ARRL January VHF Contest - 2020
Call: W1DYJ
Operator(s): W1DYJ
Station: W1DYJ
Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: Massachusetts
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 50 12
2: 41 13
222:
432: 10 2
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 101 27 Total Score = 2,997
Club: North East Weak Signal Group
Comments:
I was switching between the NAQP SSB (mostly) and the VHF on
Saturday, and therefore doing poorly in both! Staying on SSB/CW
in the VHF I found little activity, stopping at 0137 UTC with only
266 points: 31 SSB on 6, 38 SSB on 2, 7 total grids. No CW heard.
Sunday was different: Although I really don't like FT8 for contests,
one really doesn't have a choice anymore in these VHF contests. We
had a concert in Boston in the afternoon so I could only dabble a bit
during the morning and couldn't really get going until after dinner.
I was switching between SSB/CW and FT8 and the end was strong with
much 2M FT8 activity (including a new grid, my 40th.)
Thanks to those few folk I connected with that moved to the other two
bands for me, something that doesn't happen on FT8. I checked now
and then and heard No FT4 signals.
This was the 2nd best score in the 22 years I've been doing this
contest.
Some random observations:
* Operators need to ask if anyone else wants a Q before QSYing. I
missed a number of potential Qs because after listening to two
operators (without hearing any call signs) they would QSY to another
band and miss my points. Without knowing who/where they were I
probably didn't have my yagis pointing at them and never heard them
again.
* I heard a lot of voices along with FT8 signals -- we need to watch
our audio channels and prevent this.
* I noticed a lot of FT8 signals with harmonics and/or what appeared
to be the lower sideband leaking through -- we need to watch our
drive levels.
Rig: TS2000
Antennas: 6M -- HB 7 el at 10M (ARRL Antenna Book)
2M -- 12el K1FO at 12M (K1WHS kit)
70cm -- M^2 440-18 up at 11M
Log: N3FJP's VHF Contest Log Ver. 6.3
[with JTAlert 2.15.3]
73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
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