LA8W – LN8W

Operator: LB1GB Bjorn

Comments:

Had great fun, well most of the time. Second day was slow like hell, but thats how it is with CQ 160.

Breakdowns:

QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band

 Hour      160    Total     Cumm    OffTime

D1-0000Z  81/31   81/31     81/31 

D1-0100Z  68/12   68/12    149/43 

D1-0200Z  58/6    58/6     207/49 

D1-0300Z  29/3    29/3     236/52 

D1-0400Z  48/5    48/5     284/57 

D1-0500Z  24/7    24/7     308/64 

D1-0600Z  60/7    60/7     368/71 

D1-0700Z  40/9    40/9     408/80     21

D1-0800Z  --+--    0/0     408/80     60

D1-0900Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1000Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1100Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1200Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1300Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1400Z    -      0/0     408/80     60

D1-1500Z  50/0    50/0     458/80     24

D1-1600Z  58/0    58/0     516/80 

D1-1700Z  58/1    58/1     574/81 

D1-1800Z  70/1    70/1     644/82 

D1-1900Z  57/2    57/2     701/84 

D1-2000Z  67/1    67/1     768/85 

D1-2100Z  56/1    56/1     824/86 

D1-2200Z  19/1    19/1     843/87 

D1-2300Z   9/2     9/2     852/89     34

D2-0000Z  44/2    44/2     896/91 

D2-0100Z  30/1    30/1     926/92 

D2-0200Z  24/2    24/2     950/94 

D2-0300Z   1/0     1/0     951/94     10

D2-0400Z  12/0    12/0     963/94     60

D2-0500Z  28/0    28/0     991/94 

D2-0600Z  23/2    23/2    1014/96 

D2-0700Z   4/1     4/1    1018/97     37

D2-0800Z  --+--    0/0    1018/97     60

D2-0900Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1000Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1100Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1200Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1300Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1400Z    -      0/0    1018/97     60

D2-1500Z  27/0    27/0    1045/97     21

D2-1600Z  26/0    26/0    1071/97 

D2-1700Z  18/0    18/0    1089/97 

D2-1800Z  27/0    27/0    1116/97 

D2-1900Z  27/0    27/0    1143/97 

D2-2000Z  37/0    37/0    1180/97 

D2-2100Z  13/2    13/2    1193/99 

D2-2200Z  27/0    27/0    1220/99 

D2-2300Z  23/0    23/0    1243/99 

Total:  1243/99  

           160   Total      %

    NA      69      69     5.6
    EU    1120    1120    90.1
    AS      46      46     3.7
    AF       5       5     0.4
    SA       2       2     0.2
    OC       1       1     0.1

           160   Total

    3V       1       1
    4J       1       1
    4X       3       3
    5B       2       2
    7X       1       1
    9A      16      16
    9H       1       1
    9K       1       1
    CT       2       2
   CT3       1       1
    CU       1       1
    DL     256     256
    EA      10      10
   EA6       1       1
   EA8       2       2
    EI       6       6
    ER       1       1
    ES       6       6
    EU       6       6
     F      18      18
     G      60      60
    GD       1       1
    GI       2       2
    GJ       1       1
    GM       6       6
    GU       2       2
    GW       3       3
    HA      27      27
    HB      12      12
   HB0       1       1
     I      33      33
   IT9       1       1
    JA      11      11
    JT       1       1
     K      58      58
   KP4       1       1
    LA      16      16
    LX       2       2
    LY      28      28
    LZ       3       3
    OE      11      11
    OH      22      22
   OH0       2       2
    OK     128     128
    OM      30      30
    ON      15      15
    OY       1       1
    OZ       7       7
    PA      31      31
   PJ2       1       1
    PY       1       1
    S5      33      33
    SM      25      25
    SP      50      50
    SV       3       3
   SV9       1       1
    T9       4       4
    TF       2       2
    UA     116     116
   UA2       4       4
   UA9      24      24
    UN       2       2
    UR      73      73
    VE      10      10
    YB       1       1
    YL       9       9
    YO       8       8
    YU      22      22
    Z3       1       1
   ZC4       1       1

LN8W SOAB CQ WPX CW 2006
11. March 2007 - 3:17 — LB1GB

Call: LN8W
Operator(s): LA7MFA
Station: LN8W

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Rakkestad
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:  114
   80:  438
   40:  662
   20: 1081
   15:  543
   10:    9
------------
Total: 2847  Prefixes = 821  Total Score = 5,523,688
Final: 2801  Prefixes = 815  Total Score = 5,370,850
Club: Lima Alfa Contest Club

Comments:

This was my first SOAB in WPX for a long time. The objectives were to beat
the norwegian record from 2004 as well as to beat Andreas LA8AJA operating
from LN3Z.

I think I managed both with large margin. But still I think I could do better.
Maybe it was smarter to operate 20m instead of 15m. I had hard time operating
15m, but I kept calling CQ there for hours. It looks like I have missed some
hundreds QSOs on both 20m and 40m. I think I could made over 3000 QSOs if I
focused more on these bands. Yet, it was great fun to be part of the contest.

73 de Lech, LA7MFA
LN8W SOAB WAEDC CW 2006


Call: LN8W
Station: LA8W
Operator: LA7MFA



Band
QSO's 
QTC's
Mults 
Score 


80
86
 
72
 


40
251
 
114
 


20
419
 
102
 


15
140
 
58
 


10
0
 
0
 


Claimed
896
1370
346
784,036




Comments:

It looks like I have managed to beat my own Norwegian record from 2002, but with very low margin. I have received too few QTCs this time, and my multiplier is far too low, even though I have operated two radios. I need to focus more on finding multipliers next time.

The conditions to USA the second day were great but it was still very hard to work 15 meters most of the time. And 10m was dead as usual.

It looks like I had too low emphasis on low bands compared to others, I and missed too many multipliers there. And yes, 80m is very hard too work from here this time of the year.

I need to plan better for the low bands and select pauses at the right times. I lost a lot on 15m towards East, and on the low bands in the evening. Next time I will focus more on multipliers and not on the number of QSOs and QTCs.

But surely high speed QSOs and QTCs is what makes this contest so cool!

de Lech LA7MFA

 

LA8W SOABHP CW EU HF Champ 2006


Call: LA8W
Operator: LB8IB
#10 SOABHP CW



Band
QSO's 
Mults 
Score 


160
96
37
 


80
120
43
 


40
169
50
 


20
366
65
 


15
236
57
 


10
90
41
 


Claimed
1077
293
315,561






 

Operator: LA7MFA

Comments:

It was great fun to operate SAC CW from our club station again.

This year conds were great but I suspect there were far too many mults from the East compared to the last year. Our strongest side is to the West.

Since I focused too much on QSO numbers last year, I had to try to keep focus on the mults this year. As a result I lost at least 200 QSOs and got frustrated trying to QSY folks on 10m and 15m.

Tried very hard on 15m the first day, which put me far behind the best in the QSO numbers. So I tried hard to catch up and stayed too long on 20m. This made me one hour late on 40m and far more worse one hour late on 80m. I guess most of “just called to say hello” contesters went to bed when I showed up on 80m.

Anyway it is not possible to beat the Finns without fully automated mult station which does not prevent you from continue running the pileup on the run station at full speed. Not too mention the antennas and propagation. The trick is to move every single “just called to say hello” station from a rare country (which may even be EI, ER, ON) to every single band the first time you meet him. It would be so much easier if the other side also was interested in QSYing you for the mult. This is “one-way” contest.

I guess I will focus on the QSO numbers next year. It is so much more fun to work the great SAC pileups. Running the pileup at the high speed is what makes me interested in contesting after all.

Thanks again to all those who showed up in the contest to make this so enjoyable for us Scandinavians. See you next year!

Best 73 de Lech, LA7MFA

LB8IB SOAB CQ WW SSB 2006