CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest
Call: AA5AU
Operator(s): AA5AU
Station: AA5AU
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 357
40: 443
20: 514
15: 369
10: 2
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Total: 1685 Prefixes = 634 Total Score = 2,625,394
Club: Louisiana Contest Club
Comments:
This was one of the most exciting CQ WPX RTTY Contests of all time. We
experienced three M class flares during the contest. The 3rd one, around 1730Z
on Sunday shut down the high bands here for a while. I was 30 minutes from what
would have been the start of my final rest period when the bands went dead. I
immediately knew what had happend and went to check the charts online to see a
spike in the x-ray flux. I took a nap.
The contest was a real pleasure to operate. Great conditions on all bands
except 10 meters. It's been so long since we've experienced good conditions
and it brought a lot of stations out to the contest. This is my best WPX RTTY
score ever and the highest number of prefixes worked. I told Ed, W0YK/P49X,
before the contest that I thought my new antennas should be worth an extra half
million points and looks like I was close to that.
I reached my goal of 2.5M points. Thanks to all who participated!
Station A:
Icom IC-756 PRO III 100 watts output
Dell 4600 running WriteLog
Homebrew FSK/PTT Interface
JPS NIR-12 Dual DSP audio filter
Station B:
Kenwood TS-870
Dell Inspiron E1505 running WriteLog
Homebrew FSK interface
JPS NIR-12 Dual DSP audio filter
Antennas:
3 element SteppIR with 30/40 meter loop dipole at 58'
KT34M2 at 40'
80 meter inverted vee w/apex at 55'
73, Don AA5AU
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