CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: K6UFO
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: K6UFO
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 35 48 16 4 5
40: 107 157 34 17 16
20: 286 492 44 49 22
15: 65 117 17 15 13
10: 4 6 1 2 2
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Total: 497 820 112 87 58 Total Score = 210,740
Club: Western Washington DX Club
Comments:
ne goal for this trip up to the Vashon Island, Washington QTH was to build some
points for the Western Washington DX Club. The WWDXC competes with the
Willamette. Valley and Fraser Valley DX Clubs for a traveling trophy based on
total aggregate scores in six major DX contests starting here with CQ WW RTTY.
I gave up some points but not using the amplifier, which had some kind of
problem being patched inline - and I didn't have time to debug which cable was
the problem. I gave up some more points (maybe) by not using packet spotting,
which can lead to a lot of DX spots - but can also lead to too much jumping
around to spots that can't be heard or worked. I operated without spots, and
found stations myself, and everything I could find, I could work :-). Overall,
I'm pretty happy with over 200K points.
My second goal was to work some DXCC countries on RTTY. Although I've operated
RTTY many years, I've never collected any QSL cards on RTTY, like I did for CW
and SSB. But given how many RTTY operators use the ARRL LoTW, I am hoping that
logging a bunch of countries and submitting to LoTW will get me the RTTY DXCC
endorsement eventually. Overall, I'm pretty happy with working 57 different
countries.
The power was out for several hours on Friday in advance of the contest, which
didn't help with getting setup, but the power was back by the start. For the
first few hours I had that intermittent problem where the PTT drops out while
sending messages. I'd change a setting, try some more operating, change a
different setting, etc. Eventually, I must have made the right change and the
problem stopped. Sorry if you had to suffer one of the dropouts.
Thanks to my local WA friends for the 10m contacts! And don't look at the rate
sheet or you'll discover I wasn't on more than half-time for this contest. It's
awfully hard to work all week, travel from CA up to WA, get setup, start
operating - and then not fall asleep when it gets dark.
Yaesu FT-1000MP
Writelog software
Antennas:
20m: 3 el Steppir at 55 ft.
40m: Cushcraft 40-2CD 48 ft.
80M: quarter wave sloppers E & W from 46 ft.
Mark K6UFO
k6ufo@arrl.net
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/15 --+-- 13/15 13/15
D1-0100Z - - 13/17 3/1 - 16/18 29/33
D1-0200Z - 2/5 12/9 - - 14/14 43/47
D1-0300Z - 24/27 - - - 24/27 67/74
D1-0400Z 6/10 6/8 - - - 12/18 79/92 1
D1-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 79/92 60
D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 79/92 60
D1-1200Z 7/7 4/3 - - - 11/10 90/102 17
D1-1300Z 2/3 11/6 - - - 13/9 103/111
D1-1400Z - 4/1 - - - 4/1 107/112 45
D1-1500Z - - - - - 0/0 107/112 60
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 107/112 60
D1-1700Z - - 8/8 - - 8/8 115/120 35
D1-1800Z - - 23/17 - - 23/17 138/137
D1-1900Z - - 17/13 - - 17/13 155/150
D1-2000Z - - 1/0 1/0 1/3 3/3 158/153 43
D1-2100Z - - - 2/2 - 2/2 160/155 58
D1-2200Z - - - 11/11 - 11/11 171/166
D1-2300Z - - 24/15 3/2 2/2 29/19 200/185
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/14 --+-- 27/14 227/199
D2-0100Z - - 9/1 - - 9/1 236/200 49
D2-0200Z - - 58/13 - - 58/13 294/213
D2-0300Z - 9/3 1/0 - - 10/3 304/216 49
D2-0400Z 19/4 10/3 - - - 29/7 333/223
D2-0500Z - 12/4 - - - 12/4 345/227 36
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 345/227 60
D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 345/227 60
D2-1300Z 1/1 12/2 - - - 13/3 358/230 9
D2-1400Z - 7/5 1/0 - 1/0 9/5 367/235
D2-1500Z - 6/0 - - - 6/0 373/235 37
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 9/2 --+-- --+-- 9/2 382/237 43
D2-1700Z - - 12/4 - - 12/4 394/241 7
D2-1800Z - - 14/3 - - 14/3 408/244
D2-1900Z - - 9/1 2/0 - 11/1 419/245 49
D2-2000Z - - 16/4 - - 16/4 435/249
D2-2100Z - - 20/0 2/0 - 22/0 457/249
D2-2200Z - - 18/4 1/0 - 19/4 476/253
D2-2300Z - - 21/4 - - 21/4 497/257
Total: 35/25 107/67 286/115 65/45 4/5
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