CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 39:25
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 131 35 22 8
40: 691 51 59 20
20: 881 53 65 24
15: 1028 53 63 20
10: 779 51 42 20
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Total: 3511 243 251 92 Total Score = 6,126,044
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
As always, an enjoyable weekend contesting. Conditions were much better than
recent years, but not as good as I hoped. Signals on 20-80 were weak, which
limited the volume of stations to be heard and worked. 10 and 15 were great
when they were solidly open, but signal strengths were up and down. 10 was
nearly as good as 15 from here and so nice to have it be fully open all day.
There seemed to be a larger share of stations calling off frequency than normal.
Most, of course, were dead zero-beat or close enough that decoding was fine.
While it’s really annoying to be on the receiving end of this, in fairness to
the perpetrators, they don’t know it unless they begin to wonder why they are
not being copied quickly and well. On the other hand, there were less instances
of people answering CQs with their exchange instead of just their call (the new
technique learned from FT operating).
With the prospect of 10 meters being open, I was looking forward to setting up
SO3R for the first time since the last solar maximum. I usually dedicate the
third radio/PC to 10 meters for constant monitoring and instant QSY. More
precisely, this is 2BSIQ + 1 since SIQ can’t feasibly be done with 3 radios.
Surprise! One of my 3 contest PCs shutdown during BIOS boot due to a failed fan
which will need replacement back home. There were other PCs available but it
would take far too long to configure all the details for my configuration.
Surprise number two was that one of the three radios wasn’t putting out RF.
Again, there are other (older) radios available but I much prefer all the radios
I’m juggling in the heat of the contest to be identical, especially with sleep
deprivation.
So, back to my normal 2BSIQ setup … until mid-morning Saturday when I moved
the 20m radio to 10m. That moment inadvertently overloaded the 15m radio and
added 25 dB attenuation across all bands, AKA “frying the RX front-end”.
Turns out the bandpass filter box was in pass-through mode. The second of three
radios out of commission. Most of the contest was therefore SO1R, which was a
big disappointment. While I could often get the 10-minute QSO rate up to 150, I
couldn’t sustain it for an hour.
But, even before losing the second radio, it was discouraging to start out
behind my prior years rate and never catch up throughout the 48 hours. At 0030
UTC Saturday, my logging system crashed, causing me to stop contesting to
re-boot, re-start and re-configure my computers. Even then, some features still
weren’t working right which really hampered my agility at managing two PCs for
maximum rate. Around 0600 UTC, my experimenting succeeded in finding a fix to
get things working properly again. Quitting isn’t an option, but it was
considered several times during the contest!
SO1R has a few advantages. When I’m sleep-deprived and hallucinating, one
radio/PC are easier than dealing with two of them. Also, I can do a better job
of tuning the band with the second receiver while running on the first. It just
requires a lot of band changes to optimize coverage when one can only be on one
band at a time.
Early on, I was resigned to have this 8th WW RTTY SO operation as P49X be my
worst finish. At the end, when I compared to the other 7, this one wound up #5
out of the 8, which was a nice surprise after all I’d been through. I only
managed 39.5 hours minus a couple hours of short breaks to fix meals and tend to
personal things. I love operating but when I got tired, it was hard to stay
motivated with all the operational handicaps I had accumulated.
I appreciate all the QSOs, especially the 39 five-banders, led by NJ4P who was
the first. Interestingly, Ron’s last band was 15 meters, not 10. As well, I
really appreciate the continued access to this cottage QTH. I haven’t been
here since February 2020 and it was great to be back. I had actually planned to
come down on three different occasions during the pandemic but ended up
canceling at the last minute due to Covid surges here or in the US.
Ed
K3S/P3 and Alpha 91B (plus, for the first few hours, a second K3/P3 and Alpha
86)
Networked ThinkPad X220s, BT mice and keyboards, 19” 4:3 displays
WriteLog 67D, 2xMMTTY, 4x2Tone encoder/decoders, Mortty TinyFSK for each
radio/PC
Tower 1: 80’ with 2-element shorty-forty, 5-el 20m Yagi, 80m Inverted-V, 2-el
SteppIR at 35’ due north and double-L vertical for 160m
Tower 2: 55’ with single boom interlaced 5-el 15m and 5-el 10m Yagi
Tower 3: 45’ with JK Mid-Tri tribander
Beverages (4): West US, East US, Europe, Africa/VK/ZL with versatile K9AY
switch
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: P49X
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CONTEST: CQ-WW-RTTY
OPERATORS: W0YK
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 70 114 0 0 184 184 5.2
0100 0 9 92 55 0 0 156 340 9.7
0200 0 20 75 0 0 0 95 435 12.4
0300 0 21 93 0 0 0 114 549 15.6
0400 0 71 68 0 0 0 139 688 19.6
0500 0 40 54 0 0 0 94 782 22.3
0600 0 18 45 0 0 0 63 845 24.1
0700 0 10 22 0 0 0 32 877 25.0
0800 0 3 6 0 0 0 9 886 25.2
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 886 25.2
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 886 25.2
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 886 25.2
1200 0 0 5 69 1 0 75 961 27.4
1300 0 0 0 99 36 0 135 1096 31.2
1400 0 0 0 88 41 0 129 1225 34.9
1500 0 0 0 104 51 0 155 1380 39.3
1600 0 0 0 80 61 0 141 1521 43.3
1700 0 0 0 69 99 2 170 1691 48.1
1800 0 0 0 50 0 26 76 1767 50.3
1900 0 0 0 52 15 15 82 1849 52.6
2000 0 0 0 46 86 0 132 1981 56.4
2100 0 0 7 20 24 0 51 2032 57.8
2200 0 0 34 43 0 0 77 2109 60.0
2300 0 0 39 50 0 0 89 2198 62.6
0000 0 11 50 17 0 0 78 2276 64.8
0100 0 37 53 0 0 0 90 2366 67.3
0200 0 30 45 0 0 0 75 2441 69.5
0300 0 24 53 0 0 0 77 2518 71.7
0400 0 59 37 0 0 0 96 2614 74.4
0500 0 38 46 0 0 0 84 2698 76.8
0600 0 12 35 0 0 0 47 2745 78.1
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2745 78.1
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2745 78.1
0900 0 15 10 0 0 0 25 2770 78.8
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2770 78.8
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2770 78.8
1200 0 0 0 21 0 0 21 2791 79.4
1300 0 0 0 60 6 0 66 2857 81.3
1400 0 0 0 67 14 0 81 2938 83.6
1500 0 0 0 32 38 0 70 3008 85.6
1600 0 0 0 47 18 0 65 3073 87.5
1700 0 0 0 44 6 0 50 3123 88.9
1800 0 0 0 58 15 0 73 3196 91.0
1900 0 0 0 49 27 0 76 3272 93.1
2000 0 0 0 29 14 25 68 3340 95.1
2100 0 0 0 8 9 26 43 3383 96.3
2200 0 0 26 25 8 0 59 3442 98.0
2300 0 0 32 39 0 0 71 3513 100.0
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Total 0 418 997 1435 569 94 3513
Gross QSOs=3603 Dupes=90 Net QSOs=3513
Unique callsigns worked = 1981
The best 60 minute rate was 191/hour from 0008 to 0107
The best 30 minute rate was 196/hour from 0038 to 0107
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 0057 to 0106
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 2 times.
5 QSOs/minute 25 times.
4 QSOs/minute 113 times.
3 QSOs/minute 330 times.
2 QSOs/minute 590 times.
1 QSOs/minute 754 times.
There were 1698 bandchanges and 1000 (28.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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North America 0 271 622 943 500 78 2414 68.7
South America 0 4 21 43 36 11 115 3.3
Europe 0 137 329 413 26 0 905 25.8
Asia 0 0 11 24 1 0 36 1.0
Africa 0 3 3 7 3 4 20 0.6
Oceania 0 3 11 5 3 1 23 0.7
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Total 0 418 997 1435 569 94 3513
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
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3 12
4 1352
5 1383
6 736
7 17
8 6
9 6
10 1
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
5B 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
8P 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
9A 0 3 6 3 2 0 14 0.4
CE 0 1 1 5 1 1 9 0.3
CM 0 6 9 9 5 0 29 0.8
CP 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1
CT 0 0 4 5 1 0 10 0.3
CT3 0 2 1 2 2 2 9 0.3
CX 0 0 2 1 3 1 7 0.2
DL 0 34 62 85 2 0 183 5.2
EA 0 8 19 24 3 0 54 1.5
EA8 0 1 2 3 1 1 8 0.2
EA9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
EI 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
EK 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
ER 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
ES 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.1
EU 0 4 2 3 0 0 9 0.3
F 0 9 18 22 2 0 51 1.5
FM 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
FP 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1
G 0 3 13 21 0 0 37 1.1
GI 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.1
GM 0 0 3 4 0 0 7 0.2
GU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
HA 0 6 9 11 1 0 27 0.8
HB 0 3 6 10 0 0 19 0.5
HB0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HC 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HI 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
HK 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1
HP 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HR 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
I 0 8 38 62 8 0 116 3.3
*IT9 0 4 5 1 1 0 11 0.3
J6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
JA 0 0 5 21 0 0 26 0.7
JT 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
K 0 239 553 843 455 70 2160 61.5
KG4 0 1 1 3 2 0 7 0.2
KH6 0 2 3 3 3 1 12 0.3
KL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
KP4 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
LA 0 3 3 6 0 0 12 0.3
LU 0 0 3 12 11 3 29 0.8
LX 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1
LY 0 3 6 4 0 0 13 0.4
LZ 0 3 7 7 1 0 18 0.5
OA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
OE 0 0 4 7 0 0 11 0.3
OH 0 2 3 12 0 0 17 0.5
OK 0 4 9 8 0 0 21 0.6
OM 0 4 4 5 0 0 13 0.4
ON 0 2 8 11 1 0 22 0.6
OX 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
OZ 0 2 2 7 0 0 11 0.3
PA 0 4 9 17 0 0 30 0.9
PY 0 1 8 18 20 5 52 1.5
PZ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
S5 0 4 9 13 2 0 28 0.8
SM 0 1 6 2 0 0 9 0.3
SP 0 6 15 13 0 0 34 1.0
SV 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 0.2
SV5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
TF 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TI 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
TK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
TR 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
UA 0 3 13 11 0 0 27 0.8
UA9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
UR 0 8 20 13 0 0 41 1.2
V3 0 2 2 2 2 1 9 0.3
VE 0 19 45 64 28 2 158 4.5
VK 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.1
VP8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
XE 0 3 6 11 5 2 27 0.8
YA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
YB 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
YL 0 1 5 6 0 0 12 0.3
YO 0 2 5 2 0 0 9 0.3
YU 0 0 5 4 0 0 9 0.3
YV 0 1 4 2 0 0 7 0.2
Z3 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.1
ZF 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
ZL 0 1 4 0 0 0 5 0.1
ZP 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
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Total 0 418 997 1435 569 94 3513
------------ 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
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04 0 84 252 373 216 31 956 27.2
05 0 121 217 339 178 25 880 25.0
03 0 54 130 197 92 16 489 13.9
14 0 70 154 220 10 0 454 12.9
15 0 46 122 154 14 0 336 9.6
16 0 16 38 27 0 0 81 2.3
11 0 1 10 18 20 5 54 1.5
20 0 5 17 14 3 0 39 1.1
08 0 6 12 14 5 1 38 1.1
13 0 0 5 14 14 4 37 1.1
06 0 3 6 11 5 2 27 0.8
25 0 0 5 20 0 0 25 0.7
07 0 3 4 5 4 3 19 0.5
33 0 3 4 6 3 3 19 0.5
31 0 2 3 3 3 1 12 0.3
09 0 2 4 3 0 1 10 0.3
12 0 1 1 5 1 1 9 0.3
32 0 1 4 0 0 0 5 0.1
10 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.1
30 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.1
28 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
40 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
36 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1
24 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
22 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
21 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
02 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
01 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
17 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 0 418 997 1435 569 94 3513
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1131
2 bands 391
3 bands 275
4 bands 145
5 bands 39
6 bands 0
------- 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 0 69 327 649 78 8
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