K3PP

2000 CQWW SSB Contest

K3PP places number 9 in the Single-op Assisted class in the USA!!    FIRST TOP TEN FINISH in a big DX contest!!

Summary

                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2000


 


      Call:      K3PP


      Category:  Single Unlimited


      Power:     High Power


      Band:      All Band


      Mode:      SSB 


      Country:   United States


      Zone:      5


 


      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES


 


      160       14       29     2.07      6      10


       80       50      126     2.52     13      41


       40      141      386     2.74     22      82


       20      434     1229     2.83     36     136


       15      403     1139     2.83     36     129


       10      563     1632     2.90     36     134


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     Totals   1605     4541     2.83    149     532  =>  3,092,421


 


     FINAL*   1593                      149     531  =>  2,988,600


 


     * AFTER LOG CHECKING AND 3.36% UBN SCORE REDUCTION


 


     Club Affiliation: Frankford Radio Club

Contest Comments

This was my first Top Ten finish in a big DX contest!  After a few years of building my station and skills, I’ve finally made the big time!  Woo Hoo!!  While I’d like to believe this was the result of skill, I attribute this milestone more to luck than anything else.  Station improvements also helped, especially the Acom 2000A amplifier that provided a big signal to my antennas.

I came close to pulling off my first full marathon effort, but I succumbed to about two hours of sleep out of the 48 hours.  As I continue to learn a lot of lessons, one lesson that screams results can be summed up in one word, “persistence!”  Stay in the chair as much as humanly possible!  The next opportunity I get, I plan to try the entire 48 hours.  My difficult times come around 5:00 AM local time.  The rate is pretty slow around this time, but falling asleep risks losing some critical European openings.

After the log checking process was completed, I lost a respectable 3.36% of my score from the UBN system.  The final results listed K3PP at #9 out of 209 USA Single-Op Assisted entries.  Wow!  I was excited!

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs!!

Published Top Ten

Contest results published in the August 2001 issue of CQ Magazine:

Single Operator Assisted - USA

 

Call

Score

QSOs

Zone

Cty

1

KI1G

      6,092,863

3008

165

583

2

K3WW

      5,885,100

2743

171

609

3

K2NG

      5,593,346

2580

171

626

4

KS1L

      5,396,475

2956

145

520

5

K2XA

      4,869,282

2427

158

568

6

W1GD/2

      3,899,705

2018

149

536

7

AA3B

      3,772,680

2114

137

496

8

KQ3F

      3,408,330

1996

138

477

9

K3PP

      2,988,600

1593

149

531

10

W4NF

      2,804,262

1781

131

442

K3Performance Plot

A K3PerformancePlot graphically indicates contest performance throughout the event, including score, QSOs, multipliers, rate and frequency.  I developed this format to help me study past contests to improve in future efforts.

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Rate Graph

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Equipment

My equipment for the 2000 CQWW DX Phone Contest:

Transceiver:

Icom IC-775DSP

Amplifier:

Acom 2000A

Computer:

Gateway 486 33 MHz Computer for logging, running CT Version 9.37. It's an old, clunky computer now, but it does the job for logging!

 

 

160m antenna:

Inverted-V at 60 feet

80m antenna:

Dipole at 50 feet

 

Force 12 EF-180BV Vertical with 4 raised radials at 10 feet

40m antenna:

Dipole at 40 feet

 

Ground mounted vertical (thanks K3CT!)

20m antenna:

Force 12 EF-420 4 el monobander at 68 feet

15m antenna:

Force 12 EF-415 4 el monobander at 76 feet

10m antenna:

Force 12 EF-410 4 el monobander at 84 feet

Other antenna:

ButternutHF9V-X Multiband HF/6m vertical

 

 

Automation:

Automated HF antenna switching using Top-Ten Devices band decoder and automatic antenna switch .