2013 ARRL RTTY Roundup Overview

Spectrum Scope after RTTY Contest Sleep Deprivation %-)

This past weekend was the annual ARRL RTTY Roundup Contest. This is a 30 hour long contest (operators can operate no more than 24 hours) and in my opinion, the perfect length. Locally, that started the contest at 9 AM Alaska time on Saturday and ended up at 3 PM Alaska time on Sunday. It's one of those "Everyone Can Work Everyone" kinda contests, which is awesome as well. And, the other neat part about this contest is, multipliers only get worked credit once, regardless of band. So now we fall into even more strategy especially if a multi-band assault is on hand. When I did a bit of research on my previous year efforts, I realized I had not officially submitted a score for this contest since 2009. I did however make several contacts in 2010, a handful in 2011 and none in 2012. 

KL8DX RTTY - Keyboarding On The Move

One of the things I wanted to do differently this year was in setting up N1MM a bit differently. I was going to take the plunge and utilize the "Logthenpop" macro. I waited to just hours before the contest to take this plunge (yeah, I know) and I watched THIS great video by Larry, K8UT. Now mind you, I'm in contests to have fun as I don't have a station that is truly competitive. For that, I need many more antennas and much more height, and a little extra horsepower would not hurt either. I send my callsign after every QSO and my run macro has the callsign of the station I'm going back to listed twice. The exchange or my report is sent 2-3 times, depending on band conditions. Often times (IMHO) it wastes less time sending an exchange one more time rather than a full exchange a second time. I adjust this on band conditions. I also send "TU" and maybe a 73 before calling CQ once again. But anyhow, I wanted to be able to stack callsigns using the "Logthenpop" macro. More on that experience in a bit. 

KL8DX N1MM Macros from the ARRL RTTY Contest

I squeeze my run and S&P macros in the first twelve F-key assignments. Macros are always a controversial subject and I'm not going to hit that bees nest. I made several mistakes getting used to the Enter Sends Message (ESM) mode with N1MM. I've been an F-key abuser for years but now I need to retrain myself to use the Enter key and trust the software. As I found out, Enter does in fact send the message but at times, not the message I wanted it to send! I set up the program but what I failed to realize was that if I started to stack calls, what was the best way to clear a call from the stack and move on to an awaiting callsign? This is what caused me to send KT6D and K7TQ (sorry, as it's a perfect example of operator error on my part) a macro (my F8 which is shown above cleared out) that sent something to the effect, "Alaska is DX in this contest but if you want it, my state is Alaska." I had this macro because some people don't read the contest rules prior to the start of a contest. Alaska is not considered a state in this contest but a DX country! And for that very reason, our report includes a serial number and not "AK" for Alaska. I was getting asked enough that I created a macro to address that very question. 

Anyhow, I experimented on the fly with call stacking and for the most part, it was successful. I have more reading to do before the next contest to see how I need to handle changes to my call stack as I previously mentioned. The other issue I discovered is that call stacking is a great feature but you need callsigns to stack! Not that I'm anything special, but I can normally get a few people calling me at the same time when I'm running stations. The issue with RTTY is, when everyone calls, they call at the same time and unless they purposefully call off frequency a bit, you end up with a jumbled mass of letters and numbers that don't mean squat! At the very best, you might get a partial callsign. So, the problem I had, when I decided to wait an extra few seconds in an attempt to decode another station to "stack", others would get impatient and start calling and I'm back to square one. But, when I was able to decode more than one callsign, I found this hugely efficient at keeping rate. I'm sold on it's use, I just need to perfect it.

CBS Stats for ARS KL8DX

There were many highlights during this contest and I'm pretty happy with my result. I'm not sure how the other Alaskan stations did outside of our local contesting group here. I know my Alaska low power effort beat the  previous Alaska low power effort held by AL7BB from 2002. I also know that this year, Rich, KL7RA beat AL7BB's high power effort, which he held from way back in 1999. My effort is far from plaque worthy but some of that new ARRL redesigned wallpaper would make a nice addition to my shack! I know there were several Alaskan stations operating so I just will have to wait and find out. I'll let you know in about 12 months, hopefully less. 

What really helped my score was the good conditions into Europe on 20 meters during Sunday morning. Our beagle had me up a few hours earlier than expected (I had the alarm set for 0500 local but I ended up at 0300 local) and that worked to my advantage for those juicy European multipliers! I snagged my first EU contact at 1201z and I worked Europe steady until shortly after 1700z. No rate to speak of, just some good steady contacts that inflated my log by 100 QSO's and 15k points or so. Well worth dragging my butt out of bed early and that's all part of the strategy. Taking advantage of propagation and the bands when they yield the best potential for contacts to certain parts of the world. 

Just a few notes from this contest. It was great getting the RTTY heavy hitters in the log, Don, AA5AU and Phil, GU0SUP! Anyone who has been researching anything about RTTY has seen these callsigns before! I had several people sending my callsign before they sent theirs, when I was running stations. This takes up lots of time and I had one station send his callsign at least 5 times before stopping. I had a zero station work me twice on 15 meters and then tell me I was a dupe when I called him on 20. For the record, I work dupes! He now lost one QSO (not that it will or will not break the bank). I had one station even send, with his callsign, his grid square and state when calling me after my CQ. But you know what, in the end, I appreciate every QSO so I really don't care how you call me, just call me. It would be nice if a few would streamline their macros though. I'm saying this after I had such a macro challenged weekend, which I'm sorry to the handful of stations I sent extra bandwidth to. Oh, and one pet peeve I will admit to, are those stations who call me when I'm running and then ask me for my callsign before sending me their information! Excuse me, but why call me if you don't know who I am? It's almost as if they joined the pile-up and were hoping to find out who I was before they were called but managed me on the first call. 

Conditions were above average and other than some horrible QSB, the bands ended strong. 15 & 20 meters reminded me of stadium bathrooms during the halftime show. Standing room only and everyone was to close for comfort. I could not image running AFSK with such crowded bands! 20 meters alone was full from just above the PSK31 frequencies to 14.140!! 15 meters, just as bad! 10 meters never produced the many Central & South American contacts that it's known for up here. But, I managed a few for sure. And oddly enough, I managed a few last minute state multipliers on 10 that I could find anywhere else!

KL8DX's Score Summary for ARRL RTTY RU 2013

In the end I was still missing North Dakota for my Worked All States in this contest. Of course, I always get skunked on the Canadian Provinces. A clean sweep is just out of my reach with my station. After medication and therapy, I've come to terms with that. "Small tower, low power leaves my contesting fate in the hands of a higher power."

Our weather has been unseasonably warm due to wind so I experienced yet again more QRN which made the weak (599 :0) signals harder to copy at times. 

I had fun chatting on Twitter (as I will normally due during slower portions of contests without breaking any self spotting contest rules, etc) with many friends and several of those went from my timeline to my contest log, by chance.  Also, congratulations to Sean, VA5LF for his potential VE5 SO/HP new record! 

I also enjoy (and do not promote) listening to music while I'm working a RTTY contest! I love music and have a pretty broad playlist. My play list from this past weekend consisted of the following bands (this from a guy who is still stuck in the 80's);

• Daughtry
• Fireflight
• Halestorm
• Nickelback
• Sick Puppies
• Theory Of A Deadman
• Skillet

KL8DX's Tweet After Surviving Another Year

So the ARRL RTTY Roundup ushers in a new year and the current contest season is about half over. I'm excited to see what 2013 brings and I myself, am suffering from acute cabin fever. I'm looking forward to camping and the return of the midnight sun! I want to wish all of those reading here a very healthy and DX filled new year! I hope DX falls easily into your logbooks and you achieve all you want to achieve this year. Like I mentioned before, I think this will be a year of change for me and my family. We welcomed a new grand daughter in 2012 as our grandson turned 1. Thanks for reading and for those following, I appreciate it. I'm just a small station living the BIG dream in Alaska, which I enjoy sharing with friends and family. You won't find an Alaskan reality TV show with me in it but you will find me on the bands enjoying one of the greatest hobbies in the world! 

Dabbled in the Diddle and then Hit the Club!

WAE RTTY Contest - 2012

This past weekend was the WAE DX RTTY Contest. Another popular contest for this past weekend was the Japan International DX Contest. These obviously were not the only contest activities planned for this past weekend but both normally yield lots of activity world wide. The JIDX Contest was a SSB or voice contest and when I flipped the contesting coin on Friday to determine which contest I was going to operate in, of course, the RTTY contest won.

WAE RTTY Contest Breakdown

It was another busy weekend around our house so I did not have lots of time to dedicate to working the contest. No matter how busy the schedule, if I'm at home, I will always try to squeeze in a few hours anyhow. This weekend was no exception. I wanted to focus again on 10 meters with a side of 15 meters for the bulk of my activity. I know that I'm still missing Hawaii, South Dakota and Maine for my RTTY Worked All States (WAS) on 10 meters. I was hoping to once again attempt to snag those last needed states which upload to LOTW. I'm hoping to wrap that WAS band/mode up this winter. I have worked and confirmed all 50 States on 15 meter RTTY so I'm good there.

The band conditions were pretty fair. Lots of QSB on 10 meters in my neck of the woods. With some of the longer exchanges, that led to me asking for repeats, especially on Sunday. I think Saturday was much better, propagationally speaking. I did encounter a few problems with my older version of N1MM when it came to accepting QTC's from a few stations. The DX station was sending QTC's to me, which in the Ham Radio world references the passing of traffic, such as telegrams. I had specific problems with RA7A and RQ5D as N1MM kept telling me those exchanges were bad. I ended up having to save those QSO's with a temporary callsign and then go back and edit with the correct. Back in the day, (and still used today, even with modern technology) passing of messages was very popular.  QTC's are made up of receiving or sending already completed contacts from ones contest logbook. A successful QTC exchange would be me sending or receiving a previous contact consisting of the time of that contact, the callsign of the station worked and the serial number of that contact. 

For years I avoided the QTC exchange and little did I realize until a few years ago, how easy modern contest software makes exchanging QTC information. I only use N1MM for digital contests but the program is pretty darn smart. You can exchange QTC's with those outside of your continent. It's smart enough to know if I attempt to exchange QTC's with another station, let's say in North America, it would not even allow me to pull up the QTC screen. But, if I wanted to send or receive QTC's from anyone else, a simple use of CTL-Z brings up the QTC receive screen and another click of those same keys brings up the QTC send screen. If one was receiving QTC's, all you need to do is click on the received lines and the information is automatically populated into the log. If there is an error, the program will more than likely let you know this as well and even tell you which lines to repeat. That's a simple explanation but trust me, it's pretty easy and sure adds to the points score. For that which I used to avoid, I now embrace. :0)

Club Log 

 Inspired by Larry, N1TX who has used Club Log for several years, I had decided to give it a try. I must say, I'm once again impressed with hams and their software. Club Log allows an account holder to upload their log and will make available a very nice search feature so others can see if they are in your logbook. There is also some great statistical data available to you, once you upload your logbook. I found that HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe) had incorrectly populated the wrong entity into a handful of my contacts and Club Log identified those and sent me an email telling me! Anyhow, Club Log is my new best friend. If you have not tried it, I could recommend it. 

As we have several inches of snow on the ground and have dipped well below zero on temperatures recently, I have a new source of QRN that has reared it's ugly head. My noise blanker does work in limiting electrical interference  I'm hearing but at least with my Icom, using a NB during a crowded CW contest leads to more "splatter" and reduces the efficiency of the CW filters, making it harder to copy weaker stations. So, I guess it's time to drag my trusty portable AM radio outdoors and take a walk. With the BIG contest looming beginning on the 23rd (actually 24th in UTC time) of November, this is one thing I would like to find and resolve. Our electric company (GVEA) has been awesome to work with regarding power line noise. 

It's heard to believe the holiday season is upon us! I'm not sure where this year went and time sure does feel like it goes faster the older I get. I have CQ World Wide CW and the ARRL 10 Meter Contest in my sights! December involves the first day of winter and our shortest day, yielding approximately 5 hours or less of daylight. Our temperatures will be dropping well below zero and staying there, except during the occasional Chinook that blows through. Ham Radio is my savior when it comes to mentally surviving Alaskan winters. I enjoy contest season almost as much as the summer season here in Alaska. Almost... 

2012 CQ World Wide RTTY DX Contest

2012 CQ World Wide DX RTTY Contest

How about those high bands, huh?? It was another memorable weekend for contesting. This past weekend was the hugely popular RTTY DX contest of the year sponsored by CQ Magazine. I must say, seeing that 10 meters was beginning to open on a daily basis, it had me pretty excited about this past weekend. Knowing that propagation was going to be favorable for a heavy high band assault, my main focus was going to be not on my highest score I could achieve, but the most new countries (Entities) as possible for my 10 meter DXCC quest. I was hopeful that we would have some propagation into Europe on 10 meters along with a side order of everywhere else around the globe. I must say, I was not disappointed. 

I began hearing European stations on Friday night (local) but I was having a tough time getting any in my log. I was running low power as I have yet to have my amplifier repaired. Probably a good thing as I'm sure I would have thrown the power switch and went to high power for 10 meters, just to work more countries. So, I just had to simply work for each and every contact. I managed to work CQ Zones 18 (UA9YE) and 17 (UO1P) not long after the start of the contest. This gave me hope that it would not be long before I hear CQ Zones 14, 16, 20 & 21, where most of the 3 pointers would come from. I was on 10 meters until around 0218z and it became quiet enough for me to venture on to 15 & 20 meters.

I did not hear much going on 10 meters until around 0600z. My first CQ Zone 15 QSO was with HG7T, not long after the top of the hour. I was able to work a few more European stations before I could not work any others. I threw in the towel to get an early start as I was hoping that my European path would be much better in the early hours of the morning. I was back on shortly after 1040z, and I found working into Europe a bit easier. 

RTTY activity  on 10 Meters as heard (seen) in Alaska

I'm not going to bore you with a play by play of my weekend, but I found myself bouncing back and forth between 10 & 15 meters. When 10 meters would quiet down, I would venture on to 15. Both bands really produced and were very exciting to operate. Even though I had MANY stations CQ'n in my face all weekend with my low power effort, it was very rewarding, not to mention exciting, each and every time I would see a station come back with my callsign from abroad. At one point on 10 meters, it was like playing a propagational slot machine and winning, hearing and seeing those contacts falling right into the contest log! Cha-ching! 

The 10 meter excitement did not stop there! Great openings right here to the lower 48 states, Central & South Americas, Pacific, Asia, well...you get the picture. It was a crazy weekend and there was sure no lack of 3 point contacts. It was not necessary to open a case of "Butt Glue" in order to remain in the chair for hours at a time. The high bands yielding almost endless excitement all hours of the day and night. It was another contest weekend I will remember for years to come.

STATS 

By the time the dust cleared, I had worked all but two states, missing only NE & SD on 10 meters! I'm pretty happy with that. Since I spent the majority of my time on 10 meters, I left a few open state multipliers on 15 meters. The only station I tried in vain to work with no luck (I tried working many but I tried really hard for was) 7Z1SJ. I was unable to break the pile-up and get that new country in my log. But, the contest season is just getting started so hopefully there will be plenty of opportunity for that one and more. 

Score Summary for ARS KL8DX

My score summary is listed to the left showing my effort in this past weekends contest. According to N1MM, I operated a total of 33 hours and 27 minutes. My goal was to beat my last years effort (submitted SOSB 10) and I accomplished that. I also wanted to work over 1,000 QSO's and I was tickled when N4NW called in for number 1,000 on Sunday afternoon.  But the weekend was not entirely a DXfest as the double CME made things extremely challenging for me Sunday afternoon. The bands went from crowded to almost empty in a short amount of time. So much so that I started to do a few loads of laundry and a few other household chores before the bands finally started to show signs of life again. The high bands did not fully recover before the end of the contest as many signals had AU associated with them and callsigns did not totally decode correctly leading to more than normal repeats. But they came back, yielding a bit of excitement before the clock struck midnight.

A more detailed breakout of my log is below. I was very impressed with only 2 dupes, (yes two) all weekend!!!! I did more from a parked and calling position than search and pounce, so I was tickled to have only a couple. Not bad with over 1,100 QSO's in my humble opinion. I was a bit windy on my S&P macro and for that, I do apologize. I was reading through the 3830 score postings, which I try to read each and every one. K7IA did an outstanding job outlining macros and RTTY operating during this (and any) contest in his comment area.  Look Dan up on QRZ where he mentions RTTY contesting. Of course Don, AA5AU has some outstanding detailed information available as well on his site. I'm sure there is more out there but it did make me realize my S&P macros needed a bit of refinement. Contesting is about learning and you learn by doing. I've made many mistakes over the nearly 25 years I have been playing radio and I'm sure I'll make more. We are human, just be gentle when bringing it up or complaining as with this contest (and many others) there were several newbies getting their feet wet. We want them to come back!

I took a few minutes out of my weekend schedule to give John, WD1V an Alaskan QSO on CW. We tried 20 meters but John was not hearing my weak 100 watts. Turned out we made it on 10 meters a few hours later. I saw John post on Twitter that he was looking for a contact with AK. Another successful venture and it was a fun break from the weekend diddle to work a bit of CW handing out a new one to someone. 

My very detailed breakout is below. October is lining up to be a very busy month for me but I'm looking forward to the contest season. As normal, I did not get much of my external work done but I did accomplish some!!! I will make do but at the end of the day, a bad day on the radio is always better than a good day at work. I think that saying goes for fishing as well, replacing radio with fishing. Thanks for the contacts and I'm looking forward to reading the results overview in CQ magazine next year. Diddle on my friends, it appears to be shaping up to be another record breaking year for contesting.

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  Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: KL8DX
CONTEST: CQ-WW-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
OPERATORS: KL8DX

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0       0       0       0      0      0      0        0.0
0100       0      0       0       0       0      0      0      0        0.0
0200       0      0       0       0      50     19    69     69       6.1
0300       0      0       0      25      35     0     60    129     11.4
0400       0      0       0      72       0      0     72    201     17.7
0500       0      0       0      22       4      0     26    227     20.0
0600       0      0       0       0       3       1      4    231     20.3
0700       0      0       0       0       0      0       0    231     20.3
0800       0      0       0       0       0      0       0    231     20.3
0900       0      0      0        0       0      0       0    231     20.3
1000       0      0      0        0       0      6       6    237     20.9
1100       0      0      0        0       9      9      18   255     22.4
1200       0      0      0        0      21      1     22   277     24.4
1300       0      0      0        0       6      6      12   289     25.4
1400       0      0      0        2     10      1      13   302     26.6
1500       0      0      0        0      2       0      2    304     26.8
1600       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    304     26.8
1700       0      0      0        0      3       7     10    314     27.6
1800       0      0      0        0      1      33     34   348     30.6
1900       0      0      0        0      0      64     64   412     36.3
2000       0      0      0        0      0      80     80   492     43.3
2100       0      0      0        0      0      35     35   527     46.4
2200       0      0      0        0      0      51     51   578     50.9
2300       0      0      0        0      0      33     33   611     53.8
0000       0      0      0        0     30     12     42   653     57.5
0100       0      0      0        0     95      0      95   748     65.8
0200       0      0      0        0     40      0      40   788     69.4
0300       0      0      0       31      0      0      31   819     72.1
0400       0      0      0       35      0      0      35   854     75.2
0500       0      0      0       14      3      0      17   871     76.7
0600       0      0      0        0      7       1      8    879     77.4
0700       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    879     77.4
0800       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    879     77.4
0900       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    879     77.4
1000       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    879     77.4
1100       0      0      0        0      0       0      0    879     77.4
1200       0      0      0       15      4      1     20    899     79.1
1300       0      0      6        6      5       0     17    916     80.6
1400       0      0      0        6      1       2      9    925     81.4
1500       0      0      0        0      0      28     28   953     83.9
1600       0      0      0        0      3      11     14   967     85.1
1700       0      0      0        1      5       2      8    975     85.8
1800       0      0      0        0      3       0      3    978     86.1
1900       0      0      0        0      7      13     20   998     87.9
2000       0      0      0        0      0      40     40   1038   91.4
2100       0      0      0        0      0      36     36   1074   94.5
2200       0      0      0        0      0      30     30   1104   97.2
2300       0      0      0        0     23      9     32    1136  100.0
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Total      0      0      6       229   370   531   1136

Gross QSOs=1138        Dupes=2        Net QSOs=1136

Unique callsigns worked = 905

The best 60 minute rate was 97/hour from 0048 to 0147
The best 30 minute rate was 104/hour from 0120 to 0149
The best 10 minute rate was 114/hour from 0350 to 0359

The best 1 minute rates were:
 3 QSOs/minute    3 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  224 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  679 times.

There were 40 bandchanges and 6 (0.5%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.

----------------- C o n t i n e n t   S u m m a r y -----------------
                 160     80     40     20     15     10    Total    Pct
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North A       0        0        2     161    197   384    744    65.5
South A       0        0        0       7     19      20      46     4.0
Europe        0        0        0      46     79      77    202    17.8
Asia           0         0        3      12     71      47    133    11.7
Africa         0         0        0       2      3        2       7       0.6
Oceania      0         0        1       1      1       1        4       0.4
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Total              0      0      6    229    370    531    1136

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3         4
   4       486
   5       368
   6       272
   7         2
   8         1
   9         2
  10         1

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------

Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total  Pct

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5B               0         0      0       0       1      0      1    0.1

9A               0         0      0       1       3      2      6    0.5

CE               0         0      0       1       1      1      3    0.3

CM               0        0      0       2       4      1      7    0.6

CT3              0        0      0       1       2      1      4    0.4

CU               0        0      0       1       0      0      1    0.1

DL               0        0      0       7      13     13     33    2.9

EA               0        0      0      0        2      7      9    0.8

EA8              0       0      0       1        1      1      3    0.3

EI               0        0      0       0        1      1      2    0.2

ER               0        0      0      0        1      1      2    0.2

ES               0        0      0      2        2      1      5    0.4

F                0        0      0      0         1      4      5    0.4

FM               0       0      0      0         0      2      2    0.2

G                0        0      0      0        2      3      5    0.4

GI               0       0      0      0         1      1      2    0.2

GW               0      0      0      0        0      1      1    0.1

HA               0      0      0      2         2      3      7    0.6

HB               0      0      0      1         0      0      1    0.1

HI               0      0      0       0        1      0      1    0.1

HK               0      0      0      1        2      1      4    0.4

HL               0      0      0      0         1      0      1    0.1

I                0      0      0        1        5      6     12    1.1

*IT9             0      0      0      1       1      1       3    0.3

J3               0      0      0       0       0      1       1    0.1

JA               0      0      3       2     62     44    111    9.8

K                0      0      2     142    168    360    672   59.2

KH2              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.1

KH6              0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.2

KL               0      0       0      1      1      1      3    0.3

KP4              0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.2

LA               0      0      0       2      2      0      4    0.4

LU               0      0      0       1      5      8     14    1.2

LX               0      0      0       0      1      1      2    0.2

LZ               0      0      0       1      1      1      3    0.3

OE               0      0      0      0      2      2      4    0.4

OH               0      0      0      3      6      2     11    1.0

OH0              0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.3

OK               0      0      0      0      5      5     10    0.9

OM               0      0      0      1      2      2      5    0.4

ON               0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.2

OZ               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.2

P4               0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.4

PA               0      0      0      0      2      2      4    0.4

PJ2              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1

PY               0      0      0      3      9      5     17    1.5

S5               0      0      0      4      3      4     11    1.0

SM               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1

SP               0      0      0      1      7      3     11    1.0

SV               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.1

UA               0      0      0      6      7      0     13    1.1

UA9              0      0      0      8      6      2     16    1.4

UN               0      0      0      2      1      1      4    0.4

UR               0      0      0      5      2      4     11    1.0

VE               0      0      0      15     22     15     52    4.6

VP9              0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1

XE               0      0      0      0      0      3      3    0.3

YL               0      0      0      2      1      0      3    0.3

YO               0      0      0      1      0      1      2    0.2

YU               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.3

YV               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.1

Z3               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.2

ZL               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.1

ZP               0      0      0      0      0      2      2    0.2

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Total            0      0      6    229    370    531   1136

------------ M u l t i p l i e r   S u m m a r y ------------
Mult     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total      Pct
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04         0      0      0        60     77    136    273     24.0
05         0      0      0        42     43    158    243     21.4
03         0      0      2        55     70     82    209     18.4
25         0      0      3         2     63     44    112       9.9
15         0      0      0        21     42     33     96       8.5
14         0      0      0        12     25     37     74       6.5
16         0      0      0        11     10      5     26       2.3
11         0      0      0         3      9      7     19         1.7
13         0      0      0         1      5      8     14         1.2
08         0      0      0         3      6      4     13         1.1
09         0      0      0         2      4      4     10         0.9
17         0      0      0         5      3      1      9         0.8
33         0      0      0         2      3      2      7         0.6
20         0      0      0         2      3      2      7         0.6
18         0      0      0         4      1      1      6         0.5
19         0      0      0         1      3      1      5         0.4
06         0      0      0         0      0      3      3         0.3
12         0      0      0         1      1      1      3         0.3
01         0      0      0         1      1      1      3         0.3
31         0      0      0         1      1      0      2         0.2
27         0      0      1         0      0      0      1         0.1
32         0      0      0         0      0      1      1         0.1
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Total      0      0      6       229    370    531   1136

Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands     707
2 bands     166
3 bands      31
4 bands       1
5 bands       0
6 bands       0

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
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QSOs      0      0      2    111    223    371