Home › Member Posts › 2012 ARRL DX CW Results

2012 ARRL DX CW Results

Posted on by — 7 Comments ↓

The weekends just keep rolling along. Here is another contest in the CTRI Champions listing.

Please post your results here to keep all the scores in one place.

73, Ken K3iU

7 comments on “2012 ARRL DX CW Results”

  1. Looks like I’m the first to “comment.” I operated SO, Single Band – 15M, HP Assisted. The logger says I had 14h + 15m “on time”. I’m kinda pleased with the results!

    QSOs       Points       Mults
611        1033          108

Score:  197,964

    Ken K3IU

  2. Call: W1XX
    Op: W1XX
    Station: W1XX

    Class: SOSB/160
    QTH: RI
    Op time (hrs): 12

    Summary:

    Band QSOs Mults
    ———————————-
    160 121 46
    ———————————-
    Total: 121 x 46 = Total score = 16,698

    Club: CTRI Contest Group

    Comments:

    I needed a low-key appraoch to this contest so 160 single band was it results in lotsa listening and very low rates most of the time. First night reminded me of the CQ 160 contetst with only the top gun EU stations making it through and many calls to make the Q. Only 50 Qs the first night mostly Caribe. And also like the CQ contest the 2nd night was much better with EU coming through fairly loud by 5 PM. It stayed about the same throughout the evening and didn’t get appreciably better durirng the midnight hours. Gave up at about 1:30 AM which is about an hour early. Operated in short spurts ranging from a few minutes to maybe an hour or so….just to keep the boredom down…but that’s what I was looking for…low key (no pun). It was strange getting out-wise: several times I would beat out the pileup and other times it was a struggle. I called 5N7M in the clear multiuple times and he couldn’t hear me…but he worked some 3s. Interesting a few times when KC1XX and I called at the same time…when I noticed it I would QRX to avoid the confusion…plus he had a better signal than me…..so did KI1G, I think. We had guests for the weekend…so this operation suited me fine. Next weekend is PHONE CQ 160 which is a lot of fun…even though they should not allow phone on 160! Hope you all had fun. 73!! — John, W1XX

  3. This year for the ARRL DX CW we decided to operate Multi-2 instead off Multi-One for more opportunity for running practice. Competing now with more superstations we knew it would have an effect on where we would end percentile-wise in the final tally. However I think we accomplished our aim. We did end up with a decent score and we did have fun and plenty of running practice despite the lack of sleep and fewer than optimum number of operators. It was apparent as we know that you need to RUN in order to keep the rate up. There were an endless number of 100W stations calling to work you if you could hear them. An important factor for antenna improvements. Op Mike, K1DM, was QSO leader by a small margin. Bill, W1WBB, lead the goup in consistant rates of 120/hour. John, W1AN, enjoyed short bursts of 5 per minute and 180/hour.

    Bill takes care of business at Station 2

    N1MM was run on both stations. Station 1 with XP as an operating system worked flawlessly. Station 2 with Win7 seemed to operate better than in the recent RTTY contest. There were some hangups and the keyboard response seemed a little sluggish. This may have been a bad keyboard, so today I replaced it. I may also do a fresh install of N1MM. If we need to revert back to XP on station 2 I will do that as well.

    Pat uses his S&P skills

    Conditions for the contest were good on average. 160M did not have the activity as last year. Only 36 countries were worked versus 51 last year. Sunday W1WBB reminded us of the fun we had last year adding to the mults on 160. Ten meters was not as good as we had hoped, but more than made up for the loss on 160. Thanks to Mike, K1DM, for helping to get the station ready!
    Mike at Station 2 takes time for the camera

    73,
    John, W1AN

    Station 1
    Rig: Elecraft K3, AL1200
    20/15/10: KT36XA at 70 feet
    160M: 80 Foot T Wire Vertical
    80M: 65 Foot Wire vertical with 4 raised radials

    Station 2
    Rig: FT1000MP, AL1200
    20/15/10: CL33 Tribander at 97 feet
    40M: XM240 2L Beam at 92 feet
    80M: Inverted V

    Contest: 2012 ARRL DX CW
Call: W1DX
Location; CT
Ops: W1AN, K1DM, W1WBB, NG1G
Category: Multi-2, High Power All Band
Club: CTRI Contest Group
_________________________________
Band   QSOs   Points   Countries
1.8    62     186      36  
3.5    221    663      71
7      599    1785     93
14     753    2259     106
21     445    1335     99
28     138    414      64
_________________________________
Total  2218   6642     469
Score 3,115,098

  4. Not a serious effort here, with lots of on and off times, strictly S&P.
    160 12 Q 11 M
    80 132 Q 53 M
    40 197 Q 79 M
    20 200 Q 76 M
    15 138 Q 73 M
    10 44 Q 30 M
    Total Q: 723 M: 322
    Score: 698,418
    Running 756 Pro 3 to AL80A amp
    Storm-twisted tribander at 45 ft and dipoles at 40 Ft
    Norm W1BYH

  7. Sorry for the delay in getting this posted.

    Started out the contest in great shape but after 30 hours my power supply gave up the farm.

    Congrats to all on good scores and hope everyone had some fun.

    160 M 87Q 46C
    80 M 335Q 74C
    40 M 867Q 101C
    20 M 679Q 97C
    15 M 756Q 106C
    10 M 158Q 79C
    2882Q 503C = 4,327,812

    Hope to be on for WPX SSB.

    73,
    Rick KI1G

Comments are closed.