CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 27:42
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 190
40: 369
20: 442
15: 703
10: 367
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Total: 2071 Prefixes = 755 Total Score = 4,267,260
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was a fun contest! Conditions were really great, 10 was open to Europe in
the mornings and 15 was open to Asia in the afternoons. I had a good run of
JA's with all their WPX multipliers on Sunday afternoon. This year 15 was my
most productive band.
My score this year was about 15% lower than last year, but I did not stay up
late either night and got a good night's sleep both nights. I guess if I had
operated for a couple of more hours I would have gotten nearer to last year's
score, but I was not up to doing it. I really like the 30-hour limit of this
contest!
I had 71 dupes this year which was pretty normal. However, a couple of
stations duped me multiple times!
Also I had quite a few QRP stations call me with decent signals. There might
have been others but they were too weak for me to copy.
I use N1MM and I love it. I use it in a SO2R configuration with an IC7800 as
one radio and a K3 as the other. However, occasionally it would send the
serial number of the last contact I had on the other radio rather than the one
associated with the radio I was using. But it would go ahead and log the
correct serial number! Also a few times I caught it sending the other radio's
last serial number rather than the right number when I was asked to repeat it.
I do apologize to those of you who had received an incorrect serial number from
me as you will have your score (as well as mine)penalized.
Otherwise N1MM (version 13.12.2) ran flawlessly.
I was running the K3 with the new firmware that significantly reduces the
occupied transmit spectrum. Obviously I don't have that choice with the IC7800
which has a classic SinX/X spectrum (as do most other radios). When I was
running with the K3, I had people crowd me on both sides with clicks and
adjacent-channel noise as I would have expected. However, I consistently
experienced the same thing with the 7800 which I did not expect!
I wish that the 7800 would at least provide an external audio input when in the
FSK mode so that I could modulate it with filtered signals such as from MMTTY,
but it does not. It does allow for external audio input when in the PSK mode,
but I lose the excellent IF pass-band characteristics for receiving FSK signals
when I do that.
73, Sam W4PK
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