ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: N3BB
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Austin, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 22 18
80: 91 46
40: 699 90
20: 395 76
15: 980 92
10: 77 36
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Total: 2264 358 Total Score = 2,426,166
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Pretty good conditions. But as usual, hearing the NE running EU is tough when
it?s just not possible here. I did enjoy the good 15 opening to EU as well as a
decent, not great JA opening as well. 40 was excellent to JA and the (40) run
to EU as enough people got up and on the air was good, for here.
Some random notes/comments:
? The FT1000MPs with the Inrad roofing filters were really good.
? I have some station improvements to do, and hereby declare I will do
them this
summer. It has been over ten years, and it?s time.
? Worked almost every mult I heard. The OH0 was an exception on 20, plus
PA0LOU
and another loud EU station about 2330Z on 80 near the end. It?s one way skip
at that time to W5.
? Lots of QRP activity, and some were tremendously loud. Congrats. QRP
signal
strength is a good indication of the band opening quality and the ?layers? that
are workable.
? Longest call goes to 9M6/PA0XXX/#. Glad I didn?t have to use that one!
? Black tea is much superior to coke. No after-affect, and it works
great.
? Working 9V1YC on 80 was a thrill. James fished out my call one letter
at a
time. It was painful but a highlight for me.
? Worked S52QM, Tomas, at the WRTC station from which N3AD and I operated
as
S563X. That was nice.
? Made a schedule with KL7WV for 20 meters at 2330 and he was not there.
Got a
nice email today apologizing due to equipment failures at 2230 at their remote
station location. Very thoughtful.
? Big bummer was when the JA run started Saturday about 2230, and at 2300
some
sort of local pea-soup fog enveloped the area, and it was so dense the
visibility was a hundred feet or so. I got some weird sort of ?fog static? that
built up and then would wax and wane. It got so bad at one point that I called
K5NA?s house on the phone. He was hearing the JAs just fine over there 40 miles
to the east of here. I never have heard that before, and wonder if it is some
corona on the antennas. It really hurt me on 15 meters. I have heard rain and
snow static. Fortunately, it went away over the next hour.
? Someone sent ?pimpsta? during a break in my JA run. It was a loud
backscatter
signal. It sounded like the pranks of Mike, K5NZ! (grin)
? The 40 meter yagi here is a magic antenna. My only one.
? Worked only one BY station. It was on 40 meters and his 100 Watt
signal was
affected by the aurora-like clipping. He was a good operator.
? JH4UYB was SO loud on 80!
? 80 peaked well before our sunrise to JA.
? OH2XX spotted me as 20 was opening to EU Sunday morning, according to
the
OH2AQ cluster which I checked after the contest. It was one of the wildest
rides I have ever had from the USA. You sure can tell when you get spotted.
? An OK1 station (big contester) plopped down right on my 20 meter run
frequency
at one point and started to call CQ and thereby run Ws. I could not believe it!
I?ll correspond with him privately, but it was one of the rudest operating
moves I have ever experienced. I must have been 20 db over nine there as he was
at least that strong here.
? I made one stupid operating error Sunday AM as I had left the 15 meter
stack
on Jas the previous evening and forgot to turn it to EU in the morning. Wasted
an hour wondering why I could not run EU and why the band sounded like it was in
a barrel and dead-like.
? Nice little 10 meter opening both mornings. I missed the Saturday one
but
caught the Sunday one. SO2R is good about being able to listen for band
openings and not leave the run frequency on another band.
? IR4X was a lot stronger than any other EU station during the Sunday
morning 10
meter opening.
Some numbers:
Rate
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
0 0 0 0 5 82 0 87 87
1 0 0 0 13 74 0 87 174
2 0 0 49 5 16 0 70 244
3 0 0 38 5 0 0 43 287
4 0 38 19 0 0 0 57 344
5 0 6 51 0 0 0 57 401
6 12 4 26 0 0 0 42 443
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 443
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 443
9 3 8 61 0 0 0 72 515
10 2 3 46 0 0 0 51 566
11 0 1 49 0 0 0 50 616
12 1 5 44 0 0 0 50 666
13 0 1 0 34 11 0 46 712
14 0 0 0 0 107 0 107 819
15 0 0 0 0 129 4 133 952
16 0 0 0 0 96 10 106 1058
17 0 0 0 0 79 5 84 1142
18 0 0 0 0 37 14 51 1193
19 0 0 0 34 10 2 46 1239
20 0 0 0 12 22 1 35 1274
21 0 0 0 9 13 0 22 1296
22 0 0 0 3 47 1 51 1347
23 0 0 0 0 38 0 38 1385
0 0 0 0 9 36 0 45 1430
1 0 0 13 1 10 0 24 1454
2 0 0 24 0 0 0 24 1478
3 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1480
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1480
5 3 5 1 0 0 0 9 1489
6 1 10 9 0 0 0 20 1509
7 0 0 61 0 0 0 61 1570
8 0 0 74 0 0 0 74 1644
9 0 2 23 0 0 0 25 1669
10 0 1 31 0 0 0 32 1701
11 0 3 39 0 0 0 42 1743
12 0 3 29 2 0 0 34 1777
13 0 0 0 99 0 0 99 1876
14 0 0 0 94 0 0 94 1970
15 0 0 0 32 16 0 48 2018
16 0 0 0 8 35 0 43 2061
17 0 0 0 2 64 0 66 2127
18 0 0 0 1 11 32 44 2171
19 0 0 0 4 15 7 26 2197
20 0 0 0 11 11 1 23 2220
21 0 0 0 10 1 0 11 2231
22 0 0 3 1 11 0 15 2246
23 0 1 7 1 8 0 17 2263
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2264
TOTAL 22 91 699 395 980 77
Continent List Continents
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
--- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---
USA calls = 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 5
VE calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N.A. calls = 17 18 25 22 34 17 0 0 0 133
S.A. calls = 4 10 15 17 33 23 0 0 0 102
Euro calls = 0 48 337 320 599 32 0 0 0 1336
Afrc calls = 0 1 7 5 4 3 0 0 0 20
Asia calls = 0 2 22 21 25 0 0 0 0 70
JA calls = 1 11 268 8 257 0 0 0 0 545
Ocen calls = 0 1 24 2 24 2 0 0 0 53
Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total calls = 22 91 699 395 980 77 0 0 0 2264
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