Tag: Score

North American QSO Party, SSB – January

Call: W5WZ
Operator(s): W5WZ WM5H
Station: W5WZ

Class: M/2 LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
——————-
160: 46 28
80: 461 46
40: 612 56
20: 602 50
15: 39 11
10: 0 0
——————-
Total: 1760 191 Total Score = 336,160

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: W5WZ
Operator(s): WM5H K5ER W5WZ
Station: W5WZ

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 37:20

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
——————-
160: 11 10
80: 100 51
40: 237 72
20: 732 98
15: 252 70
10: 69 20
——————-
Total: 1401 321 Total Score = 1,302,939

Sweeps CW was so much fun, I decided to play CW for a bit this weekend too.  Heard KA5M work a CQing station right ahead of me on Saturday, don’t know if Marsh heard me.

CQ WW CW Single Op Assisted High Power

 Band     QSOs     Pts  ZN   Cty  Pt/Q
   1.8       6      14    4    6   2.3
   3.5      57     150   13   30   2.6
     7     178     505   21   63   2.8
    14     306     811   27   95   2.7
    21     137     377   22   66   2.8
    28      21      63    5    7   3.0
 Total     705    1920   92  267   2.7

Score: 689,280

SH5 analysis

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: W5WZ
Operator(s): W5WZ KN5O K5ER WM5H WA5VQP
Station: W5WZ

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 23:58

Summary:
Band  QSOs
————
 160:    0
  80:  269
  40:  839
  20:  655
  15:  104
  10:    0
————
Total: 1867  Sections = 83  Total Score = 309,922

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:

This year the LCC members opted to go to W5WZ’s QTH for our annual SS SSB Contest get together.  Previously we have run as W5RU(@KN5O).

This time of year, WX can be an issue for us.  Fortunately a cold front passed though our area just prior to the start of the contest, so we had excellent WX conditions (no thunderstorms to deal with).  Additionally, we didn’t have any computer and/or antenna radio equipment problems, so it was “all good.”  

We started off on 20m and 15m and noticed that our 20m performance dropped off earlier than usual, forcing us to move to 40m and 80m sooner than we have in the past.  However we were able to put 82 sections in the log after about 6 hours of operation, missing only NL.  By 1AM (when we usually take our first break), we had nearly 1100 Qs in the log – good but not as good as we have had
in the past.  

On Sunday, the rate was substantially down from years past.  We did the best we could in trying to run, but it was somewhat disappointing.  Conditions are obviously deteriorating.  All that being said, we were able to work VO1KVT for our last mult early Sunday morning.  He had a pretty good pileup and managed it well.  After putting him in the log, we just had to settle down and run as best we could.

All-in-all, we had a good time and are satisfied with our performance.  We had lots of food and snacks and a good time was had by all.  Many thanks to Scott (W5WZ) and his wife Sharon (KW5MOM) for allowing us to invade their home. 

We want to thank everyone for the Qs and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

And, on a very positive note, we noticed large numbers of Checks in the past 2 year.  The new hams ARE getting on the air!

For W5WZ and the LCC members- 

Ted KN5O, Mark K5ER, Bobby WM5H, Shawn WA5VQP and Scott, W5WZ

In early June, NN1N contact me and K5ER to offer the opportunity to organize a distributed multi-multi as NU1AW/5 for the IARU contest.  Of course we said YES!

Here is the summary!

IARU HF World Championship
Call: NU1AW/5
Operator(s): WM5H W5WZ W5LA K5ER KV8S KA5M KG5VK KN5O NO5W K2FF K5YG W5XU N5HZ KG5HVO
Station: NU1AW/5
Class: Headquarters HP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
————————————-
  160:    63           0       7          3
   80:   326          2     15        14
   40:   741     530    26       47
   20:  1101   1079    40       54
   15:   436     393    22         18
   10:      61        82       4             2
————————————-
Total:  2728   2086   114      138  Total Score = 3,652,488

Grand Total Qs: 4814

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:
Our first time ever distributed multi-multi operation.  We used an online scheduling tool to manages the host station band/mode time slots.  View the schedule here:  http://w5wz.com/nu1aw/

Three host stations with 14 operators

Ops at W5WZ: WM5H W5WZ W5LA K5ER KV8S
3 transmitters

Ops at KA5M: KA5M KG5VK
1 transmitter

Ops at KN5O: KN5O NO5W K2FF K5YG W5XU N5HZ KG5HVO
2 transmitters

Here’s an animation of the 24-hour contest log in just 4.5 minutes!

You can also find a complete summary of our results, compiled by SH5, stored permanently on my website at: http://w5wz.com/sh5/w5wz/2017/2017_iaru-hf_nu1aw_5/   Feel free to share this link freely or use the data as you see fit, provided you give credit to SH5 and W5WZ.com for hosting those results.

Call: W5WZ
Operator(s): W5WZ
Station: W5WZ

Class: SO Mixed HP
QTH: OUAC
Operating Time (hrs): 12:00
Location: In State/Province
Radios: SO2R

Summary:   Compare Scores
Band	CW-Dig Qs	Ph Qs	CW-Dig Mults	Ph Mults
160:	0	0	0	0
80:	24	0	15	0
40:	42	29	27	15
20:	49	500	30	68
15:	2	1	2	1
10:	0	0	0	0
6:	0	0	0	0
2:	0	0	0	0
Total:	117	530	74	84	Total Score	240,576

 

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments:     [email]     2017-03-30 17:36:49

12 hour effort. Participation was disappointing. Many of the QSOs were with DX in the Russian DX contest. I configured my function keys to send the serial # in CW mode, and in voice mode I just told them the qso number, even though I was not capturing serial numbers in my log. –73, Scott W5WZ

2010 Nov Sweeps SSB  — Single-Op All Band NON-ASSISTED High Power (7 hrs 37 minutes)

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec

         3.5      67     134    8

           7     194     388   12

          14     386     772   55

          21       2      4    0

       Total     649    1298   75

            Score : 97,350

I had other commitments, so it was a part-time effort.  However, I had a lot of fun!  I had 42 sections by the end of the first hour.