I really had a great time in my first cw contest. Between the
holiday company and barbecueing, I couldn't spend much time on
the air but did enjoy myself.
It didn't take long to discover that I was woefully unprepared
for the speed y'all were sending the exchanges with. How do you
learn or what do you use to be able to copy code that fast? As
best I could tell, most were sending at 27+ wpm. I really had
to struggle to get the serial #'s right because I knew I was
only going to hear them once. Now I wish I would have had to
pass 30 wpm for extra!
Thanks and can't wait for the next one. Maybe I'll do better,
73 KC5DVT Wayne email...ehayes@vnet.ibm.com
Austin, Texas
>From n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) Tue May 30 14:55:14 1995
From: n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) (LondonSM)
Subject: KJ1N WPX M/S Score
Message-ID: <9505300755.ZM566@dr.att.com>
Black Hole whining begins here......
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CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: KJ1N Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi Single
QTH: Colorado
Operators: KJ1N, N2IC, K0KR, AA0NC
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 0 0 0.0 0
80 31 74 2.4 4
40 442 1610 3.6 118
20 1304 1894 1.5 566
15 134 137 1.0 26
10 9 14 1.6 3
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Totals 1920 3729 1.9 717 = 2,673,693
Antennas:
Stacked KT-34XA's @ 65', 115'
3 el KLM 40 @ 120'
80 meter dipole @ 115'
How do you make so many QSO's, with so many multipliers, for so few points, you
ask .....
Continent Statistics
KJ1N CQ WPX CONTEST Multi Single 28 May 1995 1659z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America CW 0 22 194 733 99 5 1053 54.6
South America CW 0 0 12 23 29 4 68 3.5
Europe CW 0 0 34 326 1 0 361 18.7
Asia CW 0 8 166 194 0 0 368 19.1
Africa CW 0 0 3 2 3 0 8 0.4
Oceania CW 0 1 38 30 2 0 71 3.7
Comments on the above numbers:
1) Very few of those 1053 North American QSO's were VE's !
2) No, we didn't do anything stupid, like go out of our way to work W's, unless
they were a new multiplier.
3) What were we suppose to do, ignore all those AC4's and AA8's that answered
our CQ's ?
A real black hole weekend for us. Just kept pretending that this was really
Field Day, and working W's was a good thing ! Very few memorable QSO's or band
openings. Only 150 JA's on 40 meters, despite 7-8 hours of good propagation.
Where have all the JA's gone ? Couldn't hear even a whisper of many of the EU
that the east coast was working on 20 meters on Sunday. 1430Z-1700Z Sunday -
no DX on any band !
Missed 1.5 hours on Friday evening (0300Z-0430Z) due to thunderstorms. So much
for the over-the-pole opening !
Steve London, N2IC/0
n2ic@dr.att.com
>From alan@ES.COM (Alan Brubaker) Tue May 30 15:23:21 1995
From: alan@ES.COM (Alan Brubaker) (Alan Brubaker)
Subject: WPX CW - NT7Y M/S
Message-ID: <199505301423.IAA05254@greely.corp.ES.COM>
NT7Y M/S operated by W0MHS and K6XO @ K6XO
160 0
80 37
40 268
20 840
15 51
10 0
Total 1196 PX 565 Claimed score: ~1.25M
160 - Only one station heard - NQ4I
80 - Fair opening Sunday morning to JA.
40 - No beam. Noisy and slow.
20 - In and out all weekend. Europe was there most of the
time, but difficult to work from the "Western Black
Hole".
15 - A few marginal openings to SA and the Far East.
10 - One W6 heard on a sporadic E opening.
We put in about 46 hours. Rate overall was about 26, but
on Sunday afternoon, it was mostly lower than that.
Alan, K6XO
alan@es.com
>From pwalker@mbi.moody.edu (Paul D. Walker II) Tue May 30 15:25:56 1995
From: pwalker@mbi.moody.edu (Paul D. Walker II) (Paul D. Walker II)
Subject: 1995 CQ WPX CW - N9WHG
1995 CQ WPX CW SUMMARY SHEET - N9WHG
Contest Dates : 27-May-95, 28-May-95
Callsign Used : N9WHG
Operator : N9WHG
Category : Single Op, All Band, Low Power, Unassisted
Station : FT-900/AT 100 Watts
DSP-59+
AST PowerExec 4/25SL running TRLog 5.19
Ground Mounted 5 Band Vertical (with all the rain we've
had, the ground plane was no problem :-) )
Default Exchange : 599 #
Name : Paul D. Walker II
Address : 1646 West Morgan Avenue
City/State/Zip : Chesterton, IN 46304
Country : United States
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes
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40CW 52 52 154 47
20CW 88 88 162 76
15CW 4 4 2 3
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Totals 144 144 318 126
Final Score = 40068 points.
Soapbox Comments
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First WPX contest - Had a blast. Brought back memories of random
letter/number exercises while learning the code.
Missed VK/JA opportunities on 40 both mornings due to laziness AND a forced
"family shopping trip" killed me on Saturday.
This is to certify that in the contest I have operated my transmitter within
the limitations of my license and have observed fully the rules and
regulations of the contest.
Date _30-May-1995_ Signed ______Paul D. Walker II______ Call ___N9WHG___
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Paul D. Walker II e-mail: pwalker@mbi.moody.edu
Database/System Administrator phone: (312)329-4392
Moody Bible Institute fax: (312)329-8961
820 North LaSalle Blvd amateur radio: N9WHG
Chicago, ILL 60610 packet: n9whg@????? BBS went offline
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