ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station

02 octubre 2006


Heating the engines for the next CQWW SSB 2006. We've spent this weekend installing the 4 elements yagi for 20m and the 2 elements for 40m.

Our first approach was to take advantage of the 20m antena location to install in the same boom the elements for 40m (40/20 interlaced) but finally the 40m didn't work properly and we decided to move to another mast.

In the pictures EA3IN, EA3AJW (spiderman), and me installing the antennas using a crane.


Also we've been redesign the antena layout to separate the mult station from run station. Now the run station will have all the monobands and the mult station will use the KT-34A , the 40m dipol and the inverted V's.

We've 4 weeks ahead with rains, winds and another meteo challenges but our goal it's to be ready for the contest as Multi-Single with EA3AJW, EA3IN, EA3QP and EA5DFV .

Another pictures from this activity can be viewed at here

posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 9:03 PM | 0 comments

04 septiembre 2006


ARRL 2005

Entry:M/S-HP

Operators: EA3IN, EA3QP

Operating Time (hrs): 26

Score Claimed:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
160:   48    15
80:   146    30
40:   304    46
20:  1074    58
15:   536    50
10:     0     0
-------------------
Total: 2108   199  Total Score = 1,258,476
FINAL SCORE: 1.224.477 (2051Q, 199M) 6th Europe 
Solar Conditions 
Hardware

TX/RX:
  • IC-775DSP x 2
  • ACOM 2000A x 2
Ant:
  • 10 m: N/A,
  • 15 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 20m: 2-el Quad (Ligtning bold),
  • 40m: Dipol + Half Square
  • 80m: Inverted - V
  • 160m: Inverted - V
  • Other: KLM KT-34

Contest Stuff:

SixPak

Comments:

Thanks everybody for their calls, we've fun in this un-tipical M/S two people
effort, all the antenna system worked properly but the propagation condition was
terrible especially in 10m (another station with 0 QSO in 10m) and 15m on Sunday
afternoon (5 QSO's) so 20m Sunday afternoon was the most crowded band never
heard (similar to 15m during Saturday aternoon in CQWW) with station every 0.1
khz.
Good runs in 15m on Saturday and in 20m after sunset on Sunday, also surprised
with the propagation conditions in 160m.


Detailed:
Contest: ARRL-DX-SSB
Callsign: ED3SSB
Category: MULTI-ONE ALL HIGH
Operators: EA3QP, EA3IN

-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 1 28 0 0 0 29 1.4
0100 0 3 1 0 0 0 4 0.2
0200 0 37 8 0 0 0 45 2.1
0300 0 0 55 0 0 0 55 2.6
0400 2 39 34 0 0 0 75 3.6
0500 1 0 59 0 0 0 60 2.8
0600 0 7 7 0 0 0 14 0.7
0700 0 3 18 0 0 0 21 1.0
0800 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1000 0 0 0 28 0 0 28 1.3
1100 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 0.7
1200 0 0 0 96 13 0 109 5.2
1300 0 0 0 2 78 0 80 3.8
1400 0 0 0 1 140 0 141 6.7
1500 0 0 0 0 121 0 121 5.7
1600 0 0 0 2 156 0 158 7.5
1700 0 0 0 73 23 0 96 4.5
1800 0 0 0 138 0 0 138 6.5
1900 0 0 0 131 0 0 131 6.2
2000 0 0 0 137 0 0 137 6.5
2100 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0.3
2200 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0000 0 0 32 0 0 0 32 1.5
0100 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0.2
0200 8 10 0 0 0 0 18 0.9
0300 1 26 23 0 0 0 50 2.4
0400 0 13 16 0 0 0 29 1.4
0500 36 0 3 0 0 0 39 1.8
0600 0 7 8 0 0 0 15 0.7
0700 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0.2
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
1200 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 0.6
1300 0 0 0 39 0 0 39 1.8
1400 0 0 0 32 0 0 32 1.5
1500 0 0 0 44 3 0 47 2.2
1600 0 0 0 77 2 0 79 3.7
1700 0 0 0 44 0 0 44 2.1
1800 0 0 0 60 0 0 60 2.8
1900 0 0 0 117 0 0 117 5.5
2000 0 0 0 18 0 0 18 0.9
2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total 48 146 304 1074 536 0 2108

Gross QSO's=2112 Dupes=4 Net QSO's=2108

Unique callsigns worked = 1472

The best 60 minute rate was 161/hour from 1927 to 2026
The best 30 minute rate was 188/hour from 1956 to 2025
The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 2005 to 2014

The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSO's/minute 21 times.
4 QSO's/minute 65 times.
3 QSO's/minute 136 times.
2 QSO's/minute 231 times.
1 QSO's/minute 233 times.

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
4 1034
5 762
6 304
7 4
8 1
9 3

------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
NY 6 10 29 92 50 0 187 8.9
PA 8 20 32 79 33 0 172 8.1
MA 6 11 18 52 33 0 120 5.7
NJ 6 11 17 57 25 0 116 5.5
FL 0 4 21 50 16 0 91 4.3
VA 1 9 16 40 25 0 91 4.3
OH 3 4 10 44 23 0 84 4.0
MI 0 5 10 39 23 0 77 3.6
MD 2 8 9 31 25 0 75 3.6
ON 2 6 7 33 23 0 71 3.4
IL 0 0 9 37 23 0 69 3.3
NC 1 5 10 34 17 0 67 3.2
TX 0 4 12 27 24 0 67 3.2
CT 3 9 6 30 13 0 61 2.9
NH 5 9 8 22 10 0 54 2.6
TN 0 1 11 22 15 0 49 2.3
MN 0 1 1 23 23 0 48 2.3
WI 0 2 5 16 19 0 42 2.0
CA 0 0 2 37 3 0 42 2.0
GA 0 3 6 21 10 0 40 1.9
IN 0 4 8 18 7 0 37 1.8
WA 0 0 1 27 1 0 29 1.4
CO 0 0 3 19 6 0 28 1.3
AL 0 2 4 12 8 0 26 1.2
AZ 0 0 5 8 10 0 23 1.1
RI 0 5 2 10 3 0 20 0.9
WV 1 2 1 10 6 0 20 0.9
VT 0 3 2 8 5 0 18 0.9
SC 0 1 5 9 3 0 18 0.9
MO 0 0 4 9 4 0 17 0.8
OR 0 0 1 16 0 0 17 0.8
QC 0 1 1 8 6 0 16 0.8
DE 1 2 2 6 5 0 16 0.8
IA 0 0 3 9 3 0 15 0.7
KY 0 0 4 7 4 0 15 0.7
ME 0 1 1 8 5 0 15 0.7
OK 0 0 2 9 3 0 14 0.7
NF 0 0 2 9 1 0 12 0.6
NS 2 1 1 5 3 0 12 0.6
MS 0 0 3 6 2 0 11 0.5
LA 0 0 2 6 3 0 11 0.5
KS 0 0 2 7 1 0 10 0.5
AR 0 0 2 6 1 0 9 0.4
NE 0 1 0 5 3 0 9 0.4
PEI 1 1 2 3 1 0 8 0.4
AB 0 0 1 5 1 0 7 0.3
NV 0 0 0 6 1 0 7 0.3
NM 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.3
NB 0 0 0 5 1 0 6 0.3
MT 0 0 0 4 1 0 5 0.2
UT 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0.2
SD 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0.2
BC 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.2
ID 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.2
ND 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1
SK 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1
WY 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1
MB 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1
------------------------------------------------------
Total 48 146 304 1074 536 0 2108

Callareas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
------------------
0 151 7.2
1 341 16.2
2 359 17.0
3 331 15.7
4 324 15.4
5 122 5.8
6 58 2.8
7 92 4.4
8 182 8.6
9 148 7.0

Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands 1083
2 bands 234
3 bands 81
4 bands 56
5 bands 18
6 bands 0

----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s -----
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs 12 29 99 711 232 0

posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 8:27 PM | 0 comments

CQWW WPX 2006

Entry:M/S-HP

Operators: EA3IN, EA3QP,EA3AJW

Score Claimed:

Summary:
Band QSOs
------------
160: 0
80: 326
40: 183
20: 1537
15: 584
10:
------------
Total: 2630 Prefixes = 990 Total Score = 5,804,370


FINAL SCORE: N/A

Solar Conditions

Links and Media:

You can see EA3AJW operating ED3SSB : Click Here
You can review an excel file with the whole list of claimed scores: Click Here

Hardware

TX/RX:
  • IC-775DSP x 2
  • ACOM 2000A x 2
Ant:
  • 10 m: N/A,
  • 15 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 20m: 2-el Quad (Ligtning bold),
  • 40m: Dipol + Delta-loop
  • 80m: Inverted - V
  • 160m: Inverted - V
  • Other: KLM KT-34
  • Receive: K9AY

Contest Stuff:

SixPak

Comments:

Very poor prop. conditions, 15m close on saturday , 10m close all the contest,
20m absolutly crowded.
We are happy with our result on 20m, but we need to improve (as usual) our
skills and antennas in low bands.
Also we could reach a beter score spending all the contest time frame instead of
to close 6 our before the end.

posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 7:59 PM | 0 comments

CQWW SSB 2005

Entry:M/S-HP

Operators: EA3IN, EA3QP

Score Claimed:
BAND QSO DUP DXC CQ POINTS AVG
------------------------------------
160 110 1 46 6 120 1.09
80 478 6 78 17 636 1.33
40 400 11 76 19 734 1.84
20 864 3 122 33 1992 2.31
15 1844 24 127 36 4399 2.39
10 122 2 58 18 197 1.61
------------------------------------
TOTAL 3818 47 507 129 8078 2.12
====================================
TOTAL SCORE : 5 137 608

FINAL SCORE: (1.584.339 - 1824 -89 - 278).

Solar Conditions

30.Oct => I=191,A=36,K=3
31.Oct => I=222,A=14,K=3

Hardware

TX/RX:
  • IC-775DSP x 2
  • IC-765
  • ACOM 2000A x 2
Ant:
  • 10 m: N/A,
  • 15 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 20m: 2-el Quad (Ligtning bold),
  • 40m: Dipol + half-square
  • 80m: Inverted - V + Vertical
  • 160m: Inverted - V
  • Other: KLM KT-34
  • Receive: K9AY

Contest Stuff:

SixPak

Comments:

Thanks for every body to do this contest something special. Good propagation conditions in 15m, and absolutly crowded 20m and 40m. We had fun if you consider this special M/S station with only two individuals that set up all the station friday afternoon, really tired after a hard week in their respectives jobs. Welcome the new K9AY receiving antenna that helped us in 80m and 160m and also we think that we need to improve our 40m set up (actually a half square + rigid dipol).
Also to do a mention to the single victim of this contest, one of the IC-775 was killed by RF Sunday morning, quickly and old fashion IC-765 took the position to keep in the edge the qso rate.


posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 7:50 PM | 0 comments

CQWW SSB 2004

Entry:M/S-HP

Operators: EA3IN, EA3QP

Score Claimed: 6.250.896 (4253 Qso,137 zones, 527 countries)

FINAL SCORE: (1.584.339 - 1824 -89 - 278).

Solar Conditions

30.Oct => I=191,A=36,K=3
31.Oct => I=222,A=14,K=3

Hardware

TX/RX:

  • IC-775DSP x 2
  • ACOM 2000A x 2
Ant:

  • 10 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 15 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 20m: 2-el Quad (Ligtning bold),
  • 40m: Dipol + Vertical
  • 80m: Inverted - V + Vertical
  • 160m: Inverted - V
  • Other: KLM KT-34


Contest Stuff:

  • SixPak

posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 4:43 PM | 0 comments

CQWW SSB 2003

Entry: M/S HP

Operators: EA3IN, EA3QP

Score Claimed: 6.250.896 (4253 Qso,137 zones, 527 countries)

FINAL SCORE: 2st SPAIN - (5.600.268 - 4152 -135 - 522).

Solar Conditons:
25.Oct => I=191,A=36,K=3
26.Oct => I=222,A=14,K=3

Hardware:

TX/RX:

  • IC-775DSP
  • Yaesu FT-1000 MKV Field
  • ACOM 2000A
  • TenTec Titan-425

Ant:

  • 10 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 15 m: 5-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 20m: 4-el Monoband (Home Made),
  • 40m: Dipol
  • 80m: Inverted - V
  • 160m: Inverted - V
  • Other: KLM KT-34

Contest Stuff:

  • SixPak
Detailed info: 
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: ED3SSB
Operator(s): EA3IN,EA3QP
Station: ED3SSB

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Manresa - SPAIN
Operating Time (hrs): 41

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
 160:   52     6       34
  80:  222    13       56
  40:  242    17       72
  20: 1078    32      121
  15: 1452    36      122
  10: 1207    32      122
------------------------------
Total: 4253   137      527  Total Score = 6,250,896

Club: BYO Contest Station

Comments:

Our first experience as M/S (2 guys), friday afternoon we had a surprise when we
found a lot of antenna and rotor cables cutted, so we spent a lot of time fixing
it and we paid this effort the first night and during the Saturday, because was
necessary to spend more hours sleeping.
The first day we ran with only with one operator so the mult station was off and
the mult/rate drop dramatically but we had nice runs in 10m and 15m with USA.
The second day the whole team (repeat 2 guys) was ready to the battle and the
mult rate improved little bit.
Great conditions all the time till sunday noon when somebody unpluggedd the
propagation from 20m to 10m.

More information in http://www.qsl.net/ea3qp/consite1.html



Regards

Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm 
OffTime

D1-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  194/33   --+--   --+--  194/33    194/33
D1-0100Z    -       -     20/25   34/7      -       -     54/32    248/65
D1-0200Z    -       -       -      5/1      -       -      5/1     253/66  
57
D1-0300Z  11/12     -       -       -       -       -     11/12    264/78  
50
D1-0400Z   1/1     6/9      -     53/17     -       -     60/27    324/105
D1-0500Z    -    107/24     -       -       -       -    107/24    431/129
D1-0600Z    -      3/0      -     31/16     -       -     34/16    465/145
D1-0700Z    -       -       -      9/9   124/43     -    133/52    598/197
D1-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  115/4    --+--  115/4     713/201
D1-0900Z    -       -       -     30/4     9/0      -     39/4     752/205
D1-1000Z    -       -       -      2/2    16/21  149/33  167/56    919/261 
44
D1-1100Z    -       -       -     39/6    16/7    56/27  111/40   1030/301
D1-1200Z    -       -       -       -     65/6     7/8    72/14   1102/315
D1-1300Z    -       -       -       -     65/2   109/6   174/8    1276/323
D1-1400Z    -       -       -       -      3/5   208/3   211/8    1487/331
D1-1500Z    -       -       -       -     15/17  159/12  174/29   1661/360
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  131/5   131/5    1792/365
D1-1700Z    -       -       -       -     93/9      -     93/9    1885/374
D1-1800Z    -       -       -      1/1   196/3      -    197/4    2082/378
D1-1900Z    -       -     13/16    1/2   188/0      -    202/18   2284/396
D1-2000Z    -      3/4    18/4     6/1     3/0      -     30/9    2314/405
D1-2100Z    -      9/4    23/5    18/0      -       -     50/9    2364/414
D1-2200Z    -     53/14    1/0      -       -       -     54/14   2418/428
D1-2300Z    -     12/3    13/9      -       -       -     25/12   2443/440  
6
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    2443/440 
60
D2-0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2443/440 
60
D2-0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2443/440 
60
D2-0300Z    -       -     24/5      -       -       -     24/5    2467/445 
34
D2-0400Z  21/11     -     48/1      -       -       -     69/12   2536/457
D2-0500Z   4/0      -     41/5      -       -       -     45/5    2581/462
D2-0600Z   1/0     5/0      -      8/3     1/1      -     15/4    2596/466 
34
D2-0700Z    -       -       -     42/5    40/2     7/8    89/15   2685/481
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    3/4    70/9     9/12   82/25   2767/506
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -    122/3     7/8   129/11   2896/517
D2-1000Z    -       -       -     68/6    43/3     9/10  120/19   3016/536
D2-1100Z    -       -       -     49/2    66/0     4/5   119/7    3135/543
D2-1200Z    -       -       -     30/1     4/4     7/7    41/12   3176/555
D2-1300Z    -       -       -      4/2    13/2    80/3    97/7    3273/562
D2-1400Z    -       -       -      4/4      -    144/3   148/7    3421/569
D2-1500Z   1/1      -       -      1/1     3/5   120/5   125/12   3546/581
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    1/0   103/3     1/0   105/3    3651/584
D2-1700Z    -       -      4/4     5/9    73/2      -     82/15   3733/599
D2-1800Z    -       -      2/2    93/5     3/3      -     98/10   3831/609
D2-1900Z   2/2      -      1/1   169/2     2/3      -    174/8    4005/617
D2-2000Z    -       -      3/3   154/2     1/1      -    158/6    4163/623
D2-2100Z    -     14/9     4/5    11/3      -       -     29/17   4192/640
D2-2200Z   6/7    10/2    16/2     2/2      -       -     34/13   4226/653
D2-2300Z   5/6      -     11/2    11/3      -       -     27/11   4253/664

Total:    52/40  222/69  242/89 1078/1531452/1581207/155

posted by ED3SSB - Hamradio Contest Station at 3:24 PM | 0 comments