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[3830] SS SSB K5NA(WM5R) Single Op HP

To: 3830@contesting.com, wm5r@wm5r.org
Subject: [3830] SS SSB K5NA(WM5R) Single Op HP
From: webform@b41h.net
Reply-to: wm5r@wm5r.org
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:25:00 -0800
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: K5NA
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5NA

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  191
   40:  525
   20: 1013
   15:   52
   10:    0
------------
Total: 1781  Sections = 80  Total Score = 284,960

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

The Station at K5NA:
====================

10 Meters
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 152', rotatable
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 115', fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 78', fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 100', fixed NW

15 Meters
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 170', rotatable
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 86' fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 44', rotatable from 315 to 140 degrees

20 Meters
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 190', rotatable
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 70' fixed NE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 45' fixed SE
  5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 104' fixed NW

40 Meters
  2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 200', rotatable
  2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 128' fixed NE
  2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 70' fixed NW
  Inverted Vee @ 35'.

80 Meters
  NE - Two element phased vertical array
  NW - Two element phased vertical array
  SW - Sloping dipole @ 170'
  Inverted Vee @ 150'

160 Meters
  Full sized Rohn 25G vertical with insulator at 30' and raised radials

Receiving Antennas
  Nine Beverages: SW, W, NW, NNW, N, NNE, E, SE

Radios:
======

  Radio 1: Elecraft K3, Acom 2000A
  Radio 2: Elecraft K3, Acom 2000A
  SO2R Controller: microHAM MK2R+
  Headset: Heil Proset HC4
  Software: WriteLog V10.80F

Many thanks to Richard K5NA and Susan K5DU for letting me come over to their
little farm for Sweepstakes this year.  It was interesting to operate the
contest from a different station than I have been operating from in recent
years.  I operated at the K5NA multi-op for the CQ World Wide, Phone and I
came out to the station the weekend before the Sweepstakes to get familiar
with the single operator arrangements.  Unfortunately, the morning of the
Sweepstakes, Richard discovered that the microHAM MK2R+ controller wasn't
routing the microphone audio correctly.  He tried building a workaround,
but it didn't work.

I got off to a rocky start this year.  I listened to the siren song of 15
meters and really wanted it to work out, but the band was just too long
for it to work out and I had to bail to 20 meters after half an hour.  20
meters was also long, and I wasn't able to stay there as long as I wanted.
I then had possibly the two worst hours on 40 meters I've had in the contest
in many years.  I started pulling it together in the 0200 UTC hour, but the
damage was done by then.

Sunday was a long slog with only one radio.  I could listen on the second
radio, but to QSY to make a QSO, I had to plug in one cable and unplug another
cable, make the contact, and then plug and unplug to go back to the run radio.
And of course if I got beaten out in the pileup, or the timing broke down
because someone called in on the run radio, I had to try it all again.
I only did that for four 15 meter contacts for needed multipliers I found
on Sunday morning while running on 20 meters.

Sweepstakes was the contest that got me into HF contesting.  It draws you in
and seduces you, but it is very unforgiving.   There's no time to recover
when you make mistakes.

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
2100       0      0      0     65     47      0    112    112    6.2
2200       0      0      0    130      0      0    130    242    7.2
2300       0      0      0    126      0      0    126    368    7.0
0000       0      0     30     66      0      0     96    464    5.3
0100       0      0     54      0      0      0     54    518    3.0
0200       0      1     69      0      0      0     70    588    3.9
0300       0      0     97      0      0      0     97    685    5.4
0400       0     12     63      0      0      0     75    760    4.1
0500       0     74      1      0      0      0     75    835    4.1
0600       0     29     50      0      0      0     79    914    4.4
0700       0     20     40      0      0      0     60    974    3.3
0800       0     48      7      0      0      0     55   1029    3.0
0900       0      7      0      0      0      0      7   1036    0.4
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1036    0.0
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1036    0.0
1200       0      0     21      0      0      0     21   1057    1.2
1300       0      0     40     25      0      0     65   1122    3.6
1400       0      0      0     83      0      0     83   1205    4.6
1500       0      0      0     75      1      0     76   1281    4.2
1600       0      0      0     72      3      0     75   1356    4.1
1700       0      0      0     72      0      0     72   1428    4.0
1800       0      0      0     55      1      0     56   1484    3.1
1900       0      0      0     62      0      0     62   1546    3.4
2000       0      0      0     47      0      0     47   1593    2.6
2100       0      0      0     22      0      0     22   1615    1.2
2200       0      0      0     48      0      0     48   1663    2.7
2300       0      0      0     63      0      0     63   1726    3.5
0000       0      0     10      2      0      0     12   1738    0.7
0100       0      0     43      0      0      0     43   1781    2.4
0200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   1781    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    191    525   1013     52      0   1781

Gross QSO's=1808        Dupes=27        Net QSO's=1781

Unique callsigns worked = 1781

The best 60 minute rate was 143/hour from 2138 to 2237
The best 30 minute rate was 150/hour from 2145 to 2214
The best 10 minute rate was 168/hour from 2200 to 2209

The best 1 minute rates were:
 4 QSO's/minute    9 times.
 3 QSO's/minute  121 times.
 2 QSO's/minute  396 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  590 times.

There were 24 bandchanges and 7 (0.4%) probable 2nd radio QSO's.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         1
   4       686
   5       720
   6       371
   7         2
   8         1

------------ M u l t i p l i e r   S u m m a r y ------------
Mult     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
VA         0      6     39     49      0      0     94    5.2
IL         0     15     26     38      0      0     79    4.4
MDC        0      6     25     45      0      0     76    4.2
MI         0      3     27     42      0      0     72    4.0
OH         0      4     23     45      0      0     72    4.0
NC         0      4     17     38      0      0     59    3.3
MN         0     10     16     32      0      0     58    3.2
WWA        0      2      7     38      4      0     51    2.8
SCV        0      7     10     28      2      0     47    2.6
IN         0      5     21     20      0      0     46    2.5
EPA        0      4     19     19      2      0     44    2.4
NNJ        0      2      9     24      4      0     39    2.2
SV         0      2      6     25      4      0     37    2.0
WI         0      3      6     27      0      0     36    2.0
ENY        0      1     16     17      1      0     35    1.9
WPA        0      3     10     22      0      0     35    1.9
AZ         0      3      7     21      0      0     31    1.7
WNY        0      1     14     16      0      0     31    1.7
EB         0      0      7     17      6      0     30    1.7
OR         0      2      5     23      0      0     30    1.7
CO         0      3      2     24      0      0     29    1.6
GA         0      4      5     19      0      0     28    1.5
EMA        0      2      7     15      3      0     27    1.5
LAX        0      3      9     15      0      0     27    1.5
SJV        0      0      6     18      2      0     26    1.4
TN         0      8      8     10      0      0     26    1.4
CT         0      2      8     12      2      0     24    1.3
NLI        0      1      6     17      0      0     24    1.3
WCF        0      2      5     16      0      0     23    1.3
SFL        0      1     10     12      0      0     23    1.3
ORG        0      1      4     16      0      0     21    1.2
NV         0      1      7     13      0      0     21    1.2
ON         0      0      9      9      2      0     20    1.1
NFL        0      3      6     10      0      0     19    1.1
EWA        0      3      3     13      0      0     19    1.1
SDG        0      2      9      8      0      0     19    1.1
AL         0      7      6      6      0      0     19    1.1
SNJ        0      1      6     10      1      0     18    1.0
UT         0      1      1     16      0      0     18    1.0
NH         0      1      8      6      2      0     17    0.9
ID         0      0      6     10      1      0     17    0.9
SF         0      2      2     11      1      0     16    0.9
WV         0      0      7      8      0      0     15    0.8
SB         0      1      3     10      0      0     14    0.8
MO         0      7      5      2      0      0     14    0.8
MT         0      3      7      4      0      0     14    0.8
DE         0      0      4      8      1      0     13    0.7
WMA        0      1      5      6      1      0     13    0.7
SC         0      0      3      9      0      0     12    0.7
KY         0      3      4      5      0      0     12    0.7
BC         0      1      1      7      2      0     11    0.6
IA         0      3      4      4      0      0     11    0.6
NTX        0     10      0      1      0      0     11    0.6
ME         0      2      0      9      0      0     11    0.6
RI         0      1      2      6      1      0     10    0.6
STX        0      2      2      4      1      0      9    0.5
NE         0      1      3      5      0      0      9    0.5
WY         0      1      1      7      0      0      9    0.5
AB         0      2      4      3      0      0      9    0.5
MAR        0      0      2      7      0      0      9    0.5
NM         0      4      2      3      0      0      9    0.5
VT         0      0      2      4      1      0      7    0.4
SD         0      2      3      2      0      0      7    0.4
QC         0      0      1      3      2      0      6    0.3
AK         0      0      1      5      0      0      6    0.3
LA         0      4      2      0      0      0      6    0.3
OK         0      5      0      1      0      0      6    0.3
NNY        0      0      1      3      1      0      5    0.3
ND         0      0      2      3      0      0      5    0.3
KS         0      1      2      2      0      0      5    0.3
SK         0      0      3      1      0      0      4    0.2
PAC        0      0      1      3      0      0      4    0.2
MB         0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.2
MS         0      3      0      0      0      0      3    0.2
WTX        0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.2
NT         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.1
AR         0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.1
VI         0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.1
NL         0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.1
PR         0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    191    525   1013     52      0   1781

Sweepstakes Checks
Check  QSOs    Pct
----------------------
  00    23     1.3
  01    12     0.7
  02    19     1.1
  03    30     1.7
  04    26     1.5
  05    23     1.3
  06    24     1.3
  07    41     2.3
  08    60     3.4
  09    63     3.5
  10    33     1.9
  11     0     0.0
  12     0     0.0
  13     0     0.0
  14     0     0.0
  15     0     0.0
  16     1     0.1
  17     0     0.0
  18     0     0.0
  19     1     0.1
  20     0     0.0
  21     0     0.0
  22     2     0.1
  23     0     0.0
  24     1     0.1
  25     0     0.0
  26     0     0.0
  27     1     0.1
  28     0     0.0
  29     0     0.0
  30     1     0.1
  31     1     0.1
  32     2     0.1
  33     1     0.1
  34     1     0.1
  35     1     0.1
  36     0     0.0
  37     1     0.1
  38     1     0.1
  39     2     0.1
  40     2     0.1
  41     1     0.1
  42     0     0.0
  43     0     0.0
  44     1     0.1
  45     1     0.1
  46     2     0.1
  47     5     0.3
  48     4     0.2
  49     3     0.2
  50     6     0.3
  51     9     0.5
  52    15     0.8
  53    17     1.0
  54    26     1.5
  55    29     1.6
  56    25     1.4
  57    50     2.8
  58    47     2.6
  59    42     2.4
  60    38     2.1
  61    41     2.3
  62    31     1.7
  63    48     2.7
  64    28     1.6
  65    31     1.7
  66    28     1.6
  67    25     1.4
  68    33     1.9
  69    35     2.0
  70    27     1.5
  71    31     1.7
  72    33     1.9
  73    31     1.7
  74    25     1.4
  75    36     2.0
  76    52     2.9
  77    45     2.5
  78    31     1.7
  79    28     1.6
  80    19     1.1
  81    18     1.0
  82    17     1.0
  83    19     1.1
  84    13     0.7
  85    12     0.7
  86    19     1.1
  87    12     0.7
  88    20     1.1
  89    25     1.4
  90    32     1.8
  91    33     1.9
  92    36     2.0
  93    31     1.7
  94    40     2.2
  95    17     1.0
  96    25     1.4
  97    21     1.2
  98    25     1.4
  99    14     0.8

Callareas   Worked
Area   QSOs    Pct
------------------
   0   151     8.5
   1   136     7.6
   2   200    11.2
   3   188    10.6
   4   256    14.4
   5    61     3.4
   6   252    14.1
   7   198    11.1
   8   168     9.4
   9   171     9.6

Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent  QSOs    Pct
----------------------
    A      991    55.6
    B      324    18.2
    Q       50     2.8
    M      116     6.5
    U      285    16.0
    S       15     0.8


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