K3PP 1999 CQWW DX Phone Contest


                    CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1999
 

      Call: K3PP                     Country:  United States
      Mode: SSB                      Category: Single Unlimited
      Zone: 5

      BAND     QSO   QSO PTS  PTS/QSO   ZONES COUNTRIES
      160       20       41     2.05      9      15
       80       66      167     2.53     14      52
       40      130      354     2.72     26      83
       20      628     1804     2.87     40     135
       15      521     1500     2.88     37     127
       10      437     1251     2.86     35     141
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     Totals   1802     5117     2.84    161     553  =>  3,653,538

              1777     4877     2.74    160     546  =>  3,443,162 Published
 

All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted.

Club Affiliation: Frankford Radio Club


Comments
This contest was my first full-blown Single-Op contest effort with High Power.  What a rush it is to hold a run frequency for a long time and to blast through the pileups with relative ease!  I came close to putting in the full 48 hours.  Now I wish I'd done the WHOLE 48 hours, instead of taking the short nap each night!  That, and a better showing on 10m, would likely have put me into the Top Ten US SOA.  My Icom exciter has this terrible spike problem that caused all sorts of havoc on 10m.  I've since found a way to better control the spikes, but that's another story for another forum!

I entered my 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 my next CQWW contest. Click on the image for a larger version.

The final scores were published in the September issue of CQ.  After all the UBNs, I came in #15 SOA in the US. I'm definitely shooting for a Top Ten spot in 2000!

Take a look at my rates for the 48 hours of the contest.

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs!


My equipment for the 1999 CQWW DX Phone Contest:

 Transceiver 1:    IcomIC-775DSP    for most of my QSOs
 Amplifier:        Acom 2000A

 Gateway 2000 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

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


Last Updated on 08-Sep-2000
By Glenn D. O'Donnell, K3PP
Email: [email protected]