K3II 1998 CQ WW DX Phone Contest

CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1997

Call: K3II Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi-Multi

QSOs Zones Countries
1879 138 509

TOTAL OFFICIAL SCORE: 3,103,659 points

Operators: K3II, K3CT and K3PP

Comments
For the past few years, I have gone to Jim Berger, K3II's place to operate the CQWW Phone contest. Jim is a terrific guy with a killer station.

The official results were published in the September 1998 issue of CQ Magazine. The official results showed that one lousy QSO would have moved us up another notch in the standings, over K3ANS.

I entered Jim's log into an Excel spreadsheet, ran some calculations and produced an interesting graph of my progress over the contest period. This kind of data will be a useful study for our next CQWW contest. Click on the image for a larger version.

The graph shows the growth in QSOs, Mults, and Score over time. It also shows the rate for the past 10 QSOs at each point and the bands we were on at the time.

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs!

K3II's equipment for the 1998 CQWW DX Phone Contest:

Transceiver 1: Icom IC-775DSP on 10m/20m/80m/160m
Amplifier 1: Alpha 87A (full 1500W PEP)

Transceiver 2: Icom IC-775DSP on 15m and 40m
Amplifier 2: Ameritron AL-1200 (full 1500W PEP)

CT Version 9.27 on two networked 486 computers

160m antenna:    N4KG Reverse Fed Vertical
   80m antenna:    Delta Loop
   40m antenna:    Mosely 2 element monobander at 60 feet
   20m antenna:    4 el monobander at 100 feet
                   4 el monobander at 50 feet
   15m antenna:    5 el monobander at 112 feet
                   4 el monobander at 60 feet
   10m antenna:    4 el monobander at 50 feet

Automated HF antenna switching using Top-Ten Devices band decoder
and automatic antenna switch on transceiver 1

Last Updated on 11-Sep-98
By Glenn D. O'Donnell, K3PP
Email: [email protected]