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To: 3830@contesting.com, geoiii@kkn.net
Subject: [3830] SS SSB K5TR Single Op HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: geoiii@kkn.net
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:46:52 -0800
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: K5TR
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: K5TR

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  185
   40:  395
   20: 1248
   15:  395
   10:    1
------------
Total: 2224  Sections = 79  Total Score = 351,392

Club: 

Comments:

This is my favorite contest.  This years contest marks my
twenty-fifth consecutive year of operating the phone SS.  The last
twenty-one of them have been as a single op high power entry.

http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/ssb-ss.html

I was not sure I was going to get to operate this years contest.
We were expecting our second child and his due date was November 11th.
As a result I was not thinking about the contest very much in
the last few weeks.  Our son was born on the 11th. By Friday Robin 
said that she did not see why I could not do the contest so we
made plans for my mother to take care of our 2 year old boy
during the contest test and to also help out around the house.

I got to the shack about 30 minutes before the start of the 
contest and setup the computer, food and drinks.  As the
start approached I was tuning up the amps and making the presets
when a fuse blew in the AL-1500 - spent sometime figuring that 
out and I called my first CQ on 15 meters at 21:01z. K8CC came
right back and I was off and running. 

In the 1986 contest I was operating at N5AU, logging on 
paper, and I had 175 first hour - with 100 of those contacts 
coming in the first 32 minutes.  Ever since that year I have 
been dreaming of having a 200+ hour in the SS.  I have had
a number of 170 class hours but even those are very hard
to do in the SS given the long exchange.  I knew things were
going well this year when I got to 50 contacts by 21:16z, I passed
100 at 21:31z.  From then on I was pushing hard to make it to 200
but when the hour ended I did not quite get there - but I clearly
had made my best hour ever with a clock hour of 191 contacts.
After the contest I found that I had an hour starting at 21:02z of 
196 contacts - so while it was not 200 it was very close.  I guess
I will keep trying for that 200+ hour.  Looking at that 1986 log
here I notice that I finished the contest with 1592 / 74 (sweep).

This huge first hour had me off to my best start ever with
the first four hours netting 617 contacts.  I was hoping that 
20 meters would stay open (I always hope that it stays open late) 
but I was forced to move to 40 meters 01:57z.  The band was long
on 40m but that is usually a good thing for us in Texas so 
the rates were pretty good.  I have not had the time or funds
to get a second 40m yagi up yet so I was using the 2 element 
Cushcraft and a 40m dipole at 60' as my two antennas on this band.

After my first off time I came back and had very good rates 
on 80 meters - much to my surprise.  The rest of the contest 
went pretty much like most years.  The rate on Sunday was 
pretty good staying around the 80/hr mark most of 
the day.  I did have one 100 hour at 18z.  

I find two radio operation to be quite hard in the phone SS - with the
long exchange, often high QRM, lack of open frequencies, and only
being able to work stations once - it is very hard to make contacts on
the second radio.  Often I will find someone to work but will have to
wait to squeeze the contact in when the rates are 70/hr or better.  The
long exchange makes those 70 hours more like 100+ hours in other
contests.  As a result I just don't make huge numbers of second radio
contacts.  I do find the second radio essential in making band change 
decisions and in finding a frequency on the next band.

In all these years of doing SS as a high power entry I think I have
only missed a sweep twice.  This year I missed the working a 
VY1/VE8 station.  It seems like the last time I missed KP4 - as I 
recall it was a year that the contest was right after a hurricane
and no one was on the air doing the contest. 

As the contest drew to a close 20 meters once again closed 
early and I was forced to the low bands again - unlike 
the night before I was not having good rates on 40 and only 
slightly better rate for a short time on 80 so my last full
clock hour on the radio was only a 47 and the last 30 minutes
of the contest only netted 18 contacts.  

I am looking forward to getting the real 40 meter antenna up
and coming back for more next year.

Congratulations to K4XS on a great effort from WCF.

Congrats to WP3R on another win.

It was also great to hear K5TA on after a long absence 
from the SS even if he gave be a scare on Saturday night
with his big number.  



Station:
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html

160     - Inverted L
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long

80      - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW & S from 120'.
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long
         
40      - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 97' - NW
        - Half wave dipole at 60' - NE
        - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long

20      - 6 element yagis at 80' and 40' fixed NE
        - 6 element yagi at 90' - NW
        - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW
        - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE

15      - 4 element yagi at 70' - NW
        - 3 element yagi at 35' - NE

10      - 6 element yagi at 60' - NW
        - 6 element yagi at 30' - NE
        - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE


HR   80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT CUM TOTAL  SCORE
--  ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ ---------  -----
21   ---      ---      ---    191/47     ---   191/47   191/47   0.02M
22   ---      ---    113/13    35/4      ---   148/17   339/64   0.04M
23   ---      ---    146/2      ---      ---   146/2    485/66   0.06M
 0   ---      ---    132/3      ---      ---   132/3    617/69   0.09M
 1   ---      6/2    114/2      ---      ---   120/4    737/73   0.11M
 2   ---    117/2      1/0      ---      ---   118/2    855/75   0.13M
 3   ---    115/0      ---      ---      ---   115/0    970/75   0.15M
 4   6/0     73/0      ---      ---      ---    79/0   1049/75   0.16M
 5   5/1     21/0      ---      ---      ---    26/1   1075/76   0.16M
 6  61/2     26/0      ---      ---      ---    87/2   1162/78   0.18M
 7  45/0      5/0      ---      ---      ---    50/0   1212/78   0.19M
 8   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1212/78   0.19M
 9   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1212/78   0.19M
10   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1212/78   0.19M
11   ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---   1212/78   0.19M
12  22/0     11/0      ---      ---      ---    33/0   1245/78   0.19M
13   4/0      6/0     66/1      ---      ---    76/1   1321/79   0.21M
14   ---      ---     70/0      ---      ---    70/0   1391/79   0.22M
15   ---      2/0     85/0      ---      ---    87/0   1478/79   0.23M
16   ---      ---     81/0      2/0      ---    83/0   1561/79   0.25M
17   ---      ---     86/0      1/0      ---    87/0   1648/79   0.26M
18   ---      ---     99/0      3/0      ---   102/0   1750/79   0.28M
19   ---      ---     78/0      2/0      ---    80/0   1830/79   0.29M
20   ---      ---     19/0     54/0      1/0    74/0   1904/79   0.30M
21   ---      ---      3/0     82/0      ---    85/0   1989/79   0.31M
22   ---      ---     50/0     23/0      ---    73/0   2062/79   0.33M
23   ---      ---     65/0      2/0      ---    67/0   2129/79   0.34M
 0   ---      2/0     28/0      ---      ---    30/0   2159/79   0.34M
 1  35/0      ---     12/0      ---      ---    47/0   2206/79   0.35M
 2   7/0     11/0      ---      ---      ---    18/0   2224/79   0.35M

D1   0/0      0/0    259/15   226/51     0/0            485/66
D2   0/0    185/3    395/4    989/6    169/0     1/0   1739/13
TO   0/0    185/3    395/4   1248/21   395/51    1/0   2224/79


The best 60 minute rate was 196/hour from 2102 to 2201
The best 30 minute rate was 206/hour from 2120 to 2149
The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 2120 to 2129

The best 1 minute rates were:
 5 QSO's/minute    3 times.
 4 QSO's/minute   51 times.
 3 QSO's/minute  201 times.
 2 QSO's/minute  435 times.
 1 QSO's/minute  532 times.


                   160    80    40    20    15    10  ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --  ---
  USA calls   =      0   181   384  1190   362     0  2117
  VE calls    =      0     3     8    47    27     0    85
  N.A. calls  =      0     1     3     8     2     1    15
  Ocen calls  =      0     0     0     3     4     0     7


Callareas   Worked
Area   QSOs    Pct
------------------
   0   214     9.6
   1   176     7.9
   2   214     9.6
   3   191     8.6
   4   274    12.3
   5   113     5.1
   6   342    15.4
   7   258    11.6
   8   209     9.4
   9   233    10.5

Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent  QSOs    Pct
----------------------
    A     1337    60.1
    B      378    17.0
    Q       87     3.9
    M      172     7.7
    U      234    10.5
    S       16     0.7

  1.           Il  122
   2.           Oh   96
   3.           Mi   95
   4.          Scv   89
   5.           Va   85
   6.           Mn   65
   7.          Mdc   62
   8.          WWa   62
   9.           Wi   62
  10.           Ep   54
  11.           Nc   50
  12.          NNj   49
  13.           Or   47
  14.           In   46
  15.           Sv   45
  16.           Tn   44
  17.           Eb   42
  18.           Em   42
  19.           Co   42
  20.           Az   42
  21.          WNy   37
  22.          Org   36
  23.          Lax   35
  24.          ENy   32
  25.           On   31
  26.           Mo   30
  27.          Sjv   29
  28.           Nh   28
  29.           Ct   27
  30.          SFl   26
  31.           Ky   26
  32.           Ga   26
  33.           Ia   26
  34.           Ew   25
  35.          STx   25
  36.          NLi   24
  37.          NFl   24
  38.          Sdg   24
  39.           Nv   23
  40.          WPa   20
  41.           Bc   20
  42.           Id   20
  43.           Sf   20
  44.           Me   20
  45.          NTx   20
  46.          WcF   20
  47.           Mt   18
  48.          SNj   16
  49.           Sb   15
  50.          WMa   15
  51.           Ks   15
  52.           Ri   15
  53.           Wv   13
  54.           Vt   12
  55.           Ut   12
  56.           Al   12
  57.           Sc   12
  58.           Ok   12
  59.           Nm   12
  60.           De    9
  61.          NNy    9
  62.           Nd    9
  63.           Qc    9
  64.           Sd    9
  65.           Ms    9
  66.           Ne    9
  67.           Mb    8
  68.           Wy    8
  69.           Ab    7
  70.           Ar    7
  71.           La    7
  72.           Vi    6
  73.          Pac    6
  74.          Mar    5
  75.           Sk    4
  76.           Ak    4
  77.           Pr    2
  78.          WTx    2
  79.           Nl    1


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