Sorry I’m late in getting this posted. If I say that I got distracted, you older folks out there will understand. 🙂 .
Please post your results here by adding comments to this posting. Some of you have already sent emails on the CTRICG Yahoo reflector and I can grab them OK. Thanks. When it looks like I’ve got all the results, I’ll update the Champions Leaderboard spreadsheet and post it here.
73, Ken K3IU
After a few software glitches Friday evening ( that really got me PO’d) I got started on Saturday. I only got 1 good run going during the last 1.5 hrs of the contest on Sunday. But I did manage to hold the Freq for the whole time. I decided to try John’s (W1XX) suggestion of replying to phoney calls when somebody tried to get in on the freq. It worked. I guess the fact that the serial numbers didn’t change didn’t make any difference.
So here are my single op assisted high power results:
Operating time about 15.5 hours.
Band QSOs Pts WPX
7 168 570 99
14 102 197 58
21 124 251 93
28 28 64 17
Total 422 1082 267
Score: 288,894
73
KA1GEU, Chris
Chris,
Good job. I’m curious what software you were using? What kind of problems did you have?
We will get some results from the NG1G effort posted on here in a little while. I’m still catching up on lost sleep. But it was a fun weekend. We improved in some categories, but we didn’t beat the record we established last year. We learned lots that we plan to improve on in preparation for the expedition next year.
73, Mike, K1DM
Good job guys, sounds like there was quite a bit of CTRI activity. Great job by Will on 15 Meters, congrats! I spent about 8 hours on the air getting used to N1MM software. Going to have another try at N1MM next weekend in the ARRL DX CW contest when I should be about 3dB louder because KS1J will not be on to pass out the RI multiplier. Heard NG1G quite a bit this weekend, lookikng forward to seing the score.
Here is my damage:
40M 144 752 83
20M 202 494 111
15M 435 1091 258
10M 74 177 56
Tot 855 2514 508 = 1,277,112
73,
Rick KI1G
I guess I posted this in the wrong spot on the website !
NA1QP (W1CTN) POST ACTION REPORT
Band QSOs Pts WPX
3.5 34 102 16
7 111 376 70
14 170 395 142
21 125 236 87
28 36 88 35
Total 476 1197 350
Score : 418,950
Approx 10 hrs of operation
Jury still out on the vertical array
On Sunday afternoon I did have a Murphy visit.
My rotor jammed on me. I forgot not to “park” it South.
The square footage of a Ham 4 is 15 SF max. With the new 40 meter rotary I’m sure I am at that.
So I have to watch what I do…and I didn’t !!!
There was no way to get to it on Sunday afternoon, so I was ticked off. Then I remember reading somewhere that you can “bypass” the limit switches to un-jam a Tail Twister. I found the article online
so this is what you do.
Tail Twister…Ham 4 not much different and I had nothing to lose.
On the rear terminal strip
Jumper screw 4 to screw 6 for CCW movement
Jumper screw 5 to screw 8 for CW movement
It worked…just thought I would share that and save our Tower Climber (NG1G) from another drive to Radio Ansonia.
73
Dave
W1CTN…aka NA1QP…aka K1C in May
Radio Ansonia
Worked about six hours mostly in non-prime times (late afternoon or evening) so lots of 1 point K/W calls. Had two goals: break 200 Q’s and break 100K score. Heard NG1G and KI1G. Practically all search and pounce.
Rick I guess you are going over to the dark side with N1MM. Did it play better than Writelog? I too have been thinking about making a change or at least getting N1MM in and playing with it before next fall.
My phased 80 meter array has only been tested in the CQWW test last fall. Not sure if it is the big improvement I was hoping for. Thinking about next season already and am pondering about taking some of the aluminum from the C4XL and putting together a triband C3. The boom is too oversized but I think I could work around that.
Won’t be in the ARRL CW contest but will be in the ARRL Phone test in March. I also plan on the Russian Contest in March.
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 29
40: 55
20: 20
15: 122
10: 14
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Total: 240 Prefixes = 178 Total Score = 107,690
Club: CT RI Contest Group
73
Jim KS1J
Gang,
Just a sneak preview from NG1G: 7.64 million, and around 3025 QSO’s. We had more prefixes and Q’s than last year, but we came up short of the 8+ million (probably the 2-pointers vs 6-pointers). It will be interesting to see how it breaks down when we compare this year to last year.
Had lots of fun on Sunday afternoon on 15 meters (I have to count the # of JA’s in the last 2 hours).
We learned a lot of things about ourselves and N1MM Logger through our experience. I am sure it will be a topic of discussion in the coming weeks.
There is another RTTY opportunity in 2 weeks – and it’s a short one and 100-w max. Check out the NAQP RTTY contest. I will be out of town and country for this one, so you all will have to make up for my lack of participation.
See you on the Radio, 73, Mike, K1DM
Here is the score from our M2 effort at W1AN as NG1G. I won’t rehash old news about conditions, etc. There seemed to be an inordinate number of dropped Qs and folks just simply not paying attention. That becomes more understandable as the contest wears on, but I was seeing it almost as soon as I sat down Saturday evening.
We have a ways to go before we are proficient with N1MM but I plan on using it exclusively during the remaining time before the trip to NP3U, in all modes.
I didn’t get to put in anywhere near as much time as I would have liked. The weather report on Friday worried me that I might get stuck in CT and I had somewhere to be Saturday afternoon, so I elected to remain at home until Saturday evening. I got in the chair at around 0130 UTC Sunday and spent the next 9 hours or so CQing on 40M, which was interesting and fairly productive. I then found a spot low in the RTTY subband on 15M at 1100 UTC, because it sounded like the band was coming to life already. Sure enough, I was able to maintain a good rate there until I had to leave at about 1445 UTC.
Since I didn’t spend the entire weekend there perhaps others can fill in some of the gaps in the story.
We had quite a bit of fun, as usual. Thanks again to John and especially Nancy for their wonderful hospitality!
73,
Pat, NG1G
Band QSOs Pts Mlt 3.5 345 1082 100 7 750 2750 268 14 816 1899 234 21 939 2267 270 28 156 394 30 Total 3006 8392 902 Score: 7,569,584Will,
Great score! Sorry about the lost Q on Sunday – I didn’t recognize the call sign (I was a bit drowsy by that point) and just couldn’t decode your report.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Below are the Q rate graphs from 2011 and 2012. I will say that Friday nights conditions weren’t the greatest for copying. And conditions in general except for 10M were down from last year. There was a lot of QSB and repeat requests were often embarrassingly extended. We just couldn’t copy the other stations and what was really annoying was many stations would give you full detail exchanges instead of just the NR which almost always was garbled. So rates dropped. At the end of 24 hours we were about 260 Qs behind last year. Around 0900 each morning the rates were very low. It was sleep time for most of the Single Ops, I guess. Copy was good during the day Sunday as the bands were less noisy and signals easier to print. Near the end we should have gotten back to 40M a couple of hours earlier for the 6 pointers, but 15 was doing well. We almost caught up to last years Qs by contest end. It was nice to have 10M open for a few mults.The graphs tell the story.
John, W1AN
NG1G 2012 WPX RTTY QSO/Band/Continent Percentages 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 265 467 292 299 44 1367 45.4 EU 76 249 481 532 90 1428 47.5 SA 1 19 15 24 17 76 2.5 AF 2 9 7 13 2 33 1.1 OC 0 4 1 5 2 12 0.4 AS 1 4 20 67 1 93 3.1 ****************************************************************** NG1G 2012 WPX RTTY QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 57/44 18/18 --+-- --+-- 75/62 75/62 D1-0100Z 7/4 59/40 21/14 - - 87/58 162/120 D1-0200Z 39/18 51/22 - - - 90/40 252/160 D1-0300Z 42/13 58/24 - - - 100/37 352/197 D1-0400Z 11/5 17/11 - - - 28/16 380/213 D1-0500Z 16/5 32/21 - - - 48/26 428/239 D1-0600Z 18/11 34/17 - - - 52/28 480/267 D1-0700Z 14/5 10/7 - - - 24/12 504/279 D1-0800Z 9/5 22/10 --+-- --+-- --+-- 31/15 535/294 D1-0900Z 6/2 13/6 3/1 - - 22/9 557/303 D1-1000Z 16/4 9/1 - - - 25/5 582/308 D1-1100Z 16/4 5/2 17/11 - - 38/17 620/325 D1-1200Z 2/1 - 19/12 44/30 - 65/43 685/368 D1-1300Z - - 19/7 64/34 - 83/41 768/409 D1-1400Z - - 27/14 57/26 - 84/40 852/449 D1-1500Z - - 45/16 57/19 - 102/35 954/484 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 58/24 19/7 12/6 89/37 1043/521 D1-1700Z - - 49/20 31/11 5/4 85/35 1128/556 D1-1800Z - - 58/17 43/14 7/1 108/32 1236/588 D1-1900Z - - 47/8 20/1 2/1 69/10 1305/598 D1-2000Z - - 47/8 26/9 - 73/17 1378/615 D1-2100Z - - 29/9 16/7 17/8 62/24 1440/639 D1-2200Z - 16/5 3/2 20/13 - 39/20 1479/659 D1-2300Z - 32/6 13/3 12/5 - 57/14 1536/673 D2-0000Z 4/0 40/7 14/1 --+-- --+-- 58/8 1594/681 D2-0100Z - 15/4 16/0 - - 31/4 1625/685 D2-0200Z 7/1 47/8 4/0 - - 58/9 1683/694 D2-0300Z 29/5 42/8 - - - 71/13 1754/707 D2-0400Z 33/6 49/9 - - - 82/15 1836/722 D2-0500Z 17/4 33/3 - - - 50/7 1886/729 D2-0600Z 28/2 34/4 - - - 62/6 1948/735 D2-0700Z 19/5 27/4 - - - 46/9 1994/744 D2-0800Z 11/0 16/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/3 2021/747 D2-0900Z 1/0 5/1 - - - 6/1 2027/748 D2-1000Z - 11/0 - - - 11/0 2038/748 D2-1100Z - - 30/9 23/5 - 53/14 2091/762 D2-1200Z - - 30/6 83/17 - 113/23 2204/785 D2-1300Z - - 30/4 59/8 - 89/12 2293/797 D2-1400Z - - 1/0 54/10 35/4 90/14 2383/811 D2-1500Z - - - 49/8 30/2 79/10 2462/821 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 35/0 46/4 81/4 2543/825 D2-1700Z - - 21/5 38/8 2/0 61/13 2604/838 D2-1800Z - - 58/8 39/6 - 97/14 2701/852 D2-1900Z - - 50/4 32/3 - 82/7 2783/859 D2-2000Z - - 17/2 19/2 - 36/4 2819/863 D2-2100Z - - 29/2 26/7 - 55/9 2874/872 D2-2200Z - - 32/4 49/13 - 81/17 2955/889 D2-2300Z - 18/2 11/5 25/7 - 54/14 3009/903 Total: 345/100 752/269 816/234 940/270 156/30I should probably also mention that it appears as though our M2 operation at W1AN as NG1G *may* have broken the NA WPX record, with 902 WPXs. We hold the “old” record of 894 prefixes, set in 2004 at NP3U with our #1 World score of 14,053,680. That’s a slim margin with our raw numbers.
73,
Pat, NG1G
Had a problem accessing the site, so this report is alittle late. With the overall improvement in propagation, I had hoped to exceed my last years score, but that was not to be. Started operating as SOAB (TW) High Power, but had all kinds of problems with the amp going nuts. Finally located an intermittent coax connector after trying to operate at around 200 watts for most of the contest. Spent about 95% of the time strictly S&P, but was pleased to be able to run on 15 late Sunday, with a nice stream of JA’s.
Band breakdosn:
80 129 Q
40 217 Q
20 113 Q
15 259 Q
10 52 Q
Total Q’s: 770 418 Prefixes for 847,704 in 26 hours of on/off operation.
Using 756 Pro 3 and AL80A amp
(Storm-damaged) 3 el tribander at 45 feet/ Dipoles on 40 and 80 at 40 ft.
Nice to work several of the CTRI group !
73 Norm W1BYH (W1B in May)
The software glitches that I referred to were with N1MM. I’ve always used N1MM, so I have nothing to compare it to. The first problem (and this is the only time it has happened) was the “Database name” line in the N1MM Logger.ini file was pointing to a non-existant folder. This probably happened because I was rearranging my logs last week and probably confused N1MM at some point. But the logger refused to start becauser of this. Un-installing and re-installing N1MM didn’t help. The .ini file needed to be modified.
The second problem, and this has happened before, is that MMTTY seems to forget the sound card that it’s supposed to be looking for. So every once in a while, you can key the transmitter, and it will transmit…it just won’t transmit anything. If it happens on the receive side, it’s pretty easy to figure put because you lose the waterfall. I’m pretty sure this only happens during breaks in operating. I don’t think it’s ever happened while I was actually working.
I use a Flex radio with PowerSDR software and VAC (virtual adio cables). All the routing of audio is done within the computer / software. There isn’t really a sound card involved. So if you’re using a real sound card, you may not have this problem.
Chris