Category: Contesting

02/15/10 — Managed to operate 3.5 hours of the Louisiana QSO Party

            Band  Mode  QSOs     Pts  Sec

         3.5  CW       1       4    1

         3.5  LSB      4       8    1

           7  CW       1       4    1

           7  LSB     21      42    5

          14  USB    344     688   59

       Total  Both   371     746   67

  

01/20/10 — 4 hours and 56 minutes of fun in NAQP SSB

NA QSO SSB – 2010-01-16 1800Z to 2010-01-17 0600Z – 407 QSOs

W5WZ Max Rates:  

2010-01-16 1924Z – 5.0 per minute  (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by W5WZ

2010-01-16 1933Z – 3.5 per minute  (10 minute(s)), 210 per hour by W5WZ

2010-01-16 2007Z – 2.1 per minute  (60 minute(s)), 126 per hour by W5WZ

W5WZ Runs >10 QSOs:

2010-01-16 1822 – 1903Z,   21315 kHz, 67 Qs, 96.3/hr W5WZ

2010-01-16 1919 – 1946Z,   14314 kHz, 83 Qs, 182.3/hr W5WZ

2010-01-16 1949 – 2011Z,   14316 kHz, 39 Qs, 103.8/hr W5WZ

2010-01-17 0005 – 0017Z,   14195 kHz, 20 Qs, 104.3/hr W5WZ

2010-01-17 0026 – 0058Z,    7203 kHz, 60 Qs, 110.5/hr W5WZ

2010-01-17 0101 – 0145Z,    7188 kHz, 78 Qs, 106.2/hr W5WZ

Total Time Off 07:04  (424 mins)

Total Time On 04:56  (296 mins)

NAQP SSB Jan 2011 — 

 Total Time On 10:00  (600 mins)

  Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec   NA

    1.8       1       1    1    0

    3.5      95      95   36    0

      7     230     230   43    1

     14     342     342   45    1

     21      62      62   15    0

     28       1       1    1    0

  Total     731     731  141    2

 Score: 104,533

Fun contest as always!  Some really great runs!  (I remembered to  press F1 in N1MM!)  At one point on 40m I saw the ‘Last 10’ rate hit  500.  Average of 73.1 Q per hour for 10 hours.  My recently built  Inv-L for 160m had very high SWR, so it was not usable.  Never heard anything on 10m (was listening at 28.4 first hour or so while running  on 20m).

————– Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ————–

Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct

————————————————————-

1800       0      0      0    141      1      0    142   19.2

1900       0      0      0     73     22      0     95   12.9

2000       0      0      0     28     22      0     50    6.8

2100       0      0      1     19     17      0     37    5.0

2200       0      0      7     69      0      0     76   10.3

2300       0      0     68     11      0      0     79   10.7

0000       0      1     41      0      0      0     42    5.7  

  

0100       0     10     64      1      0      0     75   10.1

0200       1      5     45      0      0      1     52    7.0

0300       0     79      4      0      0      0     83   11.2

0400       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0

0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    0.0

——————————————————

Total      1     95    230    342     62      1    731

  

Gross QSO’s=739        Dupes=8        Net QSO’s=731

Unique callsigns worked = 628

  

The best 60 minute rate was 152/hour from 1808 to 1907

The best 30 minute rate was 178/hour from 1807 to 1836

The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 1813 to 1822

  

The best 1 minute rates were:

 6 QSO’s/minute    1 times.

 5 QSO’s/minute    8 times.

 4 QSO’s/minute   18 times.

 3 QSO’s/minute   62 times.

 2 QSO’s/minute  117 times.

11/28/09 — W5WZ operated SOAB-ASSISTED LOW in CQWWCW.  As I only had a few brief time periods to operatate, my main goal was learning more about N1MM and the bandmaps/multiplier point and shoot while also adding to my DXCC totals.

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN

         3.5       5      8    3    3

           7      76     206   47   19

          14      91     238   37   23

          21      20      57   16   11

          28       8      24    3    3

       Total     200     533  106   59

  

11/23/09 — A four-man team of Louisiana Contest Club members operated Nov SS SSB HP at W5WZ – W5WZ, K5ER, AA5LA and KC5WA.  We had lots of fun!  

              Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec

         3.5      95     190   14

           7     177     354   22

          14     652    1304   14

          21     231     462   30

       Total    1155    2310   80

  

10/24/09 — W5WZ operated SOAB-ASSISTED-HIGH in CQWWSSB

         Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN

         1.8       2      0    1    1

         3.5      18      39   12    8

           7      93     231   48   14

          14     153     361   31   23

          21      64     169   39   12

          28       5      12    4    4

       Total     335     812  135   62

Used N1MM for the first time in NAQP CW.

Attended the Leesville, LA hamfest and as a charter member signed the constitution for the Louisiana Contest Club