Here’s my score, such as it is. Happy to report the station performed perfectly. Wish I could say the same about the operator.
After a busy week, I neglected to do my usual planning/strategy work, and instead flew through this contest by the seat of my pants. That left me feeling somewhat scattered going in and I think it shows in my score. This is my lowest total in IARU in many years – maybe ever.
Notable is my low HQ mult total. I focused on running and less S&P thinking my assisted effort would quickly produce mults with a mouse click – big mistake #1. Most received spots were worthless and the majority of mults were found S&P on the second radio, or called in during runs. Not sure why I bothered to go assisted this year.
Like most every contest in 2019 so far, everyone else in the world seems to enjoy more robust openings on 10m and 15m. 15m was open much of the day, but signals were weak, and attempts to run were generally unproductive. I worked EU, but arrived late to the opening (refer to my opening paragraph). Heard a few weak JAs floating around the band working other stations, but regrettably missed them. Never checked for that possible late night opening to Asia. Big mistake #2.
Periods on 20m and 40m SSB stateside were incredibly productive with hourly rates above 180. It took all of my brain power to process the pile-up, so no second radio Qs during those runs.
Big thanks to ground wave VE7UF and K7HBN for two new zones on 10m. Cool to get KL0R in the log from zone 1. VE7UF and KL0R were five banders; we only missed 160m. Happen to catch NU1AW CQing all alone at 23:00z. They are my only six bander. Tried CQing myself at that time, but no takers.
If you got this far in my write-up, thanks for reading, and for letting me vent. This is almost over, I promise.
One last point to make is on that awful low band QRN. Was it unusually bad or what? Had to give up on a few ops that popped above the noise for a moment with part of a callsign, but never surmounted the raging roar. If that was you, I apologize. Heard others calling that never made it above the roar to get a call. Again, apologies. Hopefully we’ll get it next time.
All-in-all a fun contest. Nice to work the regulars and new ops too. Thanks for the Qs. 73, Mitch, K7RL
Here are a few more stats:
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: K7RL
CONTEST: IARU-HF
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: K7RL
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
1200 0 19 101 0 0 0 120 120 5.6
1300 0 0 88 12 0 0 100 220 10.3
1400 0 0 19 84 0 0 103 323 15.1
1500 0 0 1 102 2 0 105 428 20.1
1600 0 0 0 140 8 0 148 576 27.0
1700 0 0 0 92 16 1 109 685 32.1
1800 0 0 0 74 4 4 82 767 36.0
1900 0 0 0 63 15 0 78 845 39.6
2000 0 0 0 52 14 1 67 912 42.8
2100 0 0 0 62 1 0 63 975 45.7
2200 0 0 0 54 0 1 55 1030 48.3
2300 0 0 0 60 4 0 64 1094 51.3
0000 0 0 0 167 0 0 167 1261 59.1
0100 0 0 8 139 0 0 147 1408 66.0
0200 0 0 111 12 0 0 123 1531 71.8
0300 0 0 35 45 0 0 80 1611 75.5
0400 0 6 29 34 0 0 69 1680 78.8
0500 3 43 22 14 0 0 82 1762 82.6
0600 8 17 37 2 0 0 64 1826 85.6
0700 0 17 45 29 0 0 91 1917 89.9
0800 5 34 17 0 0 0 56 1973 92.5
0900 2 9 47 0 0 0 58 2031 95.2
1000 0 43 10 0 0 0 53 2084 97.7
1100 0 24 25 0 0 0 49 2133 100.0
Total 18 212 595 1237 64 7 2133
Gross QSOs=2151 Dupes=18 Net QSOs=2133
Unique callsigns worked = 1654
The best 60 minute rate was 180/hour from 0031 to 0130
The best 30 minute rate was 188/hour from 0101 to 0130
The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 1547 to 1556
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 1 times.
5 QSOs/minute 13 times.
4 QSOs/minute 63 times.
3 QSOs/minute 185 times.
2 QSOs/minute 392 times.
1 QSOs/minute 471 times.
There were 320 bandchanges and 127 (6.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
3 4
4 757
5 748
6 597
7 4
8 15
9 6
10 2
------------ 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
08 2 59 145 543 24 0 773 36.2
07 2 29 76 199 1 0 307 14.4
06 7 37 83 135 10 3 275 12.9
45 0 39 150 53 0 0 242 11.3
29 0 0 1 69 0 0 70 3.3
28 0 0 3 60 2 0 65 3.0
04 2 7 10 29 4 0 52 2.4
02 2 6 7 9 2 1 27 1.3
61 1 4 6 8 4 1 24 1.1
59 0 3 18 3 0 0 24 1.1
11 0 3 4 12 1 0 20 0.9
03 0 1 4 12 1 0 18 0.8
01 0 2 6 5 1 1 15 0.7
15 0 2 6 4 2 0 14 0.7
54 0 1 10 1 0 0 12 0.6
44 0 1 9 1 0 0 11 0.5
27 0 0 3 8 0 0 11 0.5
60 0 3 2 3 1 0 9 0.4
30 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 0.4
IARU 1 2 1 2 2 1 9 0.4
55 0 3 5 0 0 0 8 0.4
18 0 0 0 5 1 0 6 0.3
09 0 0 2 3 1 0 6 0.3
36 0 0 2 2 2 0 6 0.3
34 0 2 2 1 0 0 5 0.2
ARRL 1 1 1 2 0 0 5 0.2
50 0 1 3 1 0 0 5 0.2
ARI 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.2
12 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 0.2
14 0 1 3 1 0 0 5 0.2
R3 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.2
R2 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.2
39 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.2
REF 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2
58 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1
JARL 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1
64 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
ZRS 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
AC 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.1
HRS 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
VRONA 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1
RCA 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1
43 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
31 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
USKA 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
CRAC 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
CRC 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
PZK 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
OVSV 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
46 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
URE 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
RCCH 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
FRC 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
CARS 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
RSGB 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1
NZART 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
49 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
SRR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
ROARS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
32 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
53 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
LRMD 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
RSM 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
SRS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
FRR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
37 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
EDR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
BFRA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
33 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
RSB 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
VERON 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
13 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
RCU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
LRAL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
57 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
DARC 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
65 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
16 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
23 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
Total 18 212 595 1237 64 7 2133
Multi-band QSOs
1 bands 1361
2 bands 210
3 bands 67
4 bands 12
5 bands 3
6 bands 1
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
NU1AW
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
QSOs 5 63 334 933 26 0
