North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 68 22
80: 150 47
40: 288 52
20: 520 57
15: 190 38
10: 6 2
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Total: 1222 218 Total Score = 266,396
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team: NCCC Team #1
Comments:
Spent 10 minutes at the start working locals and CO on 10, hoping that another
mult or two would show up but no luck.
Dean/N6DE also did a full-time single-op one-radio effort from the W6YX station
and Clayton/NF1R was on for a few hours on 20 meters.
I was a bit concerned about interference between all of us since we were on the
same bands but I never heard either of them except the few times I tuned across
while S&P. In mid-afternoon when 15 had dried up and 40 wasn't yet open we
had 4 radios on 20 meters, NF1R on the 6-el. KLM, N6DE on the C31XR, my run
radio on the 205CA and my S&P radio on the Pro67.
After abandoning 10 I dual-CQed on 20 and 15 and saw the 60-minute rate meter
creep up over 200.
The best 60 minute rate was 208/hour from 1900 to 1959
The best 30 minute rate was 226/hour from 1905 to 1934
The best 10 minute rate was 252/hour from 1919 to 1928
The best 1 minute rates were:
7 QSOs/minute 1 times.
6 QSOs/minute 2 times.
5 QSOs/minute 17 times.
4 QSOs/minute 44 times.
...
There were 478 bandchanges and 262 (21.4%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Rates on the low bands were slower. It was more productive to S&P on the
lower band than to dual-CQ, at least initially. Weak stations on 160 could not
be heard while listening to a noisy 80 in the other ear so I fell back to one
radio for a while.
I tried moving 3 or 4 mults to other bands, mostly from 20 to 15, but none of
the moves were successful. I never heard ND or RI. Most Canada mults were
worked on only one or two bands. VE3 was worked on 5 bands thanks to VE3EJ on
160. I was surprised to work VE9 on 80 through 15 with VE9ML on 80/40/20 and
VE9DX on 15.
73,
-Mike, N7MH
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