[PVRCNC] NC sweepstakes cheerleading

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I don't see all the same math and graphs for CW that I do for SSB.
There are some interesting conclusions from those.

>From the QSO numbers, Sunday afternoon has high overall rates only
exceeded by the first four hours of the contest.  The 75 meter rate at
the *end* of the contest exceeded the 40 m rate at anytime except the
8-9 pm hour.  It also plainly shows a 75 QSO rate in the evening hours
that could not be gotten from the west coast.  This is likely to
remain because of the 400 kHz phone band, which as I recall was busy
with the contest from 4.0 to 3.6.  We'll still be able to work from
Fla to NL and out to the Mississippi at the sunspot peaks.

An antenna that is TX agile from 4.0 to 3.5 will be an advantage.

73, Guy.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:30 PM, kaz <kazeringue at aol.com> wrote:
> I'm sure I missed somebody, but here are a few noteworthy items from the
> ARRL Sweepstakes SSB info:
>
> KA1ARB - set a new SSB 'multi' division/section record with his partner
> from New Hampshire.  O'course, geography of the mid atlantic sucks for
> SS, so even a Roanoke division record just barely got KA1ARB into the
> top ten at #9.  Pretty damn good for 2 guys and a radio.  Oh, that was
> also #2 in the SouthEast region.
>
> NX9T - set a new QRP ssb division/section record [but lord only knows WHY]
>
> N4GU missed #1 for the NC section in class "B" by only 34 QSO's.....(I
> HATE when THAT happens!)
>
> W4MR(aka AA4NC) placed #3 in the Southeast region, class "U"
>
> K4CZ was #4 on the "Accuracy Honor roll" with an error rate of only
> 00.6% on 661 QSO's.  No 2009 LCR available, but that's at least four
> times better than my own previous best.
>
> W8IVF was only 3 positions (7th) behind Barry for accuracy, with 00.7%
> errors on 531 QSO's
>
> Not PVRC, but K4BAI(college roommate to an NC PVRC'er, and friend of
> many) was only 2 spots down(9th) from W8IVF with a 00.8% error rate on
> 1524 QSOs.  Begging your collective pardons....DAMN!
>
>
> The sections generating the most QSO's were: numbers 1(VA), 2(MDC) and
> 7(NC).  Hmmmm, I wonder what certain contesting club could account for
> so much of that?
>
> Finally, for grins and giggles, it might be worth looking at the graphic
> of "QSO's per hour" on page #2 of the ARRL write-up[hat tip NT4D for
> pointig it out]:
> http://aptos.arrl.org/contests/2009-ARRL-SSB-Sweepstakes-Interim-PDF-Version-1A.pdf
>
> Great hints are in there for planning op times and band changes if 2010
> conditions are similar.
>
> Also, PVRC/NC East and West put 30 butts in chairs for ~2.1 million
> points and 13652 QSOs during ssb.
>
> [For CW it was 28 butts, 2.3 million points, and 14965 QSO's]
>
> 4.4 million points.  Nice.
>
> Apologies if I missed someone.  Hope you all had fun doing it, and
> propagation improves daily!
>
> 73 es great work......de w4kaz
>
>
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