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A competio CQ WW CW (em telegrafia) envolveu radioamadores de todo o mundonos dias 28 e 29 de novembro. Em 1991 participei pela primeira vez dessa atividade, enaquela ocasio encerrei com 11 (onze) contatos apenas.

Desta vez, ao invs de usar minha prpria estao em Jaboticabal, consegui

permisso para operar desde PS2T, de propriedade de Atilano de Oms SobrinhoPY5EG e situada em Araraquara, SP. muito bem equipada e o parque de antenas fantstico. Em 2008 elaborei um pequeno filme que pode ser visto emhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ1aoAuDV2Y

Aps 43 horas de atividade, chegou-se ao seguinte resultado:

Band QSOs Points Country Zones1,8 0001 0003 001 0013,5 0019 0047 017 0127 0702 2081 062 022

14 0888 2617 075 02921 0866 2533 087 02728 0128 0358 024 017

Total 2604 7639 266 108Score: 2.856.986

Farei alguns comentrios que, talvez, possam servir to bem aos colegas como suasopinies sempre vm me servindo, no aprendizado constante para alcanar melhoresresultados.

Na semana imediatamente anterior ao CQ WW CW, certifiquei-me com PY5EG de queno haveria ningum para ativar PS2T, especialmente com chances de boaclassificao. Sempre tive comigo que essas big stations devem ser levadas aosprimeiros postos no ranking mundial, e sempre me considerei humilde o bastante parareconhecer a competncia alheia e as minhas limitaes.

Atilano franqueou-me o acesso e colocou PY2WS para dar o tradicional apoio tcnico.Ficou ciente ainda, de que minha pretenso era operar Single Op All Band LowPower, como fao eventualmente de minha casa. PY2WS e PY5EG deram grandeincentivo, visando especialmente manter no ar essa conhecida estao decompetio.

A partir da, comeou a epopia.

Histrias

FONE DE OUVIDO

No incio de novembro, Ana e eu tivemos oportunidade de viajar a New York.Passamos dias agradabilssimos e em especial, com nossos amigos George N2GA eDiane K2DO no Metropolitan Museum. Sou grato a K2WR e KF2O por todas as dicase sugestes que enviaram por e-mail.

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Alm das atividades esportivas e culturais, havia um objetivo secundrio em relaos compras.

H anos observo PY5EG usando o Fone de Ouvido Bose QC-2 e, aps experimentar o equipamento em sua estao, fiquei absolutamente pasmo com os resultados. leve e confortvel, tem a tecnologia de noise cancelling, e digno da tradio donome BOSE (para quem curte som...).

Infelizmente, no barato. E no outlet Woodburyhttp://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=7encontrei a loja temtica daBOSE e no resisti. Entrei, conversei com o vendedor, mencionei o QC-2 einfelizmente se tratava de pea descontinuada, substituda mais recentemente peloQC-15. Questionado, o vendedor informou que todos os padres de conforto, leveza emobilidade continuavam presentes no QC-15, e que tecnologicamente o modelo

representava um avano natural sobre os anteriores.No resisti e adquiri o fone de ouvido, e o teste inicial se deu com o CQWW CW,desde PS2T.

Foi uma das melhores opes que fiz na vida, no que diz respeito a acessrios para aestao de rdio! Fantstico! A despeito das horas contnuas de uso, era como se euno estivesse com nada sobre a cabea, nenhuma presso, nenhum desconforto. Aqualidade de som fora do comum, e o noise cancelling funcionou muito bem,embora seja necessrio um novo teste com os lineares ligados (lembrem-se que euestava Low Power).

O prximo passo adaptar o boomset da Heil ao fone de ouvido, para us-lo em CWe SSB. E a concluso bvia valeu a pena, valeu cada tosto empenhado! Alm domais, pode ser usado como Ipod, no som e em viagens areas...

RDIOS UTILIZADOS

Dois rdios, sendo o FT-2000 ao alcance da mo esquerda e o FT-1000-Field com amo direita.

O FT-2000 est incorporado estao j h tempos, e o FT-1000-Field levei de minhacasa. Definitivamente, o FT-1000-Field tem a recepo mais saborosa que o FT-2000. Li em algumas resenhas que a Yaesu demorou algum tempo para corrigir o FT-2000 e meu principal questionamento com o rdio a recepo sobrecarregada,overloaded, e mais aguda do que o esperado. Os recursos de filtragem sointeressantes, mas ainda assim o FT-1000-Field consegue ser mais suave.

A combinao de dois equipamentos de mesmo fabricante facilita a configurao daestao. Do ponto de vista ergonmico, os dois rdios tm concepo semelhante eagilizam a operao.

Veja agora como os rdios foram usados:

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Radio Total 1,8 3,5 7 14 21 28FT-2000 0676 0001 0019 0091 0432 0008 0125FT-1000-Field 1928 0000 0000 0611 0456 0858 0003Total 2604 0001 0019 0702 0888 0866 0128

bom lembrar que apenas o FT-2000 estava conectado com a antena de recepoem 160m e 80m modelo K9AY.

FILTRAGEM

As torres esto distantes umas das outras e os Band Pass Filters BPF-600http://www.dunestar.com/model600.htm da Dunestar fazem um bom trabalho,especialmente em Low Power. Mesmo assim, tive problemas leves enquantotransmitia em 20m no FT-2000 e escutava em 15m no FT-1000-Field.

Em minha casa (Jaboticabal, PY2NY, GG58ur) tenho apenas um BPF-600 e oresultado insatisfatrio, pois tenho todas as antenas na mesma torre... Devo adquirir um novo BPF-600 para ver se alcano melhores resultados, mantendo os dois rdioscom esse tipo de filtragem.

SO2R (Single Op com Dois Rdios)

Finalmente, consegui melhorar os ouvidos e operar mais a vontade com os dois rdios

simultaneamente. O N1MM contest software foi estvel o tempo todo, controlando oTopTen Doubler http://www.qth.com/topten/DXD.HTM. O fone de ouvido QC-15 daBose colaborou em muito na performance.

Definitivamente, foi positivo o uso do recurso Duelling CQ, que alterna a chamadaCQ nos dois rdios da estao, ou seja: faz CQ em 15m e passa para ao rdio para oCQ em 20m, por exemplo... O cursor fica na janela do primeiro CQ enquanto chamano rdio oposto, de forma que, se algum atende o primeiro CQ basta preencher oindicativo na janela respectiva e teclar para que a resposta se d exatamenteonde deve ocorrer.

Esta funo pode ser programada tanto em CW como em SSB.Outra tarefa interessante voc mesmo popular o bandmap com o segundo rdioenquanto faz o running no primeiro. Isso permite aumentar o nmero demultiplicadores, pois ao migrar de uma banda para outra, pode-se iniciar com o S & Pantes de escolher uma freqncia livre e chamar CQ.

Ainda acho que o SO2R coisa de maluco, e para ficar como os grandes CT1BOH,N2IC, N6BV e outros, precisarei de tantos anos que quando chegar l, estarei usandoaparelhos para surdez por causa da idade avanada.

Para os colegas que usam o FT-1000mp ou similares, sugiro a configurao de SO2Vno N1MM, operando com os dois VFOs em aberto e eventualmente populando o

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bandmap com o segundo VFO. Se voc tiver prtica com o full-QSK, ainda melhor.No primeiro VFO pode manter o running e com o segundo VFO, procurar e trabalhar estaes novas e/ou multiplicadores.

Eis abaixo como uso a tela 17 polegadas em minha casa. Embora PS2T tenha monitor

de 15 polegadas, configuro basicamente da mesma forma:

PREPARAO LEI DE MURPHY

Na sexta-feira do conteste, trabalhei at 19h00min (21h00min UTC) como de costume.Ana (PU2VYT) e eu comemos alguma coisa e fui para a estao por volta de21h15min (23h15min UTC). Instalei o FT-1000-Field e comecei ento a me confundir com tudo o que era para ser corriqueiro.

Por absoluta ignorncia, no consegui configurar os dois rdios para funcionar emSO2R, e nem ao menos deixar um dos rdios operacionais. A muito custo, o FT-1000-Field enxergou a banda de vinte metros, com a conexo direta da antena narespectiva sada, sem passar pelos relay box e band decoders. O FT-2000 nodava sinal de vida, mesmo com o conector ligado na traseira do rdio.

Esse era o quadro quando o conteste se iniciou, gerando uma de minhas piores first

hour com apenas 39 contatos efetuados. At em RTTY eu rendo mais!

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Diante disso, tive que recorrer ao master chief PY2WS que, por telefone, me passouas primeiras orientaes. Marcos estava com seu filho na festa de formatura do Tirode Guerra e no se escusou em me atender. Depois da festa, veio at a estao ecom olho clnico percebeu todos os meus erros:

O FT-2000 no estava conectado na antena, mas sim o linear Acom-2000, que por sua vez estava sem antena. O conector na traseira do FT-2000 era apenas a ligaoentre rdio e linear; assim, seria mesmo impossvel ouvir qualquer coisa nesse rdio.

As ligaes entre o computador e os rdios tambm estavam comprometidas, emvirtude da ltima operao de PS2T no CQ WW SSB, quando OH2MM, eu & Cia.,utilizamos dois computadores separados para os transmissores. Este tambm foi umfator complicador para a montagem de PS2T no CQWW CW e mais uma vez, aresponsabilidade era toda minha.

Isso mostra como importante checar a estao com antecedncia mnima de um dia.

Todavia, mesmo em minha casa, nem sempre tenho tempo para isso. No so poucasas vezes que vou ao shack apenas para a competio, ligando todo o sistema dez ouquinze minutos antes do conteste.

O CONTESTE

Com todos os problemas, sentei-me para o incio da competio, s 22h00min(00h00min UTC).

Consegui enfrentar 43 das 48 horas obrigatrias da competio, o que foi umaverdadeira vitria. A primeira hora foi desanimadora, com 39 contatos. Aps apassagem de PY2WS e a reconfigurao da estao, as coisas melhoraram, no emquantidade, mas em qualidade.

Minha meta era concluir o conteste com 3.000 contatos, mas a partir das duasprimeiras horas, constatei que no conseguiria. Precisava manter uma mdia de 70contatos por hora dentro das 43 que operei.

Ao final das primeiras 24 horas, estava mais animado, fechando com 1.600 contatosaps trs horas que foram as melhores na seqncia: 137, 183 e 192 contatos (vide

tabela abaixo).Date Hour Total FT-1000 FT-2000 Running Total

2009-11-28 0 39 39 0 392009-11-28 1 53 53 0 922009-11-28 2 86 1 85 1782009-11-28 3 74 13 61 2522009-11-28 4 72 7 65 3242009-11-28 5 52 2 50 3762009-11-28 7 14 1 13 3902009-11-28 8 49 8 41 4392009-11-28 9 19 5 14 4582009-11-28 10 19 1 18 4772009-11-28 11 5 5 0 482

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2009-11-28 12 33 2 31 5152009-11-28 13 82 0 82 5972009-11-28 14 45 5 40 6422009-11-28 15 48 2 46 6902009-11-28 16 107 1 106 797

2009-11-28 17 102 9 93 8992009-11-28 18 90 6 84 9892009-11-28 19 48 8 40 10372009-11-28 20 64 64 0 11012009-11-28 21 137 42 95 12382009-11-28 22 183 0 183 14212009-11-28 23 192 0 192 16132009-11-29 0 72 0 72 16852009-11-29 1 13 7 6 16982009-11-29 2 128 0 128 18262009-11-29 3 12 1 11 18382009-11-29 4 34 0 34 18722009-11-29 8 40 3 37 19122009-11-29 9 46 15 31 19582009-11-29 10 15 11 4 19732009-11-29 11 6 2 4 19792009-11-29 12 24 1 23 20032009-11-29 13 17 0 17 20202009-11-29 14 27 2 25 20472009-11-29 15 36 5 31 20832009-11-29 16 48 5 43 21312009-11-29 17 42 24 18 21732009-11-29 18 75 70 5 22482009-11-29 19 95 88 7 23432009-11-29 20 80 51 29 24232009-11-29 21 74 65 9 24972009-11-29 22 31 10 21 25282009-11-29 23 76 42 34 2604Total All Hours 2604 676 1928 -x-x-

Os contatos do domingo somaram 1.000, e a concluso foi de 2.604 contatos,operando com 100 watts de potncia. Ano passado, fiz exatamente o mesmo contesteem PS2T, mas na categoria High Power com 1.000 watts e finalizei com 3.003

contatos, bem atrs de ZY7C, PY2NDX e PY2ZXU conforme se v emhttp://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2009-01/msg01266.html

OUTRAS ESTATSTICAS

O software N1MM oferece a possibilidade de gerar diversas estatsticas. Algumasdelas vo reproduzidas abaixo. As curiosidades finais da operao encerram, aps asestatsticas, este artigo que s Deus sabe como tive tempo de elaborar. Tambm interessante usar o SH5 para diversas anlises. Este software pode ser baixado em

http://www.dxbrasil.net/attachments/459_sh5_setup_125.zip

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PS2T - Off Times >= 35 Minutes

2009-11-28 00:00Z - 2009-11-28 00:05Z 00:06 (6 mins) (Comeo atrasado)2009-11-28 01:35Z - 2009-11-28 02:12Z 00:38 (38 mins) (Reparando a config)2009-11-28 05:39Z - 2009-11-28 07:48Z 02:10 (130 mins) (Dormindo)2009-11-28 19:36Z - 2009-11-28 20:37Z 01:02 (62 mins) (Banho / Jantar)2009-11-29 04:28Z - 2009-11-29 08:13Z 03:46 (226 mins) (Dormindo)2009-11-29 11:08Z - 2009-11-29 11:53Z 00:46 (46 mins) (?)

Total Time Off 09:28 (568 mins)Total Time On 38:32 (2312 mins)

PS2T - Max Rates:2009-11-29 0213Z - 6,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 360 per hour 2009-11-28 2248Z - 4,1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 246 per hour 2009-11-28 2327Z - 3,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 214 per hour

PS2T - Runs >10 QSOs:2009-11-28 0034 - 0041Z, 7057 kHz, 14 Qs, 119,4/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0045 - 0134Z, 7057 kHz, 69 Qs, 83,6/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0213 - 0256Z, 7053 kHz, 86 Qs, 118,4/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0325 - 0331Z, 7059 kHz, 13 Qs, 140,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0344 - 0400Z, 7059 kHz, 32 Qs, 124,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0436 - 0524Z, 7031 kHz, 100 Qs, 126,6/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0754 - 0832Z, 7037 kHz, 37 Qs, 59,2/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1253 - 1428Z, 21062 kHz, 119 Qs, 74,7/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1546 - 1643Z, 21066 kHz, 132 Qs, 140,0/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1647 - 1706Z, 21066 kHz, 28 Qs, 85,4/hr PS2T

2009-11-28 1707 - 1713Z, 21066 kHz, 16 Qs, 166,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1716 - 1730Z, 21066 kHz, 24 Qs, 103,7/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1753 - 1757Z, 21066 kHz, 12 Qs, 164,3/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1803 - 1830Z, 21066 kHz, 61 Qs, 135,1/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1846 - 1916Z, 21066 kHz, 53 Qs, 103,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1929 - 1933Z, 21066 kHz, 11 Qs, 170,0/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2038 - 2115Z, 28025 kHz, 101 Qs, 161,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2126 - 2226Z, 21041 kHz, 157 Qs, 155,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2228 - 0059Z, 14060 kHz, 385 Qs, 152,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0200 - 0304Z, 7041 kHz, 135 Qs, 127,4/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0356 - 0427Z, 7047 kHz, 41 Qs, 79,3/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0822 - 0837Z, 7043 kHz, 22 Qs, 83,9/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0842 - 0853Z, 7043 kHz, 11 Qs, 61,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0937 - 0950Z, 14020 kHz, 11 Qs, 50,6/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1419 - 1459Z, 21032 kHz, 21 Qs, 31,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1537 - 1600Z, 21034 kHz, 17 Qs, 44,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1603 - 1614Z, 21034 kHz, 14 Qs, 77,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1630 - 1704Z, 21034 kHz, 16 Qs, 28,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1804 - 1832Z, 14049 kHz, 39 Qs, 84,2/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1836 - 1842Z, 14048 kHz, 15 Qs, 137,4/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1855 - 1928Z, 14048 kHz, 79 Qs, 142,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1937 - 1954Z, 14048 kHz, 19 Qs, 65,1/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2041 - 2111Z, 14051 kHz, 72 Qs, 145,0/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2122 - 2133Z, 14051 kHz, 21 Qs, 121,0/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2150 - 2203Z, 14063 kHz, 15 Qs, 71,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2309 - 2315Z, 14080 kHz, 11 Qs, 111,9/hr PS2T

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2009-11-29 2318 - 2327Z, 14080 kHz, 16 Qs, 105,9/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2329 - 2338Z, 14080 kHz, 14 Qs, 104,6/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2339 - 2357Z, 7059 kHz, 29 Qs, 98,0/hr PS2T

CURIOSIDADES (LOW POWER)

ZB2X para a zona 14, em 10 metros e praticamente inaudvel. Foram quase 10minutos tentando o contato para o duplo multiplicador. A banda de dez metros, em siprpria, foi uma grande surpresa.

A25NW, 4Z5J e J46J em 80m. KV4FZ em 160m, nico contato naquela banda.

Fui chamado por HZ1PS, VU2PAI, 8P5A e outros, em vrias bandas.

Nenhuma estao trabalhada em cinco bandas.

Distribuio dos pases trabalhados:

Sobre os rates por minuto:

392 vezes consegui 2 contatos por minuto;


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001 vezes consegui 6 contatos por minuto.

Em 97% das vezes que consegui 5 contatos por minuto, as estaes eram todas dosEstados Unidos e Canad.

O indicativo PS2T no fcil de ser compreendido em CW. Minha opo parainteligibilidade foi:

CQ >>~PS2Ts

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The ham radio competition CQWW CW (amateur radio telegraphy mode) involved theworld last November 28 and 29. In 1991 I participated for first time, and on thatoccasion closed with 11 (eleven) contacts only.

This time, instead of using my own station in Jaboticabal, I had permission to operate

from PS2T, PY5EG Atilano property in Araraquara, SP. It is very well equipped and theantenna farm is fantastic. In 2008 I made a small movie that can be seen inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj1aoaudv2y

After 43 hours of activity, the following result:

Band QSOs Points Country Zones1,8 0001 0003 001 0013,5 0019 0047 017 0127 0702 2081 062 02214 0888 2617 075 02921 0866 2533 087 02728 0128 0358 024 017

Total 2604 7639 266 108Score: 2.856.986

I will do some comments that may serve as well as my colleagues opinions, make meinto constant learning, serving to achieve best results time after time.

In week immediately preceding the CQWW CW I made for sure with PY5EG that wouldbe nobody interested to activate PS2T, especially with chances of good classification. I

have always had with me that these "big stations" should be taken around first in theworld ranking, and always considered myself humble enough to recognize thecompetenceof the other guys and my limitations.

Atilano give me the final permission and PY2WS gave me traditional technical support.He was adviced that was my personal claim operate "Low Power Single Op All Band",as I do eventually at my home. PY2WS and PY5EG gave huge incentive, especiallydue the importance to keep in this known station on the air for competition.

From that time, began the epic.

Stories

Earphones

In the beginning of November, Ana and I had the opportunity to travel New York. Wespent amazing days and one in particular, with our friends George N2GA and DianeK2DO at Metropolitan Museum. I am grateful to K2WR and KF2O for all the tips andsuggestions sent us by e-mail.

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In addition to sports and cultural activities, I had a secondary goal, while looking for shopping.

For years I saw PY5EG using QC-2 earphones from BOSE, and after tying theequipment on your workstation, I was totally shock with results. It s lightweight and

comfortable, has "noise cancelling technology", and has the tradicion from BOSE(brand tradition for those who enjoy sound ...).

Unfortunately, it is not cheap. And in Woodbury, New Jersey http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=7I found the Bose Store and wasimpossible to resist. I did go there, sat down with the seller man, mentioned the QC-2and unfortunately it was discontinued, replaced more recently by QC-15. Reportedly,the seller informed that all standards of comfort, lightness and mobility remainedpresent in QC-15, and that technologically this new model represents an improvementon the previous QC-2.

Ok, I bought the headphone, and the first test was CQWW CW, from PS2T.Was one of my best options in life, talking about ham radio accessories! Fantastic!Despite continuous use, was like having nothing on the head with no pressure, nodiscomfort. The sound quality is unusual and the "noise cancelling" worked very well,but still need a new test with the amplifiers ant their cooling fans (remember that I wasdoing low power this time).

The next step is to adapt the "boomset" Heil to headphone, and use it in CW and SSB.And the obvious conclusion is worth it, worth every cent paid! Moreover, can be usedwith Ipod, Stereo sound and while traveling...

RADIOS USED

Two radios, the FT-2000 reach left hand and FT-1000-Field with the hand right.

THE FT-2000 is on the station already some time ago, and the FT-1000-Field I tookfrom my house. I found myself that FT-1000-Field has more "tasty" than FT-2000. Iread some reviews about Yaesu taking some time to fix the FT-2000 and my mainquestion with it is the overloaded reception, and more acute than expected. The

filtering resources are interesting, but seems to me that FT-1000-Field still can be moresmooth and solid.

The combination of two same manufacturer equipment makes easy setting the SO2Rstation. Ergonomic point of view, the two radios have similar design and help to speedoperation.

See now as radios were used:

Radio Total 1,8 3,5 7 14 21 28FT-2000 0676 0001 0019 0091 0432 0008 0125FT-1000-Field 1928 0000 0000 0611 0456 0858 0003Total 2604 0001 0019 0702 0888 0866 0128

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Its good to remember that only FT-2000 was connected with K9AY antenna on 160mand 80m.

FILTERING

The PS2T four towers are apart from each other and the Band-Pass Filters BPF-600http://www.dunestar.com/model600.htmof Dunestar did a good job, especially in lowpower. Anyway, I had problems while transmiting in 20m with FT-2000 and listening inFT-1000-Field on 15m.

At my home (Jaboticabal, PY2NY, GG58ur) have only one BPF-600 and the result isunsatisfactory, because I have all the antennas on same tower ... I have to acquire anew BPF-600 to see if is possible to get better results, keeping both radios with thistype of filtering.

SO2R (Single Op with two radios)

Finally, I operate more ears and desire with two radios at the same time. The N1MMsoftware has been stable all the time, controlling TopTen Doubler http://www.qth.com/topten/dxd.htm. At PY2NY station the box is Microham MK2R+.The QC-15 Bose earphones worked with very high performance.

Finally, was a so positive resource using "CQ" duelling, which switches the call CQbetween radios, i.e.: CQ in 15m and passes to the radio for CQ in 20 m, for example ...The cursor is in the first window in the CA while calls opposite radio, so that if someoneanswers the first CQ simply fill in the entry window and press to have your answer exactly where should occur.

This function can be scheduled both CW and in SSB.

Another interesting task is populate "bandmap" with second radio while the "running" ison the first radio. This allows you to increase multipliers because when migrating froma band to another, you can start with the "S & P" before choosing a free frequency andcall "CQ".

I am still think that SO2R is a mad thing, and to be like the greats CT1BOH, N2ICN6BV and others, will be necessary many years and when it arrives, I will be usingdeafness apparatus due of my advanced age.

For those who use only FT-1000mp or similar, I suggest the SO2V setting in N1MMsoftware, operating with the two open VFOs and eventually populating "bandmap" withthe second VFO. If you have practice with full-QSK, is even better. In first VFO cankeep the "running" and the second VFO, search and work new stations and/or multipliers.

In the following picture you can see how I use my 17-inch LCD monitor at my house(Jaboticabal SP). Although PS2T has 15 inches LCD screen, I basically did the samekind of config:

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PREPARATION Murphy's law

On Friday, did my job up to 19h00min (21h00min UTC) as usual. My wife Ana(PU2VYT) and I ate something and I went to the PS2T station 21h15min (23h15minUTC). I installed FT-1000-Field and then began to be confused with what should be sotrivial.

By absolute ignorance cannot configure two radios to operate on SO2R, or at leastleave the radios operational. At very high cost, FT-1000-Field began to see 20mband, with the antenna connected direct in its rear panel, without passing by "relay

box", BPF-600 and "band decoders". The FT-2000 was totally death, despite theantenna could seem right connected at right place on rear panel.

This was the picture when contest began, generating one of my worst "first hour" ever,with only 39 contacts made. Even in RTTY I did more!Mea culpa, mea maximaculpa

On also, I had to recall "master chief" PY2WS who, over the telephone, heard and sentme first guidelines. Marcos was with his son in Army graduation party and did notwithdraws coming to me late at night. After the party, came to share his clinical eye tostation and realized all my mistakes:

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FT-2000 was not connected to the antenna, but right to the Acom-2000 amplifier, whichwas without antenna. The connector on back of FT-2000 was only connecting radioand amplifier; this why it would be impossible to hear something that radio.

The connections between computer and radios were also committed in because of the

last operation of PS2T in CQ WW SSB, when OH2MM, I & others used two separatecomputers for transceivers. This was also a compounding factor to mount PS2T inCQWW CW and once again, the responsibility was all about myself.

This shows how it is important to check the station at least a day before. However,even in my home, not always I have time for this. Several times I am going straight tothe shack for contesting, with only 10 or 15 minutes to check everything before thecontest.

THE CONTEST With all the problems I sat for the beginning of the competition, to 22h00min PY2(00h00min UTC).

I made mandatory do myself do 43 of the 48 hours and I did that, which was a truevictory. The first hour was daunting, with 39 contacts. After the passage of PY2WS andthe reconfiguration of the station, things improved, not quantity, but on quality.

My goal was to complete the contest with 3,000 contacts, but from the two first hours, Ifelt that I wouldn't. Need to maintain an average of 70 contacts per hour next 43 hours.

At the end of first 24 hours, closed 1.600 contacts. Near of hour 23/24 I had threehours that were my best in sequence: 137, 183 and 192 QSOs (see table below).

Date Hour Total FT-1000 FT-2000 Running Total2009-11-28 0 39 39 0 392009-11-28 1 53 53 0 922009-11-28 2 86 1 85 1782009-11-28 3 74 13 61 2522009-11-28 4 72 7 65 3242009-11-28 5 52 2 50 3762009-11-28 7 14 1 13 390

2009-11-28 8 49 8 41 4392009-11-28 9 19 5 14 4582009-11-28 10 19 1 18 4772009-11-28 11 5 5 0 4822009-11-28 12 33 2 31 5152009-11-28 13 82 0 82 5972009-11-28 14 45 5 40 6422009-11-28 15 48 2 46 6902009-11-28 16 107 1 106 7972009-11-28 17 102 9 93 8992009-11-28 18 90 6 84 989

2009-11-28 19 48 8 40 10372009-11-28 20 64 64 0 11012009-11-28 21 137 42 95 1238

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2009-11-28 22 183 0 183 14212009-11-28 23 192 0 192 16132009-11-29 0 72 0 72 16852009-11-29 1 13 7 6 16982009-11-29 2 128 0 128 1826

2009-11-29 3 12 1 11 18382009-11-29 4 34 0 34 18722009-11-29 8 40 3 37 19122009-11-29 9 46 15 31 19582009-11-29 10 15 11 4 19732009-11-29 11 6 2 4 19792009-11-29 12 24 1 23 20032009-11-29 13 17 0 17 20202009-11-29 14 27 2 25 20472009-11-29 15 36 5 31 20832009-11-29 16 48 5 43 21312009-11-29 17 42 24 18 21732009-11-29 18 75 70 5 22482009-11-29 19 95 88 7 23432009-11-29 20 80 51 29 24232009-11-29 21 74 65 9 24972009-11-29 22 31 10 21 25282009-11-29 23 76 42 34 2604Total All Hours 2604 676 1928 -x-x-

The Sunday totaled 1,000 contacts, and the conclusion was 2.604 contatos, with 100watts of power. Last year, I did exactly the same contest in PS2T, but in category HighPower with 1,000 watts and I've finished writing with 3.003 contacts, well behind ZY7C,PY2NDX and PY2ZXU as in http://lists.contesting.com/_3830/2009-01/msg01266.html

OTHER STATISTICS

N1MM software offers the possibility to generate various statistics. Some of them arereproduced below. The final operation oddities will go after this statistics and veryamateur article which only God knows how I had time to prepare. It was also interestingusing SH5 software for various analyses. This SH5 software can be downloaded from

http://www.dxbrasil.net/attachments/459_sh5_setup_125.zip

PS2T - Off Times >= 35 Minutes

2009-11-28 00:00Z - 2009-11-28 00:05Z 00:06 (6 mins) (Late Start)2009-11-28 01:35Z - 2009-11-28 02:12Z 00:38 (38 mins) (Fixing config)2009-11-28 05:39Z - 2009-11-28 07:48Z 02:10 (130 mins) (Sleeping)2009-11-28 19:36Z - 2009-11-28 20:37Z 01:02 (62 mins) (Shower / Dinner)2009-11-29 04:28Z - 2009-11-29 08:13Z 03:46 (226 mins) (Sleeping)2009-11-29 11:08Z - 2009-11-29 11:53Z 00:46 (46 mins) (?)

Total Time Off 09:28 (568 mins)Total Time On 38:32 (2312 mins)

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PS2T - Max Rates:2009-11-29 0213Z - 6,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 360 per hour 2009-11-28 2248Z - 4,1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 246 per hour 2009-11-28 2327Z - 3,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 214 per hour

PS2T - Runs >10 QSOs:2009-11-28 0034 - 0041Z, 7057 kHz, 14 Qs, 119,4/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0045 - 0134Z, 7057 kHz, 69 Qs, 83,6/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0213 - 0256Z, 7053 kHz, 86 Qs, 118,4/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0325 - 0331Z, 7059 kHz, 13 Qs, 140,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0344 - 0400Z, 7059 kHz, 32 Qs, 124,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0436 - 0524Z, 7031 kHz, 100 Qs, 126,6/hr PS2T2009-11-28 0754 - 0832Z, 7037 kHz, 37 Qs, 59,2/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1253 - 1428Z, 21062 kHz, 119 Qs, 74,7/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1546 - 1643Z, 21066 kHz, 132 Qs, 140,0/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1647 - 1706Z, 21066 kHz, 28 Qs, 85,4/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1707 - 1713Z, 21066 kHz, 16 Qs, 166,5/hr PS2T

2009-11-28 1716 - 1730Z, 21066 kHz, 24 Qs, 103,7/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1753 - 1757Z, 21066 kHz, 12 Qs, 164,3/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1803 - 1830Z, 21066 kHz, 61 Qs, 135,1/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1846 - 1916Z, 21066 kHz, 53 Qs, 103,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 1929 - 1933Z, 21066 kHz, 11 Qs, 170,0/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2038 - 2115Z, 28025 kHz, 101 Qs, 161,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2126 - 2226Z, 21041 kHz, 157 Qs, 155,5/hr PS2T2009-11-28 2228 - 0059Z, 14060 kHz, 385 Qs, 152,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0200 - 0304Z, 7041 kHz, 135 Qs, 127,4/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0356 - 0427Z, 7047 kHz, 41 Qs, 79,3/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0822 - 0837Z, 7043 kHz, 22 Qs, 83,9/hr PS2T2009-11-29 0842 - 0853Z, 7043 kHz, 11 Qs, 61,7/hr PS2T

2009-11-29 0937 - 0950Z, 14020 kHz, 11 Qs, 50,6/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1419 - 1459Z, 21032 kHz, 21 Qs, 31,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1537 - 1600Z, 21034 kHz, 17 Qs, 44,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1603 - 1614Z, 21034 kHz, 14 Qs, 77,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1630 - 1704Z, 21034 kHz, 16 Qs, 28,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1804 - 1832Z, 14049 kHz, 39 Qs, 84,2/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1836 - 1842Z, 14048 kHz, 15 Qs, 137,4/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1855 - 1928Z, 14048 kHz, 79 Qs, 142,5/hr PS2T2009-11-29 1937 - 1954Z, 14048 kHz, 19 Qs, 65,1/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2041 - 2111Z, 14051 kHz, 72 Qs, 145,0/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2122 - 2133Z, 14051 kHz, 21 Qs, 121,0/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2150 - 2203Z, 14063 kHz, 15 Qs, 71,7/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2309 - 2315Z, 14080 kHz, 11 Qs, 111,9/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2318 - 2327Z, 14080 kHz, 16 Qs, 105,9/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2329 - 2338Z, 14080 kHz, 14 Qs, 104,6/hr PS2T2009-11-29 2339 - 2357Z, 7059 kHz, 29 Qs, 98,0/hr PS2T

CURIOSITIES (Low power)

ZB2X for zone 14, 10 meters, and virtually inaudible. Lost almost 10 minutes trying tocontact looking for this double multiplier. The 10m band itself, was a great surprise.

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A25NW, 4Z5J and J46J in 80m. KV4FZ in 160m, single contact and multipliers on thatband.

Being called by HZ1PS, VU2PAI, 8P5A and others, in several bands.

No station worked in five bands.

Distribution countries worked:

Rates per minute (from SH5 software):2 contacts per minute = 392 times;

3 contacts per minute = 229 times;



6 contacts per minute = 001 time;

In 97% of the times that I made 5 contacts per minute, all stations were from W / VE.

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The callsign PS2T is not easy to be understood in CW. My option to give moreintelligibility was:

CQ >>~PS2Ts

ps2t cqww cw 2009

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