CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: EA6FO
Operator(s): EA3M
Station: EA6FO
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Ibiza
Operating Time (hrs): 40.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 510 12 51
80: 1525 19 71
40: 2326 28 85
20: 2029 31 79
15: 1459 26 76
10: 379 15 47
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Total: 8228 131 409 Total Score = 8,063,820
Club: CCC
Comments:
This was the second occasion doing this contest in SOAB from EA6, the first time
as non-assisted. Having the experience of the previous year helped me to correct
some aspects and identify some further weak points to improve. Hopefully in
2022.
The preparation for the contest started a couple of weeks before when I flew to
Ibiza. The idea of this short trip was to perform a few major changes to the
station and install the first of the Beverages, as I didn’t want to load too
much the days previous to the contest. In my mind that what a very nice idea,
and when I left the island everything was basically ready. However I didn’t
take into account the very well known Murphy’s law and by the time I came back
we had an issue in a box of LP filters (still to be further investigated), the
80/160 vertical had infinite SWR in both bands due to two different problems,
and one of the legs of a 40m long V towards NA was broken. Not a bad start.
Luckily we managed to fix everything in time.
In terms of operation, I went for a full-contest 2BSIQ operating mode: so much
fun, so much concentration required, and still so many situations to learn how
to properly manage (which of course motivates me to keep doing this)! I have a
couple of random thoughts that I think are worth mentioning:
- Pileup management and QRM. Especially on the first night, there were moments
with heavy pileups on both radios. On many many occasions (like in >30 QSOs
only during the first hour) I had to repeat the “599” messages at least
twice, as the operator being answered was basically QRMed by other callers who
repeatedly kept sending and sending their callsigns, which only resulted in
headache, angriness from my side and my QSO rate being drastically decreased...
- Having the (bad) experience from last year in terms of sleep deprivation, I
decided to go completely the opposite this year and stop for 3h around the
middle of the contest. This was definitely not the best time to stop, but I
really felt very well until the last couple of hours. I’ll try to go until the
second morning next time if I manage to rest well on Friday.
- I love having the scores online and I encourage everyone to do so, it keeps
things way more interesting. Ah, how I miss those hours when I really thought I
would manage to catch Filipe CT1ILT :)))
Previous points and jokes aside, it would have been a very good contest... But
on Sunday around 15z (right at the beginning of the 10m opening towards NA) the
computer that I was using spontaneously switched off. Kaput. Impossible to
switch it on again. Since we were using a very old PC as an auxiliary computer
the log could be recovered. At this point though, a lot of time had already been
lost and I was feeling so disappointed that I really felt like stopping. Lucky
for me, first Julio and then my dad EA3AVV by phone, convinced me to continue
(which, once full of energy again, I really appreciate: Thanks!). After the
incident (and not without problems), we managed to set up this very old computer
so that I could continue. To summarize, I lost almost 5 hours and when I
operated again I started first with only one radio while Julio fixed everything
for me on the second one.
But here we are, ready to learn from the mistakes and continue improving. In the
end, this is what a hobby like this is about, right? We all love this game!
Thanks to everyone who called and many thanks to Vicenç (EA6FO), and very
especially to Julio (EA3AIR) and Patro (XYL) for their hospitality and their
great help before, during, and after the contest.
See you in the next one.
Roger EA3M
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Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CALLSIGN: EA6FO
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: EA3M
-------------- 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 0 133 145 0 0 0 278 278 3.4
0100 0 153 149 0 0 0 302 580 7.1
0200 75 47 139 0 0 0 261 841 10.2
0300 56 70 164 0 0 0 290 1131 13.7
0400 2 131 153 0 0 0 286 1417 17.2
0500 58 51 116 0 0 0 225 1642 20.0
0600 0 119 90 0 0 0 209 1851 22.5
0700 0 39 75 49 8 0 171 2022 24.6
0800 0 0 0 145 146 0 291 2313 28.1
0900 0 0 0 135 104 23 262 2575 31.3
1000 0 0 0 64 136 42 242 2817 34.2
1100 0 0 0 37 139 69 245 3062 37.2
1200 0 0 0 144 129 0 273 3335 40.5
1300 0 0 0 84 104 7 195 3530 42.9
1400 0 0 0 140 140 0 280 3810 46.3
1500 0 0 0 79 119 2 200 4010 48.7
1600 0 0 0 151 122 0 273 4283 52.1
1700 0 0 32 111 44 0 187 4470 54.3
1800 0 0 112 84 0 0 196 4666 56.7
1900 18 67 97 2 0 0 184 4850 59.0
2000 3 0 4 0 0 0 7 4857 59.0
2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4857 59.0
2200 15 0 14 0 0 0 29 4886 59.4
2300 116 0 105 0 0 0 221 5107 62.1
0000 10 85 113 0 0 0 208 5315 64.6
0100 0 99 112 0 0 0 211 5526 67.2
0200 33 59 92 0 0 0 184 5710 69.4
0300 29 67 79 0 0 0 175 5885 71.5
0400 0 63 80 0 0 0 143 6028 73.3
0500 0 68 57 0 0 0 125 6153 74.8
0600 26 49 72 0 0 0 147 6300 76.6
0700 0 8 38 99 6 0 151 6451 78.4
0800 0 0 0 96 63 0 159 6610 80.4
0900 0 0 0 116 45 18 179 6789 82.5
1000 0 0 0 50 0 151 201 6990 85.0
1100 0 0 0 93 67 7 167 7157 87.0
1200 0 0 0 101 49 0 150 7307 88.8
1300 0 0 0 69 38 0 107 7414 90.1
1400 0 0 0 60 0 60 120 7534 91.6
1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7534 91.6
1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7534 91.6
1700 0 0 0 47 0 0 47 7581 92.2
1800 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 7653 93.0
1900 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7654 93.0
2000 0 89 97 0 0 0 186 7840 95.3
2100 0 62 92 0 0 0 154 7994 97.2
2200 34 45 49 0 0 0 128 8122 98.7
2300 35 21 48 0 0 0 104 8226 100.0
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Total 510 1525 2325 2028 1459 379 8226
Gross QSOs=8344 Dupes=118 Net QSOs=8226
Unique callsigns worked = 4676
The best 60 minute rate was 310/hour from 0029 to 0128
The best 30 minute rate was 322/hour from 0335 to 0404
The best 10 minute rate was 360/hour from 0139 to 0148
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 10 times.
7 QSOs/minute 53 times.
6 QSOs/minute 188 times.
5 QSOs/minute 384 times.
4 QSOs/minute 479 times.
3 QSOs/minute 555 times.
2 QSOs/minute 439 times.
1 QSOs/minute 268 times.
There were 5179 bandchanges and 3589 (43.6%) 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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 81 509 944 735 507 50 2826 34.4
South America 2 8 15 13 19 8 65 0.8
Europe 416 961 1238 1131 818 307 4871 59.2
Asia 9 42 112 133 97 11 404 4.9
Africa 2 5 10 10 5 2 34 0.4
Oceania 0 0 5 6 12 1 24 0.3
??? 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
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Total 510 1525 2325 2028 1459 379 8226
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 64
4 3535
5 2927
6 1660
7 17
8 11
9 11
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
3D2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
4J 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
4L 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
*4U1V 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
4X 0 4 5 2 3 6 20 0.2
5B 1 1 0 2 3 3 10 0.1
9A 7 13 24 18 8 4 74 0.9
9M2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
9X 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
BV 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
BY 0 3 14 5 9 0 31 0.4
C5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
C6 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.0
CM 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0
CT 1 2 4 2 1 1 11 0.1
CT3 2 3 4 1 3 1 14 0.2
CX 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.0
DL 100 170 211 209 128 86 904 11.0
DU 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
E7 3 6 11 5 2 1 28 0.3
EA 14 37 27 21 8 5 112 1.4
EA6 1 1 0 2 0 0 4 0.0
EA8 0 0 4 6 2 1 13 0.2
EA9 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.0
EI 1 1 3 5 0 1 11 0.1
ER 1 2 2 1 3 1 10 0.1
ES 1 3 3 4 2 0 13 0.2
EU 6 12 14 15 15 2 64 0.8
F 13 34 28 20 21 11 127 1.5
FM 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.0
FY 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.0
G 10 37 43 40 26 10 166 2.0
GD 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.0
GI 1 3 2 0 1 0 7 0.1
GM 5 5 7 6 5 0 28 0.3
GW 2 3 3 5 0 0 13 0.2
HA 11 30 50 33 23 9 156 1.9
HB 7 19 14 15 10 5 70 0.9
HB0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0.0
HI 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.1
HK 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HL 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.0
HP 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.0
HR 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.0
HS 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
HZ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
I 26 60 72 59 14 5 236 2.9
*IT9 0 3 6 7 4 1 21 0.3
JA 0 5 38 60 14 0 117 1.4
JT 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
K 70 471 882 665 464 47 2599 31.6
KG4 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0
KH2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KH6 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.0
KL 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
KP2 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 0.0
KP4 2 2 3 2 2 0 11 0.1
LA 1 8 11 8 7 0 35 0.4
LU 0 0 1 3 5 2 11 0.1
LX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
LY 10 19 27 24 32 0 112 1.4
LZ 3 15 26 20 14 1 79 1.0
OA 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
OE 3 6 14 13 3 3 42 0.5
OH 10 18 18 19 31 3 99 1.2
OH0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0.0
OK 19 46 53 60 33 15 226 2.7
OM 8 17 26 20 9 3 83 1.0
ON 4 15 11 13 7 1 51 0.6
OZ 9 10 10 11 9 0 49 0.6
P4 0 2 2 1 1 0 6 0.1
PA 8 34 49 60 19 17 187 2.3
PJ2 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 0.0
PJ4 2 2 2 1 2 1 10 0.1
PY 0 2 7 6 8 2 25 0.3
S5 11 22 29 24 11 2 99 1.2
SM 9 27 23 23 29 1 112 1.4
SP 26 58 70 66 37 8 265 3.2
SV 3 7 10 3 3 1 27 0.3
SV5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
SV9 1 1 2 1 0 0 5 0.1
TA 0 2 2 2 4 0 10 0.1
*TA1 0 1 2 0 2 0 5 0.1
TF 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.0
TI 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.0
TK 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
UA 40 105 158 158 156 60 677 8.2
UA2 0 3 4 4 2 0 13 0.2
UA9 8 25 38 52 49 0 172 2.1
UN 0 2 5 5 12 0 24 0.3
UR 19 62 91 82 105 45 404 4.9
V3 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
V4 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.0
VE 6 28 42 59 32 2 169 2.1
VK 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.0
VR 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
VU 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 0.0
XE 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 0.1
YB 0 0 1 1 8 0 10 0.1
YL 8 8 7 9 13 1 46 0.6
YO 3 15 32 23 13 1 87 1.1
YU 6 17 28 13 5 2 71 0.9
Z3 2 2 8 5 2 0 19 0.2
ZA 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.0
ZF 2 2 2 2 2 0 10 0.1
ZL 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.1
ZP 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
??? 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
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Total 510 1525 2325 2028 1459 379 8226
------------ 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
-------------------------------------------------------------
14 187 406 450 441 274 138 1896 23.0
15 153 334 452 386 233 58 1616 19.6
05 50 320 519 371 270 47 1577 19.2
16 66 183 270 255 281 108 1163 14.1
04 25 153 332 264 184 2 960 11.7
20 11 46 80 53 42 12 244 3.0
03 1 24 73 88 41 0 227 2.8
17 6 17 25 37 41 0 126 1.5
25 0 5 41 60 14 0 120 1.5
18 2 8 10 18 16 0 54 0.7
08 5 8 11 6 6 1 37 0.4
24 0 3 13 5 10 1 32 0.4
33 2 4 9 7 5 2 29 0.4
11 0 2 8 6 9 2 27 0.3
09 2 6 5 3 5 2 23 0.3
13 0 0 2 4 5 3 14 0.2
07 0 2 5 1 4 0 12 0.1
28 0 0 2 1 9 0 12 0.1
02 0 2 2 1 1 0 6 0.1
21 0 0 3 3 0 0 6 0.1
32 0 0 2 2 2 0 6 0.1
06 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 0.1
19 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 0.1
22 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 0.0
30 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.0
27 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.0
26 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
40 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.0
39 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
31 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.0
23 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
01 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
36 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
35 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
10 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
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Total 510 1525 2325 2028 1459 379 8226
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2849
2 bands 847
3 bands 467
4 bands 332
5 bands 132
6 bands 49
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
UA4S LZ5R K3LR KC1XX K1LZ W3LPL
IR4M TM6M DP7D HG6N DA2X DK9IP
DQ1A RT2C DM2M TK0C E7DX OM7M
F8CRS K2QMF OK5Z DJ4MX DF0CI K1TTT
DJ9DZ RT4F EW2A DF7EE HG7T PA9M
F6KOP W9SN N1DG UT5C EA4KD N4WW
RT4D DL1BUG UW6E DL3MXX F8KCF DR4A
DD4A NU4E DP8M OL3Z DK5TX DL4HRM
R5DT
------- 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 177 433 897 756 486 100
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