CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: AB6FO Country: United States - LAX
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator High Power
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 0 0 0.0 0
80 12 58 4.8 0
40 455 1840 4.0 127
20 758 1198 1.6 387
15 94 149 1.6 24
10 6 18 3.0 3
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Totals 1325 3263 2.5 541 = 1,765,283
I have a love/hate relationship with WPX.
1. I HATE this contest because of the no pointers. Fully 21% of
my QSOs had no point to them, not mults, U. S. stations. I wonder
if being K6/W6?? next year will reduce this.
2. I HATE this contest because of the clueless U.S. ops that work
me (or try to) on more than one band. I worked U.S. guys with
numbers that hit the 300's the third time they called me. (One of
these is well known on the contest reflector.) C'mon guys, read
the rules and think.
3. I LOVE this contest because using two radios is of particular
benefit and so much fun.
4. I LOVE this contest because the 40 meter JA run counts for so
much.
5. I HATE this contest because, even though I tell myself it
won't happen, I save time for the big European or 10 meter
opening, when I should stay on 40 with a 20/hr, or even 10/hr
rate. But the 20/hr rate seems so slow after the 40-60/hr JA run
dries up that I inevitably take a break.
6. I love this contest because it is on a three day weekend and I can
join my family on vacation afterwards. Sunday evening I cleaned up the
shack and drove to Palm Springs to join the family at a vacation in
progress. It was a very dry 100 degrees there, desert at its best, so nice
that we stayed through late Tuesday, with the kids playing hooky from
school. Ah, the only way to contest from home. Send the family away, and then
join them for R&R.
General observations:
Conditions seemed poor from here. This was my first High Power WPX, so I
don't have a true basis for comparison. I sure don't know how the other CA
ops worked a bunch of JAs on 80. I worked all I heard and it wasn't many.
The only JA opening I heard on 15 was about 5 stations. Europe was all
watery from here, and it seemed only the big guns came through.
The conditions are such that Single Op All Band is a misnomer. It should be
Single Op Two Band, 'cause it was all 20 and 40.
Highlight: I'm CQing late Saturday night low on 40 (I think it was then, I
know it was low on 40) and someone sends "PEST" on my frequency. I answer
"?" he sends "PEST" again. I send "CL?" He disappears. It sure beats "LID"
or "QRL PSE QSY" I think I'm flattered!
Equipment Description:
TS-950SD, TS-950SDX, Alpha 87A, Dentron MLA-2500
Mosley Pro-96 at 80', TA-33 at 36',
80 Meter Inverted V, 40 - 160 Meter Sloper
CT 9.23 (which performed flawlessly!)
73. Ken, AB6FO, KWIDELITZ@DELPHI.COM
>From kf3p@cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart) Thu Jun 1 07:09:23 1995
From: kf3p@cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart) (Tyler Stewart)
Subject: KF3P WPX CW Score etc.
Message-ID: <199506010609.CAA24579@cais.cais.com>
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CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: KF3P Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator High Power
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 0 0 0.0 0
80 152 566 3.7 52
40 725 3050 4.2 312
20 1362 3163 2.3 367
15 59 128 2.2 17
10 0 0 0.0 0
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Totals 2298 6907 3.0 748 = 5,166,436
Equipment Description: table-hopping at W3LPL
Club Affiliation: Potomac Valley Radio Club
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KF3P CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Single Operator High
Power
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 86/78 ..... ..... ..... 86/78 86/78
1 . . 103/76 . . . 103/76 189/154
2 . 11/3 64/43 . . . 75/46 264/200
3 . 68/22 . . . . 68/22 332/222
4 . 34/13 40/23 . . . 74/36 406/258
5 . 4/0 56/21 . . . 60/21 466/279
6 . 2/1 . . . . 2/1 468/280
7 . . 9/6 . . . 9/6 477/286
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 477/286
9 . . . . . . . 477/286
10 . . . 85/37 . . 85/37 562/323
11 . . . 76/33 . . 76/33 638/356
12 . . . 67/21 . . 67/21 705/377
13 . . . 54/19 8/2 . 62/21 767/398
14 . . . 79/25 . . 79/25 846/423
15 . . . 74/19 . . 74/19 920/442
16 ..... ..... ..... 72/20 1/0 ..... 73/20 993/462
17 . . . . . . . 993/462
18 . . . . . . . 993/462
19 . . . . . . . 993/462
20 . . . 50/12 6/3 . 56/15 1049/477
21 . . . 86/16 . . 86/16 1135/493
22 . . . 89/23 . . 89/23 1224/516
23 . . . 65/23 . . 65/23 1289/539
0 ..... ..... 23/5 50/16 ..... ..... 73/21 1362/560
1 . . 82/13 . . . 82/13 1444/573
2 . 22/6 37/6 . . . 59/12 1503/585
3 . 11/7 34/6 . . . 45/13 1548/598
4 . . 72/12 . . . 72/12 1620/610
5 . . 55/13 . . . 55/13 1675/623
6 . . 3/0 . . . 3/0 1678/623
7 . . . . . . . 1678/623
8 ..... ..... 3/1 ..... ..... ..... 3/1 1681/624
9 . . 10/5 . . . 10/5 1691/629
10 . . . 24/4 . . 24/4 1715/633
11 . . . 62/18 . . 62/18 1777/651
12 . . . 65/22 . . 65/22 1842/673
13 . . . 28/2 17/3 . 45/5 1887/678
14 . . . 37/3 10/2 . 47/5 1934/683
15 . . . 55/8 . . 55/8 1989/691
16 ..... ..... ..... 42/9 2/1 ..... 44/10 2033/701
17 . . . . 1/1 . 1/1 2034/702
18 . . . 14/0 11/4 . 25/4 2059/706
19 . . . 48/7 . . 48/7 2107/713
20 . . . 38/6 3/1 . 41/7 2148/720
21 . . . 59/15 . . 59/15 2207/735
22 . . 2/0 39/8 . . 41/8 2248/743
23 . . 45/4 4/1 . . 49/5 2297/748
DAY1 ..... 119/39 358/247 797/248 15/5 ..... ..... 1289/539
DAY2 . 33/13 366/65 565/119 44/12 . . 1008/209
TOT . 152/52 724/312 1362/367 59/17 . . 2297/748
Well, we must have found the last sunspot that was out there, because
conditions were amazingly good considering the WWV numbers. Luckily with
a K of 1, the low bands, especially 40 meters, were in great shape without
benefit of beverage antennas.
Except for falling asleep a little early the first night, everything went
fairly smoothly and according to plan with no equipment failures.
160M: Didnt have it set up...
80M: Although still fairly noisy, signals were good and managed a modest
run the first night...ended up about 50/50 run and S&P Q's.
40M: Conditions on 40M were absolutely fabulous with the exception of the
previously mentioned BC spurious noise that showed up. Not having
a great deal of lower band experience, I was pleasantly surprised to
wake up from my "nap" at about 4:30AM Sunday and hear a few JA's just
BOOMING in! I took about 30 minutes S&Ping a few JA's and an NH2
which didnt do wonders for my score, but was an awful lot of FUN!
20M: This is my "comfy" band I normally operate at LPL in the MM contests.
Conditions were rather lackluster with AM EU openings rather weak and
late to develop. Sunday AM had a nice opening into the far east
starting at just after sunrise and lasting several hour, but again
no big runs of anything. VS6WO was much louder than anyone else from
that area. For a change, the EU stack: 5 over 5 at 50/100'
outperformed the single 5el at 200' almost continuously and by a good
margin. This was a surprising change from last seasons CQ and ARRL
DX contests. Until this weekend, I had pretty much concluded that
with these low sunspot numbers, height was king. Weak equatorial
signals were heard most of the night from the South Pacific.
15M: That one sunspot that was left just wasnt cutting it on 15...no runs
allowed...big-gun EU's, SA, and some weak equatorial stuff...a few
neat multipliers but this is WPX so didnt stick around long.
10M: Tuned once for about 30 seconds and didnt hear a thing!
Comparing notes with Randy, K5ZD after the contest on 3830, our numbers
were almost identical but Randy's score was 500k higher! More low bands
you say? Nope. Running our breakdowns revealed almost identical
sets of numbers. Which leaves those nasty old ZERO point stateside Q's!
Conventional wisdom would say using a 2x1 prefix is a big advantage in the
WPX contest...think again! I didnt so much mind giving out the KF3 prefix
to the stateside guys that called, but did they have to work me on every
!@#$$% band? To add insult to injury, lots of 'em tried to work me 2 or 3
times per band! ...I'd send QSO B4 and they just kept on calling...
Ptooey! Is there a 5 band WPX award I dont know about?
While I'm griping, I'll just squeeze this little one into the same
paragraph...not once, but twice at the bottom end of a band while CQing,
I had the unique experience of a VFO being swished out of nowhere (that I
could hear) and being told that I was was QRMing this NE MM station. All
I can say is get a receiver! If you can't survive 500hz or more away in
a CW contest there is something wrong...and this is just the WPX!
OK, I'm done now. :)
If all goes well, I'll be op'ing from my new home station next year after
tower #2 goes up to cover the low bands.
Next stop: In 2 weeks, 2 meters at LM K3MQH going for the "gold" in the
June VHF contest. The goal: break 1000 Q's on 2 and/or beat K1TR if they
show up this year. ;}
73, Tyler KF3P
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>From tallath@hookup.net (Gordon R Beatty) Thu Jun 1 07:37:43 1995
From: tallath@hookup.net (Gordon R Beatty) (Gordon R Beatty)
Subject: The Uninitiated Seek Knowledge: 'What be this WPX?'
Message-ID: <199506010638.CAA04380@nic.ott.hookup.net>
Hello to all,
This is the first time I've ever posted to a mailing list before and
I'm sorry if
my question is simple or contained in a FAQ somewhere... but I've been
interested in reading about contesting through the mailing list (not quite
set up to even remotely participate just yet), yet I'm always left wondering
'what is WPX?' Do the letters stand for something? I assume it's some
type of contest. Any info would be greatly appreciated since it would
make my reading a little more comprehensive. I may be e-mailed if
the response would be useless to most readers.
Thanks.
--------------------------
Gordon R Beatty VA3GRB 'Live Long and Propagate'
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
E-Mail: tallath@hookup.net (Finger: tallath@ott.hookup.net)
>From ni6t@ix.netcom.com (Garry Shapiro ) Thu Jun 1 09:32:17 1995
From: ni6t@ix.netcom.com (Garry Shapiro ) (Garry Shapiro )
Subject: AB6FO WPX Results, etc.
Message-ID: <199506010832.BAA27729@ix5.ix.netcom.com>
You wrote:
>Highlight: I'm CQing late Saturday night low on 40 (I think it was
then, I
>know it was low on 40) and someone sends "PEST" on my frequency. I
answer
>"?" he sends "PEST" again. I send "CL?" He disappears. It sure beats
"LID"
>or "QRL PSE QSY" I think I'm flattered!
Reminds me of an old MAD magazine from my boyhood, from right after the
1956 Hungarian Revolution which was crushed by the Russians under
Khruschev. Old Nikita afterwards traveled to NY to attend a UN session.
Demonstrators harassed him, including one who waved a sign that said
"Butcher of Hungary." MAD had a Russian commentator explaining that the
man was Imre Butcher of Budapest who was just enthusiastically greeting
the Premier.
So it occurs to me:
Perhaps this guy sending PEST was Hungarian and thought that perhaps
you were, also, and was telling you that he was from Pest, which is, of
course, across the Danube from Buda.
>
>Equipment Description:
>TS-950SD, TS-950SDX, Alpha 87A, Dentron MLA-2500
>Mosley Pro-96 at 80', TA-33 at 36',
>80 Meter Inverted V, 40 - 160 Meter Sloper
>CT 9.23 (which performed flawlessly!)
>
>73. Ken, AB6FO, KWIDELITZ@DELPHI.COM
>
You were LOUD, bro, especially on 40m, where you were SO loud that,
even with the attenuators cranked in, I could still hear your spurs.
Garry, NI6T
ni6t@ix.netcom.com
>From Mark Bailey <bailey@integ.com> Thu Jun 1 14:34:59 1995
From: Mark Bailey <bailey@integ.com> (Mark Bailey)
Subject: borrowed calls
Message-ID: <9506010935.aa12682@igateway.integ.com>
>
>Sorry, I should have worked the c-word into the posting, I forget which
>reflector I was replying to... But is it OK to break contest rules if
>you are not intending to send in a log? Can I use my own call and the
>club call on the same person? And then the calls of some friends...?
>Confused of Austin,
>Derek AA5BT, G3NMX
I've certainly broken contest rules and compensated by not sending in a log.
Recently, in the ARRL DX contests, I allowed some Technician class licensees
to operate outside of their privaledges. This is not illegal, but it violated
the rules of the contest.
Mark Bailey KD4D Motto: Life's too short to drink cheap beer.
bailey@integ.com Disclaimer: I didn't really say this.
>From Richard L. King" <0007131253@mcimail.com Thu Jun 1 14:59:00 1995
From: Richard L. King" <0007131253@mcimail.com (Richard L. King)
Subject: Borrowed Calls
Message-ID: <60950601135906/0007131253PJ1EM@MCIMAIL.COM>
I sometimes work the WPX CW Contest as a single-op and have the option
of using my own call (K5NA) or the call of the station licensee (KU2Q).
For those of us who don't know us, I share a station with my wife, Susan
(KU2Q), and we both contribute to the maintenance, upkeep, and antenna-
building. I have found there is a definite strategy to which call should
be used.
The WPX CW is basically a two-band contest, 20 and 40 meters. When
sunspots are higher, it becomes a three-band contest with 15 meters added.
If I am going all-band, then K5NA is definitely the best call to use. That
is for the same reasons aleady mentioned here, too many zero point QSOs
from USA stations that aren't mults. By running a second station with the
stereo headphones, I expect to find most of the need USA mults anyway.
But if I do a single-band entry on 10, 80, or 160 meters, it is a different
story. Now I am not likely to find the rare USA multipliers, and I want
them to find and work me. By using KU2Q, the KQ2Ms, KF3Ps, etc, will find
me and answer my CQs to get my "rare" prefix. I know this is true from my
experience of doing it both ways.
73, Richard
K5NA@MCIMAIL.COM
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