ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2023
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR
Class: SO SSB HP
QTH: EM00st
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW:
SSB: 2715 135
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Total: 2715 135 Total Score = 733,050
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Station K5TR:
http://www.k5tr.net/
Elecraft K3 + Elecraft P3
Alpha 87A
Antennas:
- 7 element yagi 48 ft boom at 60'
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 145'
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 45' fixed SE
- 6 element yagi 24 ft boom at 30' fixed NE
trlinux 0.58 on a Mac Mini
- http://kkn.net/trlinux
It is hard to imagine it, but I have now operated this contest 21 times from the
K5TR hilltop station in Blanco County.
I am grateful that George continues to let me guest operate in this contest,
even though I have basically stopped operating
in any other contests. My weekends are mostly taken up nowadays with Boy Scout
campouts, orienteering meets, school
activities, and the occasional road running race. I show up at the radio
station feeling like I might have forgotten
everything and there will be some embarassing failure on my part, but somehow it
all works out.
Friday night started out with an acceptable first hour, but we never developed
any Eskip here in central Texas, so the
remainder of the evening was quite slow. At one point, I heard some South
Americans on backscatter when I was on an
antenna pointed more or less due west, but I couldn't get their attention.
Looking at my rate sheet from last year
was a little discouraging, as I ended up almost 300 QSOs behind my Friday night
totals from last year.
Saturday morning was quite good, though, with a very solid opening to Europe. A
nice surprise was working VR2 on the
long path (I would hear him again on the same path on Sunday morning) just
before the first Europeans made it into my log.
My rate peaked just over 200 QSOs per hour, which is always fun. My hour totals
stayed over 100 QSOs for nine hours in
a row. The skip felt really long the whole weekend, though. Many, many more
New Englanders made it into my long than
Midwesterners. Usually, states like Ohio and Michigan are responsible for more
contacts, but this year they were outpaced
dramatically by New York, New Jersey, and the New England states. In the other
direction, I worked proportionally far
more stations in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon than the states closer
to me. In fact, by the end of the
contest, I had worked almost four times as many stations in Idaho as I did in
Colorado! The really amazing part of the
propagation, though, was that I had well over 1,000 contacts in the log before I
worked my first station in Illinois!
I picked up my last three states (Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah) in the final
hour the band was really open. Like Friday
night, there was no widespread Eskip again, but I did manage to work my first XE
station in the 0200 hour. By the end of
the day, I was very close to my Saturday evening QSOs total from last year, and
that made me feel a little better.
I am training for my seventh marathon in early March, so I woke up really early
to get out for a long run before the
band opened on Sunday morning. I ran up and down the country lanes around the
K5TR station with a headlamp in the dark
for 135 minutes and never saw another person or moving vehicle. There was no
moon out, so it was really dark and still
and cold (5C cooling down to 2C by daybreak). I finished before sunrise and got
a nice view of the crescent moon just
coming up over the horizon in that early pre-dawn glow.
Sunday was great to Europe again, and I managed to pick up most of the obvious
multipliers that failed to make it into
the log on Saturday. I worked a few more African multipliers, which was great,
and a station in Quebec playfully gave
me a "five ten" signal report, which perked me up a bit. I only had
five hours over 100 QSOs on Sunday. I think the band
may have closed a little bit earlier, plus there is always the effect of running
out of stations you haven't already
worked before. Although I did work some more Japanese and Southeast Asian
stations in the final hours, I didn't pick up
any new multipliers in that direction. I keep thinking that someday we will
surely have thousands of Chinese stations
on the air, but it never happens. Disappointingly, I never heard a Korean
station on the air this year. This is
the second year in a row when there was propagation to that part of the world
that Korea has not made it into my log.
The only Canadian multipliers I missed this year were Yukon Territory, Northwest
Territories, Nunavut, and Labrador,
which are all understandable, I think. The only other missing multiplier that
stands out to me is Venezuela, and it
is the second year in a row without a station from Venezuela in the log.
I really appreciate George putting up with me operating again, despite my lack
of regular operating to keep me sharp.
It is a fantastic station, and clearly responsible for most of the result.
HR HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE
-- ------ --------- -----
0 69/19 69/19 0.00M
1 5/1 74/20 0.00M
2 3/0 77/20 0.00M
3 1/0 78/20 0.00M
4 1/0 79/20 0.00M
5 --- 79/20 0.00M
6 --- 79/20 0.00M
7 --- 79/20 0.00M
8 --- 79/20 0.00M
9 --- 79/20 0.00M
10 --- 79/20 0.00M
11 --- 79/20 0.00M
12 6/6 85/26 0.00M
13 28/15 113/41 0.01M
14 153/34 266/75 0.04M
15 192/9 458/84 0.08M
16 183/15 641/99 0.13M
17 170/5 811/104 0.17M
18 154/2 965/106 0.20M
19 108/1 1073/107 0.23M
20 109/2 1182/109 0.26M
21 130/2 1312/111 0.29M
22 122/3 1434/114 0.33M
23 75/3 1509/117 0.35M
0 28/3 1537/120 0.37M
1 3/0 1540/120 0.37M
2 1/1 1541/121 0.37M
3 1/0 1542/121 0.37M
4 --- 1542/121 0.37M
5 --- 1542/121 0.37M
6 --- 1542/121 0.37M
7 --- 1542/121 0.37M
8 --- 1542/121 0.37M
9 --- 1542/121 0.37M
10 --- 1542/121 0.37M
11 --- 1542/121 0.37M
12 1/0 1543/121 0.37M
13 58/3 1601/124 0.40M
14 150/3 1751/127 0.44M
15 177/4 1928/131 0.51M
16 176/3 2104/134 0.56M
17 153/0 2257/134 0.60M
18 96/0 2353/134 0.63M
19 115/0 2468/134 0.66M
20 97/0 2565/134 0.69M
21 84/1 2649/135 0.72M
22 39/0 2688/135 0.73M
23 27/0 2715/135 0.73M
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Day 1 1509/117
Day 2 1206/18
Gross QSOs=2834 Dupes=119 Net QSOs=2715
Unique callsigns worked = 2715
The best 60 minute rate was 201/hour from 1450 to 1549
The best 30 minute rate was 206/hour from 1446 to 1515
The best 10 minute rate was 246/hour from 1652 to 1701
The best 1 minute rates were:
7 QSOs/minute 1 times.
6 QSOs/minute 12 times.
5 QSOs/minute 44 times.
4 QSOs/minute 149 times.
3 QSOs/minute 267 times.
2 QSOs/minute 322 times.
1 QSOs/minute 375 times.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 8
4 591
5 1103
6 1000
7 5
8 5
9 3
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Continental Summary
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Total Pct
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North America 1990 73.3
South America 112 4.1
Europe 448 16.5
Asia 105 3.9
Africa 13 0.5
Oceania 47 1.7
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Total 2715 2715
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Country Summary
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Country Total Pct
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5B 1 0.0
7Q 1 0.0
9A 10 0.4
9M6 2 0.1
BY 1 0.0
CE 17 0.6
CM 5 0.2
CN 1 0.0
CT 11 0.4
CX 5 0.2
D4 1 0.0
DL 57 2.1
DU 5 0.2
E7 1 0.0
EA 41 1.5
EA6 1 0.0
EA8 7 0.3
EI 9 0.3
F 55 2.0
FK 1 0.0
FY 1 0.0
G 59 2.2
GI 3 0.1
GM 11 0.4
GU 1 0.0
GW 7 0.3
HA 3 0.1
HB 8 0.3
HI 2 0.1
HK 3 0.1
HR 1 0.0
I 55 2.0
JA 99 3.6
K 1740 64.1
KH2 1 0.0
KH6 10 0.4
KL 20 0.7
KP2 1 0.0
KP4 5 0.2
LA 2 0.1
LU 22 0.8
LZ 6 0.2
OA 1 0.0
OE 2 0.1
OK 7 0.3
OM 5 0.2
ON 12 0.4
OZ 7 0.3
PA 39 1.4
PJ4 1 0.0
PJ7 1 0.0
PY 61 2.2
S5 7 0.3
SM 4 0.1
SP 10 0.4
SV 3 0.1
T7 1 0.0
TA 2 0.1
TF 1 0.0
TI 8 0.3
UA9 1 0.0
UR 2 0.1
V5 1 0.0
V7 1 0.0
VE 204 7.5
VK 18 0.7
VP2V 1 0.0
VR 1 0.0
XE 2 0.1
YB 6 0.2
YO 3 0.1
YU 4 0.1
ZB 1 0.0
ZD7 1 0.0
ZL 3 0.1
ZP 1 0.0
ZS 1 0.0
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Total 2715
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W/VE/XE Multiplier Summary
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1. Ca 245
2. Ny 173
3. Wa 130
4. Pa 130
5. Ma 95
6. Or 94
7. On 81
8. Nj 79
9. Md 65
10. Va 65
11. Oh 59
12. Mi 54
13. Ct 53
14. Bc 49
15. Nh 47
16. Nc 42
17. Id 42
18. Tx 37
19. Me 37
20. Fl 30
21. Qc 28
22. Mn 27
23. Nv 22
24. Ab 21
25. Wi 20
26. Vt 20
27. Mt 20
28. Ak 16
29. De 15
30. Ri 15
31. Wv 14
32. Sc 13
33. Hi 11
34. Co 11
35. Ks 10
36. Ga 9
37. Il 8
38. Nd 7
39. Sk 7
40. In 6
41. Mb 6
42. Az 6
43. Tn 5
44. Ar 5
45. Ia 5
46. Al 4
47. Ms 4
48. Nb 4
49. Ky 3
50. Nf 3
51. Mo 3
52. Ns 3
53. Ne 2
54. La 2
55. Dc 2
56. Sd 2
57. Pe 2
58. Nm 2
59. Ut 2
60. Wy 1
61. Chh 1
62. Gto 1
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U.S. Call Areas Worked
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Area QSOs Pct
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0 75 2.8
1 272 10.0
2 285 10.5
3 212 7.8
4 130 4.8
5 70 2.6
6 235 8.7
7 274 10.1
8 135 5.0
9 45 1.7
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Total 1733 63.8
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