K3LR ARRL DX PHONE Multi Multi *WWV Day 1 SF 92 A=5 Day 2 SF 96 A=6 * ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 1998 Call: K3LR Country: United States Mode: SSB Category: Multi Multi ARRL Section: Western Pennsylvania BAND QSO QSO PTS COUNTRIES OPERATOR(s) 160 87 261 48 W3GH 80 453 1359 92 VE3EJ 40 706 2118 110 K8GL+K9VV+VE3OI 20 2203 6609 153 N9RV+ND8L+VE3OI+K3LR 15 1765 5295 146 N3RA+K3UA 10 517 1551 56 KA3JWJ+XE2AC+ND8L --------------------------------------------------------- Totals 5731 17193 605 = 10,401,765 Equipment Description: 160 - 5 element vertical array with 45,000 feet of radials 1200' Beverage aimed at Europe FT-1000MP 8877 amp 80 - Ground Mounted (Rohn BX tower + tubing, 75' tall) 4 square vertical array with 25,000 feet of radials IC-781 8877 amp 40 - 4 ele/4 ele WA3FET design, 50' booms, OWA fullsize beams at 190'/100'. 2 ele beam 140 feet IC-781 and IC-775 8877 amp 20 - 5 ele/5 ele/5 ele K3LR design, 50' booms @ 170'/110'/50' 5 ele beam at 120 feet IC781 and IC765 8877 amp 15 - 6 ele/6 ele/6 ele K3LR design, 50' booms @ 120'/80'/40' 5 ele beam at 80 feet IC765 and IC765 8877 amp 10 - 7 ele/7 ele/7 ele K3LR design, 50' booms @ 100'/66'/33' Comments: This was THE hardest working K3LR crew EVER! 160 - W3GH ("Green Hornet") comes back for another "static stint". He is 3 countries away from W3LPL, which is fantastic. W3GH was operating in multi-multi teams some 32 years ago. Bob brings lots of experienced talent to our team! 80 - VE3EJ operates in the USA phone band (VE's can work almost all of their European QSOs transceive!) for the first time! Adjusts very well to almost all split operation! Great QSO total and best multiplier on the band. 3 element beam broke in December. We'll fix it this summer. 40 - K8GL and K9VV were on a mission to break the old W3LPL 105 country 40 meter record. Nice job at 110! What a team! Great 82 first hour and 103 JAs. 20 - Iron man Pat, N9RV anchors an outstanding 2200+ QSO effort. Very good JAs at the start (287 total on 20) and steady rates are trademarks of N9RV. VE3OI (ex VE3BVD) comes out of a 10 year contest retirement to help out (He had never seen CT!). ND8L tries his hand at 20 for the first time. This band was wall to wall packed. I have never heard it so busy! 15 - N3RA and K3UA are "Kings of Caffeine" K3UA with 58 cups of coffee and 16 Cokes, N3RA with 18 Cokes and 10 Surge blasts. These guys were shaking QSOs out of the band! Lots of tag team to keep the rate up. 7 hours over 100 QSOs tells the story. 10 - KA3JWJ picks up new partner XE2AC to help bring 10 meters to life. LOTS of LU QSOs. Only a few Europeans. XE2AC is a very "smooth operator" ***Congrats to W3LPL, N2RM and K1KI for outstanding efforts! I am proud to have the K3LR team compete in the same class as these fine operations! I hope to see everyone at the Dayton Contest Dinner in May. 73, Tim K3LR Club Affiliation: North Coast Contesters Comments: Continent Statistics K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST 1998 Multi Multi 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 27 40 39 74 76 69 325 5.5 South America 6 12 22 86 60 417 603 10.1 Europe 53 394 479 1601 1282 3 3812 63.9 Asia 0 13 124 432 295 0 864 14.5 Africa 3 9 16 35 48 17 128 2.1 Oceania 3 13 50 89 58 16 229 3.8 QSO Counts By Band-Country (min of 5) K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST 1998 Multi Multi PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4X 4 11 10 9A 4 10 13 29 14 CE 1 3 3 8 CM 1 1 1 2 6 CT 2 5 7 9 13 1 CX 3 2 26 DL 2 55 56 218 206 DU 4 6 6 EA 8 24 44 73 63 EA6 2 2 2 5 EA8 1 1 4 5 1 EI 2 4 16 15 ES 7 1 EU 2 10 3 F 3 26 40 106 83 1 G 7 35 39 160 160 GI 1 4 3 10 8 GM 5 5 23 23 GW 1 8 6 16 11 HA 1 2 12 28 13 HB 1 6 5 19 17 HL 2 9 4 HS 6 I 8 54 88 234 180 1 IS 1 3 7 JA 9 103 287 250 KH6 1 4 5 8 13 11 KL 1 3 3 12 9 2 KP4 6 4 3 7 10 21 LA 4 4 13 11 LU 1 2 8 26 22 310 LX 4 4 8 7 LY 6 3 14 7 LZ 8 1 7 9 OE 1 5 6 12 17 OH 1 5 37 20 OK 20 8 42 36 OM 1 4 3 8 7 ON 1 10 13 52 44 OZ 2 7 3 26 23 PA 10 14 51 44 PY 1 3 27 9 41 S5 15 10 28 15 SM 1 3 5 30 19 SP 2 13 12 48 36 SV 1 1 6 16 24 TA 2 4 5 5 TI 1 3 3 3 4 6 UA 1 11 17 120 49 UA2 1 2 4 6 5 UA9 1 6 78 7 UN 2 8 1 UR 6 7 39 23 VK 2 3 27 44 16 1 XE 3 6 6 14 11 13 YL 1 1 4 7 YO 3 8 14 11 YU 1 12 9 32 20 YV 1 2 3 5 3 10 Z3 2 2 4 5 5 ZL 2 5 18 6 2 ZP 5 4 5 ZS 5 6 10 8 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW DX CONTEST 1998 Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 3/3 49/23 82/34 95/39 65/31 5/4 299/134 299/134 1 6/4 37/13 33/8 97/11 10/0 . 183/36 482/170 2 8/6 25/5 21/9 72/2 2/0 . 128/22 610/192 3 5/3 20/5 15/5 35/5 8/1 . 83/19 693/211 4 9/6 26/7 18/6 11/1 . . 64/20 757/231 5 8/5 19/5 15/4 6/1 . . 48/15 805/246 6 14/2 16/3 16/6 1/0 . . 47/11 852/257 7 2/1 16/2 19/7 2/0 . . 39/10 891/267 8 2/1 4/3 25/2 5/0 ..... ..... 36/6 927/273 9 . 5/2 26/2 5/0 . . 36/4 963/277 10 1/0 3/2 19/0 10/6 . . 33/8 996/285 11 2/2 5/3 14/3 116/21 37/24 . 174/53 1170/338 12 . 7/2 28/2 133/12 64/26 4/4 236/46 1406/384 13 . . 2/0 112/6 53/13 29/5 196/24 1602/408 14 . . . 97/2 112/7 32/5 241/14 1843/422 15 . . . 66/6 116/5 40/16 222/27 2065/449 16 ..... ..... ..... 63/4 113/4 27/7 203/15 2268/464 17 . . . 62/0 73/1 33/1 168/2 2436/466 18 . . . 65/6 41/1 19/1 125/8 2561/474 19 . . . 58/1 22/2 27/2 107/5 2668/479 20 . . . 63/1 21/4 13/2 97/7 2765/486 21 . . 4/0 82/3 26/3 17/1 129/7 2894/493 22 . 13/2 30/3 55/2 26/3 34/0 158/10 3052/503 23 . 33/3 54/1 53/2 28/1 17/1 185/8 3237/511 0 1/0 13/0 26/4 44/0 5/0 1/0 90/4 3327/515 1 2/1 13/0 18/1 39/2 4/1 . 76/5 3403/520 2 3/2 15/2 8/1 16/1 . . 42/6 3445/526 3 1/1 16/2 7/0 10/2 . . 34/5 3479/531 4 5/5 19/2 18/1 3/0 . . 45/8 3524/539 5 7/2 28/1 11/3 3/1 . . 49/7 3573/546 6 3/1 19/0 13/0 1/1 . . 36/2 3609/548 7 2/2 16/3 30/0 . . . 48/5 3657/553 8 ..... 1/0 20/0 ..... ..... ..... 21/0 3678/553 9 1/1 5/0 1/0 . . . 7/1 3685/554 10 . 2/1 11/3 3/0 . . 16/4 3701/558 11 1/0 3/1 16/1 84/2 9/0 . 113/4 3814/562 12 . 1/0 22/1 78/1 76/4 . 177/6 3991/568 13 . . 4/0 69/2 118/3 . 191/5 4182/573 14 . . . 50/0 125/2 15/0 190/2 4372/575 15 . . . 43/0 123/1 41/0 207/1 4579/576 16 ..... ..... ..... 51/0 103/1 9/3 163/4 4742/580 17 . . . 69/1 73/0 14/0 156/1 4898/581 18 . . . 65/1 46/2 29/0 140/3 5038/584 19 . . . 59/4 34/3 29/0 122/7 5160/591 20 . . . 56/2 35/1 20/1 111/4 5271/595 21 . . 13/0 42/0 51/0 11/2 117/2 5388/597 22 . 9/0 48/2 34/2 81/1 21/1 193/6 5581/603 23 1/0 15/0 19/1 20/0 65/1 30/0 150/2 5731/605 DAY1 60/33 278/80 421/92 1364/131 817/126 297/49 ..... 3237/511 DAY2 27/15 175/12 285/18 839/22 948/20 220/7 . 2494/94 TOT 87/48 453/92 706/110 2203/153 1765/146 517/56 . 5731/605 *