Category: K Man Radio

The club station was reserved for the weekend which meant that I needed to find a place to operate.  My plan was to operate directly on the water.  The only problem with this is it is time consuming and stressful to setup a temporary station on generator power while operating out of a van.  The opportunity came about for me to operate from Phil’s, ZF1PB’s, house.  Phil has a TH-11 at 75′ but did not have any antennas available to use for 40, 80, or 160.  Phil’s house is less than 1,000 feet from open water to the North and as a major bonus, there is a canal that runs north and south behind his house. On air tests before the contest confirmed that the TH-11 was loud on the high bands, but I was still left with the dilemma of putting together simple but effective antennas for the low bands.  A nearly full size quarter wave vertical was erected for 75 meters and a coil was used at the base to match the vertical on 160.  Instant pileups were generated on 75 meters into Europe before the contest so I felt good about this band.  However, RBN reports on 160 were puny.  I was hoping that I could get around 35 mults on 160.  Anything above that would be gravy.  So that just left 40 meters.  My choices were an inverted V at 60 feet, a sloper starting at 60 feet or a 1/4 wave vertical.  I opted with the vertical and was able to position it hanging over the side of the boat parked out in the canal.  However, this put the 40 meter vertical within 15 feet of the 80 meter vertical.  The SWR was all jacked up on 40 and it was clear that the big vertical was not going to let the little vertical play.  So we put up a sloper and RBN reports into the U.S. and Europe looked decent.  As in the CQWW SSB contest I believed that I was sacrificing some gain in order to have some comforts such as a roof over my head, a secure place to operate from, and a reliable power source.

Good conditions were expected for the weekend and Mr. Sun didn’t disappoint.  I decided to enter the SOAB low power category.  I could have brought out my AL 811-H amplifier but I just didn’t feel like I had the hardware to hang with the big boys.  In other words, I didn’t want to get my ass kicked by 8P5A.  It seems that the traditional wisdom is to start the contest on 20 meters but 15 sounded good and I was able to peel off a 300 hour on 15 to start things off.  The band was in good shape and open to all parts of the country simultaneously.  15 and 20 were so good that I didn’t hit 40 meters until about 4 hours into the contest.  40 seemed to be in good shape but this would turn out to be an illusion created by the mixture of packet and a rare prefix.  I was never able to have sustained runs on 40 meters and it would end up being my Achilles heel during the contest.   I even went to the length of changing the sloper into an inverted V during the contest in hopes of having a better signal but bad RF on the dipole prevented me from using it.  More time, including a free style trip 30 feet up on the tower was used to reconfigure the antenna back into a sloper for the second night of the contest.  Climbing a tower on no sleep is not a very good idea. I mentally kept telling myself to not let go as I was retrieving the coax off the side of the tower.

Signals on 80 and 160 were great throughout the contest.  The noise was also very low which made 160 usable even though I didn’t have a separate receive antenna.  However, changing the vertical from 80 to 160 required me to run out of the trailer and change an alligator clip in order to put the coil in line with the coax.  This made using two radios to instantly move mults between 80 and 160 was impossible.  I set up lots of skeds but most of them were busts.  Usually there ended up being someone on the set frequency by the time I got there.  If I ever do this again I need to make skeds at some odd ball frequency like 1876.  The east coast in particular (meaning the boys in  MA) were really loud on top band.  Great conditions into Europe and the Caribbean, are there any negatives of living on the East coast, besides snow?  I was having better success running on 80 than 40 so I kept the run radio on 80 during times when I should have been on 40 meters.

Going into the second morning I set a goal of 7,000 Qs and 7 million points.  It was doable, but I’d have to average around 140 Qs for the last 12 hours.  I started to get bummed out around 1700 Z when I was behind the 140 Q pace.   Ten meters opened late and all of my competitors were on 15 meters while I was still on 20 meters.  In fairness though, 20 meters was quite productive for me for several hours Sunday morning while most others seemed to be on 15.  I worked a ton of guys in FL, AL, GA, and TX during this time on 20 all with very good signals.  Around 1800  it seemed as though everyone got finished with church and lunch or whatever else they were doing and decided to turn the radio on.  Finally the rates picked up and sustained 175 + rates happened for the last five hours of the contest.  I QSYed to 20 meters for the last 15 minutes of the contest and was able to peel of 71 Qs during that time before the clock struck 0000  The last two minutes was spent trying to work a couple of VE5 stations that I made a sked with on 80 meters.  Unfortunately, that move was a bust.

A huge thanks to Phil, ZF1PB, and his family for allowing me to invade their back yard and do basically whatever I wanted to with the space.  His land is on reclaimed swamp and I have no doubt that he has above average ground.  I also believe that he is seeing some big time benefit from his canal and proximity to the bay to the north.  In other words, Phil has a great radio location.   My only regret is not being able to put out a decent signal on 40 meters.  Oh wait, I lied I have two regrets.  The exchange I used was  a horrible decision.  After saying it three hundred times in the first hour I literally was unable to say it intelligibly.  The high power ops just say K.  My dad suggested that I say C, which is a great idea except for all of the blank stares I would have received.  However if it was promoted then people would catch on quite quickly.  I received a lot of comments on my choice of exchange.  The last couple of hours (by this time I’m feeling a little loopy from the lack of sleep) I pondered the idea of making a comment about needing a speech therapist.  Then I reminded myself that I was a speech therapist.  I tried some techniques for producing my exchange more intelligibly which may have made some small difference.  I ended up using the voice keyer for many of the contacts for both the exchange and the TU message.

Thanks for all of the moves and contacts.

73,

Kevin ZF2DX

CALLSIGN: ZF2DX
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: ZF2DX

————– Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ———————
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
——————————————————————–
0000 0 0 0 0 298 0 298 298 4.2
0100 0 0 1 96 175 0 272 570 8.0
0200 0 0 0 272 0 0 272 842 11.7
0300 0 0 0 261 0 0 261 1103 15.4
0400 0 0 121 102 0 0 223 1326 18.5
0500 46 110 2 0 0 0 158 1484 20.7
0600 28 61 72 0 0 0 161 1645 22.9
0700 4 51 9 0 0 0 64 1709 23.8
0800 8 18 10 0 0 0 36 1745 24.3
0900 5 45 34 0 0 0 84 1829 25.5
1000 6 46 16 0 0 0 68 1897 26.5
1100 1 17 40 27 0 0 85 1982 27.6
1200 0 0 0 99 1 0 100 2082 29.0
1300 0 0 0 53 2 50 105 2187 30.5
1400 0 0 0 0 3 202 205 2392 33.4
1500 0 0 0 0 28 152 180 2572 35.9
1600 0 0 0 0 58 126 184 2756 38.4
1700 0 0 0 0 98 78 176 2932 40.9
1800 0 0 0 0 46 179 225 3157 44.0
1900 0 0 0 0 23 211 234 3391 47.3
2000 0 0 0 0 241 8 249 3640 50.8
2100 0 0 0 2 3 199 204 3844 53.6
2200 0 0 0 0 125 92 217 4061 56.6
2300 0 0 0 1 202 1 204 4265 59.5
0000 0 0 1 0 161 0 162 4427 61.8
0100 0 0 2 158 13 0 173 4600 64.2
0200 7 0 1 124 0 0 132 4732 66.0
0300 22 1 0 126 0 0 149 4881 68.1
0400 0 42 13 57 0 0 112 4993 69.6
0500 21 0 48 54 0 0 123 5116 71.4
0600 17 48 0 5 0 0 70 5186 72.3
0700 7 3 0 2 0 0 12 5198 72.5
0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5198 72.5
0900 13 10 7 0 0 0 30 5228 72.9
1000 0 67 18 0 0 0 85 5313 74.1
1100 21 3 42 4 0 0 70 5383 75.1
1200 0 0 3 95 1 0 99 5482 76.5
1300 0 0 0 116 2 0 118 5600 78.1
1400 0 0 0 126 0 0 126 5726 79.9
1500 0 0 0 46 23 67 136 5862 81.8
1600 0 0 0 0 0 177 177 6039 84.2
1700 0 0 0 0 0 90 90 6129 85.5
1800 0 0 0 0 19 134 153 6282 87.6
1900 0 0 0 0 15 163 178 6460 90.1
2000 0 0 0 0 51 128 179 6639 92.6
2100 0 0 0 0 58 119 177 6816 95.1
2200 0 0 0 0 139 11 150 6966 97.2
2300 0 2 1 69 131 0 203 7169 100.0
——————————————————
Total 206 524 441 1895 1916 2187 7169

Gross QSOs=7368 Dupes=199 Net QSOs=7169

Unique callsigns worked = 4376

The best 60 minute rate was 298/hour from 0000 to 0059
The best 30 minute rate was 322/hour from 0234 to 0303
The best 10 minute rate was 342/hour from 0143 to 0152

The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 6 times.
7 QSOs/minute 24 times.
6 QSOs/minute 122 times.
5 QSOs/minute 278 times.
4 QSOs/minute 414 times.
3 QSOs/minute 539 times.
2 QSOs/minute 543 times.
1 QSOs/minute 472 times.

There were 278 bandchanges and 91 (1.3%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

—————– C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y —————–
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
———————————————————————
North America 206 522 440 1894 1915 2186 7163 99.9
South America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Europe 0 2 1 0 0 1 4 0.1
Asia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oceania 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
————————————————————–
Total 206 524 441 1895 1916 2187 7169

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
—————–
3 1
4 2683
5 2875
6 1589
7 12
8 4
9 5

—————— C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ——————
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
——————————————————————-
F 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
GI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
I 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
J6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
K 197 492 410 1787 1809 2075 6770 94.4
KG4 0 1 2 6 4 7 20 0.3
KH6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OE 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
VE 9 29 27 101 101 104 371 5.2
YB 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
——————————————————————-
Total 206 524 441 1895 1916 2187 7169

———— 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
————————————————————-
K 197 492 410 1787 1809 2075 6770 94.4
VE 9 29 27 101 101 104 371 5.2
KG4 0 1 2 6 4 7 20 0.3
OE 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
I 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
F 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
J6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
YB 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
GI 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
KL 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KH6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
——————————————————
Total 206 524 441 1895 1916 2187 7169

Multi-band QSOs
—————
1 bands 2857
2 bands 784
3 bands 414
4 bands 160
5 bands 104
6 bands 57

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

W3MF K3LR W2CG W3LPL K3ZO K3ZU
WK1Q WE3C AA3B NN1SS K3WW N4KG
K9CT N4TZ N8BI K1LT KB3WD AA9A
W1TJL W0UO NV9L N0NI K3IE VE3CX
N6RO NA4K AB4B K8AZ K6ND K3UL
KG0US K4VV W6WB N3RS W1UE W1GD
N2IC NW3Y W4RM NS3T NU5B K3IPK
W9RE NA8V N2GZ AA1K WC2L W2YC
VY2ZM W1CTN VE3PN KM2O K5EK N2WKS
W1NT K8CX K5GO

——- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ——
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
———————————————-
QSOs 51 110 74 801 764 1057

This contest has been circled on the calendar since moving to the Cayman Islands in March of 2014.  My family and I will be here for the next two years so it should be easy for everyone to get the ZF multiplier into their logs.  I knew the big club station was already reserved for most of the major contests so I needed to find a location to operate from.  I’ve experimented with multiple setups from all over the island and one thing is clear.  If you are directly on the water then you will have a good signal.

I decided to keep things simple and built a clone of a butternut all band vertical.  The antenna is 26′ tall and uses coils to resonate on 160, 80, and 40.  It sure is great to have such a supportive wife (the two kids are supportive but they don’t have much of a choice) for all of my ham endeavors.  Our apartment has been turned into a quasi antenna assembly warehouse with aluminum tubing, wire, tools, and all other things strewn all over the place.

A couple of weeks before the contest I decided on a location located about 30 minutes from our apartment on the Northside of the island.  This location had a water shot in the three major locations: NA, EU, and JA.  When operating from here reports were excellent into EU and NA.  Japan just isn’t very strong from this part of the world even when using big antennas.  The downside with this setup however is that I would be operating off generator power and have no access to running water.  Basically a field day setup, all though I would be operating out of our mini van.  My main concerns going into the contest were dealing with any public that came by during the operation and potential failure of the generator.  The trade off though was having an outstanding location to operate from.  Coming from Arkansas, I’ve always been enamored with the thought of a vertical stuck out in the salt water.  Believe the hype.  It works great.  All though I know the prefix adds at least an S unit to the signal reports!  At the same time though everything written about the difficulty of achieving a good and stable ground when having a vertical located direction in the water is also true.

The Monday of the contest I received an email from Phil, ZF1PB/ZF35PB about some different potential operating sites.  All of the sites were more isolated than my planned location which was good from not having to deal with any potential problems from the public.  However, they still lacked power and amenities.  Phil then had the brilliant idea of a house that I could use that would provide running water and a stable power source.  The house was located on a small finger shaped parcel of water.  Fortunately the long part of the finger was jutting out towards Europe.  I would have a water shot for a thousand feet or so then it would be over land to Europe.   The shot to NA and JA would be nearly totally over land except for the 30′ that the dock jutted out into the water. I decided that having some safety and stable power would be worth the trade off of a near and far field shot over the water.  I’d still be operating in my car though as the coax runs to the house would have been to long for my taste.  I also wanted to keep the equipment out of the elements as much as possible.   After seeing my new location I decided that since I was giving up a few S units  in operating location that those missing dB needed to be gained back.  Going into the contest there was a good chance that around 70% of my contacts would be made on 10 and 15 meters.  A quick email to my dad and I had a design for a dual band 10/15 meter Yagi on a 10′ boom.  The plan was to mount the antenna vertically over the water in order to get a really low angle of radiation.  Alternatively an antenna oriented around 45 degrees would give both low and high angles with a small sacrifice in gain.  The real word rules and I wasn’t able to mount the antenna vertically so I got it as close as possible with the tips of the 15 meter elements about a foot above high tide.

Stimulating contests always seem to go by in a blur and this one was no different.  Apparently there were some flares.  I was totally oblivious to them. The contest was dominated by incredible EU and NA runs during the day time and incredibly high winds, rain, and lightening during the night time.  The all band vertical fell over into the water three different times Saturday night.  Trudging out into the wind and rain to re erect and secure the vertical on no sleep was tough but at least it gave me an opportunity to stretch!  I do not recommend operating inside an enclosed vehicle for 48 hours.  My butt hurts!  There is also a nasty body odor type stink that permeates throughout the vehicle.  Add our van to the list of things I need to clean up right after the ZF2DX antenna staging facility otherwise known as our spare bedroom.

160 and 80 were horrible, but I attributed that to my extremely inefficient antenna.  The second night was better on the low bands and I was able to work EI7M on 80 meters.  Amazingly, I had IW1CAB call me during an 80 meter run at 5:30 in the morning local time.  I had him repeat his call and then told him that I must be hallucinating.  The next U.S. caller confirmed that he heard him.  I also had KL7RA call on 80 meters during this run which was a double mult that I missed on 20.  40 meters seemed decent and I was able to have some short lived runs into Europe.  Going into the contest I had vision of big EU runs simplex in the DX portion of the band but those never happened.  The second night I had a brief EU/JA run simultaneously when operating split.  20 meters was a real disappointment.  That is the one band where a lot was left on the table.  Many easy European mults were missed here.  There was a nice opening into Europe the second night at their sunrise but I was never able to get anything going.  Joe, ZF2AH, did a single band 20 operation and this probably helped to quell the need for ZF on this band.  15 and 10 were non stop rate fest.

Lasting inside that van for 48 hours sure was an endurance test.   I alternated between a typical sitting position to having my long legs draped over the passenger side seat in order to give my back and butt some relief.   I took two 30 minute naps during the contest, both on Saturday night.  My first nap was precipitated by noticing the SWR go high on 20 meters during some torrential wind and rain.  I turned the headlights on and saw the vertical taking a swim out in the water.  The wind and rain were so high and my rate was so low that I decided a sleep break was in order.   My hope was to take a quick nap during which the storm would pass.

Given all the uncertainties going into the contest, my main goal was to not quit.  Given good conditions and no catastrophic failures I felt like 5500 Qs would be a good goal.   It’s hard to think of terms in winning contests from zone 8 given the point different between here and prime zones like 33 and 9.  I knew that P40W would be low power all bands and I thought that having a Q total around John’s would at least be a moral victory.  I know that I missed a lot of workable mults on 10 and 15, but it just didn’t make sense to pull away from the big runs to tune the dial (only had one radio).

The toughest part was taking off the headphones at 0000z and looking outside into the dark abyss and realizing that I was now faced with dissembling and packing up the entire station.  Operating portable like this has sure helped to increase my patience.  I’m greatly appreciative of the support of my wife for this crazy hobby.  It’s also nice to have an antenna guru on call when needed.  Having a private location with a stable power source was huge and I’m really appreciative of the help that Phil gave me.  The hams here on the island are a great group of guys and are very supportive of all of the contesters that come and visit the island.  After building some of the biggest antennas of the world, it is incredible to think that I was able to fit my entire station inside my vehicle and be highly competitive.

73,

Kevin ZF2DX

 

 

Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: ZF2DX
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: ZF2DX

————– Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ———————
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
——————————————————————–
0000       0      0      0     11     73      0     84     84    1.5
0100       0      0      9     27      8      0     44    128    2.2
0200       0      1      1    141      0      0    143    271    4.7
0300       0      0      0    126      0      0    126    397    6.9
0400       0      6      4     40      1      0     51    448    7.8
0500       0      1     59      6      0      0     66    514    8.9
0600       0      7     74      4      0      0     85    599   10.4
0700       0     31     95      0      0      0    126    725   12.6
0800       3      5     38      2      0      0     48    773   13.4
0900       0      4     36      5      0      0     45    818   14.2
1000       1     40     22      4      0      0     67    885   15.4
1100       0     13      5      0     41      0     59    944   16.4
1200       0      0      0      0    215      0    215   1159   20.1
1300       0      0      0      0     80    160    240   1399   24.3
1400       0      0      0      0      0    233    233   1632   28.3
1500       0      0      0      0     48     64    112   1744   30.3
1600       0      0      0      0      0    228    228   1972   34.2
1700       0      0      0      0      0    225    225   2197   38.1
1800       1      1      0      0     19      9     30   2227   38.7
1900       0      0      0      3      5    211    219   2446   42.5
2000       0      0      0      0      5    153    158   2604   45.2
2100       0      0      0      2    256      1    259   2863   49.7
2200       0      0      0     18     33     94    145   3008   52.2
2300       0      0      0      0     24    135    159   3167   55.0
0000       0      0      1      8     72      0     81   3248   56.4
0100       0      0      1     30      0      0     31   3279   56.9
0200       1      0     71      2      0      0     74   3353   58.2
0300       0      0      1      5      0      0      6   3359   58.3
0400       0      0      7     54      0      0     61   3420   59.4
0500       1      3     53      1      0      0     58   3478   60.4
0600       0      2      7     25      0      0     34   3512   61.0
0700       0      0     48      0      0      0     48   3560   61.8
0800       2      6      2      0      0      0     10   3570   62.0
0900       0      0     14      1      0      0     15   3585   62.2
1000       0     79     38      0      0      0    117   3702   64.3
1100       0      6      1     78      1      0     86   3788   65.8
1200       0      0      0      6     81    101    188   3976   69.0
1300       0      0      0      1      2    212    215   4191   72.8
1400       0      0      0      0      1    210    211   4402   76.4
1500       0      0      0      0      5    130    135   4537   78.8
1600       0      0      0      0      1    200    201   4738   82.3
1700       0      0      0      0      0    136    136   4874   84.6
1800       0      0      0      0    143     25    168   5042   87.5
1900       0      0      0      8    118      1    127   5169   89.7
2000       0      0      0      0    115     25    140   5309   92.2
2100       0      0      0      0      2    164    166   5475   95.1
2200       0      0      0      9     99      0    108   5583   96.9
2300       0      0      0    145     32      0    177   5760  100.0
——————————————————
Total      9    205    587    762   1480   2717   5760

Gross QSOs=5813        Dupes=53        Net QSOs=5760

Unique callsigns worked = 4085

The best 60 minute rate was 279/hour from 2107 to 2206
The best 30 minute rate was 326/hour from 2130 to 2159
The best 10 minute rate was 378/hour from 2132 to 2141

The best 1 minute rates were:
9 QSOs/minute    1 times.
8 QSOs/minute    3 times.
7 QSOs/minute   33 times.
6 QSOs/minute   88 times.
5 QSOs/minute  215 times.
4 QSOs/minute  359 times.
3 QSOs/minute  402 times.
2 QSOs/minute  370 times.
1 QSOs/minute  511 times.

There were 154 bandchanges and 29 (0.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

—————– C o n t i n e n t   S u m m a r y —————–
160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
———————————————————————
North America      7    193    391    573    763   1043   2970   51.6
South America      2      7     26     52     49     54    190    3.3
Europe             0      3    156    104    621   1517   2401   41.7
Asia               0      0      6     10     28     75    119    2.1
Africa             0      1      6      8     16     20     51    0.9
Oceania            0      1      2     15      3      8     29    0.5
————————————————————–
Total              9    205    587    762   1480   2717   5760

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
—————–
3        37
4      2276
5      2179
6      1248
7         8
8         5
9         4
10         3

—————— C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ——————
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
——————————————————————-
3B8              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
4O               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
4X               0      0      0      4      1      6     11    0.2
5B               0      0      1      2      1      4      8    0.1
5H               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
5W               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
6Y               0      2      1      0      1      1      5    0.1
8P               0      1      1      1      1      3      7    0.1
9A               0      0      5      2     13     18     38    0.7
9H               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
9K               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
9M6              0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.0
9Y               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
A6               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
A7               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.0
C3               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
CE               0      0      1      6      2      2     11    0.2
CE9              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
CM               0      3      2      1      0      0      6    0.1
CN               0      1      3      3      4      3     14    0.2
CT               0      0      3      8      6     11     28    0.5
CT3              0      0      1      0      2      2      5    0.1
CU               0      1      1      1      0      2      5    0.1
CX               0      0      0      1      2      3      6    0.1
DL               0      0     24      8    100    293    425    7.4
E7               0      0      0      1      2      5      8    0.1
EA               0      0     15     12     33     65    125    2.2
EA6              0      0      1      1      1      3      6    0.1
EA8              0      0      2      2      6      8     18    0.3
EA9              0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.0
EI               0      1      2      1      7     13     24    0.4
ER               0      0      0      0      2      3      5    0.1
ES               0      0      0      0      3      5      8    0.1
EU               0      0      0      0      7     10     17    0.3
EY               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
F                0      0     19      5     32     86    142    2.5
FM               0      0      2      1      1      2      6    0.1
FY               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
G                0      0     11     10     46    116    183    3.2
GD               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
GI               0      0      1      2      4     12     19    0.3
GJ               0      0      1      0      0      2      3    0.1
GM               0      0      3      1     12     18     34    0.6
*GM/s            0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
GU               0      0      0      0      2      0      2    0.0
GW               0      0      1      1      5     17     24    0.4
HA               0      0      6      4      9     22     41    0.7
HB               0      0      1      0      6     14     21    0.4
HC               0      0      1      3      1      2      7    0.1
HI               0      1      1      1      2      0      5    0.1
HK               1      1      3      2      5      1     13    0.2
HL               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
HP               0      1      1      0      1      0      3    0.1
HZ               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
I                0      1      8     11     45    131    196    3.4
IS               0      0      0      1      0      2      3    0.1
*IT9             0      0      1      2      8     15     26    0.5
J3               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
J7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
JA               0      0      5      1      9     52     67    1.2
K                4    160    328    527    669    940   2628   45.6
KG4              0      0      0      1      2      1      4    0.1
KH0              0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.0
KH2              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
KH6              0      1      1      1      1      2      6    0.1
KL               0      1      0      0      2      3      6    0.1
KP2              1      2      3      2      4      1     13    0.2
KP4              0      2      6      5      5      3     21    0.4
LA               0      0      2      0      6     13     21    0.4
LU               0      0      1      9      8     14     32    0.6
LX               0      0      1      0      1      5      7    0.1
LY               0      0      2      1      7     15     25    0.4
LZ               0      0      1      1      2     12     16    0.3
OA               0      0      2      4      3      2     11    0.2
OE               0      0      3      0      4     21     28    0.5
OH               0      0      6      4     30     32     72    1.3
OH0              0      0      1      1      2      2      6    0.1
OK               0      0      6      2     16     42     66    1.1
OM               0      0      0      1      4     15     20    0.3
ON               0      0      6      1     15     43     65    1.1
OZ               0      0      1      1      6     18     26    0.5
P4               1      3      3      2      3      2     14    0.2
PA               0      0      5      1     23     62     91    1.6
PJ2              0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
PJ4              0      1      2      3      1      1      8    0.1
PY               0      0      6     11     15     14     46    0.8
S5               0      0      5      2     11     25     43    0.7
S7               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
SM               0      0      3      2     16     30     51    0.9
SP               0      0      5      2     32     85    124    2.2
SV               0      0      0      2      4     11     17    0.3
SV9              0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.1
TA               0      0      0      1      0      2      3    0.1
*TA1             0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
TF               0      0      1      1      2      2      6    0.1
TG               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
TI               0      2      2      0      0      0      4    0.1
TK               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.1
UA               0      0      1      4     54     97    156    2.7
UA2              0      0      0      0      3      2      5    0.1
UA9              0      0      0      0     13      5     18    0.3
UN               0      0      0      0      2      1      3    0.1
UR               0      0      1      1     18     61     81    1.4
V2               0      1      1      0      2      1      5    0.1
V4               0      1      1      0      0      1      3    0.1
V5               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
VE               0     13     32     27     63     78    213    3.7
VK               0      0      1      5      1      1      8    0.1
VP5              0      1      2      0      1      1      5    0.1
VP8              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
VP9              0      0      1      2      1      1      5    0.1
XE               0      0      3      2      4      5     14    0.2
YL               0      0      2      0      4     14     20    0.3
YN               1      1      1      0      1      0      4    0.1
YO               0      0      0      0      5     22     27    0.5
YU               0      0      1      2      6     14     23    0.4
YV               0      1      6      6      5      6     24    0.4
Z3               0      0      0      0      1      2      3    0.1
ZD8              0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
ZF               1      1      1      2      2      2      9    0.2
ZL               0      0      0      8      1      0      9    0.2
ZP               0      0      0      1      0      3      4    0.1
ZS               0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.1
——————————————————————-
Total            9    205    587    762   1480   2717   5760

———— 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
————————————————————-
05         3    116    218    318    381    496   1532   26.6
14         0      2    101     57    323    827   1310   22.7
04         1     45    101    184    269    410   1010   17.5
15         0      1     51     37    202    468    759   13.2
03         0     11     42     54     84    112    303    5.3
16         0      0      2      5     80    172    259    4.5
08         2     15     21     14     19     16     87    1.5
20         0      0      2     11     14     60     87    1.5
09         2      7     15     15     17     13     69    1.2
25         0      0      5      1      9     52     67    1.2
11         0      0      6     12     15     17     50    0.9
33         0      1      6      5     13     16     41    0.7
13         0      0      1     11     11     18     41    0.7
10         0      0      3      7      4      4     18    0.3
17         0      0      0      0     12      5     17    0.3
06         0      0      3      2      4      5     14    0.2
07         1      4      4      0      3      0     12    0.2
12         0      0      1      6      2      2     11    0.2
32         0      0      0      9      1      0     10    0.2
02         0      1      2      1      1      2      7    0.1
21         0      0      0      2      1      3      6    0.1
38         0      0      0      2      2      2      6    0.1
31         0      1      1      1      1      2      6    0.1
30         0      0      1      3      1      1      6    0.1
40         0      0      1      1      2      2      6    0.1
01         0      1      0      0      2      3      6    0.1
18         0      0      0      0      4      0      4    0.1
29         0      0      0      3      0      0      3    0.1
27         0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.1
39         0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.0
36         0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
28         0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.0
19         0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
37         0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
——————————————————
Total      9    205    587    762   1480   2717   5760

Multi-band QSOs
—————
1 bands    3085
2 bands     574
3 bands     246
4 bands     124
5 bands      53
6 bands       3

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

K3LR        P40L        NQ4I

——- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ——
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
———————————————-
QSOs      0     56    177    329    664   1859