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[3830] SS CW W7RN(W9KKN) SO Unlimited HP

To: 3830@contesting.com, bill@w9kkn.net
Subject: [3830] SS CW W7RN(W9KKN) SO Unlimited HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: bill@w9kkn.net
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 04:30:27 +0000
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2021

Call: W7RN
Operator(s): W9KKN
Station: W7RN

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: VC Highlands, NV
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  240
   40:  441
   20:  427
   15:  135
   10:    0
------------
Total: 1243  Sections = 84  Total Score = 208,824

Club: 

Comments:

Special thanks Tom and Midge for the hospitality and use of the station!

This is normally one of TV Bob’s contests at W7RN and thanks to our favorite
pandemic, this year (and last year), he decided that it was probably a good idea
not to make the trip. 
Unfortunately, not all of us are so wise it would seem, so when K5RC gave me a
call and offered to let me take a swing at it, I couldn’t really say no. 

The goal this year was to improve on last year, and I would say that goal was
achieved, however, I still have a lot to work with CW accuracy and such. Log
checking will be cruel, and sorry if you caught me in one of those
deer-in-headlight moments, equal parts altitude sickness, fatigue, and
inexperience. I started the contest off with an ill-conceived 2BSIQ experiment
that quickly needed to be paused, but eventually I was able to get it working a
few times. 

I told myself I would stop watching the scoreboards during single op efforts,
but Sunday got the best of me. I had an enjoyable battle with K6LL, N5ZO, K4AB
and others in the category.

How were the bands?

10m didn’t happen, though I was able to get spotted weakly on the east coast,
my dream of working a bunch of mobile stations in W4 was not realized.
15m — Good activity during the contest. It was really just about as good as
20m, perhaps with not as many people there. Of course, 6/6/6/6 OWAs @6500ft
elevation help significantly, but the stations on 15 really weren’t all that
less loud than the ones on 20.
20m — Nothing amazing going on, a lot of Europeans calling me though
40m — Made most of the QSOs here, 
80m — The W7RN 3-el is just supremely loud, but there’s also a dipole that
fills in local stations that is often very helpful.

As is normal in SS, Sunday was a tough slog, if I had to do anything different
in the off time strategy, I would have probably tried to move more off time
throughout Sunday. I took a bunch of 30 minute breaks, but as low as the rates
seemed Saturday night, I feel like they were better than most of Sunday.

Full operating conditions description at https://www.w7rn.com

Anyway, here are some cabstats:
Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: W7RN
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: W9KKN

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
2100       0      0      0     90     14      0    104    104    8.4
2200       0      0      0     50     37      0     87    191   15.4
2300       0      0      0     83      2      0     85    276   22.2
0000       0      0     86      1      0      0     87    363   29.2
0100       0      1     80      0      0      0     81    444   35.7
0200       0     22     39      0      0      0     61    505   40.6
0300       0     61     15      0      0      0     76    581   46.7
0400       0     52     12      0      0      0     64    645   51.9
0500       0     36      8      0      0      0     44    689   55.4
0600       0     28     10      0      0      0     38    727   58.5
0700       0     21      4      0      0      0     25    752   60.5
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    752   60.5
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    752   60.5
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    752   60.5
1100       0      3     31      0      0      0     34    786   63.2
1200       0      0     38      0      0      0     38    824   66.3
1300       0      0     29      1      0      0     30    854   68.7
1400       0      0      3     31      0      0     34    888   71.4
1500       0      0      0     27      5      0     32    920   74.0
1600       0      0      0     18     15      0     33    953   76.7
1700       0      0      0     17     13      0     30    983   79.1
1800       0      0      0     14     24      0     38   1021   82.1
1900       0      0      0      9     16      0     25   1046   84.2
2000       0      0      0     16      1      0     17   1063   85.5
2100       0      0      0     47      5      0     52   1115   89.7
2200       0      0      5     23      3      0     31   1146   92.2
2300       0      0     31      0      0      0     31   1177   94.7
0000       0      0     17      0      0      0     17   1194   96.1
0100       0      5     10      0      0      0     15   1209   97.3
0200       0     11     23      0      0      0     34   1243  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    240    441    427    135      0   1243

Gross QSOs=1259        Dupes=16        Net QSOs=1243

Unique callsigns worked = 1243

The best 60 minute rate was 108/hour from 2105 to 2204
The best 30 minute rate was 116/hour from 2118 to 2147
The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 2118 to 2127

The best 1 minute rates were:
 3 QSOs/minute   26 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  265 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  635 times.

There were 92 bandchanges and 18 (1.4%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   4       728
   5       385
   6       127
   7         1
   8         2

------------ M u l t i p l i e r   S u m m a r y ------------
Mult     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
IL         0     13     19     18     16      0     66    5.3
VA         0      6     17     35      5      0     63    5.1
OH         0      5     24     18      9      0     56    4.5
MDC        0      4     18     22      4      0     48    3.9
MN         0      9     15     14      7      0     45    3.6
EPA        0      8      8     14      3      0     33    2.7
TN         0      3     12      4     11      0     30    2.4
WWA        0     15     10      4      1      0     30    2.4
NC         0      2     14     11      3      0     30    2.4
MI         0      1      8     11      7      0     27    2.2
CO         0      6     14      7      0      0     27    2.2
AZ         0     14      7      5      1      0     27    2.2
STX        0      4     10      8      4      0     26    2.1
EMA        0      0     16      8      1      0     25    2.0
NFL        0      3      7     12      3      0     25    2.0
OR         0     12     10      3      0      0     25    2.0
NTX        0      3      8      5      7      0     23    1.9
IN         0      3      9      8      3      0     23    1.9
MO         0      3      6     10      3      0     22    1.8
SFL        0      1      8     10      3      0     22    1.8
GA         0      3      6      9      4      0     22    1.8
WI         0      1      6      9      4      0     20    1.6
WNY        0      1      6     11      1      0     19    1.5
IA         0      2      7      6      4      0     19    1.5
SCV        0     11      3      3      2      0     19    1.5
SV         0     10      3      4      0      0     17    1.4
ENY        0      2      5      7      2      0     16    1.3
GTA        0      3      8      5      0      0     16    1.3
KY         0      2      7      5      1      0     15    1.2
WCF        0      2      2     10      1      0     15    1.2
NNJ        0      3      7      4      1      0     15    1.2
BC         0      7      5      3      0      0     15    1.2
SDG        0      6      6      2      1      0     15    1.2
NH         0      3      3      7      1      0     14    1.1
OK         0      2      5      5      1      0     13    1.0
AL         0      3      3      5      2      0     13    1.0
KS         0      2      3      6      2      0     13    1.0
CT         0      1      6      4      2      0     13    1.0
NLI        0      2      3      7      0      0     12    1.0
WPA        0      2      4      6      0      0     12    1.0
ORG        0      3      3      3      2      0     11    0.9
SNJ        0      1      5      5      0      0     11    0.9
SC         0      2      4      4      0      0     10    0.8
ONS        0      1      3      4      2      0     10    0.8
LAX        0      3      4      3      0      0     10    0.8
ME         0      0      4      5      0      0      9    0.7
RI         0      0      4      5      0      0      9    0.7
PAC        0      1      5      0      3      0      9    0.7
SJV        0      6      1      2      0      0      9    0.7
MT         0      1      8      0      0      0      9    0.7
AR         0      4      3      1      1      0      9    0.7
SB         0      5      4      0      0      0      9    0.7
QC         0      0      5      3      0      0      8    0.6
NM         0      2      2      3      0      0      7    0.6
NE         0      1      4      1      1      0      7    0.6
ID         0      4      1      2      0      0      7    0.6
MAR        0      1      3      3      0      0      7    0.6
WMA        0      0      2      5      0      0      7    0.6
ONE        0      0      2      4      0      0      6    0.5
EB         0      2      2      1      1      0      6    0.5
NV         0      2      1      2      1      0      6    0.5
SD         0      3      1      2      0      0      6    0.5
WV         0      0      1      5      0      0      6    0.5
SF         0      4      0      2      0      0      6    0.5
LA         0      0      2      2      1      0      5    0.4
NNY        0      2      1      1      1      0      5    0.4
UT         0      1      4      0      0      0      5    0.4
ND         0      2      3      0      0      0      5    0.4
SK         0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.3
MS         0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.3
VT         0      0      3      1      0      0      4    0.3
WY         0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.3
EWA        0      2      2      0      0      0      4    0.3
NT         0      0      1      2      0      0      3    0.2
DE         0      0      0      2      1      0      3    0.2
MB         0      0      2      1      0      0      3    0.2
PR         0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.2
VI         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.2
NL         0      1      0      1      0      0      2    0.2
AK         0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.2
WTX        0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.2
AB         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.2
ONN        0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.1
PE         0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0    240    441    427    135      0   1243

Sweepstakes Checks
Check  QSOs    Pct
----------------------
  00     7     0.6
  01     3     0.2
  02     3     0.2
  03     3     0.2
  04     4     0.3
  05     4     0.3
  06     1     0.1
  07     1     0.1
  08     4     0.3
  09     2     0.2
  10     2     0.2
  11     1     0.1
  12     6     0.5
  13     3     0.2
  14     5     0.4
  15     6     0.5
  16     7     0.6
  17     5     0.4
  18     8     0.6
  19     6     0.5
  20     2     0.2
  21     2     0.2
  22     2     0.2
  23     0     0.0
  24     1     0.1
  25     0     0.0
  26     0     0.0
  27     0     0.0
  28     0     0.0
  29     0     0.0
  30     0     0.0
  31     0     0.0
  32     0     0.0
  33     0     0.0
  34     0     0.0
  35     0     0.0
  36     0     0.0
  37     1     0.1
  38     1     0.1
  39     0     0.0
  40     1     0.1
  41     0     0.0
  42     0     0.0
  43     0     0.0
  44     0     0.0
  45     0     0.0
  46     0     0.0
  47     2     0.2
  48     0     0.0
  49     3     0.2
  50     2     0.2
  51     3     0.2
  52    11     0.9
  53     8     0.6
  54    25     2.0
  55    27     2.2
  56    21     1.7
  57    35     2.8
  58    37     3.0
  59    44     3.5
  60    27     2.2
  61    40     3.2
  62    45     3.6
  63    49     3.9
  64    39     3.1
  65    29     2.3
  66    34     2.7
  67    34     2.7
  68    41     3.3
  69    43     3.5
  70    37     3.0
  71    34     2.7
  72    38     3.1
  73    31     2.5
  74    27     2.2
  75    41     3.3
  76    46     3.7
  77    42     3.4
  78    28     2.3
  79    25     2.0
  80    19     1.5
  81    19     1.5
  82    10     0.8
  83    10     0.8
  84     8     0.6
  85     8     0.6
  86    14     1.1
  87     7     0.6
  88     9     0.7
  89    11     0.9
  90     5     0.4
  91    15     1.2
  92    11     0.9
  93    10     0.8
  94    10     0.8
  95     7     0.6
  96     8     0.6
  97     5     0.4
  98    12     1.0
  99     6     0.5

U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area    QSOs     Pct
--------------------
   0     131    10.5
   1      94     7.6
   2     112     9.0
   3     126    10.1
   4     166    13.4
   5      85     6.8
   6     114     9.2
   7     121     9.7
   8     102     8.2
   9     114     9.2
--------------------
Total   1165    93.7

Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent  QSOs    Pct
----------------------
    A      485    39.0
    B      239    19.2
    Q       72     5.8
    M       40     3.2
    U      400    32.2
    S        7     0.6


73 and thanks for the Qs everyone! 

-- Bill/W9KKN


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