M/M CQWW CW *WWV Day 1 SF91 A=3 Day 2 SF100 A=8 Here is the vital info for CQWW CW 96. Congrats to all the stations in the Multi/Multi category. There were lots of great scores and it makes us work even harder to try and become more competative. Biggest suprise of the weekend? SF=104! Even though its the current cycles last gasp, I'm praying it was actually the first real signs of life of the new cycle. Its the holidays, maybe Santa's been listening. It was, as expected, a great time. WW brings out an amazing variety of DX to work..... or try to work as the case may be. Brief Band by band summary at the end. CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 1996 Call: K3LR Country: United States Mode: CW Category: Multi Multi BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 337 653 1.94 20 75 80 719 1936 2.69 32 113 40 1276 3626 2.84 39 155 20 1845 5338 2.89 40 157 15 1202 3357 2.79 34 132 10 110 215 1.95 19 46 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 5489 15125 2.76 184 678 => 13,037,750 Operators: W3YQ,K8CX(2HRS),K3UA,K3EST,K3LR,N9RV(WA8YVR),KB3AFT,ND8L,N3RA(WR3G),KA3JWJ BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 33/13 56/30 107/53 26/18 6/3 3/2 231/119 231/119 1 14/6 34/13 52/19 30/5 3/0 1/0 134/43 365/162 2 19/10 38/10 33/6 4/1 2/0 . 96/27 461/189 3 35/9 43/9 28/7 7/1 . . 113/26 574/215 4 25/10 49/7 43/8 11/2 . . 128/27 702/242 5 17/7 39/9 53/3 9/2 . . 118/21 820/263 6 17/5 24/6 31/2 12/1 . . 84/14 904/277 7 18/5 33/5 29/6 4/1 . . 84/17 988/294 8 14/2 12/4 26/5 11/5 ..... ..... 63/16 1051/310 9 7/1 18/2 22/3 18/16 . . 65/22 1116/332 10 8/0 25/6 17/5 27/10 . . 77/21 1193/353 11 12/1 8/1 12/1 43/9 10/8 . 85/20 1278/373 12 5/0 10/0 10/4 153/12 79/31 3/1 260/48 1538/421 13 . 3/0 13/1 121/4 131/15 5/0 273/20 1811/441 14 . . . 105/10 153/7 2/2 260/19 2071/460 15 . . . 126/5 116/16 5/3 247/24 2318/484 16 ..... ..... ..... 127/6 81/11 3/3 211/20 2529/504 17 . . . 105/4 53/10 2/1 160/15 2689/519 18 . . . 67/3 18/4 11/6 96/13 2785/532 19 . . 16/0 57/5 26/5 7/5 106/15 2891/547 20 . 3/0 42/2 52/5 21/3 4/0 122/10 3013/557 21 . 15/1 71/2 44/4 33/2 2/1 165/10 3178/567 22 8/0 6/0 57/4 48/6 11/0 . 130/10 3308/577 23 2/2 20/0 66/2 22/1 . . 110/5 3418/582 0 3/0 22/3 39/2 6/3 ..... ..... 70/8 3488/590 1 19/2 28/2 15/2 21/4 . . 83/10 3571/600 2 24/0 47/2 23/4 5/0 3/1 . 102/7 3673/607 3 18/1 21/3 11/2 4/0 . . 54/6 3727/613 4 15/3 36/0 49/2 9/3 . . 109/8 3836/621 5 2/0 35/2 47/3 5/2 . . 89/7 3925/628 6 5/1 22/0 54/0 8/1 . . 89/2 4014/630 7 3/1 26/1 47/0 1/0 . . 77/2 4091/632 8 3/0 9/0 32/0 4/1 ..... ..... 48/1 4139/633 9 1/0 1/0 17/1 . . . 19/1 4158/634 10 . 2/0 2/0 25/1 3/2 . 32/3 4190/637 11 1/0 3/0 5/2 9/0 9/0 . 27/2 4217/639 12 . . 1/0 52/3 44/1 2/2 99/6 4316/645 13 . . 1/1 45/1 59/4 3/1 108/7 4424/652 14 . . . 56/2 97/3 7/5 160/10 4584/662 15 . . . 56/0 89/3 6/4 151/7 4735/669 16 ..... ..... ..... 50/0 40/1 6/4 96/5 4831/674 17 . . . 40/0 30/1 7/1 77/2 4908/676 18 . . . 29/0 15/1 12/1 56/2 4964/678 19 . . 4/0 36/1 16/1 5/3 61/5 5025/683 20 . . 38/2 29/2 16/3 7/2 90/9 5115/692 21 2/0 5/1 68/3 44/1 21/1 5/2 145/8 5260/700 22 2/0 6/0 49/1 44/1 9/0 1/0 111/2 5371/702 23 5/0 20/2 46/3 38/1 8/1 1/0 118/7 5489/709 DAY1 234/71 436/103 728/133 1229/136 743/115 48/24 ..... 3418/582 DAY2 103/8 283/16 548/28 616/27 459/23 62/25 . 2071/127 TOT 337/79 719/119 1276/161 1845/163 1202/138 110/49 . 5489/709 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 162 138 134 135 149 60 778 13.7 South America 7 14 28 72 56 33 210 3.7 Europe 159 494 1036 1380 968 0 4037 71.0 Asia 1 47 73 255 43 1 420 7.4 Africa 6 14 37 33 25 11 126 2.2 Oceania 4 13 30 31 29 8 115 2.0 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 24 Nov 1996 1659z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 9A 3 9 19 21 6 DL 32 72 155 253 195 EA 2 17 42 42 65 F 7 15 73 82 98 G 21 38 74 100 95 HA 5 26 57 47 24 HB 3 2 20 24 11 I 5 19 75 91 64 JA 35 22 189 28 K 98 42 40 31 53 28 LU 3 4 25 22 16 LY 2 12 9 23 13 LZ 2 5 20 16 11 OE 5 12 18 9 OH 2 10 30 63 54 OK 12 43 79 85 65 OM 9 14 13 14 11 ON 2 4 13 29 17 PY 1 1 9 27 19 5 S5 6 31 34 38 20 SM 8 7 24 40 20 SP 4 20 27 53 38 UA 1 18 49 79 14 UA2 1 3 3 3 1 UA9 4 26 32 4 UR 2 31 69 47 18 VE 33 54 39 52 46 6 VK 5 13 14 4 YU 3 22 33 34 12 ZL 2 6 2 4 4 ZS 2 1 6 5 3 3 160m: Band was quite good to Europe, but disappointing to Asia/Pacific. Worked lots of interesting stuff on the band. Nice to work so many DL's and G's. 80m: One of our best CW efforts to date on this band. We are very happy with the way things are working. Found the 3' tip of one of the 4 square verticals was missing the weekend before WW. Replaced on Friday. I'm sure that tip made a difference for us. :-) 40m: Had some problems on this band as the rotor for the 190' 4 el broke Friday night. Tim climbed the tower on Saturday and moved the antenna to a fixed EU position. It stayed there the rest of the weekend. The main radio 781 also lost its mind and had to be replaced on Friday night as well. In spite of these problems, 40m was a great mult band for us. Missed the VU for the 40th zone, but at least zone 12 was available this time. We only had 4 hours per day that this band did not make Q's. 20m: Our bread and butter band. Our usual outstanding second 20m op(N8SM(WD8IXE)) was out of the country so we had to try and find someone to replace him (an impossible task). Jim, KB3AFT was able to come over from Penn State and do a great job filling in. Jim is 18 years old. I can't remember last week let alone when I was 18! It was a great site to see someone a lot younger than I am excited about contesting. First 24 hours went very well and we had a very nice Asian opening on Sunday afternoon. 15m: Well, it certainly was more interesting than WW SSB. Saturday seemed quite a bit better to me compared to Sunday. Had some pretty good rate on Saturday. Had a very interesting late Asian opening Saturday evening. JA's were coming in direct and was able to work a UA0 at that time as well. Sunday the band opened early to SE EU. Kind of a pre EU opening. Worked a T9 and 9H at that point. The band then closed back up and opened more normally. Was nice to work YB1AQS Sunday morning. Thanks!! The JA's on Sunday were very loud, S9+, but there were only a small number of stations to work. 10m: A tough band! As you can see above, we worked no Europe on 10. We were however suprised to work HZ1HZ! That was great. Worked several ZL's, but couldn't get a VK. Maybe next time. This is the one band that we were able to keep pace with everyone on. All in all a great weekend. Personally, I can't wait for the sunspots to return. 10 and 15 will be big time Q bands once again. We'll see ya all in ARRL DX. 73 Scott Jones, N3RA (ex WR3G) n3ra@contesting.com *