CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022
Call: NH6O
Operator(s): NH6O
Station: NH6O
Class: SO(A)AB QRP
QTH: Honolulu HI
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80:
40: 3 2 2 2
20: 35 19 9 10
15: 43 15 9 9
10: 12 4 8 8
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Total: 93 40 28 29 Total Score = 25,511
Club:
Comments:
Park portable - Elecraft KX3 - 5W, 31-ft end-fed vertical wire in tree. 2
sessions - Sunday 0200-0500, and Sunday 2000-2400.
RTTY is not a QRP-friendly mode, but I wanted to try at least a few hours of the
contest this year after missing it since 2018. It's fun to get reacquainted with
this quirky and anachronistic mode - picking out the correctly received calls
and exchanges from all the screen garbage on 3 decoder windows. I do prefer the
active element of tuning and zero-beating signals to FTx contesting on a single
watering hole frequency.
20 meters was pretty good in the first session (late afternoon local time).
Worked a fair number of Midwest and East Coast, with some of the Caribbean
stations workable as well. 15 and 10 weren't so active, but I worked the few
Pacific rim stations I heard.
The second session (midday local time) started slow, as almost all my midday
sessions do. 20 meters sounded like my radio's attenuator was on, and I had very
limited success. 15 was the better band - not great, but signals were
consistently stronger than on 20.
10 didn't open significantly, but I did manage a few contacts to JA, South
Pacific, and transequatorially to South America.
I wish PSK31 contesting had caught on more successfully - I'd love to work a CQ
WW/WPX style contest with QRP in that mode someday!
Aloha and 73,
Bob NH6O in Honolulu
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