CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: VS6WO Country: Hong Kong
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 0 0 0.00 0 0
80 138 299 2.17 17 30
40 487 976 2.00 24 60
20 758 1655 2.18 35 97
15 2603 5557 2.13 36 119
10 551 1415 2.57 21 60
---------------------------------------------------
Totals 4537 9902 2.18 133 366 => 4,941,098
Operators: 9V1YC, VR2GO, VR2NR, VS6WO
15M was very good. We were a bit surprised to have several good runs on 10M
yielding 60 countries. The low points/qso is typical for operations from Hong
Kong due to the high percentage of 1-point JA contacts.
Similar to KH0AM, we did not erect an antenna on 160. The typical number of
contacts/mults (less than five) does not justify the effort. This would be a
different story if Japan could operate SSB on 160.
regards, steve VS6WO/NA9D
>From Ken Silverman" <ken.silverman@CCMAIL.AirTouch.COM Wed Nov 1 02:26:40
>1995
From: Ken Silverman" <ken.silverman@CCMAIL.AirTouch.COM (Ken Silverman)
Subject: South America
Message-ID: <9509318151.AA815192824@CCMAIL.AIRTOUCH.COM>
W2UP Writes:
>Since one of our COntest brethren in PY-land brought up the point about
>listening down south...
>I wonder if anyone has success running South America? My experience has
>been poor. Seem to be a fair number of LUs, CEs, PYs, etc. calling CQ,
>and having good signals, but my own CQ brings a very limited response.
While on a business trip in Spain, I operated the CQ WW SSB from EA4URE Saturday
afternoon on 10 and 15m. I specifically was listening to who the South
Americans were working on 10m, since I will be down there for the CQ WW CW, and
wanted to know what to expect on that band.
At least on 10m, most South American stations were running a combination of USA
and EU at a fairly good pace. From what I could tell, they were not wanting for
QSOs. When I listened to 10m (around 1500z) 28.350 to 28.520 was pretty much
wall to wall South American stations with over S9 signals. I did not hear any
US at that time, though I did hear through the grapevine that there was an
opening from EU to New England on 10m.
I also recall that there were lots of Caribbean and South American Stations
below the US phone bands on 15 and 20m, and they were all running EU at a rapid
pace.
In general its tough to run (at any decent continued rate) South Americans from
any place, but its usually easy for South Americans to run endless Europeans
when the band is open. Its simply a numbers game.
73, Ken WM2C/6
>From Jack Fleming <oolon@eskimo.com> Wed Nov 1 03:02:00 1995
From: Jack Fleming <oolon@eskimo.com> (Jack Fleming)
Subject: Logs Repository
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951031183900.18400C-100000@eskimo.com>
Contest Log Repository!
Many of us just can't get enough contesting! Here's a chance to
feed our addiction, er... habit, er... hobby even more! Imagine
perusing the logs of contesters from around the world. Here's
how - send your contest log to me and I'll put it in an ftp
directory for everyone to download and review. My email address is:
oolon@eskimo.com
You can either send the log to me as an attachment to a regular
email message or in ascii format as your email message
(especially if you are sending an N6TR log (NAME.DAT) that is
already in ascii form).
Or you can ftp upload your file directly into my ftp directory
and I'll move it over to the right location for everyone to
review. The address for my upload directory is ftp.eskimo.com in
the /u/o/oolon/uploads directory.
I'll put the logs into separate directories for each contest.
Please include your callsign and file type in the file name
(WA0RJY.BIN or WA0RJY.NA or WA0RJY.TR or WA0RJY.DAT or WA0RJY.TXT
or something similar) so people can know who's log they are
getting and also what format it is in.
You can get logs to review by using ftp (or better yet, try
ncftp) at:
ftp.eskimo.com
Look in the /u/o/oolon/logs/95cqwwph directory for the 1995 CQWW
Phone logs (only mine so far...).
Or on the Web point at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~oolon/logs/
***************************************************************
Jack Fleming, WA0RJY ex-CN2JF ex-CT1/WA0RJY oolon@eskimo.com
Seattle, WA http://www.eskimo.com/~oolon/ DON'T PANIC!
***************************************************************
>From George Cook <george@epix.net> Wed Nov 1 03:05:56 1995
From: George Cook <george@epix.net> (George Cook)
Subject: CQWW @ K3ANS M/M
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951031215407.16212B-100000@mango.epix.net>
This is being posted for team capitan Bill Goodman
Band Q's Zn Cty Dupe
160 134 11 35 2
80 241 15 60 16
40 193 28 82 10
20 731 34 127 24
15 992 29 135 21
10 99 14 39 1
TOT 2390 131 478 74
Raw claimed score 3,723,426
Stuff
Blew up and kept blowing up
Now dead
2 Drake L4-Bs
1 Ameritron AL 1200
Crippled
1 Drake L4-B
1 Tail twister
Funniest moment watching Bill eat his first taste of Kim Chee (maybe I
should have told him not to stuff his trap full of it!)
Saddest Moment Watching the 4th amplifier start to fry!
*************************************************
* George Cook AA3JU Bangor, PA FN21 *
* george@peach.epix.net AA3JU@N3IQD.EPA.USA.NA *
* If you're not FRC remember:............... *
* .......There's no shame in being 2nd best! *
*************************************************
>From George Cook <george@epix.net> Wed Nov 1 03:13:11 1995
From: George Cook <george@epix.net> (George Cook)
Subject: AA3JU Single band 80 CQWW
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951031220605.16212C-100000@mango.epix.net>
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 1995
Call: AA3JU Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator Single Band
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
80 227 473 2.08 15 61
---------------------------------------------------
Totals 227 473 2.08 15 61 => 35,948
All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.
Equipment Description: Kenwood TS 930S, Henery 2K Classic-X, Hiel HC5 in
a
Telex headset, CT 8.57 run on a Homebrew P5/75mhz
2 wire yaggis up around 50 ft on top of a 50 foot hill two different
designs.
Club Affiliation: FRC (Greatest contest club in the Universe!)
Whilest alegedly sleeping and not opperating at K3ANS I was at home
running a modest effort on 80. Quite pleased to see that the antennas
are working better than I expected and that I was able to crack the
pileups with the best of them.
Total time on around 9 hours
Who turned on all that noise on Friday nite?
And why did I leave my Kim Chee at K3ANS house? Very hard to be competitive
on Hot Bolognas alone!
*************************************************
* George Cook AA3JU Bangor, PA FN21 *
* george@peach.epix.net AA3JU@N3IQD.EPA.USA.NA *
* If you're not FRC remember:............... *
* .......There's no shame in being 2nd best! *
*************************************************
>From Dave Pascoe <pascoe@mathworks.com> Wed Nov 1 03:18:45 1995
From: Dave Pascoe <pascoe@mathworks.com> (Dave Pascoe)
Subject: CQWW SSB Summary - KM3T (+notes)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951031213010.24793E-100000@turing>
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1995
Call: KM3T (@K1MNS) Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Single Operator
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 12 24 2.00 5 7
80 319 912 2.86 12 60
40 170 479 2.82 16 66
20 1124 3236 2.88 32 108
15 1176 3461 2.94 30 108
10 76 202 2.66 13 28
---------------------------------------------------
Totals 2877 8314 2.89 108 377 => 4,032,290
Operating Time: 36.6 hours
Notes/Story
--------------
First off, special thanks to Larry K1MNS and Paul Terwilliger NX1H for
helping me prepare in the weeks before the contest. And to Larry for the
use of his station. Paul has been the station architect at K1MNS's place
for the last few years and has done an incredible job. Many of you may
be familiar with the multi-op's NB1H, K1ST, K1RX, and NX1H from this
location. Without their help I couldn't have put it all together.
I've been contesting since about 1980 and for the most part have played a
key part in a number of winning and close-to-winning multi-op efforts
while in FRC (where I learned the ropes), PVRC, and now YCCC for the past
7 years. I've operated all over the place to get experience (N3AD,N3RS,N3KZ,
N2RM,W3BGN,W3GM,W3LPL,K3ZO,K1AR/K1EA,K1ST,KC1XX, and as ZF2PT). I owe
a lot of what I've learned to these guys and the ops who I've shared
stations with. Contesting is all about experience. And I learned that
the hard way this weekend. :-)
Only once have I gone Single Op in CQWW (1986 from K3ZO's place while I
lived there). I remember being a lot more frustrated back then if things
weren't going as well as I expected. I guess I've matured. This time I
had a blast, despite a few problems. There just isn't anything even
close to CQWW! It's the best!
I had an equipment problem with one of the 781's about an hour into the
'test. While working on that tried to keep going with the second radio.
That's tough going. Lost some critical time. But kept my spirits and
enthusiasm up anyway.
Then things were smoking from that point on all the way into and through
Saturday. Except for the rain static that plagued much of the
Northeast. It came and went as the charge dissipated and built up again.
Highlight Saturday was the incredible condx on 15/20m. 10m unexpectedly
opened to Europe around 1545Z. Worked I,4X,EA,YU,LZ and some other stuff.
That was cool.....combination of direct and sort of scatter path to the ESE.
The real highlight was my best rate of the 'test into Europe (where
else?)....had a 210 hour into EU on 20m of all bands! Rates on 15m
around that time were in the 170/180 region and the same thing on
Sunday. What a rush!
Had another equipment problem crop up Saturday night at 00Z (not a good
time for a radio to fail). Lost about an hour here....it's a long story
and this is getting long enough already.
Around 0630Z Sunday morning I decided to take a walk around upstairs. I
had originally planned to sleep at the operating table with the volume
kind of low. Well, I found a real comfy looking chair in the living
room. I sat down, set the alarm on my pager and tried for an hour or two
of sleep. No sleep until this point. Woke up at 1200Z. Slept straight
up in the chair the whole time, didn't hear the clock chimes that happen
every 15 minutes on the living room clock. Another KM3T classic maneuver.
I took it well, ran to the radio, got on 20 and proceeded to run my
brains out. I felt a little bad having missed 2 (10/11Z) prime hours on
20 but, hey, that's life. Live and learn.
Hats off to John and Randy for 1st and 2nd place.....they've obviously
got more cumulative single-op hours under their belts. It shows in their
scores! Great job guys. I'll keep plugging. I have a lot to learn
about single-op all band. But I'm gonna keep getting in the ring.
See everyone on CW....hope everyone had as much fun as I did! Cw will be
much more relaxing.
Equipment Description:
Operated from QTH of Larry, K1MNS (beautiful hilltop location in NH)
- (2) Icom IC-781's + 2 radio switch box
- NX1H-designed-and-built radio mutiplex box (reads band info from Icom
and switches antennas/amps automatically)
- Single band amps on all bands 1500 watts PEP output
- Stacked computers (desktop and laptop linked)
Antennas-
160: Wire verticals, 80M 4-square array tuned for 160m (close spaced on 160)
75: 4-square array (NE,SE,SW,NW) {killer array}
40: 2el/2el 40-2CD's (modified to be 2el phased arrays, reverseable pattern)
20: 5el yagi @ 90'
15: 4/4/4/4el yagis starting at 115' and working down
10: 7el yagi at 120'
+Short Beverage
Club Affiliation: YCCC
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