North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N6DE K6UFO ND2T N6DB KZ2V W6LD W6RK
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 233 47
40: 391 56
20: 422 62
15: 271 48
10: 24 11
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Total: 1341 224 Total Score = 300,384
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Wow, We blew the top off the M/2 record!
The old record (last Feb) was 1070 QSOs by 216 Mults for 231,120.
Our claimed score this Feb is 1341 QSOs by 224 Mults for 300,384!
We expected that NK7U and K1SFA would be on, and the Texans often
provide tough competition - so we were a bit worried. Dean N6DE took
the lead and provided a great equipment setup, adding his K3's to our
Yaesu's. Each of our operators also provided some setup in the days
leading up to the contest. We had two RUN stations, and two SPOT
stations to search the bands, and had four operators in place for
the whole 12 hrs.
We started on 10m, and we quickly gots Mults CA, MA, RI, NH and NY!
But that was it for the first 10 minutes. We went to 10m at the top
of the hour four times, and each time got at least a Mult and several
QSOs. 10m was open more, but just not enough people there. W6OAT a
few miles from us showed the potential of 10m by staying there
non-stop for almost three hours and working 46 QSOs by 15 Multipliers,
compared to our 24 x 11. I know the West Coast has the advantage here,
but we pay for it on 80m at the end of the night.
Our other station RUN and SPOT started on 15m, and Tom ND2T and Rebar
N6DB(formerly N6CCH) cranked out great rate hours of 81, 65 and 53!
Finally, all we had was JA and Pacific stations, who are fun to work,
but are the "wrong" direction from California for a "NORTH AMERICAN"
QSO Party. So, With the sun still three hours from setting, the 15m
guys went to 40m and starting working what they could on 40m. By 01z
40m was getting hot for us, and we ran and searched as fast as we
could, before it started slowing in the last hour.
When not on 10m at the top of the hour, our 20m RUN and SPOT station
were busy for seven full hours on 20m. Finally at 02Z we moved 20m to
80m, just about sunset time, and started the "struggle" on 80m, which
really wasn't too bad this year, noise was low, and people seemed to
hear us OK, THANKS!
Somewhere along the way, Nick KZ2V came in to replace N6DB, our
namesake "John" W6LD came it to replace ND2T, and Risto W6RK came in
to give N6DE a break. Great cooperation guys! It kept us fully
staffed and on the air.
We stayed ahead of our previous rates all the time, and we could
barely believe how great the activity was. A big THANKS to all the
new RTTY operators and new NAQP RTTY participants, you really make
it fun!
Congrats to AA5AU for working us on 5 bands and making a new
single-op high of 983 QSOs, and congrats to the W7IV M/2 on breaking
through 1,000 QSOs.
See you on RTTY and the NAQP RTTY on July 16, 2011!
for the W6YX team, 73 de K6UFO Mork!
W6YX Equipment:
Tribanders: Force 12 C-31XR at 60ft, Mosley Pro-67 at 50 ft
10m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft
15m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft
20m: 6 el yagi at 60 ft
40m: 4 el at 60 ft
40m: inverted vee at 50 ft
80m: inverted vee at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP, Yaesu FT-1000MkV
Elecraft K3, Elecraft K3
Writelog and MMTTY software
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
18Z - - 52/26 81/26 6/5 139/57 139/57
19Z - - 55/14 65/12 6/2 126/28 265/85
20Z - - 59/11 53/10 7/3 119/24 384/109
21Z - - 65/5 37/0 2/0 104/5 488/114
22Z - - 62/2 31/0 3/1 96/3 584/117
23Z - 45/23 49/3 4/0 - 98/26 682/143
00Z --+-- 45/13 44/1 --+-- --+-- 89/14 771/157
01Z - 69/11 34/0 - - 103/11 874/168
02Z 48/25 61/4 2/0 - - 111/29 985/197
03Z 64/14 72/5 - - - 136/19 1121/216
04Z 57/5 62/0 - - - 119/5 1240/221
05Z 64/3 37/0 - - - 101/3 1341/224
Tot: 233/47 391/56 422/62 271/48 24/11
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