CQ WW CW DX Contest 2006
N4KG SOAB(Assisted) High Power (1000W)
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time: 34 hrs
Summary:
Band QSO's Zones DXCC
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160: 57 17 43
80: 181 25 87
40: 223 32 105
20: 319 33 108
15: 236 29 98
10: 53 14 36
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Total 1069 150 477
Total Score = 1,835,856
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
CQ WW CW DX Contest 2006 - N4KG SOAB(Assisted) High Power (1000W)
Who needs Sun Spots? It couldn't have been better than this! Who would have
dreamed of working 16 stations from 4 continents on 6 Bands, and another 15
stations on 5 Bands, including a fifth continent? See the chart below listing
all stations worked on 3 or more bands.
What a BLAST chasing multipliers around on all bands (All S&P) using archaic
VISUAL Packet Spots on one computer and logging on a separate laptop. This
just may be my Best-Ever Multiplier Count as a Single Operator. I know - it's
way past time to upgrade to modern computer technology.
As a single operator, especially with only one radio it is clearly impossible
to cover all the bands at once. My usual strategy is to start on the highest
band that is open and work my way down. This year I KNEW 40M was going to be
HOT from the start but that the MUF could drop below 7 MHz, especially to
Northern and Eastern Europe, a few hours after sunset.
As expected, the first 2 hours were Very Good on 40M yielding a total of 85
multipliers (Countries plus Zones). At 0200 I wanted to check 160M since many
of the DX stations like to go there at the top of each hour. I wasn't
disappointed, working 21 multipliers in 36 minutes in Europe (CT, DL, EA, F,
G),
Africa (CT3, TZ, 6W), the Caribbean (C6, HI, KV4), and South America (HC8, P4).
QSYing to 80M at 0240Z yielded another 21 multipliers in 20 minutes and a
total of 67 multipliers by 0415. WHEW! As expected, 40M was closed to most of
Europe by this time but there was plenty of activity from the Caribbean and
South America.
The rest of the night was spent cycling between 40, 80, and 160 Meters. I
can never seem to pull myself away from the radio to sleep when MULTIPLIERS are
still coming at every turn of the dial. By 0800Z (2 a.m. CST), most of Europe
is in daylight but the sun is just beginning to rise in South America, SO,
what to do? Go work those elusive LU's and PY's (and PZ) on 80 and 160 Meters
of course. Would you believe JA3YBK was bagged on 80M at 0847Z? Why not, it
was already dark in Japan! FINALLY, OFF TO BED at 0940Z, after working CE4CT
on 40M for a double multiplier.
SUNRISE brings on a whole new challenge, to pick up the Pacific areas on the
Low Bands and the hordes of Europeans on 20M. As a Low Band DXer, I had to
make a sweep before going to Europe on 20M. Again, I was met with some nice
surprises (VK, ZL, ZK3, AH2R, KH0, more JA's and a couple of Long Path Russians
in UA3 and UA9.
Of course 20M was WIDE OPEN to Europe when I finally arrived at 1330Z. After
a quick 60 Q's and 39 mults in 45 minutes, I went to 15M to catch the 15M
European opening which lasted about 3 hours. Remembering how I missed the 10M
opening to Europe in the CQ WW Phone DX Contest, I was pleasantly surprised to
find 10M open to Europe (CT, CU, EA, EA6, ZB) and Africa (CT3, EA8, TZ, 6W)
along with the Caribbean and South America from 1530 to 1630Z.
I finally returned to 20M, which was suffering greatly from neglect, at
1730Z. The rest of the afternoon was spent cycling between 15 and 20M, taking
a 45
minute break at 2015-2100Z. Day 1 ended with 717 QSO's and 489 Total
Multipliers.
Fatigue and sleepiness struck around sunset with poor rates until 0200Z on
160M of all places which presented a great opening to Europe (DL, EA6, ES, GD,
GM, LY, OK, RU1A), Africa (CT3, EA8, 5A7A), Zone 2, and HK0. Physical and
mental fatigue made the next few hours rather unproductive and I went to bed at
0700Z for 5 hours of needed sleep.
The Sunday morning Sunrise Sweep of the Low Bands produced KL7 on 160M, E5
(ZK1), AH2R, NL7G on 80M, and several Pacific stations on 40M. Sunday would
need a Heavy Emphasis on 20M to enable that band to catch up to the QSO and
Multiplier totals achieved on 15, 40, and even 80 Meters. Every other hour
throughout the day was spent on 20M, with the alternate hours spent covering 15
and
10M. I was pleased to find even more Africans on 10M which enabled 6 Band
Sweeps with CT9L, EA8EW, TZ5A, 5A7A, and 6W1RW.
Day 2 ended with another 352 QSO's and another 133 total multipliers. ALL
contacts were made doing Search and Pounce with packet assistance. Line Score
is 1069 QSO's, 150 Zones, 477 Countries for 1,835,856 points.
As hard as I tried, I was always conscious of that fact that I was "leaving
cards on the table" whenever I left a band, knowing it would be some time
before I returned. Some missed multipliers include HK0 and PJ2 on 80M, EI, GM,
GW,
LY, V5 on 40M, E5, HR, TU, 5B, 5H on 20M, IT9, LA, LY on 15M, CX, EA9, 3V and
Zone 4 on 10M, along with Zone 19 on all bands.
I can certainly see the appeal of SO2R. I just haven't convinced myself to
invest the time, effort, and resources to implement the 2 radio option. It was
still FUN, even with one radio. This time I used an Icom 746PRO. It was
interesting playing with the (adjustable) DSP IF Filter Bandwidths. The DEEP
DSP NOTCH Filter function was very effective in eliminating very close spaced
QRM.
I missed the nice 'noise shaping' of the Audio Peak Filter that is in the
original analog version of the Icom 746. CW definitely sounds "different" on a
DSP radio and good AGC action is trickier to implement. There seems to be a
slight click on the first cycle of audio on my radio. Most of the time I
operated with the Pre-Amps OFF to keep the AGC well behaved. On 80 and 160M I
often
turned the Attenuator ON to prevent atmospheric noise from activating the AGC
for better readability.
Tom N4KG in North Alabama
The following is from a popular Contest Log Analysis Program
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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0000 0 0 42 0 0 0 42 3.9
0100 0 0 48 0 0 0 48 4.4
0200 14 18 0 0 0 0 32 3.0
0300 0 36 0 0 0 0 36 3.3
0400 0 6 16 0 0 0 22 2.0
0500 5 30 0 0 0 0 35 3.2
0600 9 14 0 0 0 0 23 2.1
0700 1 9 13 0 0 0 23 2.1
0800 7 6 3 0 0 0 16 1.5
0900 0 2 5 0 0 0 7 0.6
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1200 0 4 2 0 0 0 6 0.6
1300 0 2 11 30 0 0 43 4.0
1400 0 0 0 30 42 0 72 6.7
1500 0 0 0 0 27 19 46 4.3
1600 0 0 0 0 29 9 38 3.5
1700 0 0 0 13 10 0 23 2.1
1800 0 0 0 33 17 1 51 4.7
1900 0 0 0 18 16 0 34 3.1
2000 0 0 0 0 8 3 11 1.0
2100 0 0 0 22 8 0 30 2.8
2200 0 0 6 4 14 0 24 2.2
2300 0 0 25 7 0 0 32 3.0
0000 0 0 19 4 0 0 23 2.1
0100 0 8 7 0 0 0 15 1.4
0200 14 13 0 0 0 0 27 2.5
0300 2 18 0 0 0 0 20 1.9
0400 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 0.4
0500 4 1 0 0 0 0 5 0.5
0600 0 9 10 0 0 0 19 1.8
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1200 1 3 9 0 0 0 13 1.2
1300 0 0 0 50 0 0 50 4.6
1400 0 0 0 2 21 12 35 3.2
1500 0 0 0 32 0 4 36 3.3
1600 0 0 0 3 13 2 18 1.7
1700 0 0 0 17 7 1 25 2.3
1800 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 0.7
1900 0 0 0 17 0 0 17 1.6
2000 0 0 0 3 6 0 9 0.8
2100 0 0 0 11 14 2 27 2.5
2200 0 0 4 6 4 0 14 1.3
2300 0 0 1 9 0 0 10 0.9
------------------------------------------------------
Total 57 181 223 319 236 53 1069
Gross QSO's=1081 Dupes=12 Net QSO's=1069
Unique callsigns worked = 653
The best 60 minute rate was 79/hour from 1336 to 1435
The best 30 minute rate was 84/hour from 1350 to 1419
The best 10 minute rate was 108/hour from 1426 to 1435
The best 1 minute rates were:
3 QSO's/minute 16 times.
2 QSO's/minute 113 times.
1 QSO's/minute 795 times.
There were 83 bandchanges.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 14
4 459
5 390
6 172
7 8
8 16
9 7
10 3
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Zone 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
14 10 50 33 83 42 5 223 20.6
15 6 41 52 71 43 0 213 19.7
08 10 17 22 23 20 10 102 9.4
33 5 11 11 8 11 3 49 4.5
09 5 5 9 10 12 8 49 4.5
05 3 5 6 15 5 5 39 3.6
16 1 7 10 15 2 0 35 3.2
13 0 1 5 6 17 6 35 3.2
11 2 1 6 5 16 4 34 3.1
20 0 4 8 8 10 0 30 2.8
04 4 5 4 11 6 0 30 2.8
25 0 2 10 15 3 0 30 2.8
07 3 5 4 5 7 2 26 2.4
06 0 4 3 6 6 0 19 1.8
35 2 3 3 3 4 3 18 1.7
32 0 4 6 2 4 2 18 1.7
03 1 3 3 5 4 0 16 1.5
27 0 1 4 6 4 0 15 1.4
31 1 3 4 1 3 0 12 1.1
10 1 1 2 2 2 2 10 0.9
38 0 2 1 2 3 1 9 0.8
01 1 2 1 3 1 0 8 0.7
34 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 0.6
12 0 0 2 1 3 1 7 0.6
02 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.5
21 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0.4
37 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 0.4
39 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.3
29 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.3
30 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.3
40 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.3
18 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.2
17 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.2
36 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2
24 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2
22 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1
28 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1
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Total 57 181 223 319 236 53 1069
Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands 459
2 bands 84
3 bands 45
4 bands 34
5 bands 15
6 bands 16
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
CT9L PS2T KP3Z EA6IB HC8N 5A7A
P40W TI5N EA8EW TZ5A V26K 8P5A
VP5W 6W1RW 9Y4AA V47NT
----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 19 76 89 174 89 12
CQ WW CW DX CONTEST 2006
N4KG SOAB(A) HP
Multi-
band 3 Bands 4 Bands 5 Bands 6 Bands
QSO's
1 9A1P 3V6T CT3KN 5A7A
2 C6ART 6V7D CU2A 6W1RW
3 CT3NT 9A7A FM-TO5X 8P5A
4 CX7BY AH2R HI3A 9Y4AA
5 DK3GI CE4CT HK0GU CT9L
6 DL3YM CO8LY IH9P EA6IB
7 EA5AFP CT6A J79Z EA8EW
8 EA8CN DF0HQ OK5W HC8N
9 EA8MQ DQ4W P40A KP3Z
10 EA9EU DR1A PA5ZY P40W
11 ER4DX E51YAQ RU1A PS2T
12 ES5RR EA4KR V31XX TI5N
13 FY5FY G5W VP2MDG TZ5A
14 G4BUO G6PZ ZF1A V26K
15 GD6IA HD2A ZL6QH V47NT
16 GM3W HG1S ****** VP5W
17 HR1RTF HG3DX
18 LT1F IR4X 15 on 5B 16 on 6B
19 LU8YE JA3YBK
20 LZ9W KL7WV
21 NH6R LR2F
22 OE4A LU4DX
23 OL3A LX7I
24 OM0M OM8A
25 OQ5M P40T
26 P3F P49Y
27 PI4D PJ2T
28 PR7AB PJ4A
29 PT3T VP2VVV
30 RK2FWA VY2TT
31 S53EO WP3F
32 SK6M XE1NTT/2
33 UU7J Z38N
34 VE2WDX ZS4TX
35 VE3EY
36 VO1AAM 34 on 4B
37 XE1HSW
38 XE2S
39 YR7M
40 YW4D
41 ZM1A
42 ZY7C
42 on 3B +3 more not yet identified
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