Transcript W1AW/5 LA - an overview - LOUISIANA CONTEST CLUB

W1AW/5 LA - an overview
by K5ER
First part, June 4-10
Second part, Nov 26-Dec 2
ARRL Project Goals
Provide a “One of a Kind”, year long
operating event
 Encourage more “On Air” activity
 Allow each state to use W1AW/x
 In conjunction w/ 100th anniversary
of ARRL
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Description
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Every ARRL member and official has point
value
Each W1AW/x station has a value
Year long points gathering competition
Opportunity for WAS - W1AW
multi band - multi mode
FOR MORE INFO...
Visit http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party
Planning
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Guidance from ARRL - Get on - Make Q’s Have Fun!
Need Spreadsheet for schedule / Operator
list
Need to coordinate stations / operators
In a week, there are 168 hours
x 10 bands=1680
x3 modes=5040 possible slots (+ Sat)
Task seemed daunting - lots of slots to fill
Implementation/ Team Building
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Picked a modifiable spreadsheet for
scheduling
 Contacted LCC members and others to
encourage participation
 Contacted owners of “Large” stations who
could host Multi-Ops, to allow more
operators access to large antenna
 Dedicate several pages on N5LCC web
site to this operation
Procedures
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Posted basic rules on what was allowed /
needed
 Continued working to get more operators
 Most scheduling done via email/phone
 editing schedule 4-5 times a day
This worked pretty good, but...
Need to have more scheduling done ahead of time
Schedule
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Opted to NOT let others see who our Ops
were - had caused issues w/ other groups
Web form for OTHERS, who only saw a slot
was “Active”
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Web form for PARTICIPANTS, could see WHO was
in the slots
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only ONE station per band/mode at a time
“Split” very good for pile-up control
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Our Team (week 1)
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AA5AU, AC5O, K1DW, K5ER, K5FNQ,
K5SL K5TFH, KA5HCO, KA5M,
KE5WB, KG5VK, KN5O, KR5R, KX2P,
KZ5D, N5FH, N5HMH, N5JF, N5MEG,
N5UXT, N5WE, N5ZVW, NA5G,
W5BEK, W5LA, W5RGS, W5RY,
W5TMP, W5WZ, W5XU, W5ZR,
WA5KBH, WB5JHY, WM5H
Results I
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W5ZR scheduled CW operations
WA5KBH scheduled Satellite Ops
K5ER scheduled SSB / RTTY ops
We had 34 operators active at 27 stations
We logged 576 hours
So how did we do??
Results II Band Activity
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160 CW-16, SSB-81,RY-25 total 122
80 CW-365, SSB-255, RY-153 total 773
40 CW-1424-SSB-1540, RY-624 total 3,588
30 CW1248, RY-429 total 1,677
20 CW-3907, SSB-5576, RY/DIG-1606 total 11,089
17 CW-1665, SSB-1994, RY-772 total 4,431
15 CW-1987, SSB-1863, RY-855 total 4,705
12 CW-62, SSB-325, RY-399 total 786
10 CW-367, SSB-371, RY-189 total 927
VHF/SAT CW-222, SSB/fm-353, RY-41 total 616
Results III
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We had 28,714 Raw Qso’s
12,358 SSB, 11,263 CW and 5,093 RTTY
Highest % of RTTY so far
We had 174 Sat Qso’s (2nd highest so far)
Most active on Sat - N5JF w/ 79
Most active on CW - W5ZR w/ 2650
Most active RTTY - AA5AU w/ 2556
Most active on SSB - W5WZ w/ 4177
Observations
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Log submission fairly quick, but only abt 2/3
followed instructions
 rec’d .adi, .log and .txt files, & one w1aw-5.log correct is <your call>_<your qth>_<your grid>.adi
 N3FJP does NOT log Sat Qso’s correctly - had to
edit every one
 West coast/JA wants more low band activity
 East coast/EU wanrts more WARC band activity
 Only ONE gripe email, dozens “Thank You’s”
 Need better scheduling - multiple bands at once
 Need more operators!
WEEK II Nov 26-Dec 2
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Need activity on multiple bands at once
 Easier Scheduling
 W5WZ found and hosted interactive
spreadsheet
 each participant scheduled their own
slots, on the fly
Our Team (week 2)
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AA5AU, AC5O, AE5V, AE5VB, K5ER,
K5RUS, K5SL K5TFH, K5UQ,
KA5HCO, KA5M, KC5WA, KD5DW,
KF5LOQ, KG5VK, KI5EE, KR5R,
KZ5D, N5FH, N5GP, N5MEG, N5VU,
NA5G, NA5Q, W5LA, W5RGS,
W5SUM, W5TMP, W5WZ, W5ZR,
WA5KBH, WB5JHY, WM5H
Results I
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Everyone scheduled own slots - FAR
better
 More band changes, less wasted time
 We had 33 operators active at 27 stations
 We logged 477 hours
So how did we do??
Results II Band Activity
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160 total 733 (+611)
80 total 1223 (+450)
40 total 4778 (+1190)
30 total 1211 (-466)
20 total 6208 (-4881)
17 total 3851 (-580)
15 total 3477 (-1231)
12 total 2764 (+1978)
10 total 2803 (+1881)
VHF/SAT total 62 (-554)
Results III
We had 27,110 Raw Qso’s
 16395 SSB, 6819 CW and 3896 RTTY
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So how does this compare??
Results IV
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Mode - Week1 - Week 2 - result
SSB - 12358 - 16395 - UP 4037
CW - 11263 - 6819 - Down 4444
Dig - 5,093 - 3896 - Down 1197
Overall, week 2 was down 1604 qso’s
Results V
Week 1 - 28,714 Raw Qso’s
worked 576 hrs = 49.85/hr
 Week 2 - 27,110 Raw Qso’s
worked 477 hrs = 56.84/hr
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for comparison, 56.84/hr times 48 hours
(standard DX contest) = 2,728 - Very
respectable
 Our top op hit 420/hour for short period!
Results VI
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Most active on Sat - WA5KBH w/ 63
 Most active on CW - W5LA w/ 3061
 Most active RTTY - AA5AU w/ 2264
 Most active on SSB - W5WZ w/ 6155
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Top RTTY both wks - AA5AU - 4820
 Top SSB both wks - W5WZ - 10,332
W1AW/5 LA
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W1AW/5 LA, 2 week total - 55,824
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Overall W1AW/x made over 3.5 million
QSO’s, program deemed huge success
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Thanks to all who participated.
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Questions?