66 1.9
CT 0 9 9 16 19 8 61 1.7
IN 0 11 13 16 13 7 60 1.7
MI 0 7 14 18 17 2 58 1.7
SC 0 9 12 15 12 5 53 1.5
OR 0 5 9 12 20 6 52 1.5
MO 0 8 10 12 15 6 51 1.5
WI 0 6 11 9 18 5 49 1.4
GA 0 5 8 10 6 5 34 1.0
LA 0 5 6 6 7 8 32 0.9
KY 0 7 6 10 8 1 32 0.9
MS 0 5 3 8 10 3 29 0.8
IA 0 2 6 6 9 2 25 0.7
KS 0 3 5 8 8 1 25 0.7
AR 0 1 5 8 5 3 22 0.6
QC 0 2 4 6 9 1 22 0.6
BC 0 2 2 5 9 3 21 0.6
OK 0 1 5 6 6 2 20 0.6
NH 0 2 0 10 7 0 19 0.5
ID 0 2 3 5 8 1 19 0.5
UT 0 2 3 5 7 1 18 0.5
SD 0 3 2 4 6 2 17 0.5
NE 0 2 4 4 5 2 17 0.5
WV 0 1 2 2 7 4 16 0.5
NV 0 1 4 4 5 2 16 0.5
VT 0 2 2 3 5 2 14 0.4
ME 0 1 4 3 3 1 12 0.3
RI 0 2 1 2 4 1 10 0.3
AB 0 0 2 4 3 1 10 0.3
DE 0 0 1 4 3 1 9 0.3
SK 0 1 1 3 2 1 8 0.2
NM 0 0 3 3 2 0 8 0.2
NF 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 0.2
MT 0 0 0 3 2 1 6 0.2
WY 0 2 2 1 0 0 5 0.1
DC 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.1
ND 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
NS 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
PE 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 0 440 737 983 1028 301 3489
U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
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0 327 9.4
1 230 6.6
2 276 7.9
3 267 7.7
4 467 13.4
5 266 7.6
6 272 7.8
7 263 7.5
8 230 6.6
9 294 8.4
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Total 2892 82.9
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 819
2 bands 438
3 bands 292
4 bands 152
5 bands 62
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 66 187 299 229 38
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