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Subject: [3830] WPX SSB N7DX(@K7RL) M/2 HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: n7dx@tonygarland.com
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:52:44 +0000
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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2023

Call: N7DX
Operator(s): K7RL N7DX
Station: K7RL

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Camano Island
Operating Time (hrs): 33.5
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:     
   80:   22
   40:  573
   20:  839
   15: 1550
   10: 1198
------------
Total: 4177  Prefixes = 1163  Total Score = 9,372,617

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Comments:

This one was somewhat of a roller-coaster ride.

My first inclination that the WPX SSB contest might be "interesting"
was when
my wife mentioned a headline news article she’d seen talking about the
"most
powerful solar storm in nearly six years" which was predicted to take
effect on
the Friday of the contest weekend.

We often joke about how the Sun must subscribe to the contest calendar -- it is
uncanny how often these disturbances align with major contest weekends -- but
THIS was taking things too far!

Sure enough we were treated to a pretty tough slog at the start. We toughed it
out and kept
our noses to the grindstone to see what could be done.  By about 5 hours in, we
gave up on any idea we might have entertained for trying to best our previous
year’s score.

When the Friday overnight shift came, I encountered an issue with the rotor
control which made it impossible to turn the tower to Asia for the
all-important low-band six-pointers. Since I wasn’t sure what was wrong and
was
concerned it might be a physical or electrical problem, I decided to await
further investigation in the morning.  Besides: the bands were lousy and I was
hearing the siren call of getting extra sleep.  (It turned out the COM ports on
the remote computer had been scrambled by RF and the on-site computer needed to
be rebooted.) At that point it wasn’t looking to be a very productive
contest.

As a result, we didn’t find out how good or bad the Friday evening run into
Asia
might have been since the station was essentially inactive for about 7 hours 
the first night.

By Saturday morning, the propagation had shown signs of improvement and that
trend continued until the end of the contest.

Even so, conditions remained weird. Twenty -- typically the bread-and-butter
band
did not produce up to par. And even though a major solar disturbance had
recently
swatted our planet, 15 and 10 turned out to be the performers.

Go figure.

With the conditions steadily improving and making a decent showing into Asia
the second night, it dawned on us on Sunday mornin--after a solid opening on 15
into Europe -- that our score might work out
better than we had imagined.

Sure enough, much to our surprise, we managed to boost our Q and M totals
enough (8 %) to offset the missing high-point/low-band contacts: in the
final few minutes of the contest we squeaked by the previous year’s score by
the skin of our teeth (0.2%!).

We continue to enjoy the competition and camaraderie engendered by the
real-time online scoreboard. It keeps us motivated and familiar with our
colleagues who share our struggle to maintain BIC when conditions are sub-par.

As always, thanks to those who provided all the contacts and the numerous club
members and friends who slogged through the same conditions, especially at the
start.


- Tony (N7DX) with Mitch (K7RL)



Details follow...

Comparison with last year:
    Qs = 4177 / 3878 (7.7% improvement)
    Ms = 1163 / 1078 (7.8% improvement)
    Claimed Score = 9,372,617 / 9,350,572 (0.2% improvement)

Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: N7DX
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: TWO
OPERATORS: K7RL N7DX

---COMBINED--- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y --------------------- (both
xmitters off 9 hours)
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0      1     71     87    159    159    3.8
0100       0      0      0     33     68     29    130    289    6.9
0200       0      0      6     95     84      0    185    474   11.3
0300       0      0     51    108     12      0    171    645   15.4
0400       0      8     69     12      0      0     89    734   17.6
0500       0      8     27      0      0      0     35    769   18.4
0600       0      0      8      0      0      0      8    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    777   18.6 both
xmitters off
1300       0      0      0      7      0      0      7    784   18.8 both
xmitters off (mostly)
1400       0      0      0     65      6      0     71    855   20.5
1500       0      0      0     70     14      0     84    939   22.5
1600       0      0      0     34     20      3     57    996   23.8
1700       0      0      0     40     90     51    181   1177   28.2
1800       0      0      0      0     86    140    226   1403   33.6
1900       0      0      0      0     83    180    263   1666   39.9
2000       0      0      0      0     47    134    181   1847   44.2
2100       0      0      0      0     11    131    142   1989   47.6
2200       0      0      0      0     60     62    122   2111   50.5
2300       0      0      0      0     72     13     85   2196   52.6
0000       0      0      0      3     30      7     40   2236   53.5
0100       0      0      0     98     38      0    136   2372   56.8
0200       0      0      0    128      1      0    129   2501   59.9
0300       0      0     70     24      0      0     94   2595   62.1
0400       0      0      5     15      0      0     20   2615   62.6
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2615   62.6 both
xmitters off
0600       0      6     28      0      0      0     34   2649   63.4
0700       0      0     31      0      0      0     31   2680   64.2
0800       0      0     54      0      0      0     54   2734   65.5
0900       0      0     67      0      0      0     67   2801   67.1
1000       0      0     64      0      0      0     64   2865   68.6
1100       0      0     48      0      0      0     48   2913   69.7
1200       0      0     44      0      0      0     44   2957   70.8
1300       0      0      1     42      0      0     43   3000   71.8
1400       0      0      0     40     49      0     89   3089   74.0
1500       0      0      0      6    117     13    136   3225   77.2
1600       0      0      0      3     54     23     80   3305   79.1
1700       0      0      0      0     85     37    122   3427   82.0
1800       0      0      0      0    107     68    175   3602   86.2
1900       0      0      0      0     70     44    114   3716   89.0
2000       0      0      0      2     91     49    142   3858   92.4
2100       0      0      0     13     41     19     73   3931   94.1
2200       0      0      0      0     70     43    113   4044   96.8
2300       0      0      0      0     73     60    133   4177  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0     22    573    839   1550   1193   4177

Gross QSOs=4218        Dupes=41        Net QSOs=4177

**  K7RL **** Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ************** (off 18 hours)

Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0      1      0     87     88    3.8
0100       0      0      0     33      0     29     62    6.4
0200       0      0      6     95      0      0    101   10.7
0300       0      0      0    108      0      0    108   15.3
0400       0      8      0     12      0      0     20   16.2
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   16.2 off
1400       0      0      0     45      1      0     46   18.2
1500       0      0      0     70      0      0     70   21.2
1600       0      0      0     34      0      3     37   22.7
1700       0      0      0     40      0     51     91   26.6
1800       0      0      0      0      0    140    140   32.6
1900       0      0      0      0      0    180    180   40.3
2000       0      0      0      0      0     83     83   43.9
2100       0      0      0      0     10    119    129   49.4
2200       0      0      0      0      0     62     62   52.0
2300       0      0      0      0      0     13     13   52.6
0000       0      0      0      3      0      6      9   53.0
0100       0      0      0     98      0      0     98   57.2
0200       0      0      0    128      0      0    128   62.6
0300       0      0     70     24      0      0     94   66.7
0400       0      0      5     15      0      0     20   67.5
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
1300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   67.5 off
1400       0      0      0      0     49      0     49   69.6
1500       0      0      0      0    117      0    117   74.6
1600       0      0      0      3     54      0     57   77.0
1700       0      0      0      0     85      0     85   80.7
1800       0      0      0      0    107      0    107   85.3
1900       0      0      0      0     70      0     70   88.2
2000       0      0      0      0     91      0     91   92.1
2100       0      0      0      0     41      0     41   93.9
2200       0      0      0      0     70      0     70   96.9
2300       0      0      0      0     73      0     73  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0      8     81    709    768    773   2339


**  N7DX **** Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ************** (10 hours off)

Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0      0      0     71      0     71    3.9
0100       0      0      0      0     68      0     68    7.6
0200       0      0      0      0     84      0     84   12.1
0300       0      0     51      0     12      0     63   15.6
0400       0      0     69      0      0      0     69   19.3
0500       0      8     27      0      0      0     35   21.2
0600       0      0      8      0      0      0      8   21.7
0700       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
0900       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
1000       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
1100       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
1200       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   21.7 off
1300       0      0      0      7      0      0      7   22.0
1400       0      0      0     20      5      0     25   23.4
1500       0      0      0      0     14      0     14   24.2
1600       0      0      0      0     20      0     20   25.2
1700       0      0      0      0     90      0     90   30.1
1800       0      0      0      0     86      0     86   34.8
1900       0      0      0      0     83      0     83   39.3
2000       0      0      0      0     47     51     98   44.7
2100       0      0      0      0      1     12     13   45.4
2200       0      0      0      0     60      0     60   48.6
2300       0      0      0      0     72      0     72   52.6
0000       0      0      0      0     30      1     31   54.2
0100       0      0      0      0     38      0     38   56.3
0200       0      0      0      0      1      0      1   56.4 off
0300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   56.4 off
0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   56.4 off
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   56.4 off
0600       0      6     28      0      0      0     34   58.2
0700       0      0     31      0      0      0     31   59.9
0800       0      0     54      0      0      0     54   62.8
0900       0      0     67      0      0      0     67   66.5
1000       0      0     64      0      0      0     64   70.0
1100       0      0     48      0      0      0     48   72.6
1200       0      0     44      0      0      0     44   75.0
1300       0      0      1     42      0      0     43   77.3
1400       0      0      0     40      0      0     40   79.5
1500       0      0      0      6      0     13     19   80.5
1600       0      0      0      0      0     23     23   81.8
1700       0      0      0      0      0     37     37   83.8
1800       0      0      0      0      0     68     68   87.5
1900       0      0      0      0      0     44     44   89.9
2000       0      0      0      2      0     49     51   92.7
2100       0      0      0     13      0     19     32   94.4
2200       0      0      0      0      0     43     43   96.7
2300       0      0      0      0      0     60     60  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total      0     14    492    130    782    420   1838

Activity:
    - hours inactive:
        - K7RL off 18 hours
        - N7DX off 10 hours
        - 9 of those hours with both transmitters off the air
    - transmitter utilization = (96 - 28)/96 = 70% on time

Unique callsigns worked = 3182

The best 60 minute rate was 284/hour from 1923 to 2022
The best 30 minute rate was 304/hour from 0239 to 0308
The best 10 minute rate was 384/hour from 0242 to 0251

The best 1 minute rates were:
 9 QSOs/minute    1 times.
 8 QSOs/minute    4 times.
 7 QSOs/minute    9 times.
 6 QSOs/minute   43 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   72 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  176 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  350 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  524 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  653 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        21
   4      1215
   5      1436
   6      1476
   7         9
   8        12
   9         5
  10         3

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    2474
2 bands     477
3 bands     180
4 bands      46
5 bands       5
6 bands       0

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs      0      9    273    442   1015    735


73, Tony N7DX
https://n7dx.tonygarland.com


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