Tuesday, April 24, 2007

scores compared we only need 300 more Q's ....

300 more Q's and corrct copy of the New Foundland call in the log
and we could have been First place in the REGION box !

1KG5VK165,2681,04679MLA7224 8044941899 Shreveport ARA(+KA5M, K5SL, NZ5S, KJ5SZ, KH2DF)

1KA1ARB212,6401,32980MNC7924 42046742913 Potomac Valley Radio Club(+WB1ADR)

KA1ARB was first in our Region we were 4th

Tenth place in overall Top Ten Box for our Category went to............

1NK7U212,0001,32580MOR7517 223298478326 Snake River Contest Club(+KL2A)
this seems wrong because KA1ARB has a score of 212,640 versus NK7U 212,000
that additional 300 Q's would have put us in the mix for the Top Ten overall if we did the correct call on the missed multiplier

We still did very good, another 300 Q's and we will move way up in the standings.

73
steve

LCR -Log Checking Reports- Very informative

Amazing That I have not seen these before,
they have apparently been around for at least 4 years....

Here is some insight from the LCR of our 2006 SS Phone entry.........

There were 21 dupes found.  You might have marked these dupes.
For electronic logs, all dupes (marked or unmarked) are treated
the same with no penalties.


TIME ON CALCULATION
-------------------
2103-0723 = 621
1225-0200 = 816
------
On time = 1437 minutes (max of 1440).

CALLSIGN CHECK RESULTS
----------------------
VY2QT is a busted call.
The correct call is VY2TT.
Not good we busted a call for a needed Multiplier
- we Lost our sweep !

You had 43 calls in your log which were not found in the
database of good callsigns.
27 of them have been judged to be incorrect.
These will be
removed from your score -
along with an additional penalty of one QSO per

per busted callsign.
Unique percentage = 1.4

There were 39 exchange errors found.
These QSOs will be removed from your
score with no penalties.
Example:
QSO #151: Received QSO# 87 should be 27 AE6RF

There were 16 bad cross check QSOs removed.
You had one not-in-log.
There will be a penalty of one QSO for this.

SCORE SUMMARY
-------------
Raw QSOs = 1177
Dupes = 21
Busted QSOs = 82
Penalty QSOs = 28
Time Expired = 0
Final QSOs = 1046
Band Breakdown (160-10): 0 80 449 418 99 0
QSO Points = 2092
Multiplier = 79
--------------------------
Final score = 165268
Error rate = 7.1%
(100 X (Busted QSOs / Duped QSO total))


BUSTS FOUND IN OTHER LOGS
-------------------------
The following information shows contacts you made
that were removed from the other station's log.
These are not deducted from your score.
They are listed for your information only.

Example...
AJ9C: KG5VT is a busted call.
The correct call is KG5VK.
Number busts found in other logs = 39 (0.0%)

We still increased our score and moved up in the
Region box EVEN without a sweep !

We even managed first place in our Division
without the Sweep

so even though we will all be amiss the sweep mug
for 2006 we did dam good !

I will be analyzing line scores of our nearest comp

73
steve
kg5vk

Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Results from 2006 ARRL SS phone.......

As hoped our team moved up one notch in the region box for our category

Last year our goal was just that and to of course make first place in our ARRL Division, we did both...........

In 2005 we just made the region box with 5th place

Here is the Chart from the website ...

Southeast Region
(Delta, Roanoke and Southeastern Divisions)

WP3R

364,800

B

KP2TM

311,200

B

W5WMU

253,280

B

N4OX

246,400

B

NN3W

241,280

B

N4PN

196,320

A

KZ2I

150,080

A

K4EJ

133,440

A

N8II

126,126

A

AE5T

113,600

A

KC5R

100,800

Q

NA4BW

64,834

Q

NX9T

54,604

Q

N0HT (N3JW,op)

35,140

Q

KI3O

30,820

Q

NI1N

264,640

U

W4NF

229,760

U

K2WK

198,720

U

N4LR

172,960

U

N4BAA

161,760

U

KA1ARB

212,640

M

W4MYA

189,120

M

WW4LL

172,640

M

KG5VK

165,268

M

K4TS

161,120

M





and now for even greater news.................................

FIRST PLACE DELTA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Delta

Single Operator High Power Phone

W5WMU

Icom

Single Operator Low Power Phone

AE5T

Icom

Single Operator QRP Phone

KC5R

Icom

Single Operator Unlimited Phone

N4OGW

Icom

Multioperator Phone

KG5VK

Icom

School Club Phone

W5YM

Icom


And look at that AE5T Rick Saffel, got 1st place Delta division in the Low Power category so us local guys did darn good in our Division this year !

Our Team did awesome !

2007 will offer us more reasons to shoot for the overall Top Ten Box
I will have 6 antennas in the arsenal for 75 meters
The newests antenna being a pair of Coaxial Bazzookas at 60 feet Phased with a WX0B stack match box (allowing us to select direction and phasing)
Thanks to everyone for your support I will let you know as soon as the Clean Sweep mugs have arrived !


By the way a measely additional 46,733 points and we would have made the overall Top Ten Box

How many q's is that not sure but my guess is about 500
in a day or two I will know excatly how many more Q's we must have to improve our rankings once again

If anyone wants to join our team simply email me my callsign by way of arrl.net or qrz.com


73
steve

http://www.KG5VK.com

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

AD5ZT, Ray visits my shack


I recently met Ray during a visit to his home and Ham shack
However I failed to take a camera with me on that journey
Ray is a recent Licensee, an avid long time fly fisherman and talented photographer
Ray recently visited here and I grabbed this quick image
during a break from some Tower/Antenna Maintenance that Ray was assiting me with.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

A very Kewel Contest Video

I found this very professional video of the OT5A Club superstation's CQ WPXoperation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LX3dfg0Wg

Their setup in the World War I "Fort of Lier" is amazing!
It is apermanent club location,but it has the feel of Field Day with generators etc.

They have a fullkitchen cooking mealsetc.

ON-Land is very serious about contesting, that is for sure!

Tim K6GEP