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Subject: [3830] WPX SSB ND7K(@N6WIN) M/M HP
From: webform@b4h.net
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:35:06 +0000
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                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2023

Call: ND7K
Operator(s): KJ6JET K1AR N2NC N2NL NK7U K7ZO K6JO N6MJ KL9A W4IX W9KKN KI6RRN 
K7ZS N6WIN
Station: N6WIN

Class: M/M HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:  175
   80:  695
   40: 1668
   20: 2638
   15: 2379
   10: 2303
------------
Total: 9858  Prefixes = 1583  Total Score = 30,053,255

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

This is a hard one to even begin to write as we had such an amazing group of
operators willing to come out to no where Arizona... for WPX SSB!?! This one
continues to be a great gathering of friends who enjoy meat, drink, socializing,
and oh there is a contest to do too!?!

We went into the weekend with the widely shared knowledge that band conditions
may be challenging. During our pre contest meetings I remember pointing to a
little plaque on the wall and discussed how it happened... basically the message
was that if you think it's going to be bad and thus you'll not do well, then
you're right. Conversely, if you just operate hard with a positive outlook then
you'll be just as right. Which one would provide the better result at the end of
the contest due to mindset?

Dan, N6MJ, continued his team Captain role for WPX SSB here. For the past two
years running I've challenged him to bring together operators who have the
skills necessary to do great things... but who can also have a wonderful time
together when off the radio. He's done a great job of it and the entire event
felt more like a party than a 48 hour radio event.

Bill, W9KKN, decided to take on the role of station overhaul inside. He's been
with us for a few years now and continues to push us to improve the technology
even when grumps like MJ and WIN saying no at times due to not understanding or
being fearful of change. He took our desires for improved efficiency to heart
and began showing documentation of his vision around his crazy busy work life.
As the contest drew closer I began to understand just how truly hard he was
working towards making a very special thing happen inside the shack. 

With the willingness of Axel, KI6RRN, to come out a week early... Bill had an on
the ground man with exceptional skills to get things implemented. I would check
in during the evenings to see my shack nearly completely being changed...
something that in the past I wouldn't have been so comfortable with. However,
I've seen the level of intelligence and diligence from both of these great guys
and knew to just get out of their way.

The shack was transformed to let the Icom 7610's and Alpha 87's be implemented
around the MOAS and GHEverywhere. Bill introduced reliable PTT driven,
automated, TX/RX solutions. He had new lockout solutions and brought in new
custom PCB's to handle RX switching going way beyond the capabilities of our
K9AY custom 8x4 RX switch. The guys hit this out of the park and I got so many
compliments from the operators here about how great it worked and how reliable
it was!

Chris, KL9A, crushed it with an amazing locally sourced roast dinner on Sunday
along with his awesome idea of craft beer tasting. Joe, NK7U, brought in some
great tasting scotch and Scott, K7ZO, delighted our taste buds with wine that
honored the meat!

Tina, KJ6JET, absolutely kept the boys gaining lots of weight through the
weekend. She was so nervous leading up that the ops wouldn't be well taken care
of and she spent her spring break preparing the QTH. It was really nice to see
so many ops helping her with tasks, socializing when off duty, and letting her
know how much she was appreciated. She even came to the shack on Sunday and
worked some Q's which is something she's never done before.

The full team just hammered the radios and never seemed to be overly upset with
anything or anyone. These boys definitely have their pedigrees in order for
radio contesting, but nobody ever had an ego issue! They had their assignments,
took them seriously, and I believe the end result is a new score out here that
is going to be hard to beat.

We had what appears to be an NA record 573 QSO hour during hour one. 15m was one
of our normal speed demons, N6MJ and N2NL on inband. KL9A stood back and asked
two veteran K3LR men to sit down at 20m with no ND7K station experience... K1AR
and N2NC took that 20m helm. I remember watching our "new" guys fumble
for maybe 5-10 minutes and then they truly showed one of the most professional
showings of teamwork inband that I've seen. I remember saying to Chris,
"these guys are pros" and we enjoyed watching them show how veteran
team guys do their thing.

Joe Rudi, NK7U, took our 80m helm and just killed it with nearly 700 Q's with
the help of K7ZS on the first evening... who does that from AZ? 

K6JO kept rate up as he does. W4IX held his own big time and I always knew I'd
see him in the shack. K7ZO put in big numbers during his second operation here.

The recent microburst had taken out five yagis and downed a tower, blah blah
blah right? With the mindset here it's just a new little hurdle for these guys
to leap over. During the contest we had one power supply failure, a preamp go
down and that was it. Amazing with how hard these boys hit the equipment from as
soon as the gate opened. The field of depth here really showed as each little
setback was quickly handled and ops shifted chairs to let the techie guys handle
the hiccups so that Q rates didn't diminish anymore than needed. 

The online scoreboard was an absolute treat to watch. I made sure to remind the
ops here that we spot our competition that might beat us more than anyone else.
We spot a lot here and it was really nice to hear that our biggest competitors
WX3B and NR6O noticed it. They both have a long and distinguished track record
in WPX SSB and it was awesome to see them on the live scoreboard hitting it
hard!

A special note to Jim, WX3B... it was really cool to exchange a mid contest
email. The basic message was one of encouraging the other team to push hard and
extending a message of great sportsmanship towards one another. I do believe
that the ops on both teams operated hard but also gave space to each other...
and I know both sides spotted one another a lot. We absolutely worked hard on
our end to try and honor WX3B's team's effort by doing as much as possible to
get the points. They kept us pushing without a doubt! It wasn't until the 20m
crew had their amazing EU opening Saturday night that we felt like we might have
a leg up.

The Icom 7610's worked great in a five station, seven transmitter environment.
The new inband verticals will get some remote preamps on 20-10m, but otherwise
hung in there. MOAS is a keeper (thanks K1XM and NN1C for their previous work on
this too) and I'm excited to see how KL9A implements it from the ground up in
Shawmut!

To the ops who came here and to the ops who gave us Q's, every bit is what goes
into this operation. The #1's on 40m friendship net, the six banders, and the
guys who moved for us... it's all very much appreciated!


Operating conditions:

Icom IC7610's
Alpha 87A's

160m 1/4 λ Vertical

80m JK 801T @145', 80M Vertical

40m K3LR 4/4 el OWA @130' & JK 404C @140'

20m 6/6/6 OWA EU stack @130/80/40', M2 20M6 JA stack @130/60', DXE Skyhawk SA
100'

15m 7 W7-Optimized K3LR OWA EU @120', JK 1015 5 el @140', 7/7 OWA JA stack
@120/90', DXE Skyhawk SA 100'

10m 8/8/8/8 W7-Optimized K3LR OWA EU stack @120/90/60/30', 7/7 M2 JA stack, JK
1015 6 el @140', DXE Skyhawk SA 100'

RX Ant EU, JA, Oceana, & East 580' beverages, 10/15/20/40m RX Verticals

Green Heron Everyware switching worked great driving OK2ZAW stack matches, K7NV
prop-pitches, and 80m Tornado tuner. The K6AM Skunkworkz Seekrit black boxes
continue to be a reliable solution when the more basic brains at ND7K are in
need. MOAS RX/TX Solutions now in place.

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

CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB
CALLSIGN: ND7K
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: UNLIMITED
OPERATORS: KJ6JET K1AR N2NC N2NL NK7U K7ZO K6JO N6MJ KL9A W4IX W9KKN KI6RRN K7ZS
N6WIN

-------------- 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      1     56    192    188    136    573    573    5.8
0100       0     13     68    167    115     99    462   1035   10.5
0200       0     15    121    181     80     45    442   1477   15.0
0300       1     31     98    144     65     17    356   1833   18.6
0400       2     61     97     59     33      2    254   2087   21.2
0500      35     68     63     23      0      0    189   2276   23.1
0600      23     47     47     32      0      0    149   2425   24.6
0700      13     30     44     25      0      0    112   2537   25.7
0800      10     32     64     19      0      0    125   2662   27.0
0900      18     45     52     14      0      0    129   2791   28.3
1000      14     55     56      8      0      0    133   2924   29.7
1100      10     39     40     10      0      0     99   3023   30.7
1200       0     10     22     36      6      0     74   3097   31.4
1300       0      1     24     82     82     21    210   3307   33.5
1400       0      0     16     98    107     63    284   3591   36.4
1500       0      0      0     77    108    114    299   3890   39.5
1600       0      0      0     81     96    144    321   4211   42.7
1700       0      0      0     65    101    153    319   4530   46.0
1800       0      0      0     25     83    128    236   4766   48.3
1900       0      0      8     43     85    108    244   5010   50.8
2000       0      0     19     19     74    116    228   5238   53.1
2100       0      0      9     39     75     94    217   5455   55.3
2200       0      0     16     23     60     88    187   5642   57.2
2300       0      0     18     49     85     68    220   5862   59.5
0000       0      0     46     51     74     87    258   6120   62.1
0100       0     13     57     76     66     92    304   6424   65.2
0200       0     29     52     84     52     32    249   6673   67.7
0300       0     38     75     60     32      7    212   6885   69.8
0400      15     32     53     47     10      0    157   7042   71.4
0500       9     30     44     99      0      0    182   7224   73.3
0600       8     30     40     95      2      0    175   7399   75.1
0700       0      9     26    108      0      0    143   7542   76.5
0800       7     15     47     87      0      0    156   7698   78.1
0900       3     11     34     24      0      0     72   7770   78.8
1000       1      5     34      9      0      0     49   7819   79.3
1100       3     18     32     13      0      0     66   7885   80.0
1200       3     13     33     24      1      0     74   7959   80.7
1300       0      3     43     79     63     20    208   8167   82.8
1400       0      0     19     53     84     55    211   8378   85.0
1500       0      0      8     32     64    104    208   8586   87.1
1600       0      0     14     18     58     73    163   8749   88.8
1700       0      0     17     24     69     68    178   8927   90.6
1800       0      0      9     22     86     50    167   9094   92.2
1900       0      0      9     32     59     80    180   9274   94.1
2000       0      0      7     26     58     68    159   9433   95.7
2100       0      1      9     18     49     47    124   9557   96.9
2200       0      0      2     17     60     59    138   9695   98.3
2300       0      0     20     29     49     65    163   9858  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    175    695   1668   2638   2379   2303   9858

Gross QSOs=10169        Dupes=311        Net QSOs=9858

Unique callsigns worked = 6086

The best 60 minute rate was 574/hour from 0004 to 0103
The best 30 minute rate was 600/hour from 0028 to 0057
The best 10 minute rate was 648/hour from 0000 to 0009

The best 1 minute rates were:
15 QSOs/minute    3 times.
14 QSOs/minute    3 times.
13 QSOs/minute    6 times.
12 QSOs/minute   10 times.
11 QSOs/minute   14 times.
10 QSOs/minute   25 times.
 9 QSOs/minute   44 times.
 8 QSOs/minute   61 times.
 7 QSOs/minute  111 times.
 6 QSOs/minute  198 times.
 5 QSOs/minute  293 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  435 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  549 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  524 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  420 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        44
   4      2844
   5      3552
   6      3325
   7        31
   8        38
   9        21
  10         3

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    4102
2 bands     988
3 bands     491
4 bands     277
5 bands     169
6 bands      59

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

NG3R        WW4LL       NW8S        WM7A        VC6X        W8BI        
WR3Z        WX3B        NR6O        AC0W        WC6H        NE1C        
KE8NBC      AC9TO       PJ2T        VE6AO       NH7T        W4KW        
K6AM        W0IO        W2GDJ       NF3R        NC1CC       KS9R        
KF3P        KY7M        KO0A        AA4VT       K0YR        KU1CW       
K5XU        CF3A        KT5J        CN3A        N7ZZ        KA6BIM      
NU5A        K9KJ        KE2D        WS9M        WD6T        KC9LA       
K7SS        KT7E        W1FM        K5RX        KC9ACL      W4GE        
K0RC        NT6Q        V31MA       K9PG        N9OK        K9NW        
NA9US       AJ4F        N4RV        N5RZ        K7HP        

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs     23    128    599   1240    931   1181


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