2000 World-Wide RTTY WPX Contest
CALL: K7ZO LOCATION: Idaho
CLASS: Single Operator
Low Power (100W or less)
Band QSOs QSO points Prefixes
160m:
80m: 16 38 5
40m: 67 152 34
20m: 9 18 3
15m: 61 110 41
10m: 55 137 35
Totals: 208 455 118 53,690 Total:
Not much excitement to report from here. The poor band conditions certainly
kept me away from the radio doing other more enjoyable things. I am
surprised by some reports that they felt the bands were good. The comments
about ?wall-to-wall Europeans? on 10M Sunday was amazing the band was almost
flat line out west. My score was well down from last year. Could probably
have broken it, but I did not feel like spending 10 hours in front of the
radio squeezing out 10-15 QSO?s/hour. I will remember this contest as
follows:
* Having a great run going on 10M into JA right at the start until 00:50
when someone flipped the switch and it stopped dead. Signals were 599 one
minute and then gone the next.
* Only one European on Saturday on 15M, 9A7R at the relatively late time of
21:30. Then only a few weak watery ones on Sunday.
* One lone European on 10M Sunday, OG9MM at 21:20 during the mid-late
afternoon opening we sometimes get into the Nordics.
* Once again working KH7R on all 5 bands as I did last year. I missed P40K
only on 80M and got HC8N on 10, 15, and 20M.
* KE6YTT sure seemed to have a rough signal. Wonder if he was overdriving
the amp or had his audio levels set wrong. I could detect splatter from his
signal quite some ways away from him.
Rig: FT-1000MP barefoot
WriteLog
Antennas:
10M -- Ten-3 @ 15?
10-20M -- Wire Log periodic fixed NE at 20?
40M -- Dipole @20?
80M -- HF2V
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