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Subject: [3830] ARRLDX SSB N5AW SOAB LP
From: webform@b41h.net
Reply-to: N5AW@ARRL.NET
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:31:05 -0800
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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: N5AW
Operator(s): N5AW
Station: N5AW

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   20    18
   80:   70    50
   40:  158    64
   20:  286    82
   15:  365    87
   10:   62    16
-------------------
Total:  961   317  Total Score = 913,911

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

This was a serious but not all out effort. I missed the first five+ hours of the
contest due to a social engagement. I've been a proponent of a 36 hour time
limit for single ops in this contest so I decided to go one further. I got
four+ hours sleep both nights, stopped to have dinner with the XYL Saturday
evening and took several 30 to 60 minute breaks. Net result was just under 30
hours on the air (compared to 40 in 2009). I still beat last years score by
150K (20 percent). 

Better overall conditions this year were certainly a factor in my improved
score. For me â??betterâ?? was the quality of the fifteen meter openings to
Europe and JA and longer European openings on 20 (actually fifteen was much
better the CW weekend). The low bands were about the same as last year but ten
was a disappointment - actually had more Q's and mults there last year. 

Getting more rest and breaks made the contest more enjoyable. I also found
myself making far fewer fatigue induced errors late in the contest. When the
contest was over I felt good enough to take my wife out to dinner. Spending a
little time with her over the weekend also made her feel she hadn't been
totally abandoned. The experience reinforced my feeling, shared by some but not
all of my contesting friends, that this contest would be more popular if single
operators (at least in the un-assisted class) were limited to 36 hours
operating time.

Marv, N5AW
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Radios: Tentec Orion, Elecraft K3 â?? 100 watts

Antennas:
       160m: 42m tower with 6 elevated radials @ 22m
        80m: 5 sloping dipole array from 41m tower
        40m: Moxon @ 42m
             Lazy H @ 40m NW-SE
  10/15/20m: 3L SteppIR @ 41m             
             C3/C3 @ 31m & 25m fixed NE (no 20 mtr reflector on top C3)
             TH3jr @ 13m fixed SE       
             204BA @ 18m fixed NW       
  Beverages: 230m NE, 160m NW

Other: Homebrew SO2R box, TR4W log
-------------------------------------------------------------------

     Continent List  2010 ARRL DX SSB - N5AW

                   160    80    40    20    15    10   ALL
                   ---    --    --    --    --    --    --
  N.A. calls  =     13    22    20    38    30     8   131
  S.A. calls  =      2     9    13    40    65    53   182
  Euro calls  =      3    27    88   151   199     0   468
  Afrc calls  =      1     2     1     5     6     1    16
  Asia calls  =      0     1     3    17    10     0    31
  JA calls    =      0     4    25    30    46     0   105
  Ocen calls  =      1     5     8     5     9     0    28

  Total calls =     20    70   158   286   365    62   961
---------------------------------------------------------------------

                          RATES - 2010 ARRL DX SSB - N5AW

HR    160     80       40       20       15       10    HR TOT CUM TOTAL 
SCORE
--   -----  ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- 
-----
 5    ---     ---     11/11     ---      ---      ---    11/11    11/11  
0.00M
 6    ---    13/13    40/20     ---      ---      ---    53/33    64/44  
0.01M
 7    2/2     2/1     23/10     ---      ---      ---    27/13    91/57  
0.02M
 8    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---     91/57  
0.02M
 9    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---     91/57  
0.02M
10    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---     91/57  
0.02M
11    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---     91/57  
0.02M
12    ---     2/1      ---     22/17     ---      ---    24/18   115/75  
0.03M
13    ---     2/1      ---      4/3     38/30     ---    44/34   159/109 
0.05M
14    ---     ---      ---     31/12     ---      ---    31/12   190/121 
0.07M
15    ---     ---      ---     32/6      4/2      2/1    38/9    228/130 
0.09M
16    ---     ---      ---      ---     28/14     ---    28/14   256/144 
0.11M
17    ---     ---      ---      3/2     28/8      6/2    37/12   293/156 
0.14M
18    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    293/156 
0.14M
19    ---     ---      ---      ---     26/3      4/0    30/3    323/159 
0.15M
20    ---     ---      ---     23/5      1/0     13/2    37/7    360/166 
0.18M
21    ---     ---      ---     19/8      ---      9/3    28/11   388/177 
0.21M
22    ---     ---      ---      ---     26/4     13/3    39/7    427/184 
0.24M
23    ---     ---     11/4      ---     20/3      4/2    35/9    462/193 
0.27M
 0    ---     ---      7/1     21/7      ---      ---    28/8    490/201 
0.30M
 1    ---     ---      ---     22/2      ---      ---    22/2    512/203 
0.31M
 2    ---     1/1      9/4     24/1      ---      ---    34/6    546/209 
0.34M
 3    3/3    18/14     ---      ---      ---      ---    21/17   567/226 
0.38M
 4    1/1    13/10     5/2      ---      ---      ---    19/13   586/239 
0.42M
 5    6/6     6/2      1/0      ---      ---      ---    13/8    599/247 
0.44M
 6    6/4     4/4      7/2      ---      ---      ---    17/10   616/257 
0.47M
 7    1/1     6/2     13/4      ---      ---      ---    20/7    636/264 
0.50M
 8    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    636/264 
0.50M
 9    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    636/264 
0.50M
10    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    636/264 
0.50M
11    ---     ---      ---      ---      ---      ---     ---    636/264 
0.50M
12    1/1     3/1      1/1      5/0      ---      ---    10/3    646/267 
0.52M
13    ---     ---     26/4      ---     33/11     ---    59/15   705/282 
0.60M
14    ---     ---      ---      3/0     54/2      ---    57/2    762/284 
0.65M
15    ---     ---      ---      1/0     41/4      ---    42/4    804/288 
0.69M
16    ---     ---      ---      ---     22/2      2/1    24/3    828/291 
0.72M
17    ---     ---      ---     11/1      5/0      3/0    19/1    847/292 
0.74M
18    ---     ---      ---      4/1      4/0      1/1     9/2    856/294 
0.75M
19    ---     ---      ---      2/1      9/0      1/1    12/2    868/296 
0.77M
20    ---     ---      ---     13/2      1/0      2/0    16/2    884/298 
0.79M
21    ---     ---      ---     21/8      1/1      ---    22/9    906/307 
0.83M
22    ---     ---      ---      8/3     14/0      2/0    24/3    930/310 
0.86M
23    ---     ---      4/1     17/3     10/3      ---    31/7    961/317 
0.91M
D1   2/2    19/16    85/45   134/53   171/64    51/13            462/193
D2  18/16   51/34    73/19   152/29   194/23    11/3             499/124
TO  20/18   70/50   158/64   286/82   365/87    62/16            961/317


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