Ten-Meter RTTY Contest
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T
Station: W6YX
Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 344 State/Prov = 48 Countries = 25 Total Score = 25,112
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Solar flux stayed above 150, but conditions didn't seem much better than
last year's flux of 100. This year we worked 3 Europeans, instead of none.
For us, this contest is all North America and Japan. We had two full-time
operators, so one could CQ while the other searched for Mults. Even
with widely separated antennas, we had to pause CQing for some of the
more difficult copying, since we were only a few kHz apart.
We started the contest with less than one hour to sunset, but made
70 QSOs and 9 Mults! Thank you JA's and Pacific! We took off 13 hours
of darkness and started again at our sunrise (15z) to operate
the rest of Sunday. The EA8's had great signals, very few Europeans
were even heard. Then it was all NA and SA, and another bunch of JA's
and Pacific in the last two hours.
One computer temporarily lost its audio, quickly fixed, otherwise the
software, radios and antennas all worked. We increased our score by 60%
with more QSOs and more Mults, but without a path to Europe there's
little more that can be done from the West Coast.
QSO/Mults by hour
Hour 10M Cumm Off
00Z 56/9 56/9
01Z 14/0 70/9 42
02Z - 70/9 60
03Z - 70/9 60
04Z - 70/9 60
05Z - 70/9 60
06Z - 70/9 60
07Z - 70/9 60
08Z --+-- 70/9 60
09Z - 70/9 60
10Z - 70/9 60
11Z - 70/9 60
12Z - 70/9 60
13Z - 70/9 60
14Z - 70/9 60
15Z 26/14 96/23 13
16Z 44/17 140/40
17Z 36/8 176/48
18Z 32/7 208/55
19Z 28/9 236/64
20Z 51/4 287/68
21Z 21/3 308/71
22Z 16/1 324/72
23Z 20/1 344/73
Total: 344/73
W6YX: ND2T and K6UFO
C-31XR tribander at 60ft
6 el yagi at 70 ft
Pro 57 tribander at 40 ft
5 el yagi at 40 ft
One Yaesu FT-1000MP, 100 watts
One Elecraft K3, 100 watts
Writelog and MMTTY software
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