North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T N6DQ N7MH W6LD K6YL KZ2V
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 87 29
40: 235 54
20: 395 58
15: 272 56
10: 74 24
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Total: 1063 221 Total Score = 234,923
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
We were pleased to break 1,000 QSOs! The first time for anyone in the July
contest This is also our Highest July score ever!
Having 10m open at start was wonderful, and we kept one transmitter there for 2
hours, before moving to 20m for a solid 7 hours.
The second transmitter had great rates on 15m for 3 hours, and then fading
rates for 3 more hours. We struggled when we went to 40m with 3.5 HOURS before
sunset. Finally, by one hour before sunset 40m was moving well.
Our sunset was not until at 03:30z, and we went to 80m to work single-ops who
may be stopping at the 10th hour Finally, an hour AFTER sunset we could work
people, and then we only had 30 good minutes until the contest ended.
Compared to last year, we greatly increased QSOs and Mults on 10m and 15m. We
lagged in QSOs on 20m, 40m and 80m.
Lots of nice DX along the way, thank you to the CM, FM, HI, HR, JA, KH6, KL7,
PY, TG, VP9 and XE operators.
No major equipment issues. One 10m yagi was missing from the switchbox. Had to
get up and walk around the left operator to get at the rotator control for the
C-31xr. The P3 panadapter for the K3 had a big display and made spotting
stations easier. (Thanks to Rebar N6DB.)
Lots of yelling in the shack to coordinate between the spotting and running
stations - but it's part of the fun. We had 5 people available throughout the
contest, so no staffing problems. Everybody performed well and kept our average
rate between 113 and 61 per hour. ND2T and K6UFO gave us a rocket start. W6LD
and N6DQ then relieved us on operating. Master spotter N7MH made sure we
increased our Mults on 10m and 15m before he had to leave. K6YL and KZ2V
arrived later to provide fresh eyes and dinner pizza. Maybe we could increase
speed and efficiency, but over 1,000 QSOs is good enough for this July's
party.
Thank you to all the stations who participate - thanks for the contacts!
...for the W6YX team, de K6UFO
W6YX Stanford University equipment:
Tribanders: Force 12 C-31XR at 60ft, Mosley Pro-67 at 50 ft
10m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft
15m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5 el yagi at 25 ft
20m: 6 el yagi at 60 ft, 5 el yagi at 36 ft
40m: 4 el at 60 ft, inverted vee at 50 ft
80m: inverted vees at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP,MkV, MkV, Elecraft K3 and P3 Panadapter
Writelog and MMTTY software
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
18Z - - - 63/32 39/20 102/52 102/52
19Z - - 16/11 61/10 22/2 99/23 201/75
20Z - - 36/18 37/7 13/2 86/27 287/102
21Z - - 75/13 37/5 - 112/18 399/120
22Z - - 72/7 41/1 - 113/8 512/128
23Z - - 53/4 23/1 - 76/5 588/133
00Z - 6/5 45/3 10/0 - 61/8 649/141
01Z - 30/23 33/2 - - 63/25 712/166
02Z - 49/11 45/0 - - 94/11 806/177
03Z 14/8 59/7 20/0 - - 93/15 899/192
04Z 40/12 57/5 - - - 97/17 996/209
05Z 33/9 34/3 - - - 67/12 1063/221
Tot: 87/29 235/54 395/58 272/56 74/24
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