World Radiosport Team Championship
Call: R33A
Operator(s): ES5TV, ES2RR
Station: R33A
Class: M/S LP
QTH: 902
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries HQ Mults
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80: 339 121 30 29
40: 408 289 53 34
20: 702 747 73 40
15: 404 264 56 27
10: 155 76 24 22
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Total: 2008 1497 236 152 Total Score = 4,135,304
Club:
Comments:
I have been looking for words for a while now to express the feelings,
impressions and memories from Moscow. It is not easy. It was awesome by all
means. The organization was superb, the competition went without a smallest
glitch, the result is more than we ever hoped for even though we put all we had
into it, practiced and analyzed and designed for a long time. And the memories
are unforgettable. It was so very pleasant to meet the old friends again and
make new putting faces to the calls.
Being in regular contact with Harry, RA3AUU, I know what kind of effort he,
Andy, UA3AB and all the others put into it. On top of everything as far as I
know most of the budget had to be covered by Russian hams. Incredible support
of the ham community in Russia made this event possible.
The volunteers were really something. Our site 902 was maintained by Vlad,
UD3D, a very pleasant and modest man and he was assisted by two young boys
Aleksandr, RN3DBA (14) and Georgi, RN3DNM (16). I believe Anton, RD3BAZ was
teetering between two sites and also helping our crew in times. The head of the
field was Leonid, UA7A (ex UA6CW), who seemed to be everywhere with his red
Honda. As I heard from Harry, the young boys were extremely thrilled about the
competition, enjoyed watching us and have made definite decision to participate
in RRTC (Russian WRTC) soon! They actually asked to operate our station after we
had it set up and left for lunch in the hotel and casually made over 200 QSOs
within less than 2 hours when we were away!!:) What a good test to the station
before the beginning!
Greetings also to our great referee Christo, LZ3FN, who was really up to his
task and held on bravely for 24 hours.
Now about the contest. Our setup was simple, triplexer built by Mart, ES2NJ,
was the only gadget. It worked superbly and naturally finishing in the top
would have been impossible without it.
Other than that the set-up was:
2xFT1000MP (key click mods, Inrad roofing filters) + 1 spare FT1000MP
Set of 5 W3NQN band pass filters
WX0B SIXPAK giving us full automation. Both radios could do everything on all
bands
2 DELL laptops with Win-Test WRTC version beta 2
2 4O3A SAC Xâ??s as band decoders
2 EZMasters for audio switching, voice keyer, CAT and routing all cables. Both
ops could key both radios and listen to any combination of the audio from both
radios
CW keying: WT internal
One paddle for ES2RR as I prefer to send from keyboard:)
Audio Recorder: RECALL PRO in one of the laptops
Ten-Tec tuner on 80m antenna to be used for SSB
Simple lockout system with external relays in PTT chains was working on
switchable priority basis. We had a switch on the table to select which station
has priority and can cut the otherâ??s TX. Normally that was always S&P station
who took priority. I think that priority based TX lock-out was one of the
reasons of our success. It is simply SO much more efficient system than
â??first one winsâ??. If you really want to do efficient S&P you have to be
able to cut the CQ station TX.
As I told, everything worked without a smallest problem as we had tested the
setup and trained in several contests before.
The strategy was:
1. Maximize the RUN rate by changing band/mode frequently and be in SSB
whenever possible as it gives higher RUN rate and it is easier to move mults.
2. Super-aggressive S&P constantly even when RUN radio has fast rate.
3. QSY all mults with even small likelihood of success. Even the S&P mults.
As for CW rate of course, given the excellent CW operators, especially from
Russia and Eastern Europe, we could have easily cranked up the speed from 40 to
50+ wpm:)
So strategy seemed to work better than expected. I am especially glad about the
highest multiplier total. We really pushed it hard. I think we should have done
even more SSB QSOs! And we had 42.7% SSB while none of the other in top 10 had
over 35%:) The funniest thing is that we were very close to also taking the
special award for the best CW score as the only ones besides us in the top 35
to fulfill the 35% requirement for QSOs in the other mode were Canadians with
35.41%!! I think that would have been already way too much for the customs
officer who was already too interested in the huge box of cups we had with us
for â??private useâ??!
I am very interested to know how many S&P QSOs do the other stations have. I
made simple algorithm in excel to differentiate RUN and S&P QSOs and the result
is:
Out of 3,551 total QSOs:
2,517 are RUN
1,034 are S&P
I believe over 1,000 S&P QSOs with TX blocking and that RUN rate is good. We
almost never did alternate CQ as it did not pay off.
Using SH5, version 2.2 I got following statistics:
Passed QSOs (QSYs): 63. Pretty much all mults. Actually I hoped for more. It
does not count for sceds of course as it just looks at 5 minutes interval.
Rates:
Best 10 minutes: 53 QSOs, 318 per hour
Best 20 minutes: 92 QSOs, 276 per hour
Best 30 minutes: 127 QSOs, 254 per hour
Best 60 minutes: 233 QSOs, 233 per hour
Best 120 minutes: 431 QSOs, 215 per hour
Funnily those best rates happened on 40m SSB in the evening. Of course S&P QSOs
on other bands are included here. The best 10 minutes of the contest for example
includes 43 QSOs on 7162 and 10 S&P QSOs on 20m CW.
Dupes: 47
Unique callsigns: 1,802
Total DXCC: 87
Break time: there was one hole of 5 minutes where the stations ran out on 20m
during the night on 0247z. As for operators, I did not rise for a second from
the chair, ES2RR had one short break to take a leak as he takes less liquid:)
We ate nothing and both had 2 Red Bulls in 24 hours.
The rate sheet is following:
R33A
By band - By mode
QSOs (with dupes) - By time
| Hr | 80 | 80 | 40 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 10 |Total|
| | CW | SSB | CW | SSB | CW | SSB | CW | SSB | CW | SSB | |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 12 | | | | | 6 | 64 | 40 | 3 | 18 | | 131 |
| 13 | | | | 4 | 113 | | 23 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 153 |
| 14 | | | | | 114 | | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 138 |
| 15 | | | | | 32 | 115 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 181 |
| 16 | | | | 1 | 19 | 103 | 6 | 25 | 1 | | 155 |
| 17 | | | 3 | 25 | 98 | | 4 | 11 | | | 141 |
| 18 | 2 | | 152 | | 3 | 19 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 202 |
| 19 | 124 | | 23 | 27 | 3 | 15 | 1 | | | | 193 |
| 20 | 15 | | 7 | 125 | 41 | 17 | | | | | 205 |
| 21 | | 67 | 67 | 3 | | 23 | | | | | 160 |
| 22 | 44 | 13 | 39 | 1 | 11 | 22 | | | | | 130 |
| 23 | 90 | 1 | | 64 | | | | | | | 155 |
| 00 | 38 | 20 | 38 | 17 | 4 | | | | | | 117 |
| 01 | 25 | 19 | 39 | 3 | | 19 | | 1 | | | 106 |
| 02 | | 1 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 103 | 3 | | 1 | | 157 |
| 03 | 3 | | 16 | 5 | 132 | | | 4 | 3 | 1 | 164 |
| 04 | | | 21 | | 16 | 33 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 106 |
| 05 | | | | | 53 | | 4 | 33 | 13 | 7 | 110 |
| 06 | | | | | 17 | 18 | 73 | | 4 | 14 | 126 |
| 07 | | | | | | 23 | 36 | 15 | 37 | 4 | 115 |
| 08 | | | | | | 46 | 77 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 144 |
| 09 | | | | | 15 | 10 | 69 | 70 | 21 | 8 | 193 |
| 10 | | | | | 7 | 106 | 12 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 166 |
| 11 | | | | | 10 | 19 | 25 | 24 | 9 | 17 | 104 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| | 341 | 121 | 412 | 295 | 716 | 755 | 413 | 265 | 158 | 76 |3552 |
The continent split is following:
R33A - Continents
By band - By mode
QSOs (with dupes)
| Band / Mode | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| 160 CW | | | | | | |
| 160 SSB | | | | | | |
| 80 CW | 90.0% | | | | 10.0% | |
| 80 SSB | 93.4% | | | | 6.6% | |
| 40 CW | 81.8% | 1.0% | 0.2% | | 17.0% | |
| 40 SSB | 86.8% | | 0.3% | | 12.9% | |
| 20 CW | 60.1% | 25.1% | 0.6% | 0.8% | 13.4% | |
| 20 SSB | 75.2% | 14.4% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 9.0% | 0.1% |
| 15 CW | 76.8% | 1.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 18.9% | |
| 15 SSB | 76.6% | 0.4% | 5.3% | 1.1% | 16.2% | 0.4% |
| 10 CW | 73.4% | | 0.6% | | 25.9% | |
| 10 SSB | 68.4% | | 1.3% | | 30.3% | |
R33A - Continents
All bands - All modes
QSOs (with dupes)
| EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC |
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| 76.0% | 8.5% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 14.0% | 0.1% |
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Here is split by CQ zones:
Zone QSOs
160 80 40 20 15 10 All
1
2
3 64 64
4 1 99 1 101
5 2 119 6 127
6
7 1 1
8 1 5 6
9 1 2 3
10
11 1 4 13 1 19
12
13 3 5 1 9
14 47 122 323 117 7 616
15 113 205 416 209 60 1003
16 233 223 200 145 88 889
17 36 68 86 83 53 326
18 16 22 52 33 10 133
19 3 4 7
20 14 41 48 43 11 157
21 2 4 7 5 3 21
22
23 4 2 6
24 3 1 2 6
25 1 5 19 2 27
26 1 1 2 4
27 1 1
28 1 1
29
30
31
32
33 7 8 15
34
35 2 2
36
37
38 1 1 2
39 1 1
40 3 1 4
Top 10 countries looks like following (net of dupes):
EU Russia 21.6% - 767 (including 318 QSOs with 48 R33 stations)
AS Russia 10.7% - 379
USA 7.6% - 258 (on top of that 24 VE QSOs)
Germany 7.0% - 248
Ukraine 5.8% - 205
Czech Republic 3.9% - 139
Poland 3.5% - 124
Hungary 3.4% - 121
Italy 2.7% - 96
Serbia 2.5% - 89
So we have 828 QSOs with Russian non-WRTC stations. I am VERY interested to see
the respective figure of R32F of course. 50% more cluster spots from Russian
stations probably indicates also higher Russian QSO total for the winners.
There were 4 stations with whom we worked 10 QSOs on all band/mode
combinations:
E7HQ, R33L (thanks VE guys!), RY9C, YT0HQ
Following stations were worked on 9 band/mode combinations:
9A0HQ, LZ7HQ, R32F, R32W, R34D, R34W, R36O, RK9CWW, SK9HQ, SN0HQ, UA3AGW,
YR0HQ
More noteworthy DXs are:
5N7M, BV0HQ, BX5AA, BY8AC, B7HQ, CO6LC, CX1AA, DX1ER, EA9EU, E21EIC, E21YDP,
JW/JA8BMK, KP2/AA1BU, NP4DX, OX8XX, PY0FF (3 bands!), TF4X, V85TX, VP50V,
VQ90JC, VR2YYW, YS1YS, ZS4TX.
As it appeared we really lost it in the very last hour, which was our worst
with barely over 100 QSOs. Tried too much on 10 and 15. Probably just sticking
to 20 SSB would have given us victory. But well, weâ??ll do better next time:)
Congratulations really to our friends and constant competitors from RU1A. They
are just always one very small step ahead of us in everything they do. They are
simply too good. But we are getting there! A good example of our rivalry are the
WPX CW claimed scores just published by Randy on
http://www.cqwpx.com/claimed.htm?mode=cw
RU1A edges ES9C by 12,211 points in MS, which is 0.13%. Again up to the judges
to make the call!! This is what makes contesting what it is.
Thank you all and CU in contests!
73
ES5TV & ES2RR
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