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>From David O. Hachadorian" <74752.115@compuserve.com Tue Feb 21 22:27:45 1995
From: David O. Hachadorian" <74752.115@compuserve.com (David O. Hachadorian)
Subject: 6E2T multi-2 arrl cw score
Message-ID: <950221222745_74752.115_EHL183-1@CompuServe.COM>
ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 1995
Call: 6E2T Country:
Mode: CW Category: Multi Two
BAND QSO QSO PTS STATES/PROV
160 267 801 45
80 941 2823 55
40 1338 4014 59
20 1262 3786 60
15 1203 3609 58
10 788 2364 54
-----------------------------------
Totals 5799 17397 331 = 5,758,407
Operators: N6AZE, XE2CM, XE2ERS, AB6FO, XE2GCU, N6HC, N6KI, K6LL,
XE2SJA, XE2SJB, KM6SN, XE2TBC, XE2ZZ.
Rigs: TS-950, TS-940
Amps: AL-80 (2), 500W.
Computers: Networked 486 monochrome laptops, with external keyboards
and vga monitors. CT software version 8.x.
Towers: One 48' tubular crankup on a tower trailer, and one 48' military
surplus portable tower.
Antennas:
160 - Inverted L @30'. Receive loop.
80 - 40' vertical, dipole @40', receive loop.
40 - Dipole @40', vertically polarized loop.
20 - 204BA @48'
10, 15 - A3 Tribander @48'
This was a totally portable operation, with no equipment on site until
Thursday night. Friday was setup day, and things came together with
about two minutes to spare.
About two hours into the contest, the line voltage sagged to below 100v,
and the T-R relays in the rigs began dropping out. A 3500w generator was
fired up, and the remainder of the contest was run under generator power.
At about the 4000 qso level, the logging program began to slow down, and
finally locked up at about 4500 QSOs. After a stimulating discussion, it
was determined that computer memory had not been properly allocated
between extended/expanded, and the problem was rectified. Operation
continued during the 20 minute debug session using paper logging and
manual sending, bringing back memories of contests of long ago. After
the computers were squared away, the paper contacts were typed in, and no
further problems were encountered. The network worked flawlessly.
Conditions were generally good, and signals were loud. However, the
signals on the bands were no match for the S9+50 signals coming from the
nightly snoring contest in the bunkhouse!
This was about the fifth expedition for the 6E2T crew, and I was along
for the first time as a guest. I was totally amazed at the level of
detailed planning and hard work that has gone into this operation. Thanks
to everyone for all the QSOs and to the 6E2T crew for allowing me to
participate.
Dave, K6LL
k6ll@mcimail.com
>From ad66@cityscape.co.uk (Russell Coward) Tue Feb 21 23:13:00 1995
From: ad66@cityscape.co.uk (Russell Coward) (Russell Coward)
Subject: GB6AR in ARRL ssb Test
Message-ID: <199502212313.XAA00169@ns.cityscape.co.uk>
Hi,
Just a quick note to let you all know that if you hear GB6AR in the
forthcoming ARRL DX SSB test it will be from Wales and is good for GW.
Operation will be from the Lleyn Peninsular in the county of Gwynedd.
This is as close to being in the middle of the Irish Sea without getting
your feet wet!!
Located 500feet asl and using various antennas including a full size loop
for 160m, we hope to work as many NA stations as we can hear.
Operators will be GW4VAG, G4XFA, G0KJV and G4XKR.
QSL only via callbook.
Luis,G0KJV hopes to give the call an airing on CW before the contest on the
friday. If you are desperate for GW or GB6 on CW skeds could be arranged.
Good Luck
73,Russ G4XKR (Packet G4XKR@GB7FCI.#16.GBR.EU)
>From kaul@ix.netcom.com (Alan Kaul) Tue Feb 21 23:31:09 1995
From: kaul@ix.netcom.com (Alan Kaul) (Alan Kaul)
Subject: Fwd: ARRL DX CW Score
Message-ID: <199502212331.PAA14269@ix2.ix.netcom.com>
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Reply-To: Alan Kaul <kaul@netcom.com>
Subject: ARRL DX CW Score
Band Q's Countries
160 1 1
80 41 16
40 102 32
20 127 40
15 100 32
10 18 9
totals 389 130 = 151,710 points
Category: Single Operator Assisted (used packet spotting)
According to the CT Clock, time ON = 14.9 hours
[<Alan Kaul, W6RCL>] kaul@netcom.com
>From Jim Reisert AD1C 21-Feb-1995 1707 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> Tue Feb
>21 22:04:34 1995
From: Jim Reisert AD1C 21-Feb-1995 1707 <reisert@wrksys.enet.dec.com> (Jim
Reisert AD1C 21-Feb-1995 1707)
Subject: SCORE: 1995 ARRL DX CW AD1C Single Unlimited (long)
Message-ID: <9502212204.AA26719@us1rmc.bb.dec.com>
Call: AD1C Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Unlimited
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES
--------------------------------------
160 40 117 2.9 30
80 209 624 3.0 67
40 610 1824 3.0 83
20 708 2121 3.0 89
15 732 2196 3.0 97
10 52 156 3.0 37
--------------------------------------
Totals 2351 7038 3.0 403 = 2,836,314
Matt's (KC1XX) mother was visiting from Germany, so I got to operate his
station in the Single Unlimited class. This was only my 2nd SU, and first
since 1991 CQWW CW. Two radios (IC781 and TS940), two amps, lots of
antennas and coax switches. Used CT 9.20 flawlessly all weekend.
As Murphy would have it, the 20 meter stack suddenly died Friday afternoon
around 2 p.m. Fortunately, a second, older control box was still on the
tower and Matt climbed up to the 110' level to swap it in.
My biggest mistake was not using a loud enough alarm clock Saturday night, I
went to bed at 0300Z, the alarm went off at 0445Z, and I woke up at 0800Z.
Actually had a nice 40m run that hour (57), with no caffine and no "sleep
drunkeness". Matt's mom brought me down a cup of coffee about an hour later
- she must have still been on DL-time! I probably lost 100 QSOs and 20
multipliers by missing EU sunrise. As a result, I never really got to take
advantage of Matt's excellent 80 meter antennas the second night.
Furthermore, I made 36 QSOs on 160 the first night, only 4 the second night,
and only a single new multiplier.
My first hour on 40 was 120. My best hour was 126 at 12Z the first day,
mostly on 15 meters, followed by 117 the next hour, all on 15.
HIGHTLIGHTS:
15 meters was terrific both days. Worked a single weak JA Saturday night,
but Sunday night worked a bunch more with good signals.
10 meters opened DIRECT path to Europe Sunday a.m. EI7M was *loud* running
only 100W. Worked DL, I, EA, PA, HA and G.
Started calling CQ on 20 Saturday night and first call was HS0ZAA.
90 QSOs on 40 during 21Z hour Sunday evening.
Matt kept me well-fed all weekend.
LOWLIGHTS:
Spent too much time DXing, and not enough time running. Wasn't able to pass
too many guys.
Need more practice using two radios. Didn't have a separate key for the
"multplier" radio, so couldn't run and call stations at the same time. Only
screwed up logging frequency once (running on Radio 1 with CT still set to
Radio 2) for about 8 QSOs, which were easy enough to fix (glad ALT-F1/F2 bug
was fixed!)
Matt doesn't get out very well to the west on 80 (Pacific/JA). Finally
worked VK5GN, but no KH6 or ZL. Saw a spot for a JA (yeah, right) but don't
remember seeing KL7.
KW2J just "showed up" on my 20M run frequency (no QRL, nothing) and I
couldn't get rid of him. Who is this guy?
Receive bandpass filter on 2nd radio was flakey and finally gave out
sometime Sunday a.m. Finally just took it out of the line.
SUMMARY:
There are two breakdowns below. First is my breakdown. Second is a
compartive breakdown for K3WW, K5NA and AD1C. It was interesting to see how
we did compared to each other. For example, I lost the QSO race to K3WW
around 17Z Saturday. K5NA was *always* ahead of *everyone* on multipliers.
73 - Jim AD1C
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults AD1C ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Unlimited
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 120/30 ..... ..... ..... 120/30 120/30
1 . 22/15 19/5 11/11 . . 52/31 172/61
2 5/4 32/13 7/6 . . . 44/23 216/84
3 11/8 9/4 . . . . 20/12 236/96
4 7/6 21/9 . . . . 28/15 264/111
5 5/3 28/9 . . . . 33/12 297/123
6 2/2 8/0 12/5 4/4 . . 26/11 323/134
7 4/4 3/0 21/6 . . . 28/10 351/144
8 2/2 6/4 7/2 6/4 ..... ..... 21/12 372/156
9 . 1/1 23/1 3/2 . . 27/4 399/160
10 . . . 5/3 . . 5/3 404/163
11 . 1/1 . 102/19 . . 103/20 507/183
12 . . 1/1 19/2 106/29 . 126/32 633/215
13 . . . . 117/14 . 117/14 750/229
14 . . . 3/3 71/12 1/1 75/16 825/245
15 . . . 27/3 . 17/16 44/19 869/264
16 ..... ..... ..... 7/0 63/9 ..... 70/9 939/273
17 . . . 43/6 25/3 4/4 72/13 1011/286
18 . . . 92/4 . . 92/4 1103/290
19 . . . 12/1 8/3 7/1 27/5 1130/295
20 . . . 11/3 6/6 2/2 19/11 1149/306
21 . . 49/3 4/3 1/1 . 54/7 1203/313
22 . . 25/2 30/3 . . 55/5 1258/318
23 . . 28/1 22/5 1/1 . 51/7 1309/325
0 1/1 ..... 15/3 23/1 ..... ..... 39/5 1348/330
1 2/0 17/0 5/1 2/1 . . 26/2 1374/332
2 . 26/3 1/1 . . . 27/4 1401/336
3 1/0 . 1/1 . . . 2/1 1403/337
4 . . . . . . . 1403/337
5 . . . . . . . 1403/337
6 . . . . . . . 1403/337
7 . . . . . . . 1403/337
8 ..... 1/0 57/4 ..... ..... ..... 58/4 1461/341
9 . 1/1 39/0 . . . 40/1 1501/342
10 . . 6/2 23/1 . . 29/3 1530/345
11 . 1/1 . 94/1 . . 95/2 1625/347
12 . . 1/1 29/1 71/4 . 101/6 1726/353
13 . . . 1/1 94/1 2/2 97/4 1823/357
14 . . . . 28/0 13/6 41/6 1864/363
15 . . . . 49/2 4/4 53/6 1917/369
16 ..... ..... ..... 1/1 57/0 1/1 59/2 1976/371
17 . . . 21/1 19/5 . 40/6 2016/377
18 . . . 60/0 5/1 . 65/1 2081/378
19 . . . 21/2 3/3 1/0 25/5 2106/383
20 . . 31/0 20/0 2/2 . 53/2 2159/385
21 . . 90/3 1/1 1/1 . 92/5 2251/390
22 . 6/3 51/4 1/1 5/0 . 63/8 2314/398
23 . 26/3 1/1 10/1 . . 37/5 2351/403
DAY1 36/29 131/56 312/62 401/76 398/78 31/24 ..... 1309/325
DAY2 4/1 78/11 298/21 307/13 334/19 21/13 . 1042/78
TOT 40/30 209/67 610/83 708/89 732/97 52/37 . 2351/403
How to read the breakdown below:
Results are cumulative. DELTA is difference between first callsign and
second callsign. For example, at end of 08Z hour, I was 62 QSOs ahead of
K3WW, but he was 5 multipliers ahead of me.
AD1C AD1C K3WW
vs. K3WW vs. K5NA vs. K5NA
DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA
TIME QSO MULT QSO MULT QSO MULT
0 42 2 52 -4 10 -6
1 39 9 60 -16 21 -25
2 23 7 52 -13 29 -20
3 17 0 44 -14 27 -14
4 26 -1 52 -16 26 -15
5 44 -3 49 -23 5 -20
6 55 -4 31 -23 -24 -19
7 63 -8 32 -25 -31 -17
8 62 -5 22 -29 -40 -24
9 77 -6 9 -29 -68 -23
10 72 -10 4 -32 -68 -22
11 83 -13 83 -35 0 -22
12 100 -9 124 -23 24 -14
13 120 -11 131 -21 11 -10
14 88 -8 109 -27 21 -19
15 47 4 70 -21 23 -25
16 51 1 91 -22 40 -23
17 -26 7 95 -20 121 -27
18 -47 8 116 -22 163 -30
19 -80 -1 60 -21 140 -20
20 -138 8 23 -22 161 -30
21 -212 11 33 -18 245 -29
22 -269 11 33 -17 302 -28
23 -282 3 36 -18 318 -21
0 -285 0 26 -19 311 -19
1 -298 -7 14 -23 312 -16
2 -282 -5 0 -23 282 -18
3 -288 -8 -12 -26 276 -18
4 -297 -9 -38 -30 259 -21
5 -322 -12 -54 -34 268 -22
6 -347 -17 -81 -38 266 -21
7 -372 -20 -142 -38 230 -18
8 -352 -18 -117 -36 235 -18
9 -322 -19 -77 -35 245 -16
10 -299 -17 -53 -33 246 -16
11 -264 -17 -52 -33 212 -16
12 -275 -17 -51 -35 224 -18
13 -270 -16 -49 -36 221 -20
14 -257 -17 -66 -34 191 -17
15 -261 -19 -56 -38 205 -19
16 -271 -22 -46 -37 225 -15
17 -310 -16 -47 -36 263 -20
18 -315 -21 -36 -36 279 -15
19 -348 -22 -77 -35 271 -13
20 -318 -26 -41 -37 277 -11
21 -297 -22 -1 -36 296 -14
22 -268 -17 7 -33 275 -16
23 -257 -19 -18 -33 239 -14
>From Norton, Richard" <nortonr@MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au Wed Feb 22 18:13:00 1995
From: Norton, Richard" <nortonr@MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au (Norton, Richard)
Subject: VK5GN 1995 ARRL CW
Message-ID: <2F4B7EC3@msmail.dsto.gov.au>
VK5GN 1995 ARRL DX - CW (N6AA op)
Single Operator
Band QSO Mult
160 74 30 76 foot top-loaded Vertical & 1000 foot
Beverage
80 398 51 66 foot Vertical & 1000 foot Beverage
40 556 50 2-L 402-BA at 50 feet
20 322 44 3-L Quad at 50 feet
15 497 51 3-L Quad at 50 feet + 4-L Yagi at 50 feet
10 17 6 3-L Quad at 50 feet
Tot 1864 232 Location on hill with downward slope to USA
1,296,648
40 hours on air
Random ramblings:
There are several good things about operating the ARRL DX Test from VK5:
1) It almost makes you think DX contests are fun from California.
2) It doesn't matter too much if you sleep. The score is approximately the
same whether you operate or sleep. Caution, this approximation is not valid
if carried to extremes. (This means sleeping 8 hours probably cost me less
than 10 QSOs.)
Worked really hard. Called a lot of bigger stations when I couldn't raise
anyone calling CQ, which was quite a bit of the time. Quite a few were
worked long-path on 40 and 20.
The low bands had the only half decent openings, just like Miniprop said
they would. Hmm. Yes the high multiplier band was 80 - well at least until
15 caught up in the last hour.
The problem with this contest from Australia is Europe. The high bands do
actually open from VK to the USA for a while, but most USA stations have
directive antennas, and they aim them at Europe all the time, and operate on
the band which is open best to Europe.
For example 20 was open pretty well, on short path, around 1600Z. Twenty
minutes of CQing brought me only three W6s, all with very big signals.
Almost nobody there aims long path on 20 in the morning anymore. We VKs can
call USA stations, but if there is anyone else, repeat - anyone else,
calling, we do not get him.
Message to the big station with DK5GN in your log on 20 at 1702 the second
day - I don't think so - , and the reason I kept calling was to try to get
you to correct my call, so I could have claimed a contact, which I didn't.
At least, on the low bands, most stations do not have directional antennas,
and therefore can hear the VKs.
There didn't seem to be much activity here in VK, heard VK2APK a lot, with
VK2AYD, VK4EMM and VK4TT active a little. On 160 heard VK6HD and I think 2
or 3 other VK6s that I don't remember the calls of. Would be interested in
hearing from anyone who worked more of them, and how signals compared if you
remember.
Best hours:
2300Z first day 15/10M - 104 Q
0800Z first day 40M - 97 Q
0000Z first day 15M - 83 Q
1100Z first day 80M - 82 Q
2200Z second day 15M - 84 Q
Hey, this ain't the Caribbean, or even northeast USA!
8,000 miles - 4 hops- to W6
11,000 miles - 6 hops - to W1 (but only 14,000 miles long path)
6 band QSOs - W6GO and N7ML.
5 band QSOs - KY1H, WO1N, W3LPL, K3LR, K8CC, WD8LLD, W0AIH, WX0B (all
multi-ops?)
Most QSOs worked:
CA 352
NY 98
TX 95
WA 89
PA 85
MA 81
NJ 72
OH 69
Never worked: PEI, VO2, VE8, VY1
Worked on 1 band only: NB, NS, VE2, VE5
Worked on 2 bands only: VO1, VT, DC, MS, WY, SD
10 meters opened a little around 00Z the second day. Heard K5XI CQing by
using the second radio. Then got 16 more west coast stations in the next 40
minutes, alternating back and forth from 15. CQed a lot on 10 in the last 15
minutes of the contest to no avail. Didn't have the two band option on N6TR
software hooked up, and had to throw a switch to transmit on the second
radio. It's tough.
VK5GN works pretty well on 80 and 160. The Beverage really makes a
difference. Unfortunately had noise on 160, which we determined after the
contest was coming from the logging computer! Sorry to all that reported
calling me with no results. Last night with the computer off, from 1100Z to
1200Z worked a bunch of guys on 160, some who said they called during the
contest, including what would have been 6 more multipliers. Oh well. Martin
(the real VK5GN) should be able to hear you on phone. Remember, on 75 phone,
VKs can only operate from 3795 to 3800, and also below 3700, working split.
Since the contest ends at 10:30 AM on Monday here, I was in my office 45
minutes after the contest ended. I think I stayed awake during the big
meeting later in the day. It wasn't easy and was actually less fun than the
contest.
73,
Dick N6AA/VK5 NortonR@MRD.SRL.DSTO.GOV.AU
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