This photo was taken by Heidi about an hour before the end of the contest... Gosh the boys are still smiling... (amount of sleep for me was: one hour the first night and three hours the second). Heidi and I had to leave mid morning on Monday to get to Sydney for Heidi's appointment on Tuesday morning.
48 hrs contest + 12 hrs driving = hard work
Steve sent me the results by email this morning:
CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: VK3TDX
Operator(s): VK3TDX VK2PN
Station: VK3TDX
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Rural Melbourne
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 8
40: 169
20: 1033
15: 694
10: 361
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Total: 2265 Prefixes = 888 Total Score = 6,344,760
Club: VK Contest Club
Comments:
Patrick VK2PN and myself operated 46 hrs multi-2. Propagation was up and down
but did provide enough openings for some fun and we were able to improve from
our score last year.
Ten meters was less than we had hoped for but 15 and 20 were superb with some satisfying runs.
Thank you to all who worked us. We hope everyone enjoyed this fine event.
See you next year.
Steve VK3TDX
Patrick VK2PN
Call: VK3TDX
Operator(s): VK3TDX VK2PN
Station: VK3TDX
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Rural Melbourne
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 8
40: 169
20: 1033
15: 694
10: 361
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Total: 2265 Prefixes = 888 Total Score = 6,344,760
Club: VK Contest Club
Comments:
Patrick VK2PN and myself operated 46 hrs multi-2. Propagation was up and down
but did provide enough openings for some fun and we were able to improve from
our score last year.
Ten meters was less than we had hoped for but 15 and 20 were superb with some satisfying runs.
Thank you to all who worked us. We hope everyone enjoyed this fine event.
See you next year.
Steve VK3TDX
Patrick VK2PN
Steve put the results through software to see the trend:
The above chart may tell us quite few facts:
- The band conditions
- The operator numbers and keenness (world wide)
- Steve's and mine tiredness
- The amount of lids around
This is a good indicator of the bands:
WPX CW - 2014-05-24 0000Z to 2014-05-26 0000Z - 2296 QSOs
VK3TDX Runs >10 QSOs:
2014-05-24 0016 - 0023Z, 21005 kHz, 16 Qs, 136.5/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 0104 - 0117Z, 21003 kHz, 14 Qs, 66.9/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 0200 - 0214Z, 21003 kHz, 24 Qs, 105.0/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 0450 - 0456Z, 21038 kHz, 11 Qs, 112.2/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 0601 - 0609Z, 21038 kHz, 11 Qs, 86.8/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 0705 - 0717Z, 28010 kHz, 18 Qs, 91.3/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 1007 - 1025Z, 14009 kHz, 24 Qs, 76.3/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 1112 - 1154Z, 14009 kHz, 46 Qs, 66.2/hr VK2PN
2014-05-24 1233 - 1258Z, 21015 kHz, 14 Qs, 34.5/hr VK2PN
2014-05-24 1434 - 1631Z, 14014 kHz, 134 Qs, 68.6/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 1645 - 1719Z, 14046 kHz, 53 Qs, 95.1/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 1804 - 1827Z, 14013 kHz, 17 Qs, 45.4/hr VK2PN
2014-05-24 1834 - 1855Z, 14011 kHz, 24 Qs, 69.8/hr VK2PN
2014-05-24 1904 - 1947Z, 14024 kHz, 40 Qs, 56.3/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-24 2224 - 2237Z, 14004 kHz, 11 Qs, 50.3/hr VK2PN
2014-05-25 0038 - 0124Z, 28021 kHz, 55 Qs, 71.8/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-25 0213 - 0351Z, 21029 kHz, 111 Qs, 68.2/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-25 0653 - 0739Z, 28028 kHz, 46 Qs, 59.7/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-25 0847 - 0901Z, 21025 kHz, 14 Qs, 61.9/hr VK2PN
2014-05-25 1009 - 1033Z, 7024 kHz, 23 Qs, 57.3/hr VK2PN
2014-05-25 1226 - 1250Z, 14019 kHz, 24 Qs, 60.8/hr VK2PN
2014-05-25 1357 - 1755Z, 14028 kHz, 281 Qs, 70.9/hr VK3TDX
2014-05-25 1817 - 1904Z, 14022 kHz, 37 Qs, 47.4/hr VK2PN
2014-05-25 1908 - 2018Z, 14024 kHz, 57 Qs, 48.5/hr VK2PN
Please take note of the line highlighted in red: That was Steve's "dream run". That put us ahead the last year's figures. Lines below that are me "just mopping the band" collecting multipliers in the S&P mode.
I thought that Steve did most of the work, however the stats tell me that I've earned my red wine too:
But Steve made great coffee while I was hammering the keys.
As time allows I'll include some more "thoughts and observations" to this blog and/or make an other blog.
I must make special blog about Steve's antenna farm... lotsa beauties there.
The most noted is the rhombic, but that is worth an article of its own... BTW... go to Steve's QRZ.com to check it out.
73 for now
P
It is Wednesday morning (a day later after I've published this blog) and Steve sent me email which I'd like (with his permission) to quote here:
Patrick
Info from San Diego below, my old DX and contest club. This team of TEN ops set an all-time W6 record of 9.6 million pts. Us TWO ops with 6 million down here at the end of the earth is mighty satisfactory I'd say! Imagine if we had ten ops and had a QTH with all the US stations "local" and EU and JA pointing on us all weekend? Note that the existing record for W6 was 6+million points which was achieved at a "super station" W6YI! That's what we did!!!!
I think we did very well. I'll check but we may have an all-time VK record for Multi-2??
